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The 50 greatest engineers, the people whose innovations have shaped our world, Paul Virr and William Potter

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The 50 greatest engineers, the people whose innovations have shaped our world, Paul Virr and William Potter

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eng

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collective biography

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illustrations

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non fiction

Main title

The 50 greatest engineers

Responsibility statement

Paul Virr and William Potter

Sub title

the people whose innovations have shaped our world

Summary

Engineering is everywhere, from the Large Hadron Collider to invisibly small circuits on silicon chips. The 50 Greatest Engineers celebrates the great achievements that have been made through the ages, containing profiles of the best-known and most innovative engineers of all time. Chosen from across the globe, they include a diverse range of talent - from the likes of Nikola Tesla and Gustave Eiffel to Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Fazlu Rahman Khan and the Wright Brothers

Table Of Contents

Imhotep -- Archimedes -- Ctesibius -- Vitruvius -- Heron of Alexandria -- Zhang Heng -- Apollodorus of Damascus -- Ismail Al-Jazari -- Filippo Brunelleschi -- Mariano di Jacopo: Il Taccola -- Leonarda da Vinci -- Cornelis Drebbel -- Christiaan Huygens -- Robert Hooke -- Thomas Newcomen -- John Harrison -- James Watt -- Thomas Telford -- Richard Trevithick -- George Cayley -- George & Robert Stephenson -- Michael Faraday -- Isambard Kingdom Brunel -- John, Washington & Emily Roebling -- Joseph Bazalgette -- Nikolaus Otto -- William Le Baron Jenney -- Gottlieb Daimler -- Thomas Edison -- Alexander Graham Bell -- Vladimir Shukhov -- Hertha Ayrton -- Nikola Tesla -- Granville Woods -- Rudolf Diesel -- August & Louis Lumière -- Wilbur & Orville Wright -- Guglielmo Marconi -- Lillian Moller Gilbreth -- Robert H. Goddard -- Nora Stanton Blatch Barney -- Olive Dennis -- Tachū Naitō -- Verena Holmes -- Igor Sikorsky -- R. Buckminster Fuller -- Irmgard Flügge-Lotz -- Frank Whittle -- Werner von Braun -- Fazlur Rahman Khan

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Fifty greatest engineers

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