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#10601

August Ritter

1826 - 1908 (82 years)

August Ritter was a German civil engineer. Biography He was educated at the Polytechnic Institute at Hanover, and at Göttingen. He was a practicing engineer for some time, in 1856 became teacher of mechanics and construction of machinery at Hanover, in the Polytechnic Institute, and in 1870 became professor in the School of Technology at Aix-la-Chapelle. He is best known as the author of Ritter's method of doing calculations for arches for bridges and roofs.

#10602

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.

#10603

David Joy

1825 - 1903 (78 years)

#10604

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...

#10605

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.

#10606

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.

#10607

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.

#10608

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.

#10609

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...

#10610

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.

#10611

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...

#10612

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.

#10613

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.

#10614

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.

#10615

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.

#10616

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.

#10617

Joseph D. Bronzino

#10618

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...

#10619

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...

#10620

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.

#10621

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 .

#10622

Henry Dalton

1847 - Present (179 years)

Henry Clay Dalton was superintendent of the St. Louis City Hospital, Missouri, United States, from 1886 to 1892, and later a professor of abdominal and clinical surgery at Marion Sims College of Medicine . He is noted for being the first American to perform the suturing of the pericardium on record. Spanish surgeon Francisco Romero was documented with performing two successful surgeries in 1801 and French surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey was documented as successfully performing surgery on a woman's pericardium in 1810.

#10623

Venčeslav Poniž

1900 - 1967 (67 years)

Venčeslav Poniž was a Polish engineer. He is best known as the author of welded steel and reinforced concrete projects of inter-war and post-war Poland. Among the best-known of his designs are such landmarks as the Maurzyce Bridge, the Prudential Tower and the Fabryka Samochodów Osobowych car factory. Poniž was born 25 September 1900 in Vipava near Trieste, then in Austria-Hungary. Soon after World War I he started his studies at the Vienna University of Technology, which he continued at the Charles University in Prague and then the Lwów University of Technology in Poland. He graduated in 1...

#10624

Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron

1815 - 1879 (64 years)

Julia Margaret Cameron was a British photographer who is considered one of the most important portraitists of the 19th century. She is known for her soft-focus close-ups of famous Victorian men and women, for illustrative images depicting characters from mythology, Christianity, and literature, and for sensitive portraits of men, women and children.

#10625

Franz Xaver Wortmann

1921 - 1985 (64 years)

Franz Xaver Wortmann was a German aerodynamicist. Early life After World War II, Wortmann spent time as a pilot and observer with the German Air Force. He then studied physics in Münster and Stuttgart. After graduating in the field of fluid theory he completed his doctorate as an engineer in 1955. His habilitation followed in 1963.

#10626

George Niemann

1841 - 1912 (71 years)

George Niemann was a German-Austrian architect and archaeologist. From 1860 to 1864 he studied at the Polytechnic Institute in Hannover, then relocated to Vienna, where he worked as an assistant to architect Theophil Hansen. In 1872 he was named professor of architectural theory of design and perspective at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. With Alexander Conze and Otto Benndorf, he conducted archaeological research at Samothrace , and in 1881/82 with Benndorf, he worked at excavation sites in Lycia and Caria . In 1884/85 he participated in Karol Lanckoroński's archaeological expedition to As...

#10627

Adolf Gustav Schneck

1883 - 1971 (88 years)

Adolf Gustav Friedrich Schneck was a German architect and furniture designer as well as a member of the Deutscher Werkbund and teacher at the Bauhaus. He contributed two buildings to the 1927 Weissenhofsiedlung exhibit and has work in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

#10628

Jean Welz

1900 - 1975 (75 years)

Jean Welz was a South African artist. Biography Johann Max Friedrich Welz was born in Salzburg, Austria, in 1900, into a family in the picture-framing and gilding trade. Called Hans in his youth, he studied art and architecture, and in 1925 traveled to Paris, and worked with prominent modern architects producing a handful of villas of his own until 1937. It was during this period that he adopted the name Jean.

#10629

Elihu Thomson

1853 - 1937 (84 years)

Elihu Thomson was an English-born American engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France. Early life He was born in Manchester, England, on March 29, 1853, but his family moved to Philadelphia in the United States in 1858. Thomson attended Central High School in Philadelphia and graduated in 1870. Thomson took a teaching position at Central, and in 1876, at the age of twenty-three, held the chair of Chemistry. In 1880, he left Central to pursue research in the emerging field of electrical engineerin...

#10630

Anatoly Belyaev

1906 - 1967 (61 years)

Anatoly Ivanovich Belyaev founded the school of metallurgy of light non-ferrous metals and semi-conducting materials. He was Professor of Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys. He was head of the department of metallurgy of light metals in the Moscow Institute of Non-ferrous Metals and Gold from 1943 to 1963. From 1962 to 1967 he was organizer and head of the chair for producing pure metals and semi-conducting materials in MISIS.

#10631

Gaetano Palumbo

#10632

Léon Bouly

1872 - 1932 (60 years)

Léon Guillaume Bouly was a French inventor who created the word cinematograph. Cinematograph After devising chronophotography devices, Bouly applied a patent on a reversible device of photography and optics for the analysis and synthesis of motions, calling it the Cynématographe Léon Bouly on February 12, 1892. On December 27, 1893, he shortened the name of his device to .

#10633

Heinrich Kohl

1877 - 1914 (37 years)

Heinrich Kohl was a German architectural historian and archaeologist. He took classes in architecture at the technical universities in Munich, Dresden and Berlin. In 1902 he passed the first state examination for Regierungsbauführer, then later passed the second state examination for attaining "government architect" status . Within this time frame he attended lectures on archaeology at the University of Freiburg . In May 1914 he obtained his habilitation in architectural history from the Technical University of Hannover. In 1902-1904, under the guidance of Otto Puchstein and Bruno Schulz, he took part in the excavation at Baalbek.

#10634

Harold Tomlinson

1899 - 1951 (52 years)

Harold Tomlinson was a 20th-century British architect. Tomlinson was based at the University of Cambridge School of Architecture. There he supervised the Scottish architect Frank James Connell. The current ADC Theatre used by the Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club in Park Street, central Cambridge, was designed by Harold Tomlinson and W.P. Dyson. It reopened in 1935 after a fire that destroyed the original building in 1933.

#10635

William J. A. Bailey

#10636

Koji Sugioka

#10637

John D. Letcher

John Davidson Letcher was an American academic and an acting president of Oregon State University. He served as the acting president for 4 months in 1892, upon the death of the second president Benjamin Lee Arnold.

#10638

Eugene W. O'Brien

Eugene W. O'Brien

1897 - 1984 (87 years)

Eugene William O'Brien was an American electrical, mechanical and consulting engineer, editor, and publisher, who was 66th president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1947-48.

#10639

Karl Maximilian von Bauernfeind

1818 - 1894 (76 years)

Karl Maximilian von Bauernfeind was a German geodesist and civil engineer. Education At the age of 18, Bauernfeind studied under Georg Ohm at the Polytechnic School in Nuremberg. Two years later, he studied mathematics and physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and passed the state examination in 1841.

#10640

William Roy

1726 - 1790 (64 years)

Major-General William Roy was a Scottish military engineer, surveyor, and antiquarian. He was an innovator who applied new scientific discoveries and newly emerging technologies to the accurate geodetic mapping of Great Britain. His masterpiece is usually referred to as Roy's Map of Scotland.

#10641

Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich

Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich

1883 - 1938 (55 years)

#10642

J. T. W. Jennings

1856 - Present (170 years)

John T. W. Jennings was the Milwaukee Railroad's architect from 1885 to 1893, and was part-time supervising architect for the University of Wisconsin from 1899 to 1906. He contributed to many prominent campus buildings.

#10643

Dadasaheb Phalke

Dadasaheb Phalke

1870 - 1944 (74 years)

Dhundiraj Govind Phalke , popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke , was an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as "the Father of Indian cinema". His debut film, Raja Harishchandra, was the first Indian movie released in 1913, and is now known as India's first full-length feature film. He made 95 feature-length films and 27 short films in his career, spanning 19 years, until 1937, including his most noted works: Mohini Bhasmasur , Satyavan Savitri , Lanka Dahan , Shri Krishna Janma and Kaliya Mardan .

#10644

Robert Kerr

1823 - 1904 (81 years)

Robert Kerr was a British architect, architectural writer and co-founder of the Architectural Association. Biography Kerr was born in Aberdeen, where he trained as an architect. In 1844, he moved to London and in 1845 spent a year in New York City, from where he returned to London with a rebellious spirit.

#10645

Józef Czajkowski

1872 - 1947 (75 years)

Józef Czajkowski; 21 January 1872, in Warsaw – 27 July 1947, in Warsaw Czajowski's arts in all forms sought to distill and improve upon that which was best about Polish tradition, and his aim was to celebrate the culture of the people his art served. He wrote, in 1928, "Poland has been politically resurrected and it shall be reborn internally as well, and as such it must find its visual mode of expression. [...] It was through art that Poland endured from within during the invasion, and it is through art in these times of freedom that it must win the place it deserves in the world of culture, bringing in its own creative values.

#10646

Jay DeFeo

1929 - 1989 (60 years)

Jay DeFeo was a visual artist who became celebrated in the 1950s as part of the spirited community of Beat artists, musicians, and poets in San Francisco. Best known for her monumental work The Rose, DeFeo produced courageously experimental works throughout her career, exhibiting what art critic Kenneth Baker called “fearlessness.”

#10647

John Henderson

1804 - 1862 (58 years)

John Henderson was a Scottish architect operational in the mid-19th century. He is chiefly remembered as a church architect, with his early work being in the Gothic revival and tractarian style, before developing his own distinct style.

#10648

Jakoba Mulder

1900 - 1988 (88 years)

Jakoba Helena Mulder was a Dutch architect and urban planner remembered for her designs of two large city parks and the creation of livable housing and play spaces in Amsterdam. Biography When she was 18, Ko Mulder enrolled in the architecture program at the Delft University of Technology as "one of the first girls to apply to study architecture." She completed her degree as a construction engineer in 1926 and was the first female to graduate in the urban design program. According to Dijksterhuis, she met with early success. When she won a fire station design competition after graduation, he...

#10649

Robert W. Gillham

#10650

Leman Tomsu

1913 - 1988 (75 years)

Leman Cevat Tomsu was a Turkish architect. Together with Münevver Belen, she was one of the first Turkish women to qualify as an architect when she graduated in 1934 from the Academy of Fine Arts, Istanbul. She was also the first women to teach architecture in Turkey. Later she became a professor at Istanbul Technical University.

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