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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
Automotive engineering, along with aerospace engineering and naval architecture, is a branch of vehicle engineering, incorporating elements of mechanical, electrical, electronic, software, and safety engineering as applied to the design, manufacture and operation of motorcycles, automobiles, and trucks and their respective engineering subsystems.
George Cayley (1773–1857) – aerodynamics pioneer and founding member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science; Colin Chapman (1928–1982) – automotive engineer, founder of Lotus Cars; André Citroën (1878–1935) – founder of Citroën automotive, known for application of double-helical gears
At Antioch College, the 1929 Science Building he donated [33] was not named after him (it is now the Arts and Science Building), [34] but the school's 33.000-square-foot Charles F. Kettering Building was (the same being originally a research facility, now home to campus radio station WYSO), [35] while the college's Olive Kettering Library was ...
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The engine evolved as engineers created two-and four-cycle combustion engines and began using gasoline. The first modern car—a practical, marketable automobile for everyday use—and the first car in series production appeared in 1886, when Carl Benz developed a gasoline-powered automobile and made several identical copies.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to ... Biographies of people who made significant contributions to the automotive industry. ... Automotive engineers (3 C, 22 P) J. ...
A financial history of the American automobile industry; a study of the ways in which the leading American producers of automobiles have met their capital requirements (1928; reprinted 1973) online; Smitka, Michael. "Foreign policy and the US automotive industry: by virtue of necessity?." Business and Economic History 28.2 (1999): 277–285 online