This is a historical list of British engineers.
List
edit- John Allen (born 1928), engineer and plasma physicist
- James Atkinson (1846–1914), inventor of the Atkinson cycle internal combustion engine[1]
- George Frederick Armstrong (1842–1900), sanitation engineer and academic[2]
- William Armstrong (1810–1900), inventor of the hydraulic accumulator and breech-loading, rifled artillery[3]
- Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923), pioneered the science of electric arcs and ripples in sand and water.[4]
- Charles Baird (1766–1843), managed a company which built steam-powered machinery in Saint Petersburg, including Russia's first steamboat[5]
- Edward Barlow (1639–1719), inventor of the repeating clock[6]
- John Bell (1747–1798), inventor of various military and nautical devices, including a gyn and a petard[7]
- Edwin Beard Budding (1796–1846), inventor of the lawnmower[8]
- Jenny Body, aerospace engineer and former president of the Royal Aeronautical Society[9]
- Matthew Boulton (1728–1809), partner in the steam engineering manufacturing firm Boulton and Watt, and inventor of a steam-driven coin press[10]
- James Brindley (1716–1772), pioneering engineer of canals and aqueducts[11]
- Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), noted, among other achievements, for constructing the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the Great Western Railway[12]
- Henry Chilver (1926–2012), expanded Cranfield Institute of Technology by focusing on the practical application of knowledge[13]
- Victoria Drummond (1894–1978), marine engineer who served at sea as an engineering officer in the British Merchant Navy and received awards for bravery under enemy fire.[14]
- Gertrude Lilian Entwisle (1892–1961), electrical engineer known for her work on designing DC motors and exciters and one of the founding members of the Women's Engineering Society.[15]
- Nigel Gresley (1876–1941), chief engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway who invented the Gresley conjugated valve gear[16]
- Holt Samuel Hallett (1841 – 11 November 1911), pioneer railway engineer in Burma[17]
- Caroline Haslett (1895–1957), electrical engineer who oversaw important requirements for electrical installations in post-war Britain [18]
- Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925), electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who developed the transmission line theory and vectorized Maxwell's equations, among many other things.[19]
- Christopher Hinton (1901–1983), chief engineer at ICI who worked on the first nuclear power plant, Calder Hall[20]
- Peggy Hodges (1921–2008), communications and systems engineer who worked on guided missile technology at GEC Marconi[21]
- Sue Ion (born 1955), expert advisor on the nuclear power industry[22]
- Andrew Meikle (1719–1811), inventor of an innovative mechanical threshing machine[23]
- Rachel Mary Parsons (1885–1956), engineer and advocate for women's employment rights, was the founding president of the Women's Engineering Society in Britain.
- Lewis Paul (died 1759), inventor of spinning and weaving machines[24]
- Dorothée Pullinger (1894–1986), pioneering automobile engineer and businesswoman [25]
- Harry Ricardo (1885–1974), researcher and developer of early internal combustion engines
- Margaret Dorothea Rowbotham (1883–1978), engineer in the automobile, munitions and electrical sectors, and champion of women's employment in professional engineering[26]
- Dorothy Rowntree, first woman graduate in engineering from the University of Glasgow and the first woman graduate in naval architecture in UK[27]
- Evelyn Roxburgh (1896–1973), first woman to gain a diploma in electrical engineering in Scotland.[28]
- Beatrice Shilling (1909–1990), inventor of the "Miss Shilling's orifice", a critical component that prevented engine stall in the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines of the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire fighters.[29]
- Dorothy Spicer (1908–1946), aviator and the first woman to gain an advanced qualification in aeronautical engineering[30]
- Richard Trevithick (1771–1833), inventor of a high-powered steam engine[31]
- Claude Hamilton Verity (1880–1949), inventor of the Veritiphone, one of the earliest methods of synchronisation of sound and film.[32]
- Frank Whittle (1907–1996), credited with single-handedly inventing the turbojet engine.[33]
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- ^ "Blue plaque for lawn-mower inventor". BBC News. 23 April 2015. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
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- ^ Unknown (January 1912). "Obituary. Holt Samuel Hallett, Died 1911". Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 187 (1912): 324–325. doi:10.1680/imotp.1912.16843. ISSN 1753-7843.
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- ^ Hendrickson, Kenneth E. III (2014). "Paul, Lewis (D. 1759)". The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 710–711. ISBN 9780810888883.
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