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American engineer Peter Cooper Hewitt invented the Fluorescent lamp. 1904: English engineer John Ambrose Fleming invented the diode. 1906: American inventor Lee de Forest invented the triode. 1908: Scottish engineer Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton, laid out the principles of television. 1909: Mica capacitor was invented by William Dubilier. 1911
Girls Coming to Tech!: A History of American Engineering Education for Women (MIT Press, 2014) Hill, Donald. A history of engineering in classical and medieval times (Routledge, 2013), on Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and Arabs; Landels, John G. Engineering in the Ancient World (University of California Press, 2000, rev. ed.) ISBN 978-0-520-22782-8
Professional Engineer; Royal Engineer; Lists of individual engineers by discipline include: List of aerospace engineers; List of canal engineers; List of chemical engineers; List of civil engineers; List of combat engineering corps; List of electrical engineers; List of environmental engineers; List of genetic engineers; List of industrial ...
Alicia Chong Rodriguez – American engineer and inventor; Ward Christensen (born 1945), U.S. – Bulletin board system; Ole Kirk Christiansen (1891–1958), Denmark – Creator of Lego; Samuel Hunter Christie (1784–1865), UK – Wheatstone bridge; Juan de la Cierva (1895–1936), Spain – the autogyro
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 ...
Rebecca Sparling, P.E. (1910–1996) – professional engineer licensed in mechanical engineering, innovations in high-temperature metallurgy and nondestructive test methods, including simpler liquid dye penetrant inspection technique; Sir William Stanier (1876–1965) – Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway
Carl Georg Barth – Norwegian-American mathematician and mechanical engineer who improved and popularized the industrial use of compound slide rules; Leslie Benmark – known for work in engineering education, specifically accreditation; Karen Bursic – American professor and undergraduate program director at University of Pittsburgh
American engineer, physicist and inventor [120] Jerome F. Lederer: 1902–2004: 101: American engineer [121] Inge Lehmann: 1888–1993: 104: Danish seismologist [122] Emma Lehmer: 1906–2007: 100: Russian-American mathematician [123] Rita Levi-Montalcini: 1909–2012: 103: Italian neurologist, recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or ...