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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
Eminent Indian chemical engineering scientist and first Indian engineer to be elected as a Fellow of Royal Society, UK: Former director of Institute of Chemical Technology: Waldo L. Semon (1898–1999) Inventor who patented more than 116 inventions, including polyvinyl chloride (PVC) BF Goodrich: L. Douglas Smoot (born 1934)
R.K. Pachauri – Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Director, Tata Energy Research Institute; Oscar E. Perrigo – American mechanical engineer, inventor, and early technical and management author; Guy Primus – COO of Overbrook Entertainment (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Adam Steltzner (born 1963) – JPL engineer for Mars rovers' entry, descent, and landing; Alan Stern (born 1957) – engineer and planetary scientist, principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto; Homer Joseph Stewart (1915–2007) – helped develop Explorer 1, Pioneer 4, and several rockets
Mechanical engineering is a discipline centered around the concept of using force multipliers, moving components, and machines. It utilizes knowledge of mathematics, physics, materials sciences, and engineering technologies. It is one of the oldest and broadest of the engineering disciplines.
German engineer Konrad Zuse developed the first programmable computer in Berlin 1944: Scottish Engineer John Logie Baird developed the first color picture tube: 1945: Transatlantic telephone cable: 1947: American engineers John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain together with their group leader William Shockley invented the transistor. 1948
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
Carl Bosch (German pronunciation: [kaʁl ˈbɔʃ] ⓘ; 27 August 1874 – 26 April 1940) was a German chemist and engineer and Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. [2] He was a pioneer in the field of high-pressure industrial chemistry and founder of IG Farben, at one point the world's largest chemical company.