List of mechanical engineers

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This is a list of mechanical engineers, notable people who were trained in or practiced mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, etc. This is not a list of engineers practicing that profession.

See also List of engineers for links to other engineering professions.

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[edit] B

• Joseph Cyril Bamford - Founder of the JCB company, manufacturing heavy plant, and especially backhoes

[edit] C

• Andrew Conru^[1] Founder of Adult FriendFinder , an entrepreneur with a doctorate in mechanical engineering design
• André Citroën - Automobile

[edit] D

• Rudolf Diesel - inventor of the Diesel engine
• Keith Duckworth - designer of the Cosworth DFV

[edit] E

• John Ericsson - Inventor of Ship Propeller[1]

[edit] F

• Henry Ford - automobiles
• Yuan-Cheng Fung - Biomechanics

[edit] G

• Emile Gagnan - underwater apparatus
• Henry Laurence Gantt - Gantt chart
• John Josiah Guest - iron production

[edit] H

• Beulah Louise Henry - nicknamed lady Edison
• Hero of Alexandria - ancient
• Alfred Hitchcock - filmmaker
• August Horch - automobiles

[edit] I

[edit] K

• Alan Kulwicki - 1992 NASCAR Champion
• Çağla Kubat - Turkish actress / model
• Anil Kumble - Indian cricketer

[edit] L

• Frederick Lanchester - automobiles and aviation
• Leonardo Da Vinci

[edit] M

• Ma Jun - 3rd century China, invented the South Pointing Chariot, mechanical puppet theaters, chain pumps, improved silk looms, etc.
• Elijah McCoy
• Andrew Meikle - threshing machine and windmill sails
• James Morgan - Applied Materials CEO
• Thomas Midgley, Jr. - He developed tetra-ethyl lead (TEL) and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

[edit] N

• Bill Nye - (The Science Guy)
• Nikola Tesla

[edit] P

• Charles Algernon Parsons - steam turbine inventor
• Ferdinand Porsche - automobile

[edit] R

• William John Macquorn Rankine - Steam engine, fatigue
• Richard Roberts - machine tool and machinery maker.
• Alfred H. Rzeppa - constant-velocity joint
• Osbourne Reynolds

[edit] S

• Igor Sikorsky - Inventor of the single-rotor Helicopter
• George Stephenson - Railway Engineer and Founder of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
• Robert Stephenson - Railway Engineer
• Su Song - 11th century China, first to use an escapement mechanism (see Yi Xing below) and chain drive to operate his astronomical clock tower
• John H. Sununu - Presidential Chief of Staff
• Dr. Victor Szebehely- Aerospace Engineering & Celestial Mechanics

[edit] T

• Dr. Andy Thomas - Australian Astronaut
• Nikola Tesla - Serbian Physician, Mathematist, Engineer

[edit] U

[edit] V

• Boris Vian - writer

[edit] W

• James Watt - Scottish inventor of the Watt steam engine that fundamentally changed the Industrial Revolution and considered by many in the discipline as the father of mechanical engineering.
• Samuel T. Wellman - various inventions used in the steel industry
• Eli Whitney - cotton gin, interchangeable parts
• Joseph Whitworth - mechanical
• Ludwig Wittgenstein - aerospace engineer turned philosopher
• Nathaniel C. Wyeth - inventor, chemical engineer

[edit] X

[edit] Y

Yi Xing - 8th century China, first to use an escapement mechanism in operating a water-powered armillary sphere

[edit] Z

Zhang Heng - 1st century-2nd century China, invented the first hydraulic-powered armillary sphere, and the first seismometer device to detect the direction of earthquakes

[edit] References