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Stephen Timoshenko

Stephen Timoshenko was a Ukrainian-American engineer whose work helped shape modern engineering mechanics. He contribute...

20TH Century Mechanical Ukraine Civil

9.7 Brilliant

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Robert Kahn

Robert Kahn was a prominent American electrical engineer instrumental in developing the foundations of the internet. His...

Internet American Networking TCP IP

9.4 Excellent

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George W. Housner

George W. Housner was an American civil engineer recognized as a foundational figure in the field of earthquake engineer...

Modern American Structural Earthquake

9.4 Excellent

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J. C. R. Licklider

Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider was an American psychologist and computer scientist whose theoretical frameworks significa...

Modern Computer American Networking

9.4 Excellent

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Russell Ohl

Russell Shoemaker Ohl was an American engineer and researcher at Bell Telephone Laboratories. In 1939, while investigati...

American Semiconductor Historical Materials

9.4 Excellent

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Pierre Bézier

Pierre Bézier was a French engineer who worked for Renault and developed the mathematical curve that bears his name. Béz...

France 20TH Century Mechanical Cad Cam

9.4 Excellent

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Washington Roebling

Washington Roebling was a prominent American civil engineer renowned for his pivotal role in designing and overseeing th...

American Historical Bridges Civil Engineer

9.3 Excellent

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Charles Algernon Parsons

Charles Algernon Parsons was a British mechanical engineer pivotal in developing the steam turbine. His innovation drama...

Mechanical Power British Steam Turbine

9.3 Excellent

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John Backus

John Backus was a pioneering American engineer instrumental in developing early software. His work on the FORTRAN progra...

Software American Compilers Fortran

9.3 Excellent

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Ralph B. Peck

Ralph B. Peck (1912–2008) was an American civil engineer who significantly influenced the development of modern geotechn...

Modern American Foundations Civil

9.3 Excellent

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W. Edwards Deming

W. Edwards Deming (1900-1993) was an American statistician and management consultant who developed statistical quality c...

Modern American Industrial Quality

9.3 Excellent

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Christopher C. Kraft Jr.

Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924–2019) was an American aerospace engineer who played a central role in the early United St...

Modern American Aerospace Nasa

9.3 Excellent

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John Houbolt

John Houbolt was an American aerospace engineer who championed the concept of Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LOR) during the ea...

Modern American Aerospace Apollo

9.3 Excellent

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Max Faget

Maxime Faget was an aerospace engineer born in British Honduras, now Belize, who became an American citizen and worked f...

American Aerospace Historical Nasa

9.3 Excellent

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Carroll Shelby

Carroll Shelby was an American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur known for his significant contributi...

Modern Automotive American Mechanical

8.8 Great

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William Bullock

William Bullock was an American inventor associated with the development of the rotary web printing press. His 1863 desi...

American Mechanical Historical Printing

8.3 Great

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Robert Kearns

Robert William Kearns was an American engineer and inventor best known for developing and patenting an electronic interm...

Automotive American Mechanical Historical

7.8 Good

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Walter Chrysler

Walter Percy Chrysler was an American industrialist and automobile executive. He reorganized the Maxwell Motor Company i...

Automotive American Mechanical Historical

7.4 Good

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Eliphalet Remington

Eliphalet Remington was an American gunsmith, firearms designer, and manufacturer associated with the founding of the Re...

Military American Mechanical Historical

6.8 Fair

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Jerome H. Lemelson

Jerome H. Lemelson (1923-1997) was an American independent inventor whose work included machine vision, industrial autom...

Modern American Inventor Mechanical

4.4 Poor