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  2. List of fictional scientists and engineers - Wikipedia

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    Isaac Clarke – space engineer tasked with investigating the U.S.G. Ishimura, and later fighting the Necromorphs [7] [8] Otacon – designer of Metal Gear REX and ally of Solid Snake [9] Rory Swann (StarCraft II) – New Yorker and engineer who runs the mothership of Jim Raynor [10]

  3. Nikola Tesla - Wikipedia

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    Tesla's rebuilt birth house (parish hall) and the church where his father served in Smiljan, Croatia.The site was made into a museum to honor him. [7]Nikola Tesla was born into an ethnic Serb family in the village of Smiljan, within the Military Frontier, in the Austrian Empire (present-day Croatia), on 10 July 1856.

  4. Charles Proteus Steinmetz - Wikipedia

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    As socialist meetings and press had been banned in Germany, Steinmetz fled to Zurich in 1889 to escape possible arrest. Cornell University Professor Ronald R. Kline, author of Steinmetz: Engineer and Socialist, [14] points to other factors which reinforced Steinmetz's decision to leave his homeland such as financial problems and the prospect of a more harmonious life with his socialist friends ...

  5. Lanny Smoot - Wikipedia

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    Lanny Smoot (born December 13, 1955 [1]) is an American electrical engineer, inventor, scientist, and theatrical technology creator.With over 100 patents, he is Disney's most prolific inventor [2] and one of the most prolific Black inventors in American history. [3]

  6. List of British engineers - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Elijah McCoy - Wikipedia

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    Elijah J. McCoy (May 2, 1844 [A] – October 10, 1929) was a Canadian-American engineer of African-American descent who invented lubrication systems for steam engines. Born free on the Ontario shore of Lake Erie to parents who fled enslavement in Kentucky , he traveled to the United States as a young child when his family returned in 1847 ...

  8. George Stephenson - Wikipedia

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    George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was an English civil engineer and mechanical engineer during the Industrial Revolution. [1] Renowned as the "Father of Railways", [2] Stephenson was considered by the Victorians as a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement.

  9. Edith Clarke - Wikipedia

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    Edith Clarke (February 10, 1883 – October 29, 1959) was the first woman to be professionally employed as an electrical engineer in the United States [1] and the first female professor of electrical engineering in the country. [2]