The 50 Greatest Engineers: The People Whose Innovations Have Shaped Our World

by Paul Virr, William Potter

Overview

This stunning jacketed hardcover introduces 50 of the world's most influential engineers of all time and a selection of their groundbreaking inventions, showcased with full-color photography.

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, Lillian Moller Gilbreth and Gustave Eiffel to Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Fazlu Rahman Khan and the Wright Brothers.

Fully illustrated in full-color with examples of their major works, whether they be machines, buildings, bridges or life-changing technical innovations, this fascinating book explores how these men and women have beaten the odds to develop them.

Includes:
• Full-color photographs and illustrations of famous inventions
• Concise professional biographies of the engineers listed
• Entries arranged in chronological order for easy reference

This is the perfect reference book for all the family to answer the question - 'Who made that?'

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781839406706
Publisher:	Arcturus Publishing Limited
Publication date:	02/15/2022
Series:	50 Greatest
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	8.86(w) x 11.02(h) x (d)

About the Author

Paul Virr is an author and editor who has written extensively on science and technology over the last twenty years. A former SEM ambassador with Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution and former editor for the Auropean Space Agency, he has produced official guides for UK museums and now lives in Rome, Italy.

William Potter has been writing and editing non-fiction titles for more than two decades, covering diverse subjects such as new technology, space travel, history, prehistoric life, comics and fantasy-art creation, along with numerous educational STEM titles and puzzle books for school-age readers. Based in the UK, William also scripts comic books and continues to tour with his band.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Imhotep
Archimedes
Ctesibius
Vitruvius
Heron of Alexandria
Zhang Heng
Apollodorus of Damascus
Ismail Al-Jazari
Filippo Brunelleschi
Mariano di Jacopo:II Taccola
Leonardo da Vinci
Cornelis Drebbel
Christiaan Huygens
Robert Hooke
Thomas Newcomen
John Harrison
James Watt
Thomas Teleford
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 Lumiére
Wilbur & Orville Wright
Guglielmo Marconi
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Robert H. Goddard
Nora Stanton Blatch Barney
Olive Dennis
Tachu Naito
Verena Holmes
Igor Sikorsky
R. Buckminster Fuller
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz
Frank Whittle
Werner von Braun
Fazlur Rahman Khan