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#10301

Maurice Zucrow

1899 - 1975 (76 years)

Maurice Joseph Zucrow was a Russian-born American scientist and aerospace engineer known for his contributions to the development of gas turbines and jet propulsion. Zucrow was born in Kiev in Tsarist Russia and immigrated with his family to the United Kingdom in 1900. Young Maurice attended Central Foundation Boys' School in London. The family moved to the US in 1914.

#10302

Paul Ludwig Simon

Paul Ludwig Simon

1771 - 1815 (44 years)

Paul Ludwig Simon, also known as Paul Louis Simon , was a German architect and professor at the Building Academy in the faculty of architectural physics and a privy architectural counsellor at the Prussian Higher Council of Architecture in Berlin. In the latter position Simon was the predecessor of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Simon was serving as well as Senior Director of public works for the Marches of Pomerania and Prussia. Beside these fields of activity Simon did – at that time in Europe well known – research work in the field of Electrochemistry and Galvanism. He published different artic...

#10303

William Mason

1810 - 1897 (87 years)

William Mason was a New Zealand architect born in Ipswich, England, the son of an architect/builder George Mason and Susan, née Forty. Trained by his father he went to London where he seems to have worked for Thomas Telford . He studied under Peter Nicholson before eventually working for Edward Blore . In 1831 he married Sarah Nichols, a Berkshire woman apparently fifteen years older than he was. A son was born in the first year of their marriage. In 1836 he returned to Ipswich to practise. Having worked at Lambeth Palace he had attracted the interest of the bishop of London, who now employed him independently designing churches and parsonages.

#10304

Clarence Cory

1872 - 1937 (65 years)

Clarence Linus Cory was an American engineer and educator who is known as the father of Electrical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley. Early life Cory was born in Lafayette, Indiana, to Thomas Cory and Carrie Stoney. Cory's father was an inventor and served as a topographer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

#10305

Max Taitz

1904 - 1980 (76 years)

Max Taitz was a Soviet scientist, engineer, and one of the founders of Gromov Flight Research Institute . He was a doctor of engineering, a professor, and a recipient of the Stalin Prize , and the honorary title of Honoured Scientist of the RSFSR .

#10306

Ephraim Francis Baldwin

1837 - 1916 (79 years)

Ephraim Francis Baldwin was an American architect, best known for his work for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and for the Roman Catholic Church. Personal life Although born in Troy, New York, Baldwin lived most of his life in Baltimore, Maryland. After his father, a civil engineer, died, his mother moved to her hometown of Baltimore, where Baldwin would be educated and raised. He attended Loyola Blakefield from 1850 to 1852. He attended Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland briefly, from 1854 to 1855.

#10307

Ernst Robert Fiechter

1875 - 1948 (73 years)

Ernst Robert Fiechter was a Swiss architect and archaeologist. He is remembered for his research of ancient Greek temple and theatre architecture. He was a cousin to psychologist Carl Gustav Jung. He studied architecture and archaeology in Munich, obtaining his doctorate in 1904 with a dissertation on the Temple of Aphaea in Aegina. In 1906 he received his habilitation, and in 1911 was named a professor of architectural history at the Technical University of Stuttgart.

#10308

Willy Weyres

1903 - 1989 (86 years)

Willy Weyres was a German architect and academic teacher. He was from 1944 to 1972, diocesan master builder for the Archdiocese of Cologne for more than ten years, and full professor of architectural history and monument preservation at the RWTH Aachen from 1955 until his retirement in 1972. Under his leadership, the Cologne Cathedral was restored and further developed after the Second World War.

#10309

James Blyth

1838 - 1906 (68 years)

Professor James Blyth MA, LLD, FRSE FRSSA was a Scottish electrical engineer and academic at Anderson's College, now the University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow. He was a pioneer in the field of electricity generation through wind power and his wind turbine, which was used to light his holiday home in Marykirk, was the world's first-known structure by which electricity was generated from wind power. Blyth patented his design and later developed an improved model which served as an emergency power source at Montrose Lunatic Asylum, Infirmary & Dispensary for the next 30 years. Although Blyth rec...

#10310

Leopold Müller

1908 - 1988 (80 years)

Leopold Müller was a geologist, one of the pioneers of rock mechanics and one of the main contributors to the development of the New Austrian Tunnelling method. Müller opined, that the northern flank of the 1,900 meter high Monte Toc was not stable enough to withstand a reservoir with up to 150 million cubic meters of water when the Vajont dam was planned.

#10311

Ewan Christian

1814 - 1895 (81 years)

Ewan Christian was a British architect. He is most frequently noted for the restorations of Southwell Minster and Carlisle Cathedral, and the design of the National Portrait Gallery. He was Architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners from 1851 to 1895. Christian was elected A RIBA in 1840, FRIBA in 1850, RIBA President 1884–1886 and was awarded the Royal Gold Medal in 1887.

#10312

Edward Graham Paley

Edward Graham Paley

1823 - 1895 (72 years)

Edward Graham Paley, usually known as E. G. Paley , was an English architect who practised in Lancaster, Lancashire, in the second half of the 19th century. After leaving school in 1838, he went to Lancaster to become a pupil of Edmund Sharpe, and in 1845 he joined Sharpe as a partner. Sharpe retired from the practice in 1851, leaving Paley as the sole principal. In 1868, Hubert Austin joined him as a partner, and in 1886, Paley's son, Henry, also became a partner. This partnership continued until Paley's death in 1895.

#10313

Edward S. Curtis

Edward S. Curtis

1868 - 1952 (84 years)

Edward Sherriff Curtis was an American photographer and ethnologist whose work focused on the American West and on Native American people. Sometimes referred to as the "Shadow Catcher", Curtis traveled the United States to document and record the dwindling ways of life of various native tribes through photographs and audio recordings.

#10314

Ernest H. Hereford

Ernest H. Hereford

1894 - 1958 (64 years)

Ernest 'H' Hereford was Dean of North Texas Agricultural College from 1946–49, when the school was renamed Arlington State College he served as President from 1949 until his death in 1958. The college would later become the University of Texas at Arlington in 1965. His tenure included the expansion of the school system, the changing nature of the school away from primarily-agricultural studies, Cold War-era "Citizenship classes" being promoted via the state government, as well as the spearheading the change of the school theme from 'Blue Riders' to the 'Rebels' in 1951.

#10315

Giuseppe Ciribini

1913 - 1990 (77 years)

Giuseppe Ciribini was an Italian engineer and professor, considered the father of the discipline of architectural technology in Italy. Biography Giuseppe Ciribini was born in Milan on 20 January 1913. He studied engineering at the Polytechnic University of Milan where he graduated in 1936 with a dissertation about Italian rural housing, supervised by Prof. Giuseppe Sacchi. During World War II Ciribini served in the Corps of Engineers of the Regia Aeronautica .

#10316

Gustav Vorherr

1778 - 1847 (69 years)

Gustav Vorherr, full name Johann Michael Christian Gustav Vorherr was a German architect and publicist. In addition, he was the chief construction officer of the young Kingdom of Bavaria. He officiated a. as board member of the Royal Building Trade School in Munich, campaigned for the “protection of antiquities” as early as the 1820s and was thus a pioneer in the preservation of historical monumentsin Bavaria. As chairman of the Bavarian State Beautification Association he founded, he pioneered the competition "Unser Dorf hat Zukunft", which is still taking place today. As a publicist for the...

#10317

Robert Blackburn

1885 - 1955 (70 years)

Robert Blackburn, OBE, FRAeS was an English aviation pioneer and the founder of Blackburn Aircraft. Early life and education Blackburn was born in Kirkstall, Leeds, Yorkshire, England to Kate and George William Blackburn, an engineer and works manager of William Green & Sons, lawnmower and steamroller manufacturers. He was the eldest of three brothers and attended Leeds Modern School and graduated in engineering at the University of Leeds, and built his first aircraft, a monoplane, in 1909. He made his first short flight on the sandy beach at Filey in the spring of 1909. The aircraft was bad...

#10318

Jean-Baptiste Oudry

Jean-Baptiste Oudry

1686 - 1755 (69 years)

Jean-Baptiste Oudry was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game. His son, Jacques-Charles Oudry, was also a painter.

#10319

Richard T. James

1914 - 1974 (60 years)

Richard Thompson James was an American naval engineer, best known for inventing the Slinky spring toy with his wife Betty James in Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania in 1943. Education James was born on March 27, 1918. In 1935, he graduated from Westtown School, a Quaker boarding school located in Chester County, Pennsylvania. In 1939, he graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from Pennsylvania State University.

#10320

Mauricio Cravotto

1893 - 1962 (69 years)

Mauricio Cravotto was a Uruguayan architect, considered one of the founders of urbanism in Uruguay. Biography He graduated as an architect at the School of Architecture at the Universidad de la República in 1917. He developed, with leading a team of technicians, the Regulatory Plan of Montevideo of 1930, which never materialized. His works include the Montevideo Rowing Club, the City hall and the Hotel Rambla .

#10321

Skjold Neckelmann

Skjold Neckelmann

1854 - 1903 (49 years)

Skjold Neckelmann was a Danish-German architect, best known for designing four Strasbourg buildings that are landmarks of the Neustadt district - the National and University Library, the National Theatre, the Palais de Justice and Saint-Pierre-le-Jeune Catholic Church.

#10322

Eric Gill

1882 - 1940 (58 years)

Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was an English sculptor, letter cutter, typeface designer, and printmaker. Although the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Gill as "the greatest artist-craftsman of the twentieth century: a letter-cutter and type designer of genius", he is also a figure of considerable controversy following the revelations of his sexual abuse of two of his daughters and of his pet dog.

#10323

Spyros G. Tzafestas

#10324

Walter Bassett

1892 - 1978 (86 years)

Sir Walter Eric Bassett was an Australian engineer, soldier and academic. He studied engineering at the University of Melbourne before joining the First Australian Imperial Force during the First World War. Bassett won the Military Cross for gallantry on the Western Front before transferring to the Australian Flying Corps. Wounded in the hip on 1 June 1917 Bassett was disabled for the remainder of his life. On his return to Australia he joined the faculty at his alma mater, lecturing in mechanical engineering and aerodynamics. Bassett arranged the construction of the first wind tunnel in Australia.

#10325

Michel G. Malti

1895 - 1978 (83 years)

Michel George Malti was an American electrical engineer, known for his work in circuit analysis. He was born in Deir el Qamar, in modern-day Lebanon and died in Miami, Florida. He graduated from the Syrian Protestant college and from Georgia Tech , before joining Cornell University as an instructor and student, earning a M.Sc. and Ph.D. , all degrees in electrical engineering.

#10326

Leonhard Romeis

1854 - 1904 (50 years)

Leonhard Romeis was a German architect of historicism. Life Romeis was born the son of a carpenter. A charity to which the boy was sent for drawing lessons recognized his artistic talent early on. On his advice, he was sent to the Royal School of Applied Arts in Munich. After graduation Romeis travelled to Italy. In 1886 he was appointed professor at the Munich School of Applied Arts. In the same year he married the Bamberg merchant's daughter Anna Ramis, with whom he had five children. His 1888 born eldest son Benno Romeis worked as an anatomist at the University of Munich. Leonhard Romeis ...

#10327

George W. Barnwell

1888 - 1958 (70 years)

George Winchester Barnwell was an American electrical engineer, Professor of Production Practice at the Stevens Institute of Technology, and recipient of the Taylor Key award in 1937, presented for conspicuous service.

#10328

Alexander James Gibson

1876 - 1960 (84 years)

Alexander James Gibson was the first professor of engineering at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Gibson was born on 18 December 1876 at Hanover Square, London, son of Edward Morris Gibson, articled clerk and later solicitor, and his wife Martha, née James.

#10329

Rudolf S. Enblom

Rudolf S. Enblom

1861 - 1945 (84 years)

Rudolf S. Enblom was a Swedish architect. Biography Rudolf Samuel Enblom was born in Hilleshög in Ekerö Municipality, Sweden. He studied at the Copenhagen Technical College and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen 1882–84. He was a student at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm from 1884 to 1886. He was a senior teacher in construction engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology in 1899–1932 and director of its construction school in 1925–32.

#10330

Moritz Schröter

1851 - 1925 (74 years)

Maximilian Moritz Schröter was a German industrial engineer and university professor of thermodynamics and the theory of machines. Life and career Moritz Schröter was the son of Moritz Schröter, who himself was a university professor. After his father′s death in 1867, Gustav Zeuner became the guardian of 16-year-old Schröter. After finishing the Gymnasium in Zürich, Schröter studied at the Polytechnikum Zürich, where he was awarded a diploma in engineering. From 1873 to 1876 he worked in the locomotive factory Georg Sigl in Wiener Neustadt. He then returned to Zürich, to become the university assistant of Georg Veith.

#10331

Theophilus P. Chandler Jr.

1845 - 1928 (83 years)

Theophilus Parsons Chandler Jr. was an American architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent his career at Philadelphia, and is best remembered for his churches and country houses. He founded the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania , and served as its first head.

#10332

David Joy

1825 - 1903 (78 years)

#10333

John Newton

1823 - 1895 (72 years)

John Newton was a career officer in the United States Army, a Union general in the American Civil War, and Chief of the Corps of Engineers. Early life Newton was born in Norfolk, Virginia, a city his father Thomas Newton, Jr. represented in the U.S. Congress for 31 years. He ranked second in the United States Military Academy class of 1842 and was commissioned in the Corps of Engineers. He taught engineering at the Military Academy and constructed fortifications along the Atlantic coast and Great Lakes . He was a member of a special Gulf Coast defense board and Chief Engineer, Utah Expediti...

#10334

Montgomery Knight

1901 - 1943 (42 years)

Montgomery Knight was an aeronautical engineer who specialized in rotary-wing aircraft. He was the first director of the Guggenheim School of Aeronautics at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a founder of and long-time researcher at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.

#10335

Everard Mott Williams

1915 - 1972 (57 years)

Everard Mott Williams , noted scientist and educator, was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He was the son of Cecil Hayward Williams of Detroit, Michigan and Phyllis Hope Hason of London, England. His paternal grandfather was Rev. Gershom Mott Williams, paternal great-grandfather was General Thomas Williams, and his paternal 2nd great-grandfather was John Biddle, making him a part of the Biddle family.

#10336

Christoph Hehl

1847 - 1911 (64 years)

Christoph Carl Adolf Hehl was a German architect and academic teacher who focused on church buildings. He was professor of medieval architecture at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin. Life and career Born in Kassel, Hehl was the son of the inspector of the Höhere Gewerbeschule there, Johannes Hehl . His brother was Maximilian Emil Hehl. He attended the Gewerbeschule from 1862 to 1866, focused on building . Among his teachers were Georg Gottlob Ungewitter and Paul Zindel. After military service, he studied in England. When he returned, he worked in the architect's office of Edwin Oppler in Hanover, who had been a student of Conrad Wilhelm Hase and Eugène Viollet-le-Duc.

#10337

Theodore D. Wilson

1840 - 1896 (56 years)

Theodore Delavan Wilson was an American naval ship designer, constructor and instructor of naval architecture and shipbuilding. As chief constructor for the Bureau of Construction and Repair from 1882 to 1892, he was in charge of all new warship design for the United States Navy. Through his efforts, the Navy began its transition out of a post–Civil War slump to become a modern naval power. Warships he designed include the pre-dreadnought battleship , whose destruction in Havana, Cuba, in 1898 precipitated the Spanish–American War.

#10338

Peter Joseph Krahe

Peter Joseph Krahe

1758 - 1840 (82 years)

Peter Joseph Krahe was a German architect. He was instrumental in converting the old city walls and fortifications of Braunschweig into a series of parks and other public spaces. Life He was the son of the well-known historical painter Lambert Krahe. In 1775, he became a student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, which his father had helped to create. At the age of twenty-two, he became the Academy's youngest professor. Thanks to a grant from Elector Karl Theodor in 1782, he was able to spend a year studying in Rome. Upon returning, he set himself up as an architect. The years 1785 and 1786 wer...

#10339

Friedrich Pützer

Friedrich Pützer

1871 - 1922 (51 years)

Friedrich Pützer was a German architect and urban planner. Pützer was born in Aachen. He was known mainly as a Protestant church architect, making numerous constructions or renovations of churches in the Rhine-Main area, particularly in Darmstadt. In 1910 he designed Lutherkirche in Wiesbaden. In 1912 he designed Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof. He died in Frankfurt.

#10340

H. E. Merritt

1899 - 1974 (75 years)

Henry Edward Merritt MBE was a British mechanical engineer who invented the Merritt–Brown triple differential tank transmission that provided greater manoeuvrability to a generation of British tanks, starting with the Churchill in 1939 and continuing into the 1980s. It allowed a tracked vehicle to change direction while on the move with less loss of power than under other steering systems, and to perform a neutral turn on the spot by rotating its tracks in opposite directions. Merritt's invention suited the faster pace of tank warfare of the Second World War, which contrasted with the more st...

#10341

Reinhold Persius

1835 - 1912 (77 years)

Ernst Ludwig Reinhold Persius was a German architect and Prussian building official. Life and work He was the fourth of six children born to the Royal Architect, Ludwig Persius, and his wife Charlotte, née Sello. From 1854 to 1856, he studied at the Bauakademie with Ferdinand von Arnim, graduating as a construction site manager. During that same period, he took classes at the Prussian Academy of Arts with Heinrich Strack and Karl Bötticher. From 1856 to 1860, he worked as a manager for Friedrich August Stüler.

#10342

Robert Seyfarth

Robert Seyfarth

1878 - 1950 (72 years)

Robert Seyfarth was an American architect based in Chicago, Illinois. He spent the formative years of his professional career working for the noted Prairie School architect George Washington Maher. A member of the influential Chicago Architectural Club, Seyfarth was a product of the Chicago School of Architecture.

#10343

F. B. Hinsley

1900 - 1988 (88 years)

Frederick Baden Hinsley left school at the age of 13 and worked in Desford Colliery near Leicester. Encouraged by his mother, he studied at night school and was eventually admitted to study engineering at Birmingham University in 1920. On graduation, he worked in the mining industry, initially in Staffordshire before returning to academia. He worked at Cardiff University and then founded the School of Mining Engineering at the University of Nottingham. He stayed at Nottingham until retirement and remained actively involved as emeritus professor there. His specific area of expertise was mine ventilation and for which his expertise was much in demand around the world.

#10344

Victor Luntz

1840 - 1903 (63 years)

Victor Luntz, was an Austrian architect and Professor. Life and work His father, Andreas Luntz, was a local official. In 1847, the family moved to Vienna where, from 1856 to 1860, he studied at the Polytechnic Institute then, from 1860 to 1864, at the Academy of Fine Arts. He was awarded the academy's Gundel-Prize for excellence in 1862. His primary instructors there were August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll. Later, he worked with Friedrich von Schmidt, who was building the new Vienna City Hall. He also completed an apprenticeship as a stonemason.

#10345

Paul Santorini

1893 - 1986 (93 years)

Paul Santorini was a Greek civil engineer, experimental and theoretical physicist, mathematician, electrical engineer, astronomer, author, and professor. He published over 350 articles and conducted research in the fields of solar energy, wind energy, electromagnetic microwaves as weapons of war, high-frequency electromagnetic waves, high-frequency currents, structural engineering, and hydraulics. Later in life, he wrote papers in the field of the birth of the universe and proposed the multiple successive small bangs theory of the universe. Some of his papers also dealt with mankind and the universe.

#10346

Joseph D. Bronzino

#10347

John Millington

1779 - 1868 (89 years)

John Millington was an English engineer who became an academic in the USA. He was a licensed attorney in England before he began his engineering career. He served as professor of mechanics at the Royal Institution from 1817 to 1829 and in 1825 he delivered the inaugural Royal Institution Christmas Lecture. In 1827, he was announced as Professor of Engineering and the Application of Mechanical Philosophy to the Arts at the new London University , but decided not to take up the position after a dispute with the college over pay. He then worked as an engineer with the Anglo-Mexican Mining Associ...

#10348

Max Burchartz

1887 - 1961 (74 years)

Max Hubert Innocenz Maria Burchartz was a German photographer. Life Max Burchartz was the son of a fabric manufacturer, Otto Burchartz and his wife Maria. After his basic schooling he received training in his father's weaving mill and studied at a textile technical school as well as an art school. He studied advertising and art and in 1907 started studying at an art academy in Düsseldorf, at that time experimenting with impressionism but left the academy to join the First World War. After the War he withdrew to Blankenhain and resumed painting. His paintings reflected the quiet, rural life of...

#10349

Carl Langhein

1872 - 1941 (69 years)

Carl Johannes Louis Langhein was German painter and graphic artist. Life and work He was born to Carl Jacob Martin Langhein , an upholsterer and decorator, and his wife, Louise Catharina Maria née Westphal . In 1880, his father remarried and emigrated to the United States. He stayed behind and began serving an apprenticeship in lithography with the printer, Gustav W. Seitz . Later, he also took drawing courses at a trade school. After leaving Seitz, he worked at the firm of Hans Kohler & Co, in Allgäu.

#10350

Carl Sattler

1877 - 1966 (89 years)

Carl Sattler was a German architect and university lecturer. Life Carlo Sattler was born in Florence. His father, the painter Ernst Sattler, was originally from the Schweinfurt area, but had, like other artists, been drawn to Tuscany. While he was growing up Sattler came under the influence of another German expatriate, the sculptor Adolf Hildebrand .

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