List of civil engineers
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This list of civil engineers is a list of notable people who have been trained in or have practised civil engineering
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- Henry Larcom AbbotHenry Larcom AbbotHenry Larcom Abbot was a military engineer and officer in the United States Army.-Early life:Henry Larcom Abbot was born in Beverly, Massachusetts. Abbot attended West Point and graduated second in his class with a degree in military engineering in 1854...
– American army and railway engineer - James AbernethyJames AbernethyJames Abernethy FRSE was a Scottish civil engineer.Abernethy was born in Aberdeen to George Abernethy. As a boy, James assisted his father on the extension of the London docks. He later worked as an engineer and ironfounder, his primary area of work being bridges and marine engineering...
– Scottish canal, marine and bridge engineer - Duff AbramsDuff AbramsDuff A. Abrams was an American researcher in the field of composition and properties of concrete. He developed the basic methods for testing concrete characteristics still in use today. A professor with the Lewis Institute, he studied the component materials of concrete in the early 20th...
– early concrete researcher - Bahaedin Adab – Iranian Kurdish politician and engineer
- Campbell W. AdamsCampbell W. AdamsCampbell W. Adams was an American civil engineer, surveyor and politician from New York. He was New York State Engineer and Surveyor from 1894 to 1898.-Life:...
– New York State Engineer and SurveyorNew York State Engineer and SurveyorThe New York State Engineer and Surveyor was a state cabinet officer in the State of New York between 1848 and 1926. During the re-organization of the state government under Governor Al Smith, the office was abolished and its responsibilities transferred to the Department of Public Works which was... - Charles Adler, Jr.Charles Adler, Jr.Charles Adler, Jr. was an American inventor. An engineer, he invented a number of safety signals, some of which are still in common usage....
– American inventor of traffic lights and railway engineer - Marcus Agrippa – Ancient Roman General
- Raúl Aguilar BatresRaúl Aguilar BatresRaúl Aguilar Batres was a Guatemalan civil engineer. He is the inventor of the street naming and house numbering conventions that are used in Guatemala City and other cities in Guatemala.-Biography:...
– Guatemalan civil engineer - Povl AhmPovl AhmPovl Ahm CBE FICE FREng was an eminent structural engineer and former chairman of Ove Arup & Partners.-Life:...
– Danish former Ove Arup & PartnersArupArup is a global professional services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom which provides engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment. The firm is present in Africa, the Americas, Australasia, East Asia, Europe and the...
chairman - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – President of Iran
- John AirdJohn Aird (engineer)Sir John Aird, 1st Baronet was a notable English civil engineering contractor of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is the Great Grandfather of Ollie Parkes...
– English engineer from the late 19th century - Maurice L. AlbertsonMaurice L. AlbertsonMaurice Lee "Maury" "Quickshot" Albertson , PhD, civil engineer, a teacher of water resources management over a long career at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado and former head of the Colorado State University Research Foundation.-Biography:He was born and grew up in Hays, Kansas...
– American water resources engineer and academic - Truman H. AldrichTruman H. AldrichTruman Heminway Aldrich was a civil engineer, a mining company executive, and a paleontologist, and briefly served in the United States House of Representatives and as Postmaster of Birmingham.-Early life and education:Aldrich was born in Palmyra and suffered from poor health as a young boy...
– American civil and mining engineer - Thomas AldwellThomas AldwellThomas Aldwell built the Elwha Dam on the Elwha River, approximate 4.9 miles upstream from the mouth of the river. Construction began in 1910 and the dam was completed in 1913. Lake Aldwell is named after him.- References :...
– American engineer of the Elwha DamElwha DamThe Elwha Dam is a 108-ft high dam located in the United States, in the state of Washington, on the Elwha River approximately upstream from the mouth of the river on the Strait of Juan de Fuca. The dam was built under the direction of Thomas Aldwell... - Archie AlexanderArchie AlexanderArchie Alphonso Alexander was an African-American mathematician and engineer and an early African-American graduate of the University of Iowa. He was also a governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands....
– American bridge and road engineer - Anwar al-AwlakiAnwar al-AwlakiAnwar al-Awlaki was an American and Yemeni imam who was an engineer and educator by training. According to U.S. government officials, he was a senior talent recruiter and motivator who was involved with planning operations for the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda...
– Muslim lecturer and Al-QaedaAl-QaedaAl-Qaeda is a global broad-based militant Islamist terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden sometime between August 1988 and late 1989. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad...
member - Abu Hamza al-MasriAbu Hamza al-MasriAbu Hamza al-Masri is an Egyptian Sunni activist known for his preaching of a violent and politicised interpretation of Islam, also known as militant Islamism or jihadism...
– Egyptian Muslim jailed in the UK on racial hatred and terrorism charges - Don A. AllenDon A. AllenNot to be confused with Charles A. Allen, Los Angeles City Council member, 1941–47.Don A. Allen, also known as Don A. Allen, Sr., was a member of the California State Assembly in the 1940s and 1950s and of the Los Angeles City Council between 1947 and 1956.-Biography:Allen was born on May 13, 1900...
, member of the California State Assembly and of the Los Angeles City Council in the 1940s and 1950s - Renato de AlbuquerqueRenato de AlbuquerqueRenato de Albuquerque is a Brazilian civil engineer and entrepreneur in the construction and real state businesses. He was the founder of a pioneering construction firm, Albuquerque & Takaoka in 1951 together with his fellow architect and friend Yojiro Takaoka...
– Brazilian founder of Albuquerque & TakaokaAlbuquerque & TakaokaAlbuquerque & Takaoka is one of the most significant and active architecture, civil engineering and real estate development private companies of São Paulo, Brazil... - Horatio AllenHoratio AllenHoratio Allen LL.D was an American civil engineer and inventor.Born in Schenectady, New York, he graduated from Columbia in 1823, and was appointed the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company chief engineer. In 1828 he was sent to England to buy locomotives for the canal company's projected railway...
– American railway engineer - Braden AllenbyBraden AllenbyBraden R. Allenby is an American environmental scientist, environmental attorney and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and of Law, at Arizona State University.- Biography :...
– American civil engineering professor - John Wolfe AmbroseJohn Wolfe AmbroseJohn Wolfe Ambrose was a poor Irish immigrant boy who grew up to be a brilliant engineer and developer...
– American engineer and namesake of the Ambrose ChannelAmbrose ChannelAmbrose Channel is the main shipping channel in and out of the Port of New York and New Jersey. The channel is considered to be part of Lower New York Bay and is located several miles off the coasts of Sandy Hook in New Jersey and Breezy Point, Queens in New York...
in New York - Othmar AmmannOthmar AmmannOthmar Hermann Ammann was a American structural engineer whose designs include the George Washington Bridge, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and Bayonne Bridge.-Biography:...
– Designed the George Washington Bridge, among others - David AndersonDavid Anderson (engineer)Sir David Anderson was a Scottish civil engineer and lawyer.Anderson was born in 1880 at Leven, Fife, Scotland. In 1921, on his return from Army service, Anderson joined a partnership with fellow engineers Basil Mott and David Hay, forming the company Mott Hay and Anderson. Mott, Hay and Anderson...
– Scottish civil engineer and lawyer - Apollodorus of DamascusApollodorus of DamascusApollodorus of Damascus was a Greek engineer, architect, designer and sculptor who flourished during the 2nd century AD, from Damascus, Roman Syria. He was a favourite of Trajan, for whom he constructed Trajan's Bridge over the Danube for the 105-106 campaign in Dacia. He also designed the Forum...
– Ancient Greek engineer and architect - Yasser ArafatYasser ArafatMohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini , popularly known as Yasser Arafat or by his kunya Abu Ammar , was a Palestinian leader and a Laureate of the Nobel Prize. He was Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization , President of the Palestinian National Authority...
– Former Palestinian President - William George Armstrong – British engineer and 22nd president of the Institution of Civil EngineersInstitution of Civil EngineersFounded on 2 January 1818, the Institution of Civil Engineers is an independent professional association, based in central London, representing civil engineering. Like its early membership, the majority of its current members are British engineers, but it also has members in more than 150...
- Ferdinand ArnodinFerdinand ArnodinFerdinand Joseph Arnodin was a French engineer and industrialist born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Rhône and deceased in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire in Loiret. Specialising in cableway transporters, he is regarded as the inventor of the transporter bridge, having been the first to patent the idea in 1887...
– French bridge builder - Sir William ArrolWilliam ArrolSir William Arrol was a Scottish civil engineer, bridge builder, and Liberal Party politician.The son of a spinner, he was born in Houston, Renfrewshire, and started work in a cotton mill at only 9 years of age. He started training as a blacksmith by age 13, and went on to learn mechanics and...
– Scottish engineer involved with the construction of the Tay Rail BridgeTay Rail BridgeThe Tay Bridge is a railway bridge approximately two and a quarter miles long that spans the Firth of Tay in Scotland, between the city of Dundee and the suburb of Wormit in Fife ....
, Forth Railway Bridge and Tower BridgeTower BridgeTower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, England, over the River Thames. It is close to the Tower of London, from which it takes its name... - Sir Ove ArupOve ArupSir Ove Nyquist Arup, CBE, MICE, MIStructE known as Ove Arup, was a leading Anglo-Danish engineer and generally considered to be one of the foremost architectural structural engineers of his time...
– Founder of ArupArupArup is a global professional services firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom which provides engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment. The firm is present in Africa, the Americas, Australasia, East Asia, Europe and the... - John AspinallJohn Aspinall (engineer)Sir John Audley Frederick Aspinall was a British mechanical engineer who served as Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Southern and Western and Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways. He introduced vacuum brakes to his locomotives in Ireland, a trend which was followed in Britain, and designed...
– British railway engineer - Sir William Sydney AtkinsWilliam Sydney AtkinsSir William Sydney Albert Atkins CBE was the founder of Atkins, one of the United Kingdom's largest engineering consultancies.-Career:...
CBE – the founder of Atkins, one of the United Kingdom's largest engineering consultancies. - Peter C. AssersenPeter C. AssersenPeter C. Assersen was Norwegian-born civil engineer and Rear Admiral in the United States Navy.-Background:Assersen was born during 1839, the youngest of twelve children, on the Midtbrøt farm in Egersund parish, today located in the municipality of Eigersund, in Rogaland county, Norway...
– Rear AdmiralRear AdmiralRear admiral is a naval commissioned officer rank above that of a commodore and captain, and below that of a vice admiral. It is generally regarded as the lowest of the "admiral" ranks, which are also sometimes referred to as "flag officers" or "flag ranks"...
in the United States NavyUnited States NavyThe United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S... - Nolan B. AughenbaughNolan B. AughenbaughNolan B. Aughenbaugh is an American Professor Emeritus of Geological Engineering. He teaches at University of Mississippi.-Biography:...
– American engineering academic and Antarctic explorer - Gunvald AusGunvald AusGunvald Aus, also written Aas was a Norwegian-American engineer. He is most associated with the engineering of the Woolworth Building in New York City....
– Norwegian-American engineer, engineered the construction of the Woolworth BuildingWoolworth BuildingThe Woolworth Building is one of the oldest skyscrapers in New York City. More than a century after the start of its construction, it remains, at 57 stories, one of the fifty tallest buildings in the United States as well as one of the twenty tallest buildings in New York City...
in New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. - Bilal M. AyyubBilal M. AyyubBilal M. Ayyub is an American engineer. He is professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the director of the Center for Technology and Systems Management at the A. James Clark School of Engineering. He also co-directs with Robert Finkelstein...
– American engineering academic - Anand SwarupAnand SwarupAnand Swarup was a guru from the Dayal Bagh branch of the Radha Soami tradition, who succeeded Kamta Prasad Sinha in 1913.-Sources: Radhasoami Faith – History and Tenets...
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- James Baird (civil engineer)James Baird (civil engineer)James Baird was an American civil engineer, football player and coach. He played football for the University of Michigan from 1892 to 1895 and was captain of the 1894 team. He was also an assistant football coach at Michigan from 1897 to 1898. He worked for the George A. Fuller Co. for 23 years...
– American engineer and football player - Benjamin Baker – English engineer in late 19th century
- William F. BakerWilliam F. Baker (engineer)William Frazier Baker, also known as Bill Baker, is an American structural engineer known for engineering the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building/manmade structure....
– American structural engineer of the Burj Khalifa - Michel BakhoumMichel BakhoumMichel Bakhoum was an Egyptian consulting civil engineer, university professor, and a researcher in concrete structures.-Education and early years:...
– Egyptian consultant engineer and academic - Nicol Hugh BairdNicol Hugh BairdNicol Hugh Baird was a Scottish surveyor who worked for his uncle Charles Baird in St Petersburg for several years, and emigrated to Canada in 1828....
– Canal engineer and surveyor - George Rumford BaldwinGeorge Rumford BaldwinGeorge Rumford Baldwin an early American civil engineer who worked with his father Loammi Baldwin and brothers Loammi Baldwin, Jr., and James Fowle Baldwin, on the Middlesex Canal and other projects...
– American canal engineer - James Fowle BaldwinJames Fowle BaldwinJames Fowle Baldwin was an early American civil engineer who worked with his father and brothers on the Middlesex Canal, surveyed and designed the Boston and Lowell Railroad and the Boston and Albany Railroad, the first Boston water supply from Lake Cochituate, and many other early engineering...
– American canal engineer - Loammi BaldwinLoammi BaldwinColonel Loammi Baldwin was a noted American engineer, politician, and a soldier in the American Revolutionary War....
– American engineer and soldier - Loammi Baldwin, Jr.Loammi Baldwin, Jr.Loammi Baldwin, Jr. was an American civil engineer. His father was Col. Loammi Baldwin a prominent civil engineer.-Biography:...
– American canal engineer - Hannskarl BandelHannskarl BandelHannskarl Bandel , was a German American structural engineer.-Early life:...
– Madison Square GardenMadison Square GardenMadison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG and known colloquially as The Garden, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan and located at 8th Avenue, between 31st and 33rd Streets, situated on top of Pennsylvania Station.Opened on February 11, 1968, it is the...
roof, Crystal CathedralCrystal CathedralThe Crystal Cathedral is a Protestant Christian church building in the city of Garden Grove, in Orange County, California, United States. It is the headquarters and principal place of worship for Crystal Cathedral Ministries, a church founded in 1955 by Robert H. Schuller and affiliated with the... - Harvey Oren BanksHarvey Oren BanksHarvey Oren Banks was an American civil engineer who was appointed State Engineer of California in 1955 and the first Director of the California Department of Water Resources in 1956. Under his direction, DWR completed its first California Water Plan and initiated the first stage of planning of...
– State Engineer of California - James Arthur BanksJames Arthur BanksJames Arthur Banks CVO, OBE, FRSE was a Scottish civil engineer.Banks was born in Glasgow in 1897. He initially trained as a structural engineer and then joined Babtie, Shaw and Morton in 1921 to train as a civil engineer. He worked in England and the USA and returned to Babtie, Shaw and Morton in...
– British Dam engineer - Robert BarkerRobert Barker (footballer)Robert Barker was an English footballer who played for England, first in goal and later as a forward, in the first international match against Scotland.-Career:...
– English railway engineer who also played in the first ever football international gameScotland v England (1872)Scotland v England was the first ever official international football match to be played. It was contested by the national teams of Scotland and England. The match took place on 30 November 1872 at West of Scotland Cricket Club's ground at Hamilton Crescent in Partick, Scotland... - Henry Barnes – traffic Engineer who worked in US cities during 20th century
- Nora Stanton Blatch BarneyNora Stanton Blatch BarneyNora Stanton Blatch Barney was an American civil engineer, architect, and suffragist.-Early life:...
– American civil engineer - Peter W. BarlowPeter W. BarlowPeter William Barlow was an English civil engineer.He was born at Woolwich, the son of an engineer and mathematician, professor Peter Barlow of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich...
– English engineer in late 19th century. Notable for Lambeth BridgeLambeth BridgeLambeth Bridge is a road traffic and footbridge crossing the River Thames in an east-west direction in central London, England; the river flows north at the crossing point...
(old) and tunnelling shieldTunnelling shieldA tunnelling shield is a protective structure used in the excavation of tunnels through soil that is too soft or fluid to remain stable during the time it takes to line the tunnel with a support structure of concrete, cast iron or steel... - William Henry BarlowWilliam Henry BarlowOn 28 December 1879, the central section of the North British Railway's bridge across the River Tay near Dundee collapsed in the Tay Bridge disaster as an express train crossed it in a heavy storm. All 75 passengers and crew on the train were killed...
– English engineer in late 19th century; railway engineering - Frank BaronFrank BaronFrank Martin Baron served as professor of civil engineering at University of California, Berkeley and held an international reputation as an expert in the fields of bridge and roof-structure design, and seismic and wind analysis. He was twice the recipient of the prized Leon S...
– American academic - Alfred BarrettAlfred BarrettAlfred Barrett was born in New England. He was an engineer by training.In about 1818, Barrett began working on the engineering staff that was constructing the Erie Canal in New York State. He rapidly gained experience and was an accredited engineer by 1821...
– American engineer of the Erie CanalErie CanalThe Erie Canal is a waterway in New York that runs about from Albany, New York, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York, at Lake Erie, completing a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. The canal contains 36 locks and encompasses a total elevation differential of... - Sir John Wolfe-BarryJohn Wolfe-BarrySir John Wolfe-Barry was an English civil engineer of the late 19th and early 20th century. His most famous project was the construction of Tower Bridge over the River Thames in London.-Early career:...
– English engineer in late 19th century; designed Tower BridgeTower BridgeTower Bridge is a combined bascule and suspension bridge in London, England, over the River Thames. It is close to the Tower of London, from which it takes its name... - Edward William Barton-WrightEdward William Barton-WrightEdward William Barton-Wright C.E., M.J.S. was a British entrepreneur specialising in both self defence training and physical therapy...
– British martial arts teacher - John Frederic La Trobe Bateman – British hydraulic engineer
- Sir Joseph BazalgetteJoseph BazalgetteSir Joseph William Bazalgette, CB was an English civil engineer of the 19th century. As chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works his major achievement was the creation of a sewer network for central London which was instrumental in relieving the city from cholera epidemics, while...
– English engineer in late 19th century; London sewerage systemLondon sewerage systemThe London sewerage system is part of the water infrastructure serving London. The modern system was developed during the late 19th century, and as London has grown the system has been expanded.-History:... - Nikolay Apollonovich BelelyubskiNikolay Apollonovich BelelyubskiNikolay Apollonovich Belelyubski was a Russian scientist and the leading designer of bridges in the Imperial Russia.-Biography:...
– Russian bridge engineer - Bernard Forest de BelidorBernard Forest de BélidorBernard Forest de Bélidor was a French engineer, significant to the development of the science of hydraulics....
– hydraulic engineer - Ostap "Joe" BenderOstap "Joe" BenderOstap "Joe" Bender was an innovative and creative noted American civil engineer. He was recognized with industry and government awards for his bold and imaginative approach to bridge engineering design in the advancement of the art of bridge building...
- American civil engineer, with noted award-winning bridge designs - William BennetWilliam Bennet (engineer)William Bennet was an English civil engineer, noted for his work on canals. Nothing is known of his early life or family history, but details of his work from about 1790 until 1826 are documented...
– English canal engineer - Samuel BenthamSamuel BenthamSir Samuel Bentham was a noted English mechanical engineer and naval architect credited with numerous innovations, particularly related to naval architecture, including weapons...
– Designer of Vauxhall BridgeVauxhall BridgeVauxhall Bridge is a Grade II* listed steel and granite deck arch bridge in central London. It crosses the River Thames in a south–east north–west direction between Vauxhall on the south bank and Pimlico on the north bank... - Arthur BerganArthur BerganArthur Theodore Bergan is a Canadian Civil Engineer , a professor, and a leader in Canadian transportation safety research. He supervised the construction of numerous highways and was instrumental in the development of Transport Canada's Transportation Centres...
– Canadian highways engineer - Sir George BerkleyGeorge Berkley (engineer)Sir George Berkley was a British civil engineer. Berkley was born in London. He designed the Colesberg Bridge, a 390 m Warren truss bridge built in 1885 over the Orange River in Colesberg, South Africa....
– British railway engineer - Henry BerryHenry BerryHenry Berry, was Liverpool's second dock engineer succeeding Thomas Steers and being succeeded by Thomas Morris. Berry Street in Liverpool may be named after Berry who lived in a house at the junction with Duke Street, where the White Horse pub stands.He built Salthouse Dock, George's Dock and...
– LiverpoolLiverpoolLiverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
dock engineer - George Parker BidderGeorge Parker BidderGeorge Parker Bidder was an English engineer, architect and calculating prodigy.Born in the town of Moretonhampstead, Devon, England, he displayed a natural skill at calculation from an early age...
– British engineer; railways, telegraphs and hydraulics - Sir Alexander BinnieAlexander BinnieSir Alexander Richardson Binnie was a civil engineer responsible for several major engineering projects, including several associated with crossings of the River Thames in London....
– English engineer in late 19th century; tunnelTunnelA tunnel is an underground passageway, completely enclosed except for openings for egress, commonly at each end.A tunnel may be for foot or vehicular road traffic, for rail traffic, or for a canal. Some tunnels are aqueducts to supply water for consumption or for hydroelectric stations or are sewers...
s and bridgeBridgeA bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...
s across the Thames - William BinnieWilliam Binnie (engineer)William James Eames Binnie was a British civil engineer. William was the son of Alexander Binnie the famed civil engineer and William would enter the same career. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge before completing an apprenticeship with his father's firm...
– British waterworks engineer, son of the above - Osama bin LadenOsama bin LadenOsama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets...
– Founder of al-QaedaAl-QaedaAl-Qaeda is a global broad-based militant Islamist terrorist organization founded by Osama bin Laden sometime between August 1988 and late 1989. It operates as a network comprising both a multinational, stateless army and a radical Sunni Muslim movement calling for global Jihad...
, studied civil engineering at university - Alan W. BishopAlan W. BishopProfessor Alan Wilfred Bishop MA PhD DIC DSc was a British Geotechnical Engineer and an academic at Imperial College London.He was known for the Bishop's method of analysing soil slopes. After his graduation from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Bishop worked under Alec Skempton and obtained his PhD...
– developer of Bishop's method of analysing earth dams - Magnus BjorndalMagnus BjorndalMagnus Bjorndal was a Norwegian American engineer and inventor. Magnus Bjorndal was the founder and president of Tech Laboratories, Inc.-Biography:...
– American engineer and inventor - John BlenkinsopJohn BlenkinsopJohn Blenkinsop was an English mining engineer and an inventor of steam locomotives, who designed the first practical railway locomotive....
– English engineer in mid 19th century; railways, locomotiveLocomotiveA locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th...
s and mining - Benjamin BlythBenjamin BlythBenjamin Hall Blyth was a Scottish civil engineer.Blyth was born at St Cuthbert's parish, Edinburgh to Robert Brittain Blyth, an iron merchant, and his wife, Barbara, maiden name Cooper...
– Scottish railway engineer - Benjamin Blyth IIBenjamin Blyth IIBenjamin Hall Blyth II FRSE was a Scottish civil engineer.Blyth, who was born in St Cuthbert's Parish, Edinburgh, was the eldest of the nine children of the railway engineer Benjamin Blyth...
– Scottish railway engineer, first practising Scottish engineer to become president of the Institution of Civil EngineersInstitution of Civil EngineersFounded on 2 January 1818, the Institution of Civil Engineers is an independent professional association, based in central London, representing civil engineering. Like its early membership, the majority of its current members are British engineers, but it also has members in more than 150... - Gudmundur S. (Bo) BodvarssonGudmundur S. (Bo) BodvarssonGudmundur Svavar Bodvarsson was director of the Laboratory’s Earth Sciences Division since 2001 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Bodvarsson was a pioneer in 3-D mathematical modeling of unsaturated zone flow and transport...
– Icelandic civil engineer and researcher - Alfred P. BollerAlfred P. BollerAlfred Pancoast Boller was a civil engineer and bridge designer. He was the chief engineer on several bridge building projects during the late 1800 and neary 1900s. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States, Boller graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and...
– American civil engineer - Sir Thomas BouchThomas BouchSir Thomas Bouch was a British railway engineer in Victorian Britain.He was born in Thursby, near Carlisle, Cumberland, England and lived in Edinburgh. He helped develop the caisson and the roll-on/roll-off train ferry. He worked initially for the North British Railway and helped design parts of...
– English engineer in late 19th century; first Tay Rail Bridge disaster - Guillaume BoutheroueGuillaume BoutheroueGuillaume Boutheroue was a French engineer who completed the Briare Canal, originated by Hugues Cosnier.In 1623, he was the Poor Rate and Tax Collector at Beaugency....
– 17th century French canal engineer - John Bradfield – Designer of Sydney Harbour BridgeSydney Harbour BridgeThe Sydney Harbour Bridge is a steel through arch bridge across Sydney Harbour that carries rail, vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian traffic between the Sydney central business district and the North Shore. The dramatic view of the bridge, the harbour, and the nearby Sydney Opera House is an iconic...
- William BraggeWilliam BraggeWilliam Bragge, F.S.A., F.G.S., was a civil engineer, antiquarian, and author. He established a museum and art gallery. He was notable in his day for collecting a library containing the entire literature on tobacco...
– English engineer in the 19th century - Frederick BramwellFrederick BramwellSir Frederick Joseph Bramwell, 1st Baronet FRS was a British civil and mechanical engineer. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1873 and served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers between December 1884 and May 1886 and the President, British Association in 1888...
– British Engineer - Jacob R. BrandtJacob R. BrandtJacob Rugh Brandt , aka "Blue Jeans" Brandt, was an American civil engineer who built many truss covered bridges in Ohio in the 19th century, born in Greenfield Township, Fairfield County, Ohio.-Biography:...
– American engineer in the mid 19th century; covered bridgeCovered bridgeA covered bridge is a bridge with enclosed sides and a roof, often accommodating only a single lane of traffic. Most covered bridges are wooden; some newer ones are concrete or metal with glass sides...
engineer - James BrindleyJames BrindleyJames Brindley was an English engineer. He was born in Tunstead, Derbyshire, and lived much of his life in Leek, Staffordshire, becoming one of the most notable engineers of the 18th century.-Early life:...
– English engineer from mid 18th century – canalCanalCanals are man-made channels for water. There are two types of canal:#Waterways: navigable transportation canals used for carrying ships and boats shipping goods and conveying people, further subdivided into two kinds:...
s and watermillWatermillA watermill is a structure that uses a water wheel or turbine to drive a mechanical process such as flour, lumber or textile production, or metal shaping .- History :...
s - John Alexander BrodieJohn Alexander BrodieJohn Alexander Brodie was a British civil engineer.Brodie began his professional career in 1875 working in the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board engineering department under Chief Engineer George Fosbery Lyster, following this he set up a private consultancy and spent some time working in Spain...
– City Engineer of Liverpool and inventor of the football goal net - Samuel BrownSamuel Brown (Royal Navy officer)Captain Sir Samuel Brown of Netherbyres KH FRSE was an early pioneer of chain design and manufacture and of suspension bridge design and construction. He is best known for the Union Bridge of 1820, the first vehicular suspension bridge in Britain.-Naval career:Brown was born in London, the son of...
– British naval officer and bridge designer - William BrownWilliam Brown (bridge designer)William Brown was a structural engineer and bridge designer who specialised in suspension bridges. He is credited with the idea of designing bridge decks with an aerofoil-shaped cross section for stability in a wide variety of wind conditions.He was one of the principal designers at Freeman Fox &...
– structural engineer - George Barclay BruceGeorge Barclay BruceSir George Barclay Bruce was a British civil engineer. Bruce was primarily a railway engineer who worked for many railway companies in Britain, Europe, Asia and South America. He was closely involved with the Institution of Civil Engineers, serving at various times as a member, council member,...
– English railway engineer - Peter BruffPeter BruffPeter Schuyler Bruff , born in Portsmouth, England, was a civil engineer best known for founding the seaside resort town of Clacton on Sea, Essex, and for improving the lives of residents in the Essex towns of Walton-on-the-Naze, Colchester and Harwich...
– British civil engineer - Henry Marc Brunel – English engineer in late 19th century.
- Isambard Kingdom BrunelIsambard Kingdom BrunelIsambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS , was a British civil engineer who built bridges and dockyards including the construction of the first major British railway, the Great Western Railway; a series of steamships, including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship; and numerous important bridges...
– English engineer in mid 19th century – designed Great Western RailwayGreat Western RailwayThe Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...
, a series of famous steamships, and important bridges. - Marc Isambard BrunelMarc Isambard BrunelSir Marc Isambard Brunel, FRS FRSE was a French-born engineer who settled in England. He preferred the name Isambard, but is generally known to history as Marc to avoid confusion with his more famous son Isambard Kingdom Brunel...
– French engineer in early 19th century. Notable for the Thames foot tunnel. - James BrunleesJames BrunleesSir James Brunlees was a Scottish civil engineer. He was born in Kelso in the Scottish Borders in 1816.In 1850, Brunlees worked on the Londonderry and Coleraine Railway...
– Scottish engineer notable for designing Southend PierSouthend PierSouthend Pier is a major landmark in Southend-on-Sea. Extending into the Thames Estuary, it is the longest pleasure pier in the world. Sir John Betjeman once said that "the Pier is Southend, Southend is the Pier". The pier is a Grade II listed building.... - Peter BruffPeter BruffPeter Schuyler Bruff , born in Portsmouth, England, was a civil engineer best known for founding the seaside resort town of Clacton on Sea, Essex, and for improving the lives of residents in the Essex towns of Walton-on-the-Naze, Colchester and Harwich...
– English engineer in 19th century. Notable for work in Clacton on Sea - Sir George Buchanan – British civil engineer associated with harbour works in Burma, IraqIraqIraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
and Bombay, during early 20th century. - George W. BuckGeorge W. BuckGeorge Watson Buck was Engineer of the Montgomeryshire Canal in the early 19th Century, and was responsible for the unique lock paddle design....
– British canal, bridge and railway engineer - Leffert L. BuckLeffert L. BuckLeffert L. Buck was an American civil engineer and a pioneer in the use of steel arch bridge structures. Leffert graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY in 1868...
– American civil engineer - John BurlandJohn BurlandJohn Boscawen Burland CBE, DSc, FREng, FRS is an Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Investigator at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Imperial College London.-Early education:...
– Professor of civil engineering
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- Santiago CalatravaSantiago CalatravaSantiago Calatrava Valls is a Spanish architect, sculptor and structural engineer whose principal office is in Zürich, Switzerland. Classed now among the elite designers of the world, he has offices in Zürich, Paris, Valencia, and New York City....
– Spanish architect: skyscrapers, bridges, train stations - Leopoldo Calvo SoteloLeopoldo Calvo SoteloLeopoldo Calvo-Sotelo y Bustelo, 1st Marquis of the Ría of Ribadeo and Grandee of Spain was a Spanish political figure and prime minister during the period of transition after the end of Francisco Franco's regime.-Biography:...
– Spanish Prime Minister - Ian McDonald CampbellIan McDonald CampbellIan McDonald Campbell is a British civil engineer. He was born in Edinburgh in 1922 and has a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering. Campbell was a member of the British Army's Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, an unpaid, volunteer unit that provides technical expertise to the armed forces...
– British civil engineer - Harold CampingHarold CampingHarold Egbert Camping is an American Christian radio broadcaster. He served as president of Family Radio, a California-based radio station group that broadcasts to more than 150 markets in the United States, since 1958. In 2011 he retired from active broadcasting following a stroke, but still...
– Civil engineer and end times prophecy maker - Frederick William CappelenFrederick William CappelenFrederick William Cappelen was a Norwegian-born architect and civil engineer who held the office of Minneapolis City Engineer.Frederick William Cappelen was born in Drammen, Norway...
– American engineer, designed the Cappelen Memorial Bridge in Minneapolis, MinnesotaMinneapolis, MinnesotaMinneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States... - Albert CaquotAlbert CaquotAlbert Caquot was considered as the "best living French engineer" during half a century. He received the “Croix de guerre 1914-1918” and was Grand-croix of the Légion d’Honneur...
– French civil engineer - Edgar CardosoEdgar CardosoEdgar Cardoso was a noted Portuguese civil engineer and university professor. In Portugal, Edgar Cardoso was a pioneer of experimental analysis of structures and of high precision instruments development for measure mechanical sizes in the little models and in his own works.-Early life:Cardoso...
– Portuguese civil engineer and professor - Arthur CasagrandeArthur CasagrandeArthur Casagrande was an Austrian-born American civil engineer who made important contributions to the fields of engineering geology and geotechnical engineering during its infancy...
– Civil engineer specialising in geotechnics - Giovanni Domenico CassiniGiovanni Domenico CassiniThis article is about the Italian-born astronomer. For his French-born great-grandson, see Jean-Dominique Cassini.Giovanni Domenico Cassini was an Italian/French mathematician, astronomer, engineer, and astrologer...
– 17th and 18th century astronomer and engineer of papal fortifications - Heberto Castillo Martínez – Mexican engineer, writer, social leader and political activist. Inventor of the composite material TridilosaTridilosaTridilosa is a very light and resistant, materials-efficient 3-D structure, made from steel and concrete and widely used in civil engineering...
. - Augustin Louis CauchyAugustin Louis CauchyBaron Augustin-Louis Cauchy was a French mathematician who was an early pioneer of analysis. He started the project of formulating and proving the theorems of infinitesimal calculus in a rigorous manner, rejecting the heuristic principle of the generality of algebra exploited by earlier authors...
– French mathematician - Louis-Alexandre de CessartLouis-Alexandre de CessartLouis-Alexandre de Cessart was a French road and bridge engineer.He served in the "gendarmerie de la Maison du Roi", fighting at the battles of Fontenoy and Raucoux in 1745 and 1746. In 1747 he entered the school of Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, which later became the École nationale des ponts et...
– French bridge builder - Octave ChanuteOctave ChanuteOctave Chanute was a French-born American railway engineer and aviation pioneer. He provided the Wright brothers with help and advice, and helped to publicize their flying experiments. At his death he was hailed as the father of aviation and the heavier-than-air flying machine...
– 19th century American railroad engineer and aviation pioneer - Joseph ChaleyJoseph ChaleyJoseph Chaley was a French civil engineer and a pioneer designer of suspension bridges in the 19th century. He was a medical officer in the army before becoming a bridge designer....
– French suspension bridge designer - Lemuel ChenowethLemuel ChenowethLemuel Chenoweth was a carpenter, legislator and self-educated architect. He is best-known as one of nineteenth century America's master covered bridge builders....
– American covered bridge designer - Edwin Clark – designer of the Anderton Boat LiftAnderton Boat LiftThe Anderton Boat Lift near the village of Anderton, Cheshire, in north-west England provides a vertical link between two navigable waterways: the River Weaver and the Trent and Mersey Canal....
- William Tierney ClarkWilliam Tierney ClarkWilliam Tierney Clark FRS was an English civil engineer particularly associated with the design and construction of bridges...
– English engineer in mid 19th century; suspension bridgeSuspension bridgeA suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. Outside Tibet and Bhutan, where the first examples of this type of bridge were built in the 15th century, this type of bridge dates from the early 19th century...
s - Wayne Clough – Former president of Georgia Tech and current secretary of the Smithsonian.
- Reginald CoatesReginald CoatesProfessor Reginald “Rex” Charles Coates was a British civil engineer, academic and the 114th president of the Institution of Civil Engineers.-Early life:...
– British civil engineer and academic - Abraham Burton CohenAbraham Burton CohenAbraham Burton Cohen was an American civil engineer notable for his role in designing innovative and record-breaking concrete bridges such as the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad's Tunkhannock Viaduct, the world's largest concrete structure when completed...
– American civil engineer - Joseph Colaco – American structural engineer
- Henry ConybeareHenry ConybeareHenry Conybeare was an English civil engineer and Gothic revival architect who designed two notable churches and greatly improved the supply of drinking water to Mumbai.-Early life in England and work in India:...
– English civil engineer and architect, responsible for creating a clean water supply to MumbaiMumbaiMumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million... - John CoodeJohn Coode (engineer)Sir John Coode , English civil engineer, was born at Bodmin, Cornwall, the son of a solicitor. After considerable experience as an engineer in the west of England he came to London, and from 1844 to 1847 had a consulting practice in Westminster.In the latter year he was appointed resident engineer...
– English engineer, notable for work on Portland HarbourPortland HarbourPortland Harbour is located beside the Isle of Portland, off Dorset, on the south coast of England. It is one of the largest man-made harbours in the world. Grid reference: .-History:... - Theodore CooperTheodore CooperTheodore Cooper was an American civil engineer. He may be best known as supervising engineer on the Quebec Bridge when it collapsed in 1907....
– American civil engineer, supervisor of Quebec BridgeQuebec Bridgeright|thumb|Lifting the centre span in place was considered to be a major engineering achievement. Photo caption from [[Popular Mechanics]] Magazine, December 1917... - Hugues CosnierHugues CosnierHugues Cosnier was a French engineer who conceived of the Briare Canal. He was born in Angers or Tours, date unknown, and died in 1629.He proposed to Henri IV the idea of building a canal from the Loire River to the River Seine. It would go from Briare to Montargis and then continue to the Seine...
– 17th century French canal engineer - Charles-Augustin de CoulombCharles-Augustin de CoulombCharles-Augustin de Coulomb was a French physicist. He is best known for developing Coulomb's law, the definition of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion. The [SI unit] of charge, the coulomb, was named after him....
– physicist who also developed methods for retaining wall design - Peter Arthur CoxPeter Arthur CoxPeter Arthur Cox is a British civil engineer. He was born in London in 1922 and has a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering. Cox served as a commissioned officer in the Royal Engineers during the Second World War, being promoted from cadet to Lieutenant on 15 August 1943. His war emergency...
– British civil engineer - Henry CroninHenry CroninHenry Francis Cronin CBE, MC, BSc was a British civil engineer and army officer.Henry Francis Cronin was born in Ketton, Rutland in 1894 and was the holder of a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering...
– British civil engineer - Hardy CrossHardy CrossHardy Cross, 1885–1959, born in Nansemond County, Virginia, was a U.S. structural engineer and the developer of the moment distribution method for structural calculation of large buildings. The method was in general use from c.1935 until c.1960 when it was gradually superseded by other methods...
– American engineer in 20th century. Notable for the developer of the moment distribution method - Joseph CubittJoseph CubittJoseph Cubitt was an English civil engineer. Amongst other projects, he designed the Blackfriars Railway Bridge over the River Thames in London. He was appointed engineer to the Oswestry & Newtown Railway on 3 October 1856. -References:...
– Designer of Blackfriars Railway BridgeBlackfriars Railway BridgeBlackfriars Railway Bridge is a railway bridge crossing the River Thames in London, between Blackfriars Bridge and the Millennium Bridge.There have been two structures with the name. The first bridge was opened in 1864 and was designed by Joseph Cubitt for the London, Chatham and Dover Railway... - William CubittWilliam CubittSir William Cubitt was an eminent English civil engineer and millwright. Born in Norfolk, England, he was employed in many of the great engineering undertakings of his time. He invented a type of windmill sail and the prison treadwheel, and was employed as chief engineer, at Ransomes of Ipswich,...
– English engineer in 19th century. - Carl CulmannCarl CulmannCarl Culmann was a German structural engineer.Born in Bad Bergzabern, Rhenish Palatinate, in modern-day Germany, Culmann's father, a pastor, tutored him at home before enrolling him at the military engineering school at Metz to prepare for entry to the École Polytechnique...
– German Engineer in mid 19th century. Notable for graphical pioneering statical methods.
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- Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da VinciLeonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance...
- James DadfordJames DadfordJames Dadford was an English canal engineer, as were his father Thomas Dadford and brothers Thomas Dadford Junior and John Dadford.He was engineer of the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal from 1795 to 1800.-See also:*Canals of the United Kingdom...
– English canal engineer - John DadfordJohn DadfordJohn Dadford was an English canal engineer, as were his father Thomas Dadford and brothers Thomas Dadford Junior and James Dadford.From 1794 – 1797, he was Engineer of the Montgomeryshire Canal. The Vyrnwy Aqueduct and Berriew Aqueduct both had difficulties, and Dadford resigned...
– English canal engineer - Thomas DadfordThomas DadfordThomas Dadford, Senior was an English canal engineer, as were his sons, Thomas Dadford Junior, John Dadford and James Dadford.He probably originated from Stewponey or Stourton near Stourbridge. He started as one of James Brindley's many pupil-assistants, in which capacity he worked on the...
– English canal engineer - Thomas Dadford, Jr.Thomas Dadford, Jr.Thomas Dadford was an English canal engineer, who came from a family of canal engineers. He worked with his father and later independently, contributing to a number of canal schemes before dying at the relatively young age of 40....
– English canal engineer - Gustaf DalénGustaf DalénNils Gustaf Dalén was a Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist, the founder of the AGA company and inventor of the AGA cooker and the Dalén light...
– sun valve, unmanned acetylene lighthouses - George Christian DarbyshireGeorge Christian DarbyshireGeorge Christian Darbyshire was an English and Australian civil engineer. He was the second son of George Darbyshire, also a surveyor and railway engineer.-Early life:...
– Australian railway engineer - Henry DarcyHenry DarcyHenry Philibert Gaspard Darcy was a French engineer who made several important contributions to hydraulics.-Biography:...
- William DarganWilliam DarganWilliam Dargan , an engineer, often seen as the father of Irish railways, came from Killeshin, County Laois, Ireland. Born in 1799, he constructed Ireland's first railway from Dublin to Dún Laoghaire in 1833. He constructed over of railway to important urban centres of Ireland...
– Irish railway engineer. - Jonathan DavidsonJonathan DavidsonColonel Sir Jonathan Roberts Davidson, CMG, TD, MSc, MICE was a British civil engineer and army officer. Davidson pursued a professional career as an engineer which resulted in him being elected president of both the Institution of Civil Engineers and of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers...
– British civil engineer - Simon James DawsonSimon James DawsonSimon James Dawson was a Canadian civil engineer and politician.Born in Redhaven, Banffshire, Scotland, Dawson emigrated to Canada as a young man and began his career as an engineer...
– Red River road - Fabrizio de MirandaFabrizio de MirandaFabrizio de Miranda is an Italian bridges and structural engineer, and university professor.-Career:He graduated with a degree in civil engineering in 1950 from the University of Naples. Since 1955 he introduced in Italy the steel-concrete composite structures, mainly in the field of bridges...
– Italian bridge engineer - Samuel DiescherSamuel DiescherSamuel Diescher, a prominent civil and mechanical engineer, was born in Budapest, educated at Karlsruhe Polytechnique and at the University of Zurich. Coming to the United States in 1866, he settled in Cincinnati, where he built his first inclined plane. He came to Pittsburgh and was associated...
– Hungarian railway engineer - Franz DischingerFranz DischingerFranz Dischinger was a pioneering German civil and structural engineer, responsible for the development of the modern cable-stayed bridge...
– German civil and structural engineer - Sydney DonkinSydney DonkinSydney Bryan Donkin was a British civil engineer. Donkin was educated at University College, London before beginning work for Sulzer Brothers, mechanical engineers, later the Sulzer company. Whilst based at this company's headquarters in Switzerland he became interested in Alpine climbing and...
– British civil, mechanical and electrical engineer - Francis DrakeFrancis DrakeSir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588. He also carried out the...
- James Nicholas DouglassJames Nicholas DouglassSir James Nicholas Douglass, FRS, , was an English civil engineer, a prolific lighthouse builder and designer, most famous for the design and construction of the fourth Eddystone Lighthouse, for which he was knighted....
– English lighthouse engineer - Guillaume Henri DufourGuillaume Henri DufourGuillaume-Henri Dufour was a Swiss army officer, bridge engineer and topographer. He served under Napoleon I and held the office of General to lead the Swiss forces to victory against the Sonderbund. He presided over the First Geneva Convention which established the International Red Cross...
– Swiss army officer, surveyor and engineer - Jules DupuitJules DupuitJules Dupuit was an Italian-born French civil engineer and economist.He was born in Fossano, Italy then under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte. At the age of ten he emigrated to France with his family where he studied in Versailles — winning a Physics prize at graduation. He then studied in the...
- Thomas Dadford Junior — canals
- H. D. Deve GowdaH. D. Deve GowdaHaradanahalli Doddegowda Deve Gowda was the 11th Prime Minister of India and the 14th chief minister of the state of Karnataka ....
– Ex-Prime Minister of India
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- James Buchanan EadsJames Buchanan EadsCaptain James Buchanan Eads was a world-renowned American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than fifty patents.-Early life and education:...
– American civil engineer - John S. EastwoodJohn S. EastwoodJohn S. Eastwood was an American engineer who built the world's first reinforced concrete multiple-arch dam on bedrock foundation at Hume Lake, California, in 1908. Mr...
– American dam engineer - Marc EdwardsMarc Edwards (civil engineering professor)Marc Edwards is a civil engineering/environmental engineer and the Charles P. Lunsford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech....
– American professor - Alexandre Gustave Eiffel – Eiffel Tower
- Hans Albert Einstein – hydraulics
- Clark EldridgeClark EldridgeClark Eldridge was one of the engineers who designed the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge.In 1936, Eldridge joined the Washington State Highway Department. He designed two of the state's most colossal bridges, the Lake Washington Floating Bridge and the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge...
– Tacoma Narrows BridgeTacoma Narrows Bridge (1940)The 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge was the first incarnation of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, a suspension bridge in the U.S. state of Washington that spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula. It opened to traffic on July 1, 1940, and dramatically collapsed...
designer - Charles Ellet, Jr.Charles Ellet, Jr.Charles Ellet, Jr. was a civil engineer and a colonel during the American Civil War, mortally wounded at the Battle of Memphis.-Biography:Ellet was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, brother of Alfred W...
– American army officer and engineer - Robert Elliott-CooperRobert Elliott-CooperSir Robert Elliott-Cooper KCB was a British civil engineer.Elliott-Cooper was born in Leeds in 1845. On 27 September 1870 he was commissioned into the 1st Yorkshire Artillery Volunteer Corps as a First Lieutenant, a rank replaced by that of Lieutenant during British Army standardisation in 1871...
– British civil engineer - William Henry EllisWilliam Henry EllisSir William Henry Ellis, GBE was a British civil engineer and steel maker.Ellis was born on 20 August 1860 in Pitsmoor, Sheffield, Yorkshire. He was the son of John Devonshire Ellis and, his wife, Elizabeth Bourne...
– British civil engineer and steel maker - Bill EmeryBill EmeryBill Emery is an engineer who has been the chief executive officer of the Office of Rail Regulation since 2005. From 1990 to 2005 he was the chief engineer of Ofwat.- External links :*...
– CEO of the Office of Rail RegulationOffice of Rail RegulationThe Office of Rail Regulation is a statutory board which is the combined economic and safety regulatory authority for Great Britain's railway network. It was established on 5 July 2004 by the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003, replacing the Rail Regulator... - Jose Izquierdo EncarnacionJose Izquierdo EncarnacionEngineer José Izquierdo Encarnación served as the 19th Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.Appointed by Puerto Rico Governor Sila Calderón following the resignation of Secretary of State Ferdinand Mercado, he served simultaneously as the United States territory's Secretary of...
– Puerto Rican Secretary of State - John EndresJohn Endres (engineer)John J. Endres was a civil engineer. Born in Prussia, he later resided in Cincinnati, Ohio. He designed the Monongahela Incline, the first passenger incline in the United States, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The incline was originally steam powered and ran on wooden tracks. His daughter, Caroline...
– Prussian-American railway engineer - John EricssonJohn EricssonJohn Ericsson was a Swedish-American inventor and mechanical engineer, as was his brother Nils Ericson. He was born at Långbanshyttan in Värmland, Sweden, but primarily came to be active in England and the United States...
– propeller, USS Monitor - Edilberto EvangelistaEdilberto EvangelistaEdilberto Evangelista was a Filipino civil engineer who trained in the University of Ghent, Belgium. His popularity by the time of the Philippine Revolution could have made him president rather than Emilio Aguinaldo, lest he was killed by a bullet in the head.-Early Life and Career:He was born in...
– Filipino engineer and soldier
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- William FairhurstWilliam FairhurstDr. William Albert Fairhurst CBE was an English-born bridge designer and chess master of world renown. Unusually, he was highly accomplished in both disciplines and for many years successfully divided his time between two distinguished careers...
– Bridge builder and chess master - Hilario Fernández LongHilario Fernández LongHilario Fernández Long was an Argentine structural engineer and educator.He was born in Bahía Blanca and was of Spanish and Volga German descent. He graduated as a Civil Engineer from the University of Buenos Aires in 1941 and his professional life was centered on structural engineering...
– Argentine engineer and university president - Joshua FieldJoshua Field (engineer)Joshua Field was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer.Field was born in Hackney in 1786, his father was John Field a corn and seed merchant who was later to become Master of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors...
– telegraph cables, sewerage - Albert FinkAlbert FinkAlbert Fink was a German civil engineer. He is best known for his railroad bridge designs, and devising the Fink truss....
– German railway engineer - James FinleyJames Finley (engineer)James Finley , aka Judge James Finley, is widely recognized as the first designer and builder of the modern suspension bridge.Born in Maryland, Finley moved to a farm in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, near Uniontown...
– American suspension bridge designer - Maurice FitzmauriceMaurice FitzmauriceSir Maurice Fitzmaurice CMG was an Irish civil engineer. He was apprenticed to Benjamin Baker and worked with him on the Forth Railway Bridge before going to Egypt to build the Aswan Dam for which he was appointed both a member of the Ottoman Order of the Mejidiye and a companion of the British...
– Irish bridge, dam and tunnel engineer - Ken Fleming – Northern Irish civil engineer and piling and foundations specialist
- Sanford Fleming – railroads, time zoneTime zoneA time zone is a region on Earth that has a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. In order for the same clock time to always correspond to the same portion of the day as the Earth rotates , different places on the Earth need to have different clock times...
- Sir John FowlerJohn Fowler (engineer)Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet KCMG LLD was an English civil engineer specialising in the construction of railways and railway infrastructure. In the 1850s and 1860s, he was engineer for the world's first underground railway, London's Metropolitan Railway, built by the "cut-and-cover" method under...
– bridges - Sir Charles Fox – British railway engineer
- Charles Douglas FoxCharles Douglas FoxSir Douglas Fox was a British civil engineer.-Early life:Douglas was born in Smethwick, Staffordshire, the oldest son of Sir Charles Fox and had two brothers and a sister. Sir Charles was a civil engineer and had designed, amongst other things, The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park...
– British railway engineer - Sir Francis FoxSir Francis FoxSir Francis Fox was an English civil engineer, who was responsible for the bridges over the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi and Sydney Harbour, the Mersey Railway Tunnel and the Liverpool Overhead Railway, and extending the London Underground....
– British railway engineer - Thomas Pierson FrankThomas Pierson FrankThomas Pierson Frank was a British civil engineer and surveyor.Frank was born in 1881 at Kirkbymoorside in North Yorkshire. He was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers for the November 1945 to November 1946 session....
– British civil engineer - Ralph Freeman (1880–1950) – English structural engineer
- Ralph Freeman (1911–1998) – English bridge and highways engineer
- Eugène FreyssinetEugène FreyssinetEugène Freyssinet was a French structural and civil engineer. He was the major pioneer of prestressed concrete.Freyssinet was born in at Objat, Corrèze, France. He worked in the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, France where he designed several bridges until the First World War...
– French structural engineer - Buckminster FullerBuckminster FullerRichard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller was an American systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, futurist and second president of Mensa International, the high IQ society....
- Angus FultonAngus FultonAngus Anderson Fulton CBE, BSc, FRSE, FICE, FIME, FIEE was a British civil engineer.Fulton was born in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland on 10 January 1900. His father was an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers for more than 50 years and Angus followed in his footsteps to...
– British civil engineer
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- David du Bose GaillardDavid du Bose GaillardDavid du Bose Gaillard was a U.S. Army engineer instrumental in the construction of the Panama Canal.-Biography:He was born in Manning, South Carolina. Gaillard graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1884. In 1907 he was placed in charge of construction of the central...
– American engineer of the Panama CanalPanama CanalThe Panama Canal is a ship canal in Panama that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. Built from 1904 to 1914, the canal has seen annual traffic rise from about 1,000 ships early on to 14,702 vessels measuring a total of 309.6... - Paul-Martin Gallocher de LagalisseriePaul-Martin Gallocher de LagalisseriePaul-Martin Gallocher de Lagalisserie was a French engineer. He was the son of Martin Pierre Gallocher de Lagalisserie and Marie Delphine Théodore Ménager.-Notable projects:...
– French bridge engineer - Thomas GallowayThomas GallowayThomas Galloway was a Scottish mathematician born in Symington, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. In 1812 he entered the University of Edinburgh, where he distinguished himself in mathematics...
- Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri
- George GandyGeorge GandyGeorge Shepard "Dad" Gandy was a business executive and developer, best known for constructing the original Gandy Bridge, the first bridge to span the Tampa Bay. He is also known for developing numerous buildings and transportation lines in Philadelphia and St. Petersburg,...
– Builder of the Gandy BridgeGandy BridgeGandy Bridge is the southernmost bridge spanning Old Tampa Bay from St. Petersburg, Florida to Tampa, Florida. Almost three miles long, it is one of three bridges connecting Hillsborough County and Pinellas County; the others being the Howard Frankland Bridge and the Courtney Campbell... - Oleksandr GarmashOleksandr GarmashOleksandr Andriyovych Harmash - was a Ukrainian and Soviet scientist in the field of production line methods in construction , professor of the Dnipropetrovsk Building Institute.- Life and work :...
– Ukrainian researcher - Emiland GautheyEmiland GautheyEmiland Gauthey was a French civil engineer and architect in the Age of Enlightenment...
– French engineer and architect - Hubert GautierHubert GautierHenri Gautier was a French engineer. He was born in Nîmes, France.In 1716, he wrote the first book on building bridges, Traité des ponts. Gautier initially trained as a doctor, turning to mathematics and finally engineering. He served as an engineer for 28 years province of Languedoc.Gautier died...
– French bridge engineer - Robert A. GearheartRobert A. GearheartRobert A. Gearheart is an emeritus professor of Environmental Engineering at Humboldt State University, in Arcata, California.Dr...
– American civil and environmental engineering professor - William George Nicholson GeddesWilliam George Nicholson GeddesWilliam George Nicholson Geddes, CBE DSc FRSE FEng was a Scottish civil engineer.George Geddes was born in Oldhamstock, East Lothian and studied civil engineering at Edinburgh University, gaining a "blue" in football. He worked for the City Engineer in Edinburgh, then Sir William Arrol & Company,...
– Scottish engineer - Alexander GibbAlexander GibbBrigadier-General Sir Alexander Gibb GBE CB FRS was a Scottish civil engineer.Gibb was born in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, the son of the civil engineer, Alexander Easton Gibb, and the grandson of John Gibb, a founder member of the Institution of Civil Engineers...
– Scottish railway and military engineer - John GilbertJohn Gilbert (agent)John Gilbert was land agent and engineer to the third Duke of Bridgewater and is credited with the idea which led to the building of the Bridgewater Canal....
– engineer of the Bridgewater CanalBridgewater CanalThe Bridgewater Canal connects Runcorn, Manchester and Leigh, in North West England. It was commissioned by Francis Egerton, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, to transport coal from his mines in Worsley to Manchester... - Alfred GilesAlfred GilesAlfred Giles was a British civil engineer and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1878 and 1892....
– British civil engineer - Francis GilesFrancis GilesFrancis Giles was a canal engineer and surveyor who worked under John Rennie and later became a railway engineer-Works and appointments:...
– British canal and railway engineer - William GlanvilleWilliam GlanvilleSir William Henry Glanville CB CBE was a British civil engineer. During WWII he and the Road Research Laboratory were involved in important war work, developing temporary runways, beach analysis, and tank and aircraft design...
– British highways engineer - George Washington GoethalsGeorge Washington GoethalsGeorge Washington Goethals was a United States Army officer and civil engineer, best known for his supervision of construction and the opening of the Panama Canal...
- James Henry GreatheadJames Henry GreatheadJames Henry Greathead was an engineer renowned for his work on the London Underground railway.-Early life:Greathead was born in Grahamstown, South Africa; of English descent, Greathead's grandfather had emigrated to South Africa in 1820. He was educated at St Andrew's College, Grahamstown, and the...
- James GreenJames Green (engineer)James Green was a noted civil engineer and canal engineer, who was particularly active in the South West of England, where he pioneered the building of tub boat canals, and inventive solutions for coping with hilly terrain, which included tub boat lifts and inclined planes...
– British canal engineer - Charles Hutton GregoryCharles Hutton GregorySir Charles Hutton Gregory KCMG was a British civil engineer. He was president of the Institution of Civil Engineers between December 1867 and December 1869....
– railways, - William GriersonWilliam GriersonWilliam Wylie Grierson was a British civil engineer.William was born to James Grierson and Margaret Emily Grierson and was educated at Rugby School. William married Aleen Isabel Bell on 14 September 1927 at St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge...
– British railway engineer - John GriffithJohn Griffith (engineer)Sir John Purser Griffith was an Irish civil engineer.John Griffith was educated at Trinity College Dublin and gained a license in civil engineering in 1868. He served a two year apprenticeship under Dr Bindon Blood Stoney, the Engineer in Chief of the Dublin Port and Docks, before working as...
– Irish engineer - Hans Ulrich Grubenmann
- Johannes GrubenmannJohannes GrubenmannJohannes Grubenmann was a member of the Swiss family Grubenmann who were famous as joiners and civil engineers in the eighteenth century....
- Sarah GuppySarah GuppySarah Guppy, née Beach was an English inventor who contributed to the design of Britain's infrastructure and developed several domestic products.-Early history and inventions:...
– Inventor and bridge engineer - John GwynnJohn GwynnJohn Gwynn was an English architect and civil engineer of the 18th century, and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768....
– English architect and civil engineer
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- Sir William HalcrowWilliam HalcrowSir William Halcrow was one of the most notable English civil engineers of the 20th century, particularly renowned for his expertise in the design of tunnels and for projects during the Second World War.-Early years:...
– tunnels - Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron LlanoverBenjamin Hall, 1st Baron LlanoverBenjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover PC , known as Sir Benjamin Hall, Bt, between 1838 and 1859, was a British civil engineer and politician.-Political career:...
– Big BenClock Tower, Palace of WestminsterBig Ben is the nickname for the great bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London, and is generally extended to refer to the clock or the clock tower as well. It is the largest four-faced chiming clock and the third-tallest free-standing clock tower in the world... - Archibald Milne Hamilton – Callender-Hamilton bridgeCallender-Hamilton bridgeThe Callender-Hamilton bridge is a modular portable pre-fabricated truss bridge. It is primarily designed for use as permanent civil bridging as well as for emergency bridge replacement and for construction by military engineering units...
and Hamilton Road in Kurdistan - Björn HamiltonBjörn HamiltonBjörn Axel Åke Malcolm Hamilton is a Swedish count, civil engineer and politician.Hamilton has been a member of the Swedish parliament for the Moderate Party since 2002.- References :...
– Swedish civil engineer and politician - William Hammond HallWilliam Hammond HallWilliam Hammond Hall was a civil engineer who was the first State Engineer of California, and designed Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, CA.After serving with the U.S...
– American civil engineer noted for his work on Golden Gate ParkGolden Gate ParkGolden Gate Park, located in San Francisco, California, is a large urban park consisting of of public grounds. Configured as a rectangle, it is similar in shape but 20% larger than Central Park in New York, to which it is often compared. It is over three miles long east to west, and about half a...
and Californian water supplies - Dr Edmund HamblyEdmund HamblyDr Edmund Cadbury Hambly was a British structural engineer.Edmund Hambly was born in Seer Green, near Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire in 1942. He went at Eton College prior to studying the engineering tripos at Cambridge University. He excelled there gaining a first class honours degree and claiming...
– British structural engineer - Louis HarperLouis HarperLouis Harper was a civil engineer from the north-east of Scotland who designed a number of suspension footbridges towards the end of the 19th century....
– Scottish bridge engineer - Sir William Gordon HarrisWilliam Gordon HarrisSir William Gordon Harris KBE CB was a British civil engineer.Harris was born in Liverpool on 10 June 1912. He studied the Mechanical Sciences Tripos at Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge...
– British docks and roads engineer - Thomas HarrisonThomas Harrison (architect)Thomas Harrison was an English architect and engineer. He built a number of bridges, including Grosvenor Bridge in Chester. He also rebuilt parts of Chester and Lancaster castles...
– British architect and engineer - Thomas Elliott HarrisonThomas Elliott HarrisonThomas Elliot Harrison achieved prominence as a British engineer.- Biography and career :Born in Fulham in London as the son of an employee of Somerset House, Harrison moved soon after his birth with his family and settled at Fulwell Grange, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland...
– British railway and bridge engineer - Arthur HartleyArthur HartleyArthur Clifford Hartley, CBE was a British civil engineer. Graduating with a bachelor's degree from Imperial College London, Hartley worked for the North Eastern Railway and an asphalt manufacturer before joining the Royal Flying Corps during World War I...
– British oil engineer - Sir John HawkshawJohn HawkshawSir John Hawkshaw , was an English civil engineer.-Early life:He was born in Leeds, Yorkshire and was educated at Leeds Grammar School...
– British railway and harbour engineer - John Clarke HawkshawJohn Clarke HawkshawJohn Clarke Hawkshaw was a British civil engineer.Hawkshaw was born in Manchester, England in 1841 and was the son of civil engineer Sir John Hawkshaw and Lady Ann Hawkshaw...
– British engineer, son of the above - Thomas HawksleyThomas HawksleyThomas Hawksley was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with water and gas engineering projects.The son of John Hawksley and Mary Whittle, and born in Arnold, near Nottingham on , Hawksley was largely self-taught from the age of 15 onwards, having at that point...
– English engineer noted for his work on water supplies - Charles HawksleyCharles HawksleyCharles Hawksley was a British civil engineer. Hawksley was born in Nottingham, England in 1839 and was the son of civil engineer Thomas Hawksley. He studied at University College London and after graduating entered into apprenticeship with his father's firm, which had been established in 1852...
– Son of the above, also a water engineer - Harrison HayterHarrison HayterHarrison Hayter was a British engineer, participating in many significant railway construction projects in Britain and many harbour and dock constructions worldwide....
– British railway and harbour engineer - William HazledineWilliam HazledineWilliam Hazledine was a pioneering English Ironmaster whose talent for casting structural ironwork helped to realise the designs of engineers such as Thomas Telford and architects including Henry Goodridge and Charles Bage...
– Ironfounder and bridge engineer - Brodie HendersonBrodie Henderson (engineer)Sir Brodie Haldane Henderson was a British civil engineer. Henderson was primarily a railway engineer who worked for many railroad corporations across South America, Australasia and Africa. He was the consultant for the Dona Ana Bridge which, when it was built in 1935, was the longest railway...
– British railway engineer - Hugh HenshallHugh HenshallHugh Henshall was an English civil engineer, noted for his work on canals. He was born in North Staffordshire and was a student of the canal engineer James Brindley, who was also his brother-in-law.-Early life:...
– British canal engineer and student of James BrindleyJames BrindleyJames Brindley was an English engineer. He was born in Tunstead, Derbyshire, and lived much of his life in Leek, Staffordshire, becoming one of the most notable engineers of the 18th century.-Early life:... - Roger HetheringtonRoger HetheringtonRoger Le Geyt Hetherington was a British civil engineer.Hetherington was born in London on the 20th December 1908, the eldest son of Sir Roger Gaskell Hetherington and his wife Honoria Ford. In 1921 Hetherington entered Highgate School. Hetherington held a Master of Arts degree and was...
– British civil engineer - Roger Gaskell HetheringtonRoger Gaskell HetheringtonSir Roger Gaskell Hetherington CB, OBE was a British civil engineer and civil servant.-Life:Roger Gaskell Hetherington was born in Sherborne, Dorset on the 10th February 1876, the eldest son of William Lonsdale Hetherington and his wife Mary Gaskell, daughter of John Dakin Gaskell, a barrister of...
– British Ministry of Health civil engineer - Clement HindleyClement HindleyClement Daniel Maggs Hindley was a British civil engineer. Hindley spent much of his life working in Bengal for the East Indian Railway Company eventually becoming their general manager...
– British railway engineer - Edward N. HinesEdward N. HinesEdward N. Hines , was a member of the Wayne County, Michigan, Road Commission from 1906 to 1938. He is one of the most important innovators in road development....
– American highway engineer - James HirdJames HirdJames Hird is a former professional Australian rules footballer and the current coach of the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League....
– Australian rules footballer - Clifford Milburn HollandClifford Milburn HollandClifford Milburn Holland was born in Somerset, Massachusetts. He was the only child of Edward John Holland and Lydia Frances Hood. He graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in 1905 and a B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1906. On November 5, 1908 he married Anna Coolidge Davenport...
– Holland TunnelHolland TunnelThe Holland Tunnel is a highway tunnel under the Hudson River connecting the island of Manhattan in New York City with Jersey City, New Jersey at Interstate 78 on the mainland. Unusual for an American public works project, it is not named for a government official, politician, or local hero or... - Raymond HoRaymond HoRaymond Ho Chung Tai, SBS, JP, is the member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong , representing engineering industry in functional constituencies seats....
– Hong King functional constituencyFunctional constituencyIn the political systems of Hong Kong and Macau, a functional constituency is a professional or special interest group involved in the electoral process...
representative for engineering - Walter HohmannWalter HohmannWalter Hohmann was a German engineer who made an important contribution to the understanding of orbital dynamics. In a book published in 1925, Hohmann demonstrated a very fuel-efficient path to move a spacecraft between two different orbits, now called a Hohmann transfer orbit. He received his Ph.D...
– buildings, - Herbert HooverHerbert HooverHerbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...
– mining engineer and 31st President of the United StatesPresident of the United StatesThe President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.... - John HoreJohn HoreJohn Hore was an English navigation engineer notable for engineering the River Kennet navigation in 1718.Born in Newbury, Berkshire to a line of maltsters, worked alongside his father. When his father acquired part-ownership of the River Kennet, he also invested...
– English canal engineer and surveyor - Manuel HornibrookManuel HornibrookSir Manuel Richard Hornibrook OBE was an Australian civil engineer. He founded the firm M R Hornibrook Pty Ltd that after merger with Baulderstone became one of the largest Australian civil engineering firms....
– engineer of the Hornibrook BridgeHornibrook BridgeHornibrook Bridge was one of three bridges that crossed Bramble Bay, Queensland, Australia. The second is the Houghton Highway, which was built to accommodate rising traffic levels on the two-lane Hornibrook Bridge in the 1970s to increase capacity and cope with future demand... - John HotalingJohn HotalingJohn Ritter Hotaling was an American soldier, engineer, and businessman. He served as a dragoon in the Mexican-American War and as a cavalry officer and senior staff member of General John Logan's during the American Civil War...
– American soldier and businessman - Clarence Decatur Howe – grain elevators
- John Howell & SonJohn Howell & SonJohn Howell & Son, known as John Howell, was the leading building and engineering company in Hastings, Sussex in the 1860s. Its founder, John Howell Senior engineered churches and other public buildings in the area to the designs of innovative architects, including Holy Trinity Church in 1860 to...
– Engineers of main drainage system in Hastings, East Sussex - Hu JintaoHu JintaoHu Jintao is the current Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China. He has held the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since 2002, President of the People's Republic of China since 2003, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2004, succeeding Jiang...
– General Secretary of the Communist Party of ChinaGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of ChinaThe General Secretary of the Communist Party of China , officially General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, is the highest ranking official within the Communist Party of China, a standing member of the Politburo and head of the Secretariat...
, President of the People's Republic of ChinaPresident of the People's Republic of ChinaThe President of the People's Republic of China is a ceremonial office and a part of State organs under the National People's Congress and it is the head of state of the People's Republic of China . The office was created by the 1982 Constitution... - George HumphreysGeorge HumphreysSir George William Humphreys KBE was a British civil engineer.Humohreys was born in London in 1863. He became a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers on 7 March 1908. He became a member of the council of that institution on November 1917 and served as vice-president from November 1927...
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- Charles InglisCharles Inglis (engineer)Sir Charles Edward Inglis OBE was a British civil engineer. Inglis spent much of his life as a lecturer and academic at King's College Cambridge and made several important studies into the effects of vibration and defects on the strength of plate steel...
, British engineer and academic - James Charles InglisJames Charles InglisSir James Charles Inglis was a British civil engineer.Inglis was born in Aberdeen in 1851. He served in the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, an unpaid volunteer unit of the Volunteer Force which provided technical advise to the British Army...
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- William JacksonWilliam Jackson (engineer)William Jackson was the Boston, Massachusetts city engineer from 1885 to 1910. He was responsible for a number of the major bridges in the city, including Harvard Bridge, Longfellow Bridge, and Charlestown Bridge....
– BostonBostonBoston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
city engineer - George Robert JebbGeorge Robert JebbGeorge Robert Jebb was a civil engineer from the United Kingdom. Prominent in the field of railway and canal engineering, he became Vice-President of the Institution of Civil Engineers....
– railway and canal engineer - John Holmes JellettJohn Holmes JellettJohn Holmes Jellett OBE, DSc, MA was a British civil engineer.Jellett was appointed assistant civil engineer to the Admiralty on 22 June 1933. He served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War and was commissioned as a Temporary Captain...
– docks and harbours - John B. JervisJohn B. JervisJohn Bloomfield Jervis was an American civil engineer. He was America's leading consulting engineer of the antebellum era . Jervis was a pioneer in the development of canals and railroads for the expanding United States...
– canalCanalCanals are man-made channels for water. There are two types of canal:#Waterways: navigable transportation canals used for carrying ships and boats shipping goods and conveying people, further subdivided into two kinds:...
s and railroads - Josias JessopJosias JessopJosias Jessop was a noted canal engineer, and second son of William Jessop.In 1802 he and his father were appointed engineers of the proposed Croydon, Merstham and Godstone Railway....
– engineer and son of William JessopWilliam JessopWilliam Jessop was an English civil engineer, best known for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.-Early life:... - William JessopWilliam JessopWilliam Jessop was an English civil engineer, best known for his work on canals, harbours and early railways in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.-Early life:...
– canalCanalCanals are man-made channels for water. There are two types of canal:#Waterways: navigable transportation canals used for carrying ships and boats shipping goods and conveying people, further subdivided into two kinds:...
s - Albert Mussey JohnsonAlbert Mussey JohnsonAlbert Mussey Johnson , was an eccentric millionaire who served as President for many years of the National Life Insurance Company, built Scotty's Castle in Death Valley, and was variously partner, friend, and dupe of infamous Wild West con man Death Valley Scotty, for whose outrageous antics he...
– helped design Scotty's CastleScotty's CastleScotty's Castle is a two-story Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style villa located in the Grapevine Mountains of northern Death Valley in Death Valley National Park, California, U.S.. It is also known as Death Valley Ranch...
. - Theodore JudahTheodore JudahTheodore Dehone Judah was an American railroad engineer who dreamed of the first Transcontinental Railroad. He found investors for what became the Central Pacific Railroad...
– railroads - Edward JudgeEdward JudgeEdward Judge was a British engineer and industrialist born in Worcester, England and educated at RGS Worcester and St John's College Cambridge where he studied engineering. He entered the steel manufacturing company Dorman Long, becoming involved in the design and construction of the Sydney...
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- Alexander KennedyAlexander KennedySir Alexander Blackie William Kennedy, LLD, FRS, FRGS , better known as Alexander Kennedy, was a leading British civil and electrical engineer and academic...
– British maritime and electrical engineer and academic - Oleg KerenskyOleg KerenskyOleg Aleksandrovich Kerensky CBE FRS , was a Russian civil engineer, one of the foremost bridge designers of his time....
– Russian engineer with Freeman Fox & Partners - Boris KernerBoris KernerBoris S. Kerner is the pioneer of the much-discussed three-phase traffic theory.- Life and work :Boris S. Kerner is a leading expert in intelligent transportation systems and in the theory of pattern formation in dissipative physical, chemical, biological systems. He was born in Moscow, Soviet...
– developer of three-phase traffic theory - Fazlur Rahman Khan – Bangladeshi Structural engineer and skyscraper specialist
- Zenas KingZenas KingZenas King was born in Vermont in 1818. He started his career of building bridges in 1858 and moved from Cincinnati to Cleveland, Ohio around 1861. He established a bridge building works on Watson Street in Cleveland in 1865. King founded the King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Company in 1871...
– American engineer of the King Bridge CompanyKing Bridge CompanyThe King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Company was a late-19th-century bridge building company located in Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded by Zenas King in 1858 and subsequently managed by his sons, James A. King and Harry W. King and then his grandson, Norman C. King, until the mid-1920s... - Ivica KirinIvica KirinIvica Kirin is a Croatian politician who was the Interior Minister of Croatia from 2005 to 2007.He resigned as Interior Minister on 29 December 2007 after being pictured with Mladen Markac on a boar hunt...
– Croatian politician with a degree in geotechnical engineering - Hermann KnoflacherHermann KnoflacherHermann Knoflacher is an Austrian civil engineer. He was the head of the Institute for Transport Planning and Technology at the Vienna University of Technology.-Life and teachings:...
– Austrian academic - Georg KnorrGeorg KnorrTheodor Georg Knorr , was an engineer and entrepreneur on the field of railroad technology and founder of the company Knorr-Bremse...
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- Charles LabelyeCharles LabelyeCharles Labelye was a Swiss bridge engineer and mathematician. Moving to England in the 1720s and receiving patronage from the Duke of Bedford and Earl of Pembroke, he is best known there for his work on the original Westminster Bridge and his invention on that project of caissons as a method of...
– Swiss engineer of the Westminster BridgeWestminster BridgeWestminster Bridge is a road and foot traffic bridge over the River Thames between Westminster on the north side and Lambeth on the south side, in London, England.... - Kirby LaingKirby LaingSir William "Kirby" Laing, DL, JP, FREng was a British civil engineer.-Career:Laing was born in Carlisle in 1916. He is a member of the Laing Family, famous in the British construction industry for running John Laing plc. He is the son of Sir John Laing and the brother of Sir Maurice Laing...
– former chairman of John Laing plc - Tulio LarrinagaTulio LarrinagaTulio Larrinaga was a Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico.Born in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico, Larrinaga attended the Seminario Consiliar of San Ildefonso at San Juan, Puerto Rico...
– Puerto Rican Resident Commissioner - Rashid LatifRashid LatifRashid Latif is a former Pakistani wicket keeper and a right handed batsman who represented the Pakistani cricket team in Test cricket and One Day International matches, between 1992 and 2003. He also served as the captain of the Pakistan cricket team in 2003...
– Former Pakistani cricket team wicketkeeper and captain - J. J. LeemingJ. J. LeemingJohn Joseph Leeming was a British road engineer. He forwarded controversial ideas for the causes of, and remedies for, road crashes, including the notion that drivers should not always be assumed to be at fault.-Biography:...
– British county surveyor and road engineer - Robert LeggetRobert LeggetRobert Ferguson Legget, CC, FRSC was a civil engineer, historian and non-fiction writer. He was internationally known for his contributions to engineering, geology and building research and standardization...
– Canadian non-fiction writer - Thomas LeiperThomas LeiperThomas Leiper was a Scottish American merchant and local politician who served in the American Revolutionary War...
– designer of a canal and railway - Curtis LeMayCurtis LeMayCurtis Emerson LeMay was a general in the United States Air Force and the vice presidential running mate of American Independent Party candidate George Wallace in 1968....
– U.S. Air Force general and Vice-Presidential candidate - William LeMessurierWilliam LeMessurierWilliam James LeMessurier was a prominent American structural engineer.Born in Pontiac, Michigan, LeMessurier graduated with an AB from Harvard, went to Harvard Graduate School of Design and then earned a master's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953. He was the founder and...
– American structural engineer - David LennoxDavid LennoxDavid Lennox was a Scottish-Australian bridge-builder and master stonemason born in Ayr, Scotland.-Personal details:...
– Scottish mason and bridge engineer - Fritz LeonhardtFritz LeonhardtFritz Leonhardt was a German structural engineer who made major contributions to 20th century bridge engineering, especially in the development of cable-stayed bridges...
– German structural engineer - Ferdinand de LessepsFerdinand de LessepsFerdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps, GCSI was the French developer of the Suez Canal, which joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas in 1869, and substantially reduced sailing distances and times between the West and the East.He attempted to repeat this success with an effort to build a sea-level...
– Engineer for the Suez CanalSuez CanalThe Suez Canal , also known by the nickname "The Highway to India", is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Opened in November 1869 after 10 years of construction work, it allows water transportation between Europe and Asia without navigation... - Tung-Yen Lin – bridges, the pioneer of prestressed concrete
- Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de BellefondsLouis Maurice Adolphe Linant de BellefondsLouis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds better known as Linant Pasha was an explorer of Egypt and, as the chief engineer of Egypt's public works, 1831–1869, the chief engineer of the Suez Canal.- Life and work :Having taken advantage of a sound education that emphasized mathematics,...
– Chief Engineer of the Suez CanalSuez CanalThe Suez Canal , also known by the nickname "The Highway to India", is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Opened in November 1869 after 10 years of construction work, it allows water transportation between Europe and Asia without navigation... - Gustav LindenthalGustav LindenthalGustav Lindenthal was a civil engineer who designed the Hell Gate Bridge among other bridges.Lindenthal's work was greatly affected by his pursuit for perfection and his love of art. His structures not only serve the purpose they were designed for, but are aesthetically pleasing to the public eye...
– Czech bridge engineer - William LindleyWilliam LindleyWilliam Lindley , was a famous English engineer who together with his sons designed water and sewerage systems for over 30 cities across Europe.-Life:...
– water and sewerage works - Joseph LockeJoseph LockeJoseph Locke was a notable English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with railway projects...
– railways - Joseph LstiburekJoseph LstiburekJoseph Lstiburek, B.A.Sc., M.Eng., Ph.D., P.Eng., is a forensic engineer who investigates building failures. His authority on moisture-related building problems and indoor air quality is internationally recognized...
– Canadian forensic engineer - Anthony George LysterAnthony George LysterAnthony George Lyster son of George Fosbery Lyster. Engineer-in-Chief to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board from 1897, when he succeeded his father, until his retirement in 1913, when he was honoured with the presidency of the Institution of Civil Engineers.Among his work is Brunswick Entrance...
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- John MacAdamJohn MacadamDr. John Macadam , was an Australian chemist, medical teacher and politician. The genus Macadamia was named after him in 1857 by his colleague Ferdinand von Mueller....
– roads - Thomas Harris MacDonaldThomas Harris MacDonaldThomas Harris "Chief" MacDonald was an American civil engineer and politician with tremendous influence in building the country's interstate highway system...
– Highway engineer - Sir John MacNeill – railways
- William MahoneWilliam MahoneWilliam Mahone was a civil engineer, teacher, soldier, railroad executive, and a member of the Virginia General Assembly and U.S. Congress. Small of stature, he was nicknamed "Little Billy"....
– plank road, railways - Robert MaillartRobert MaillartRobert Maillart was a Swiss civil engineer who revolutionized the use of structural reinforced concrete with such designs as the three-hinged arch and the deck-stiffened arch for bridges, and the beamless floor slab and mushroom ceiling for industrial buildings...
– Swiss, concrete bridges - Robert ManningRobert Manning (engineer)Robert Manning was an Irish engineer. He is known for creation of the Manning formula.Manning was born in Normandy, France, in 1816, a year after the battle of Waterloo, in which his father had taken part. He died in 1897...
– Open channel flow - James Mansergh – English railway, water supply and sewage engineer
- Javier ManterolaJavier ManterolaJavier Manterola Armisén is a Spanish civil engineer and professor at the Escuela Superior de Ingenieros de Madrid. Manterola is particularly known for his work as a bridge designer of the engineering firm Carlos Fernández Casado...
– Spanish bridge engineer - Mao YishengMao YishengDr. Mao Yisheng was a Chinese structural engineer, an expert on bridge construction, and a social activist in China.-Biography:Mao was born in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. He entered Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College and earned his bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1916...
– a Chinese structural engineer who expert on bridge construction - William Marriott – English railway engineer
- James Barney MarshJames Barney MarshJames Barney Marsh was an engineer and bridge designer born in North Lake, Wisconsin. He was a graduate of Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts in Ames....
– American concrete bridge engineer - Timothy P. MarshallTimothy P. MarshallTim Marshall is an American civil engineer and meteorologist concentrating on damage analysis, particularly that from wind and other weather phenomena...
– failure analysis, wind and impact engineering, meteorologist (codeveloper of Enhanced Fujita ScaleEnhanced Fujita ScaleThe Enhanced Fujita Scale rates the strength of tornadoes in the United States based on the damage they cause.Implemented in place of the Fujita scale introduced in 1971 by Ted Fujita, it began operational use on February 1, 2007. The scale has the same basic design as the original Fujita scale:...
) - William MatthewsWilliam Matthews (engineer)Sir William Matthews KCMG was a British civil engineer.He was educated at Glenalmond College and King’s College London....
– British harbour engineer - Jorge Matute RemusJorge Matute RemusJorge Matute was a Mexican engineer.His movement of the 1700-ton building of Telefonos de Mexico in 1950 to widen a main street in Guadalajara gained him a place in the city's history. The building was moved 17 meters away from its original position with all the communication operators working...
– Mexican, known for moving a 1700 ton building in 1950 - William MawWilliam MawWilliam Henry Maw was a British civil engineer and astronomer. Born into a seafaring family and orphaned at age 16, Maw was taken into the workshops of the Eastern Counties Railway as an assistant before progressing to the design office as a draughtsman...
– British railway engineer - Sir Henry MayburyHenry MayburyBrigadier-General Sir Henry Percy Maybury KCMG, CB, was a British civil engineer. He began his career as a railway engineer, working on many railways in England and Wales before becoming the county surveyor for Kent...
– British railway and highways engineer - John Robinson McCleanJohn Robinson McCleanJohn Robinson McClean CB FRS , was a British civil engineer and Liberal Party politician.-Early life:He was born in Belfast. Educated at Belfast Academical Institution and University of Glasgow.-Engineering career:...
– British engineer, railways, water supply - Conde McCulloughConde McCulloughConde Balcom McCullough was a U.S. bridge engineer who is primarily known for designing many of Oregon's coastal bridges on U.S. Route 101. The native of South Dakota worked for the Oregon Department of Transportation from 1919 to 1935 and 1937 until 1946...
– bridges - Scott McMorrowScott McMorrowScott McMorrow is an American playwright and actor. McMorrow's plays have been translated into Italian, and they have been produced extensively throughout the United States, including Off-Off Broadway. His award-winning plays and poetry have been widely anthologized, and McMorrow has published...
– playwright, poet, and engineer - George Matthew McNaughtonGeorge Matthew McNaughtonSir George Matthew McNaughton CB was a British civil engineer who specialised in hydraulic engineering. McNaughton was born in Dundee and received a degree in engineering from the University of St Andrews. He interrupted his studies to become an officer in the British Army during the First World...
– British hydraulic engineer - Carl Friedrich MeerweinCarl Friedrich MeerweinCarl Friedrich Meerwein was a German civil engineer and aviation pioneer.He built flying devices with moving wings. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica he succeeded in flying with one of these devices, an ornithopter in 1781, at Giessen, Germany. Further attempts were less successful...
– German, aviation - Montgomery "Monty" Meigs (American; 1847–1931) – waterways
- Charles MeikCharles MeikCharles Meik was an English engineer and part of a minor engineering dynasty. His father Thomas Meik was also an engineer, as was Charles' brother Patrick Meik; collectively, they established a company which is now one of the UK's major engineering consultancies.Both boys were born in Crow Tree...
– ports, railways, hydroelectric schemes - Patrick MeikPatrick MeikPatrick Meik was an English engineer and part of a minor engineering dynasty. His father Thomas Meik was also an engineer, as was Patrick's brother Charles Meik.Both boys were born in Crowtree Road, Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland....
– ports, railways - Thomas MeikThomas MeikThomas Meik was a British engineer, born in Duddingston, Midlothian. He was particularly associated with ports and railways in Scotland and northern England, and fathered two prominent engineering sons: Patrick Meik and Charles Meik...
– ports, railways - Christian MennChristian MennChristian Menn is a bridge designer from Switzerland. He owned his own Engineering Company in Chur, Switzerland from 1957-1971. From 1971 until his retirement in 1992 he became a professor of Structural Engineering at ETH Zurich specializing in Bridge design...
– Swiss, known for bridges, including the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, part of the Big Dig in BostonBostonBoston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
. - John Miller (engineer)John Miller (engineer)John Miller was a civil engineer of the 19th century. He was born in Ayr and died in Edinburgh. He went into partnership with Thomas Grainger in 1825. The partnership was responsible for many of Scotland's great railway projects. Miller took the lead role in surveying the Edinburgh and Glasgow...
, 19th century Edinburgh-based railway engineer (Grainger & Miller) - Ralph ModjeskiRalph ModjeskiRalph Modjeski was a Polish-born American civil engineer who achieved prominence as a pre-eminent bridge designer in the United States.-Life:...
– Polish-American bridge designer - Otto MohrOtto MohrChristian Otto Mohr was a German civil engineer.-Biography:He was born on October 8, 1835 to a landowning family in Wesselburen in the Holstein region...
– bridges, railways - Leon MoisseiffLeon MoisseiffLeon S. Moisseiff was a leading suspension bridge engineer in the United States of America in the 1920s and 1930s. He was awarded The Franklin Institute's Louis E...
– American suspension bridge engineer - Guilford Lindsey MolesworthGuilford Lindsey MolesworthSir Guilford Lindsey Molesworth KCIE was an English civil engineer.He was educated at the college of civil engineers at Putney, then became chief assistant engineer of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, but soon resigned to conduct the constructions at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich,...
– English railway engineer - General Sir John MonashJohn MonashGeneral Sir John Monash GCMG, KCB, VD was a civil engineer who became the Australian military commander in the First World War. He commanded the 13th Infantry Brigade before the War and then became commander of the 4th Brigade in Egypt shortly after the outbreak of the War with whom he took part...
GCMGOrder of St Michael and St GeorgeThe Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is an order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later George IV of the United Kingdom, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, George III....
, KCBOrder of the BathThe Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...
, VDVolunteer DecorationThe Volunteer Officers' Decoration was created by Royal Warrant under command of Queen Victoria on 25 July 1892 to reward 'efficient and capable' officers of the Volunteer Force who had served for twenty years...
– bridges and precast concrete (also Commander of the Australian CorpsAustralian CorpsThe Australian Corps was a World War I army corps that contained all five Australian infantry divisions serving on the Western Front. It was the largest corps fielded by the British Empire army in France...
in World War IWorld War IWorld War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...
) - Riccardo MorandiRiccardo MorandiRiccardo Morandi was an Italian civil engineer best known for his interesting use of reinforced concrete. Amongst his best known works were the General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge, an 8 km crossing of Lake Maracaibo incorporating seven cable-stayed bridge spans with unusual piers, and the...
– bridges - Ben MoreellBen MoreellAdmiral Ben Moreell was the chief of the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks and of the Civil Engineer Corps. Best known to the American public as the Father of the Navy's Seabees, Admiral Ben Moreell's life spanned eight decades, two world wars, a great depression and the evolution of the...
– Four star Admiral and father of the US Navy Seabees - Charles Langbridge MorganCharles Langbridge Morgan (engineer)Sir Charles Langbridge Morgan CBE was a British civil engineer.Morgan was born in 1855 in Worcester, England. He married Mary Watkins in Australia to which her parents had emigrated. Their son, also called Charles Langbridge Morgan, was a playwright and novelist...
– British civil engineer - James MorganJames Morgan (engineer)James Morgan was a British architect and engineer, notably associated with the construction of the Regent's Canal in London....
– Regent's CanalRegent's CanalRegent's Canal is a canal across an area just north of central London, England. It provides a link from the Paddington arm of the Grand Union Canal, just north-west of Paddington Basin in the west, to the Limehouse Basin and the River Thames in east London.... - George S. Morison – American railway bridge engineer
- Thomas William MoseleyThomas William MoseleyThomas William Henry Harrison Moseley was a builder and designer of wrought-iron arch bridges. He is best known for his "Wrought-Iron Lattice Girder Bridge" patent of August 30, 1870. The only known surviving example of this type of bridge structure is the Hares Hill Road Bridge located in Chester...
– American engineer - Basil MottBasil MottSir Basil Mott, 1st Baronet FRS was one of the most notable English civil engineers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was responsible for some of the most innovative work on tunnels and bridges in the United Kingdom in the 40-year period centred on World War I.Basil Mott was born in...
– mines, tunnels, bridges - Reginald MountainReginald MountainReginald William Mountain was a British civil engineer.Mountain was born in London in 1899. He served as an officer of the British Army's Royal Engineers during the First World War. From 1919 to 1922 Mountain studied for a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering at Northampton Engineering Day...
– British hydroelectric engineer - Sir Alan Muir WoodAlan Muir WoodSir Alan Marshall Muir Wood, MA, LLD, DEng, FRS, FREng, FICE was a British civil engineer.Muir Wood was born on 8 August 1921 at Hampstead in London. Muir Wood was educated at Abbotsholme School and later studied mechanical sciences at Peterhouse College, Cambridge University from 1940 and he...
– British tunnelling engineer - Jean M. MullerJean M. MullerJean Muller was a French bridge engineer who focused on design and construction of concrete bridges.-Early career:...
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- Tiff NeedellTiff NeedellTimothy "Tiff" Needell isa British racing driver and television presenter. He is best known as a former co-presenter of Top Gear and current co-presenter of Fifth Gear.-Biography:...
– British racing driver and television presenter - Peyman Askari NejadPeyman Askari NejadDr. Peyman Askari Nejad , He is an American Citizen and Living in United State of America, He is a USA based International Principal, Structural Design Director. Dr. Peyman is the Expert high-rise Designer for the Super Tall skyscrapers in the United States and in the Middle East...
– structural engineerStructural engineerStructural engineers analyze, design, plan, and research structural components and structural systems to achieve design goals and ensure the safety and comfort of users or occupants... - Pier Luigi NerviPier Luigi NerviPier Luigi Nervi was an Italian engineer. He studied at the University of Bologna and qualified in 1913. Dr. Nervi taught as a professor of engineering at Rome University from 1946-61...
– Italian architect/engineer, thin shell concrete. - Gabriel NarutowiczGabriel NarutowiczGabriel Narutowicz was a Lithuanian-born professor of hydroelectric engineering at Switzerland's Zurich Polytechnic, and Poland's Minister of Public Works , Minister of Foreign Affairs , and the first president of the Second Polish Republic....
– Polish engineer, hydroelectrician, a professor at the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, the first president of the Second Polish Republic. - Olaf NordhagenOlaf NordhagenJohan Olaf Brochmann Nordhagen was a Norwegian architect, engineer and artist.He was born in Christiania as a son of artist Johan Nordhagen and Christine Magdalene Brochmann Johansen . He was a brother of Rolf Nordhagen and through him an uncle of Per Jonas Nordhagen...
– Norwegian engineer, designed the Bergen Public LibraryBergen Public LibraryBergen Public Library is a library building and public library institution in Bergen, Norway. Founded in 1872, it is the second largest public library in Norway...
in Jugendstil - Émile NouguierÉmile NouguierÉmile Nouguier was a French civil engineer and architect. He is famous for co-designing the Eiffel Tower, built 1887–1889 for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, France, the Garabit viaduct, the highest in the world at that time, found near Ruynes-en-Margeride, Cantal, France, and the...
– co-designer of the Eiffel TowerEiffel TowerThe Eiffel Tower is a puddle iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. Built in 1889, it has become both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world...
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- C. Y. O'ConnorC. Y. O'ConnorCharles Yelverton O'Connor CMG was an Irish engineer who is best-known for his work in Australia, especially the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme.-Early life:...
CMGOrder of St Michael and St GeorgeThe Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is an order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George, Prince Regent, later George IV of the United Kingdom, while he was acting as Prince Regent for his father, George III....
– Fremantle HarbourFremantle HarbourFremantle Harbour is Western Australia's largest and busiest general cargo port and an important historical site. The inner harbour handles a large volume of sea containers, vehicle imports and livestock exports, cruise shipping and naval visits, and operates 24 hours a day.The harbour is also...
and the Goldfields Water Supply SchemeGoldfields Water Supply SchemeThe Goldfields Water Supply Scheme is a pipeline and dam project which delivers potable water to communities in Western Australia's Eastern Goldfields, particularly Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie...
, Western Australia - Thomas OakesThomas Oakes (engineer)Thomas Oakes was the Chief Engineer of the Schuylkill Navigation Company. He was responsible for the design and early construction of the Navigation's Schuylkill River canals in the early 19th century...
– Chief Engineer of the Schuylkill CanalSchuylkill CanalSchuylkill Canal is the common, but technically inaccurate, name for the Schuylkill Navigation, a 19th-century commercial waterway in and along the Schuylkill River in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The "canal" was actually a system of interconnected man-made canals and slack-water pools in the... - Tinius OlsenTinius OlsenTinius Olsen was a Norwegian born, American engineer and inventor. He was the founder of the Tinius Olsen Engineering Testing Machine Company. He was awarded the Elliott Cresson Medal of The Franklin Institute in 1891....
– Norwegian AmericanNorwegian AmericanNorwegian Americans are Americans of Norwegian descent. Norwegian immigrants went to the United States primarily in the later half of the 19th century and the first few decades of the 20th century. There are more than 4.5 million Norwegian Americans according to the most recent U.S. census, and...
engineer and inventor, founder of the Tinius Olsen Engineering Testing Machine Company. - Rowland Mason OrdishRowland Mason OrdishRowland Mason Ordish was an English engineer. He is most noted for his design of the Winter Garden, Dublin 1865 Albert Bridge, a crossing of the River Thames in London, completed in 1873, and for his detailed work on the single-span roof of London's St Pancras railway station.William Henry Le...
– designer of the St Pancras railway stationSt Pancras railway stationSt Pancras railway station, also known as London St Pancras and since 2007 as St Pancras International, is a central London railway terminus celebrated for its Victorian architecture. The Grade I listed building stands on Euston Road in St Pancras, London Borough of Camden, between the...
arch roof - Ou Chin-derOu Chin-derOu Chin-der is a Taiwanese civil engineer. Ou was an immigrant who moved from the mainland China to the Taitung County of eastern Taiwan with his parents...
– Taiwanese railway engineer and public official - Benjamin OutramBenjamin OutramBenjamin Outram was an English civil engineer, surveyor and industrialist. He was a pioneer in the building of canals and tramways.-Personal life:...
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- William N. PageWilliam N. PageWilliam Nelson Page was an American civil engineer, entrepreneur, industrialist and capitalist. He was active in the Virginias following the U.S. Civil War...
– railways, mining - Alberto PalacioAlberto PalacioAlberto de Palacio y Elissague was a Spanish engineer and architect born in Sare and grown up in Bilbao....
– Spanish architect and engineer - Frederick PalmerFrederick Palmer (engineer)Frederick Palmer was a British civil engineer.Palmer was born in Carmarthenshire, Wales in 1860. Palmer undertook several projects at the West India Docks. The first was the construction of several sheds at the Import Dock between 1912 and 1917...
– Dockyards - William Barclay ParsonsWilliam Barclay ParsonsWilliam Barclay Parsons was an American civil engineer. He founded the firm that became Parsons Brinckerhoff, one of the largest American civil engineering firms....
- Evgeny PatonEvgeny PatonProfessor Evgeny Oscarovich Paton was a Ukrainian and Soviet engineer who established the E. O. Paton Electric Welding Institute in Kiev. He is father of Borys Paton....
– Ukrainian welding engineer - Thomas PatonThomas PatonSir Thomas Angus Lyall Paton CMG, FRS, BSc FASCE FIStructE MICE was a British civil engineer from Jersey. Paton was born into a family which had founded the civil engineering firms of Easton, Gibb & Son and Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners and would spend his entire professional career working for...
– British dam engineer - Ralph Brazelton PeckRalph Brazelton PeckDr. Ralph Brazelton Peck was an eminent civil engineer specializing in soil mechanics. He died on February 18, 2008 from congestive heart failure...
– civil and geotechnical engineer - Thomas PensonThomas PensonThomas Penson was the County Surveyor of Montgomeryshire from 1817, and designer of a number of masonry arch bridges over the River Severn and elsewhere....
– Scottish engineer and surveyor - Florentino PérezFlorentino PérezFlorentino Pérez Rodríguez is a Spanish businessman, civil engineer, former politician, and current president of Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, as well as ACS...
– president of Grupo ACSGrupo ACSActividades de Construcción y Servicios, S.A. is a Spanish company dedicated to civil and engineering construction, all types services and telecommunications. It is one of the leading construction companies in the world, with projects in many countries around the world...
, president of Real MadridReal Madrid C.F.Real Madrid Club de Fútbol , commonly known as Real Madrid, is a professional football club based in Madrid, Spain. The club have won a record 31 La Liga titles, the Primera División of the Liga de Fútbol Profesional , 18 Copas del Rey, 8 Spanish Super Cups, 1 Copa Eva Duarte and 1 Copa de la... - Jean-Rodolphe PerronetJean-Rodolphe PerronetJean-Rodolphe Perronet 27 October 1708, Suresnes – 27 February 1794, Paris) was a French architect and structural engineer, known for his many stone arch bridges. His best known work is the Pont de la Concorde .-Life and career:...
– French architect and engineer - Samuel Morton PetoSamuel Morton PetoSir Samuel Morton Peto, 1st Baronet was an English entrepreneur and civil engineer in the 19th century. A partner in Grissell and Peto, he managed construction firms that built many major buildings and monuments in London...
– railways, harbours - Henry PetroskiHenry PetroskiHenry Petroski is an American engineer specializing in failure analysis. A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University, he is also a prolific author...
– failure analysis - George PinderGeorge PinderGeorge Pinder is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering with a secondary appointment in Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Vermont...
– American environmental and civil engineer - Rafael del Pino – President of FerrovialFerrovialFerrovial, S.A. is a Spanish multinational company involved in the design, build, financing, operation and maintenance of transport, urban and services infrastructure. It is a publicly-traded company and is part of the IBEX 35 market value-weighted stock market index...
, billionaire - Henry PleasantsHenry PleasantsFor the English music critic Henry Pleasants, see Henry Pleasants .Henry Clay Pleasants was a coal mining engineer and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War...
– Civil War general - James Madison Porter IIIJames Madison Porter IIIJames Madison Porter III was an American civil engineer notable for his role in designing two unique bridges across the Delaware River and for his development of the civil engineering program at Lafayette College. His grandfather, James Madison Porter, was one of the college's founders...
– engineer of the Northampton Street BridgeNorthampton Street BridgeThe Northampton Street Bridge is a bridge connecting Easton, PA and Phillipsburg, NJ that crosses the Delaware River. It is maintained by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission despite not being a toll bridge. It is known locally as the "Free Bridge" thus distinguishing it from the... - William Henry PreeceWilliam Henry PreeceSir William Henry Preece was a Welsh electrical engineer and inventor. Preece relied on experiments and physical reasoning in his life's work. Upon his retirement from the Post Office in 1899, Preece was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath .-Biography:Preece was born in Caernarfon ,...
– telegraphic engineer - Lavr ProskuryakovLavr ProskuryakovLavr Dmitrievich Proskuryakov was a leading bridge builder of Imperial Russia.Proskuryakov was responsible for many bridges constructed along the Trans-Siberian Railway, including the one crossing the Kotorosl River in Yaroslavl , another spanning the Yenisey near Krasnoyarsk and the Khabarovsk...
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- Fidel V. RamosFidel V. RamosFidel "Eddie" Valdez Ramos , popularly known as FVR, was the 12th President of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998. During his six years in office, Ramos was widely credited and admired by many for revitalizing and renewing international confidence in the Philippine economy.Prior to his election as...
– Former President of the Philippines, civil engineer - William John Macquorn RankineWilliam John Macquorn RankineWilliam John Macquorn Rankine was a Scottish civil engineer, physicist and mathematician. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson , to the science of thermodynamics....
– physicist who was also a civil engineering professor and developed structural engineering and lateral earth pressureLateral earth pressureLateral earth pressure is the pressure that soil exerts against a structure in a sideways direction. The common applications of lateral earth pressure theory are for the design of ground engineering structures such as retaining walls, basements, tunnels, and to determine the friction on the sides...
theories - Kanuri Lakshmana Rao – Water Resource Engineer, Architect of Nagarajuna Sagar Dam, India
- Latif RashidLatif RashidDoctor Abdul Latif Rashid is the Iraqi Minister of Water Resources under the government of Nouri al-Maliki. He previously served as Minister of Water Resources under the Iraqi Transitional Government and as Minister of Irrigation under the Iraqi Interim Government. Dr Rashid was formerly a...
– Iraqi Minister of Water Resources - Robert RawlinsonRobert RawlinsonSir Robert Rawlinson KCB was an English engineer and sanitarian.-Early life:He was born at Bristol. His father was a mason and builder at Chorley, Lancashire, and he himself began his engineering education by working in a stonemason's yard.-Career:In 1831, he obtained employment under Jesse...
– English canal engineer and sanitarian - Richard RedmayneRichard RedmayneRichard Augustine Studdert Redmayne KCB, MICE, MIMM, MIME, FGS was a British civil and mining engineer. Redmayne worked a manager of several mines in Britain and South Africa before becoming a professor at the University of Birmingham...
– British mining and civil engineer - Markus ReinerMarkus Reiner- Biography :Reiner was born in 1886 in Czernowitz, Bukovina, then part of Austria-Hungary, and obtained a degree in Civil Engineering at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna . After the First World War, he emigrated to Palestine, where he worked as a civil engineer under the British mandate...
studied deformation, strain and flow, coined rheologyRheologyRheology is the study of the flow of matter, primarily in the liquid state, but also as 'soft solids' or solids under conditions in which they respond with plastic flow rather than deforming elastically in response to an applied force.... - James Meadows Rendel – bridges, harbours
- John Rennie the Elder – canals, bridges, docks
- John Rennie the Younger – son of the above, railways and bridges
- Louis-Jean RésalLouis-Jean RésalJean Résal was a chief engineer of Bridges. He was born October 22, 1854 in Besançon, who died in 1919. He is regarded as the greatest designer of metal bridges in the late nineteenth century....
– French bridge engineer - Osborne ReynoldsOsborne ReynoldsOsborne Reynolds FRS was a prominent innovator in the understanding of fluid dynamics. Separately, his studies of heat transfer between solids and fluids brought improvements in boiler and condenser design.-Life:...
– Fluid dynamics theories and worked as a practising engineer - Peter RicePeter RicePeter Rice was an Irish structural engineer.Born in 52 Brigid Street, Dundalk in County Louth, he spent his childhood between the town of Dundalk, and the villages of Gyles' Quay and Inniskeen. He was educated at the Queen's University of Belfast where he received his primary degree, and spent a...
– structural engineer - Benjamin S. RobertsBenjamin S. RobertsBenjamin Stone Roberts was an American lawyer, civil engineer, and a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Early life:...
– railways, United States and Russia - Leslie E. RobertsonLeslie E. RobertsonLeslie Earl Robertson was one of the chief structural engineers of the World Trade Center in New York, which was destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks and was responsible for the design of the buildings' sway-reduction features...
– structural engineer - Vernon RobertsonVernon RobertsonVernon Alec Murray Robertson CBE MC was a British civil engineer.Robertson was born in 1890 at Calcutta in India. He was elected president of the Institution of Civil Engineers for the November 1949 to November 1950 session.- References :...
– British civil engineer - John August Roebling – Brooklyn BridgeBrooklyn BridgeThe Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the New York City boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River...
, Niagara Railway Suspension Bridge, John A. Roebling Suspension BridgeJohn A. Roebling Suspension BridgeThe John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge spans the Ohio River between Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky. When the first pedestrians crossed on December 1, 1866, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world at 1,057 feet main span. Today, many pedestrians use the bridge to get between... - Washington RoeblingWashington RoeblingWashington Augustus Roebling was an American civil engineer best known for his work on the Brooklyn Bridge, which was initially designed by his father John A. Roebling.-Education and military service:...
(son of John August Roebling) – Brooklyn Bridge - Richard Birdsall RogersRichard Birdsall RogersRichard Birdsall Rogers was a Canadian civil and mechanical engineer whose most significant achievement was the design of the Peterborough Lift Lock, a boat lift at Peterborough, Ontario, Canada....
– designer of the Peterborough Lift LockPeterborough Lift LockThe Peterborough Lift Lock is a boat lift located on the Trent Canal in the city of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, and is Lock 21 on the Trent-Severn Waterway....
, OntarioOntarioOntario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
, CanadaCanadaCanada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean... - Alexander Ross (engineer)Alexander Ross (engineer)Alexander Ross was a British civil engineer particularly noted for his work with the railway industry.Ross was born in Laggan, County of Inverness in Scotland on 20 April 1845. He was educated in Aberdeen and at Owen's College in Manchester, an institution now a part of the University of Manchester...
– Scottish railway engineer - Norman RowntreeNorman RowntreeSir Norman Andrew Forster Rowntree was a British civil engineer.Rowntree was born in London in 1912 and held a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering. He worked as an engineering consultant for Alcott & Lomax, who would be acquired by Babtie in 2000. During his consulting career he was involved...
– British water engineer - Toni RüttimannToni RüttimannToni Rüttimann, also known in Latin America as "Toni El Suizo" , is a bridge builder.- Life :...
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- Herbert SaffirHerbert SaffirHerbert Seymour Saffir was the developer of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, for measuring the intensity of hurricanes. As recently as 2005, Saffir was the principal of Saffir Engineering in Coral Gables, Florida...
– codeveloper of Saffir-Simpson Hurricane ScaleSaffir-Simpson Hurricane ScaleThe Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale , or the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale , classifies hurricanes — Western Hemisphere tropical cyclones that exceed the intensities of tropical depressions and tropical storms — into five categories distinguished by the intensities of their sustained winds... - Anghel SalignyAnghel SalignyAnghel Saligny was a Romanian engineer, most famous for designing the Feteşti-Cernavodă railway bridge over the Danube, the longest bridge in Europe at that time. He also designed the storage facilities in Constanţa seaport, one of the earliest examples of reinforced concrete architecture in...
– designer of the Anghel Saligny Bridge - John L. SavageJohn L. SavageJohn Lucian Savage was an American civil engineer. He is best known for supervising the design and construction of the Hoover Dam, Shasta Dam and Grand Coulee Dam in the United States along with surveying for the future Three Gorges Dam in China...
– damsDAMSDriot-Arnoux Motorsport is a racing team from France, involved in many areas of motorsports. DAMS was founded in 1988 by Jean-Paul Driot and former Formula One driver René Arnoux. It is headquartered near Le Mans, only 2 km from the Bugatti Circuit.- History :The year after its foundation,...
, canalCanalCanals are man-made channels for water. There are two types of canal:#Waterways: navigable transportation canals used for carrying ships and boats shipping goods and conveying people, further subdivided into two kinds:...
s and hydroelectricityHydroelectricityHydroelectricity is the term referring to electricity generated by hydropower; the production of electrical power through the use of the gravitational force of falling or flowing water. It is the most widely used form of renewable energy...
power plants. - Leopold Halliday SavileLeopold Halliday SavileSir Leopold Halliday Savile, KCB, MICE was a British civil engineer.Savile was born at Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, Scotland on 31 August 1870. Savile was a distant descendent of Anne Plantagenet, the sister of Richard III and Edward IV. In 1904 Savile married Evelyn Styleman. He was appointed a...
– British reservoir engineer - Jörg SchlaichJörg SchlaichProf. Dr.-Ing. Drs. h.c. Jörg Schlaich is a German structural engineer. He later founded his own firm Schlaich Bergermann & Partner.-Early career:...
– German structural engineer - Charles Conrad SchneiderCharles Conrad SchneiderCharles Conrad Schneider , often referred to as C. C. Schneider, was an American civil engineer and bridge designer.-Biography:Schneider was born in Apolda in the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. He graduated from the Royal Technical School at Chemnitz, Germany, in 1864, and came to the United...
– American engineer - Marc SéguinMarc SeguinMarc Seguin was a French engineer, inventor of the wire-cable suspension bridge and the multi-tubular steam-engine boiler.- Biography :...
– railways, inventor of the wire-cable suspension bridgeSuspension bridgeA suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck is hung below suspension cables on vertical suspenders. Outside Tibet and Bhutan, where the first examples of this type of bridge were built in the 15th century, this type of bridge dates from the early 19th century... - Kanwar SenKanwar SenKanwar Sen ,also spelt as Kanwar Sain, was an eminent civil engineer from Rajasthan state in India. He was the Chief Engineer in the Bikaner state who came up with idea of Rajasthan Canal .He successfully implemented Gang canal project too. He was considered a doyen of irrigation engineering of...
– Indian canal engineer - Francisco J. SerranoFrancisco J. SerranoFrancisco J. Serrano y Alvarez de la Rosa was a Mexican civil engineer and architect....
– Mexican civil engineer and professor - Shen KuoShen KuoShen Kuo or Shen Gua , style name Cunzhong and pseudonym Mengqi Weng , was a polymathic Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty...
– irrigation canal system - Frank H. ShawFrank H. ShawFrank Harold Shaw was an American civil engineer notable for designing bridges and water supply infrastructure in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania...
– American engineer from Pennsylvania - Hubert Shirley-SmithHubert Shirley-SmithSir Hubert Shirley-Smith, OBE, BSc, MICE was a British civil engineer.Shirley-Smith is perhaps most famous for helping to design the Howrah Bridge in Calcutta for the Indian Public Works Department in 1943...
– bridges - Douglas Harlow ShoemakerDouglas Harlow ShoemakerDouglas Harlow Shoemaker was the last Chief Engineer of the Northern Pacific Railway.-Biography:On October 1929 he became a draftsman, Bridge Department, Northern Pacific, until May 1932; May 1932 to June 1933, inspector, Minnesota Highway Department; June 1933 to 1935, superintendent and...
– American railway engineer - Vladimir ShukhovVladimir ShukhovVladimir Grigoryevich Shukhov , was a Russian engineer-polymath, scientist and architect renowned for his pioneering works on new methods of analysis for structural engineering that led to breakthroughs in industrial design of world's first hyperboloid structures, lattice shell structures, tensile...
– Russia, pioneer of hyperboloid structureHyperboloid structureHyperboloid structures are architectural structures designed with hyperboloid geometry. Often these are tall structures such as towers where the hyperboloid geometry's structural strength is used to support an object high off the ground, but hyperboloid geometry is also often used for decorative...
s, shell structuresThin-shell structureThin-shell structures are light weight constructions using shell elements. These elements are typically curved and are assembled to large structures...
and pipelinesPipeline transportPipeline transport is the transportation of goods through a pipe. Most commonly, liquids and gases are sent, but pneumatic tubes that transport solid capsules using compressed air are also used.... - James SimpsonJames Simpson (engineer)James Simpson was a British civil engineer. He was president of the Institution of Civil Engineers from January 1853 to January 1855....
– hydraulic engineer - Ole SingstadOle SingstadOle Knutsen Singstad was a Norwegian-American civil engineer who innovated the ventilation system for the Holland Tunnel and advanced the use of the "Sunk-tube" method of underwater vehicular tunnel building, a system of constructing the tunnels with prefabricated sections.By 1950...
– Holland TunnelHolland TunnelThe Holland Tunnel is a highway tunnel under the Hudson River connecting the island of Manhattan in New York City with Jersey City, New Jersey at Interstate 78 on the mainland. Unusual for an American public works project, it is not named for a government official, politician, or local hero or...
tunnel ventilation system - Sir Alec Skempton – Founding father of soil mechanics
- Otto SkorzenyOtto SkorzenyOtto Skorzeny was an SS-Obersturmbannführer in the German Waffen-SS during World War II. After fighting on the Eastern Front, he was chosen as the field commander to carry out the rescue mission that freed the deposed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from captivity...
– SS commando - Carlos Slim – Mexican tycoon, owner of Grupo CarsoGrupo CarsoGrupo Carso is a global conglomerate company owned by the Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim. It was formed in 1990 after the merger of Corporación Industrial Carso and Grupo Inbursa...
& TelmexTelmexTelmex is a telecommunications company headquartered in Mexico City that provides telecommunication products and services in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil and other countries in Latin America. In addition to traditional fixed-line telephone service, Telmex also offers Internet access, data,... - John SmeatonJohn SmeatonJohn Smeaton, FRS, was an English civil engineer responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses. He was also a capable mechanical engineer and an eminent physicist...
– canals, bridges, Eddystone LighthouseEddystone LighthouseEddystone Lighthouse is on the treacherous Eddystone Rocks, south west of Rame Head, United Kingdom. While Rame Head is in Cornwall, the rocks are in Devon and composed of Precambrian Gneiss.... - William SmithWilliam Smith (geologist)William 'Strata' Smith was an English geologist, credited with creating the first nationwide geological map. He is known as the "Father of English Geology" for collating the geological history of England and Wales into a single record, although recognition was very slow in coming...
– canals, water engineer and publisher of first geological map. - José SócratesJosé SócratesJosé Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, GCIH , commonly known by José Sócrates , is a Portuguese politician who was the Prime Minister of Portugal from 12 March 2005 to 21 June 2011....
- former Prime Minister of Portugal - George F. SowersGeorge F. SowersGeorge F. Sowers was an American Civil Engineer and Regents Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also worked as a consultant for Law Engineering while maintaining his position as a professor....
– geotechnical engineer - E. SreedharanE. SreedharanElattuvalapil Sreedharan is the managing director of Delhi Metro.-Early life:E. Sreedharan was born in a family of Palakkad district, Kerala. His family hails from Karukaputhoor in Palakkad district of Kerala...
– Indian Civil Engineer, CMD of DMRC and Chief of Konkan Railway Project - Olaf StangOlaf StangOlaf Stang was a Norwegian engineer.He was born in Kristiania. He was a second cousin once removed of Axel Heiberg Stang and Thomas Stang, and one of his aunts married Johan Peter Weisse....
– Norwegian suspension bridge engineer - Thomas SteersThomas SteersThomas Steers was thought to have been born in 1672 in Kent and died in 1750. He was England's first major civil engineer and built many canals, the world's first commercial wet dock, the Old Dock at Liverpool, and a theatre...
– early 18th century British canal engineer - David B. SteinmanDavid B. SteinmanDavid Bernard Steinman was an American structural engineer. He was the designer of the Mackinac Bridge and many other notable bridges, and a published author. He grew up in New York City's lower Manhattan, and lived with the ambition of making his mark on the Brooklyn Bridge that he lived under...
– American structural engineer - George StephensonGeorge StephensonGeorge Stephenson was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer who built the first public railway line in the world to use steam locomotives...
– railways - George Robert StephensonGeorge Robert Stephenson (engineer)George Robert Stephenson was a British civil engineer.Stephenson was born to Robert Stephenson Senior in Newcastle upon Tyne...
– British railway engineer - Robert StephensonRobert StephensonRobert Stephenson FRS was an English civil engineer. He was the only son of George Stephenson, the famed locomotive builder and railway engineer; many of the achievements popularly credited to his father were actually the joint efforts of father and son.-Early life :He was born on the 16th of...
– railways - John Frank StevensJohn Frank StevensJohn Frank Stevens was an American engineer who built the Great Northern Railway in the United States and was chief engineer on the Panama Canal between 1905 and 1907.- Biography :...
– Chief Engineer of the Panama CanalPanama CanalThe Panama Canal is a ship canal in Panama that joins the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean and is a key conduit for international maritime trade. Built from 1904 to 1914, the canal has seen annual traffic rise from about 1,000 ships early on to 14,702 vessels measuring a total of 309.6... - Alan StevensonAlan StevensonAlan Stevenson FRSE MInstCE was a Scottish lighthouse engineer who was Engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses...
– lighthouseLighthouseA lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire, and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways....
s - David Stevenson (engineer)David Stevenson (engineer)David Stevenson FRSE FRSSA was a Scottish lighthouse designer, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland, and helped found a great dynasty of lighthouse engineering.-Background:...
– lighthouseLighthouseA lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire, and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways....
s - Robert StevensonRobert Stevenson (civil engineer)Robert Stevenson FRSE MInstCE FSAS MWS FGS FRAS FSA was a Scottish civil engineer and famed designer and builder of lighthouses.One of his finest achievements was the construction of the Bell Rock Lighthouse.-Early life:...
– lighthouseLighthouseA lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire, and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways....
s - Thomas StevensonThomas StevensonThomas Stevenson PRSE MInstCE FRSSA FSAScot was a pioneering Scottish lighthouse designer and meteorologist, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland, as well as the Stevenson screen used in meteorology...
– lighthouseLighthouseA lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire, and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways....
s - Simon StevinSimon StevinSimon Stevin was a Flemish mathematician and military engineer. He was active in a great many areas of science and engineering, both theoretical and practical...
– Flemish public works engineer - Joseph Strauss – Structural Engineer Golden Gate BridgeGolden Gate BridgeThe Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay into the Pacific Ocean. As part of both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1, the structure links the city of San Francisco, on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula, to...
, San Francisco - Emil StrubEmil StrubEmil Strub was a Swiss builder, railway builder and inventor who invented the Strub rack system.-See also:* Abt rack system* Rack systems...
– Swiss railway engineer - SukarnoSukarnoSukarno, born Kusno Sosrodihardjo was the first President of Indonesia.Sukarno was the leader of his country's struggle for independence from the Netherlands and was Indonesia's first President from 1945 to 1967...
– former President of Indonesia
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- Ratan TataRatan TataRatan Naval Tata is the present chairman of Tata Sons and therefore, Tata Group. Also, he is one among the few in the world...
– Chairman of Indian conglomerate Tata GroupTata GroupTata Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Tata Group is one of the largest companies in India by market capitalization and revenue. It has interests in communications and information technology, engineering, materials, services, energy,... - Thomas TelfordThomas TelfordThomas Telford FRS, FRSE was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder.-Early career:...
– canals, roads and bridges - Karl von TerzaghiKarl von TerzaghiKarl von Terzaghi was an Austrian civil engineer and geologist, called the father of soil mechanics.-Early life:...
– soil mechanics - Tidjane ThiamTidjane ThiamTidjane Thiam is a French-Ivorian businessman, currently the Chief Executive of Prudential plc. He studied engineering in France before joining the management consultants McKinsey & Company in 1986; from 1994 to 1999 he worked in Côte d'Ivoire first as a senior civil servant and later as the...
– Chief Financial Officer of Prudential plc, Civil Engineering graduate of l'École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris - Mat Roy ThompsonMat Roy ThompsonMat Roy Thompson , known also as Matt Roy Thompson, Matthew R. Thompson, Mathew R. Thompson, M...
– American landscape and defense engineer, overseer of construction at Scotty's CastleScotty's CastleScotty's Castle is a two-story Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style villa located in the Grapevine Mountains of northern Death Valley in Death Valley National Park, California, U.S.. It is also known as Death Valley Ranch...
. - John Edward ThornycroftJohn Edward ThornycroftSir John Edward Thornycroft KBE was a British mechanical and civil engineer.Thornycroft was born in Chiswick in 1872 and was the eldest son of Sir John Isaac Thornycroft, the founder of the Thornycroft shipbuilding company. He was educated at St Paul’s School in London before receiving engineering...
– British ship builder and president of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Stephen TimoshenkoStephen TimoshenkoStanford University:* Bergman, E. O., * Kurzweil, A. C., * , * Huang, Y. S., * Wang, T. K., * Weber, H. S., * , * , * , -Publications:...
– engineering mechanics - Pierre Emanuel Tirard – 19th century Prime Minister of France
- Fritz TodtFritz TodtFritz Todt was a German engineer and senior Nazi figure, the founder of Organisation Todt. He died in a plane crash during World War II.- Life :Todt was born in Pforzheim to a father who owned a small factory...
– Reichsminister for Armaments and Munitions during World War 2 - Eduardo TorrojaEduardo TorrojaEduardo Torroja y Miret, was a Spanish structural engineer, pioneer in the design of concrete-shell structures. His first large project was the Tempul cable-stayed aqueduct in 1926, Guadalete, Jerez de la Frontera, in which he used prestressed girders, and he made his name with the concrete...
– Spanish concrete-shellThin-shell structureThin-shell structures are light weight constructions using shell elements. These elements are typically curved and are assembled to large structures...
engineer - Joseph TreffryJoseph TreffryJoseph Austen Treffry was an engineer, mining adventurer, and industrialist who became a significant landowner in Cornwall, United Kingdom.-Biography:...
– Harbour and bridge engineer - Ernest Crosbie TrenchErnest Crosbie TrenchErnest Frederic Crosbie Trench CBE, TD was a British civil engineer.Ernest was born on 6 August 1869 to George Frederic Trench and Frances Charlotte Talbot Crosbie. Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter, sister to Edward IV and Richard III was an ancestor of Ernest's mother...
– British railway engineer - James TrubshawJames TrubshawJames Trubshaw was an English builder, architect and civil engineer. His civil engineering works include the construction of the Grosvenor Bridge in Chester, Cheshire, then the longest stone span...
– British architect and engineer - George TurnbullGeorge Turnbull (civil engineer)George Turnbull was the Chief Engineer responsible for construction from 1851 to 1863 of the first railway line from Calcutta : the 541-mile line to Benares en route to Delhi...
– British railway engineer - C.A.P. TurnerC.A.P. TurnerClaude Allen Porter Turner was an American structural engineer who designed a number of buildings and bridges, particularly in the midwestern U.S. states of Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin....
– American structural engineer
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- Kim Ung-yongKim Ung-YongKim Ung-Yong is a Korean former child prodigy. Kim was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records under "Highest IQ"; the book estimated the boy's score at about 210....
– Korean former child prodigy, specialized in hydraulics - Raymond UnwinRaymond UnwinSir Raymond Unwin was a prominent and influential English engineer, architect and town planner, with an emphasis on improvements in working class housing.-Early years:...
– British urban planner - William UnwinWilliam UnwinWilliam Cawthorne Unwin FRS was a British civil and mechanical engineer. He is noted for his extensive work on hydraulics and engines as well as his close association with William Fairbairn. He is one of only a few men who have served as president of both the Institution of Civil Engineers and the...
– President of the Institution of Civil EngineersInstitution of Civil EngineersFounded on 2 January 1818, the Institution of Civil Engineers is an independent professional association, based in central London, representing civil engineering. Like its early membership, the majority of its current members are British engineers, but it also has members in more than 150...
and the Institution of Mechanical EngineersInstitution of Mechanical EngineersThe Institution of Mechanical Engineers is the British engineering society based in central London, representing mechanical engineering. It is licensed by the Engineering Council UK to assess candidates for inclusion on ECUK's Register of professional Engineers...
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- Charles Blacker VignolesCharles Blacker VignolesCharles Blacker Vignoles was an influential early railway engineer, and eponym of the Vignoles rail.- Early life :...
– British railway engineer - Michel VirlogeuxMichel VirlogeuxDr. Michel Virlogeux is a French structural engineer and bridge specialist.-Career:Michel Virlogeux graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1967 and from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 1970...
– France. Second Tagus crossing and Millau viaduct. - Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya – "Father of Indian Civil Engineering". Dams in India, many projects in Mysore stateMysore StateThe Kingdom of Mysore was one of the three largest princely states within the erstwhile British Empire of India. Upon India gaining its independence in 1947, the Maharaja of Mysore merged his realm with the Union of India...
. - Jean-Baptiste de VoglieJean-Baptiste de VoglieJean-Baptiste de Voglie , born Jean Bentivoglio was an eminent Italian road and bridge engineer.-Career:Descended from the Ferrara branch of the Bentivoglio, Jean de Voglie entered the Corps of Bridges and Roads in France in 1742 and was appointed under-engineer to Jean-Rodolphe Perronet at...
– Italian road and bridge engineer - Alan VoorheesAlan VoorheesAlan Manners Voorhees was a transportation engineer and urban planner who designed many large public works in the United States...
– American transport engineer and urban planner
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- John WaddellJohn WaddellJohn Henry Waddell is an American sculptor, painter and educator.-Early life:Waddell was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1921 and moved to Evansville, Indiana at the age of ten. There he began to study art at the Katherine Lord Studio, and by the age of 16 was teaching classes there...
– Scottish railway engineer - John Alexander Low WaddellJohn Alexander Low WaddellJohn Alexander Low Waddell was an American civil engineer and prolific bridge designer, with more than a thousand structures to his credit in the United States, Canada, as well as Mexico, Russia, China, Japan, and New Zealand...
– American bridge designer - James WalkerJames Walker (engineer)James Walker, FRS, was an influential Scottish civil engineer of the first half of the 19th century.Walker was born in Falkirk and was apprenticed to his uncle Ralph Walker in approximately 1800, with whom he gained experience working on the design and construction of the West India and East India...
– Scottish coastal engineer - William Kelly WallaceWilliam Kelly WallaceWilliam Kelly Wallace was an Irish railway engineer who joined the Northern Counties Committee and later became Chief Civil Engineer of the London Midland and Scottish Railway .- Biography :William Kelly Wallace was born in 1883...
– Irish railway engineer - Kaichi WatanabeKaichi WatanabeKaichi Watanabe was a Japanese engineer who studied and worked in Scotland, United Kingdom during the 1880s. He was one of the first Japanese engineers who came to study in the UK...
– Japanese bridge engineer - Juan Carlos WasmosyJuan Carlos WasmosyJuan Carlos Wasmosy Monti was the President of Paraguay from 1993 until 1998. He was a member of the Colorado Party, and the country's first civilian president in 39 years....
– President of Paraguay - André WaterkeynAndré WaterkeynAndré Waterkeyn was a Belgian engineer, born in Wimbledon, best known for creating the Atomium.Waterkeyn was the economic director of Fabrimetal, a federation of metallurgical companies when in 1954 he was asked to design a building for the 1958 World Expo that would symbolize Belgian engineering...
– designed the AtomiumAtomiumThe Atomium is a monument in Brussels, originally built for Expo '58, the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. Designed by André Waterkeyn, it stands 102 metres tall... - John Duncan WatsonJohn Duncan WatsonJohn Duncan Watson was a British civil engineer.Watson was born in Dundee, Scotland on 7 March 1860. He specialised in sanitation and was regarded as a pioneer in the development of sewage treatment. Watson was engineer to the Birmingham and District Drainage Board and also General Manager to the...
– British sewage treatment engineer - David Mowat WatsonDavid Mowat WatsonDavid Mowat Watson was a British civil engineer.David was born in Aberdeen in 1891. His father was John Duncan Watson, a civil engineer regarded as a pioneer in the development of sewage treatment...
– British civil engineer - Francis Wentworth-ShieldsFrancis Wentworth-ShieldsSir Francis Ernest Wentworth-Shields OBE was a British civil engineer.Francis Ernest Wentworth-Shields was born in London in 1869. He was appointed to be a Major of the Territorial Army's Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, an unpaid, volunteer unit which provides technical expertise to the British...
– British civil engineer - William WestonWilliam Weston (engineer)William Weston was a civil engineer who worked in England and the United States of America.-Career:William Weston is first noticed with his work on Trent Bridge, Gainsborough between 1787 and 1791....
– British bridge engineer - Thomas Johnson WestroppThomas Johnson Westropp- Early life :Westropp, a notable antiquarian in Victorian Ireland and a collector of folklore, was born at Attyflin Park, Patrickswell, County Limerick. Westropp's family were of English origin and settled in County Limerick in the mid 16th century. The family married into the O'Callaghans of...
- Irish harbour engineer and antiquarian - Squire WhippleSquire WhippleSquire Whipple C.E. was a civil engineer born in Hardwick, Massachusetts, USA. His family moved to New York when he was thirteen. He studied at Fairfield Academy. He graduated from Union College after only one year...
– American civil engineer - Frederick Arthur WhitakerFrederick Arthur WhitakerSir Frederick Arthur Whitaker KCB, DEng was a British civil engineer. Although born in the Colony of Natal, he was educated in Liverpool and received a Master of Engineering degree from the University of Liverpool. Whitaker joined the Civil Engineer in Chief's Department of the Admiralty at the...
– British Admiralty engineer - Canvass WhiteCanvass WhiteCanvass White was an American engineer and inventor. He was chief engineer at the Delaware and Raritan Canal and he patented a type of hydraulic cement.-Birth:He was born on September 8, 1790, in Whitestown, New York...
– American canal engineer - William Henry WhiteWilliam Henry WhiteSir William Henry White was a prolific British warship designer and Chief Constructor at the Admiralty....
– British engineer and chief constructor of the Admiralty - John Richardson WighamJohn Richardson WighamJohn Richardson Wigham was a prominent lighthouse engineer of the 19th century.-Early life:Wigham was born to a Quaker family in Newington, Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Henry, operated a mill for the manufacture of shawls. When he was 15 years old he was apprenticed to his brother-in-law...
– Irish Lighthouse Engineer - Clement WilksClement WilksClement Wilks was a notable Civil Engineer and Architect in colonial Victoria, Australia.-Early days:Clement Wilks was born at Peckham Rye, Surrey, 15 February 1819, the youngest son of the Rev. Mark Wilks, of Paris...
– Australian road and bridge engineer - William WillcocksWilliam WillcocksSir William Willcocks KCMG was a British civil engineer. He is remembered as a renowned irrigation engineer, having proposed the first Aswan Dam and undertaken major projects of irrigation in South Africa and Turkey.A graduate of the Thomason College of Civil Engineering, Roorkee 1872 batch...
– British irrigation engineer served in IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
and EgyptEgyptEgypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world... - Edward Leader WilliamsEdward Leader WilliamsSir Edward Leader Williams was an English civil engineer, chiefly remembered as the designer of the Manchester Ship Canal, but also heavily involved in other canal projects in north Cheshire.-Early life:...
– canals, bridges - John WilliamsJohn Williams (engineer)John Williams was Engineer of the Western Branch of the Montgomeryshire Canal, in the historic county of Montgomeryshire, Wales, completed in 1821.-See also:*Canals of the United Kingdom*History of the British canal system-References:...
– engineer of the Montgomery CanalMontgomery CanalThe Montgomery Canal , known colloquially as "The Monty", is a partially restored canal in Powys, in eastern Wales, and in northwest Shropshire, in western England... - George Ambler WilsonGeorge Ambler WilsonGeorge Ambler Wilson MICE was a British civil engineer.Wilson was born in Wellington, Shropshire in 1906. He was the chief engineer of the Port of London Authority from 1953 to 1967. In 1958 he was elected a member of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers. He also served as president of the...
– British port engineer - Norman D. WilsonNorman D. WilsonNorman Douglas Wilson was a Toronto-based transportation engineer who designed the Toronto subway, and created a design of a subway for Winnipeg in the late 1950s.-References:*...
– mass transit - Frank E. WinsorFrank E. WinsorFrank E. Winsor, civil engineer, was the chief engineer for the Boston Metropolitan District Water Supply Commission, now the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, from 1926 until his death in 1939 and was closely involved in the design and construction of Winsor Dam and Goodnough Dike which...
– chief engineer for Quabbin ReservoirQuabbin ReservoirThe Quabbin Reservoir is the largest inland body of water in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and was built between 1930 and 1939. Today along with the Wachusett Reservoir, it is the primary water supply for Boston, some to the east, as well as 40 other communities in Greater Boston...
project - John Wolfe-BarryJohn Wolfe-BarrySir John Wolfe-Barry was an English civil engineer of the late 19th and early 20th century. His most famous project was the construction of Tower Bridge over the River Thames in London.-Early career:...
– English civil engineer, constructor of London's Tower Bridge - A. Baldwin WoodA. Baldwin WoodAlbert Baldwin Wood was an inventor and engineer from New Orleans, Louisiana. He graduated from Tulane University with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 1899....
– pumps - Edward WoodsEdward Woods (engineer)Edward Woods was a British civil engineer.- Early life and career :Woods was born in London on 28 April 1814, the son of Samuel Woods, a merchant. After education at private schools, and some training at Bristol, he became in 1834 an assistant to John Dixon, recently appointed chief engineer of...
– British railway engineer - William Barton WorthingtonWilliam Barton WorthingtonWilliam Barton Worthington was a British civil engineer.Worthington was born in Lancaster to Samuel Barton Worthington, a railway engineer. He was educated at Owens College, Manchester, and then at the University of London, following this he was apprenticed to his father...
– British railway engineer - Robert Wynne-EdwardsRobert Wynne-EdwardsSir Robert Meredydd Wynne-Edwards CBE, DSO, MC and bar was a British civil engineer and army officer. Wynne-Edwards was born in Cheltenham and educated at Giggleswick School and Leeds Grammar School before being commissioned into the Royal Welch Fusiliers at the outbreak of the First World War...
– British tunnel and pipeline engineer
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- Andrew YarrantonAndrew YarrantonAndrew Yarranton was an important English engineer in the 17th century who was responsible for making several rivers into navigable waterways.-Biography:...
– English navigation engineer - Boris YeltsinBoris YeltsinBoris Nikolayevich Yeltsin was the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.Originally a supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev, Yeltsin emerged under the perestroika reforms as one of Gorbachev's most powerful political opponents. On 29 May 1990 he was elected the chairman of...
– Ex President of Russia - T. Leslie YoudT. Leslie YoudT. Leslie Youd is an American geotechnical engineer and earthquake engineer, and is one of the pre-eminent expert researchers on earthquake liquefaction and ground failure. He has gained an international reputation in this field. He currently lives in Orem, Utah.-Education:T. Leslie Youd received...
– Geotechnical engineer, liquefaction research
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- Konrad ZuseKonrad ZuseKonrad Zuse was a German civil engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer, the Z3, which became operational in May 1941....
– early pioneer in computers - Zdeněk BažantZdenek BažantZdeněk Pavel Bažant is McCormick School Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Northwestern University's Robert R...
– Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science at Northwestern University