Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla

male, deceased (1943)
physicist, electrical engineering, tesla coil, scientist, electricity and magnetism, electricity…electrical engineer
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 - 7 January 1943) was an inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer and electrical engineer. Born in Smiljan, Croatia, he...
James Watt

James Watt

male, deceased (1819)
Member of the Lunar Society, steam power, University and college namesakes, from Inverclyde, steam engine, Alumni of the University of Glasgow…mechanicalengineer, engineer
James Watt (19 January 1736 - 19 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor and engineer whose improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the...
Bill Nye

Bill Nye

male, 53 years old
scientist, science guy, From Seattle, Television program, skeptic, American…mechanicalengineer
William Sanford Nye (b. November 27, 1955), also known as "Bill Nye the Science Guy," is an American television program host, scientist, and...

William Howard

male, deceased (1834)
engineer, mechanicalengineer, American, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Cars, Locomotive designer/builder
William Howard (1793 - 1834) was an American mechanical engineer who was one of the first to work for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. When the...
Nigel Gresley

Nigel Gresley

male, deceased (1941)
engineer, LNER Class A1, British, Old Marlburian, mallard, steam locomotive…mechanicalengineer
Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley (19 June 1876 - 5 April 1941) was one of Britain's most famous steam locomotive engineers, who rose to become Chief...
George Stephenson

George Stephenson

male, deceased (1848)
civil engineer, standard gauge, rocket, English, Rail transport in Great Britain, From Northumberland…engineer, mechanicalengineer, mechanical engineering
George Stephenson was an English mechanical engineer who designed the famous and historically important steam locomotive named "Rocket" and is...
Al-Jazari

Al-Jazari

male
connecting rod, clock, mechanical, segment, reciprocating engine, cam…mechanical engineering, mechanicalengineer, engineer
Ibn Ismail Ibn al-Razzaz Al-Jazari I (1136-1206) was an important Arab Muslim scholar, inventor, and mechanical engineer during the Islamic Golden...
Robert Stephenson

Robert Stephenson

male, deceased (1859)
buried at Westminster Abbey, member of the United Kingdom Parliament, mechanicalengineer, Fellow of the Royal Society, inventor, railway…Bridge engineer, engineer, civil engineer
Robert Stephenson FRS (16 October 1803 - 12 October 1859) was an English civil engineer. He was the only son of George Stephenson, the famed...
William Stanier

William Stanier

male, deceased (1965)
mechanicalengineer, Fellow of the Royal Society, William Arthur Stanier, Locomotive designer/builder, London, Midland and Scottish Railway, From Swindon
Sir William Arthur Stanier F.R.S. (27 May 1876 - 27 September 1965) was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
Seth Lloyd

Seth Lloyd

male
Harvard College, rockefeller university, california institute of technology, los alamos national laboratory, cambridge university, quantum computer…mechanicalengineer, mechanical engineering
Seth Lloyd is a Professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. He refers to himself as a "quantum mechanic". Lloyd was born on August 2, 1960,...