1. And how they have influenced our lives Mr. Mitchell August 2015
Historical Engineers
And how they have influenced our lives
Mr. Mitchell
August 2015
Engineering Your Future Great Lakes Press

2. Thomas Edison
“If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
Great vision
Many technological contributions
Over 1,000 patents in his lifetime

3. Edison’s Inventions
“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
and the Lightbulb
Electricity
Motion Pictures
Phonograph

4. Leonardo da Vinci
Able to envision mechanized innovations that would one day be used
Helicopters, tanks, artillery
Made observations of the world around him

5. da Vinci’s Inventions
Tank
Aerial Screw
Catapult

6. Isambard Kingdom Brunel 1806-1859
Designed & built wide range of projects, including railways, bridges, & ships
Used logic & analysis to reshape the mechanical & structural engineering of his time
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7. Charles Proteus Steinmetz 1865-1923
“No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.”
Pioneer in the field of electrical engineering
Alternating currents
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8. Henry Ford 1863-1947 Learned everything he could about engines
Designed his first vehicle, the Quadricycle
Founded Ford Motor Company
Introduced “everyman’s car” or Model T
Creator of the Assembly Line

9. Dr. Robert Goddard
Invented the process used for liquid fueled rockets
His designs were basis for those that launch astronauts into space, deliver warheads to distant countries, & carry communication satellites into orbit

10. Wilbur & Orville Wright
Designed first powered flying model
Experiments leading to this piloted flight & practices they employed were responsible for their success
Orville
Wilber

11. Wilbur & Orville Wright
Multiple attempts to achieve sustained flight.
No engineering degree
Video: Inventing Flight
Dec 17th, 1903
Kill Devil Hills, near
Kitty Hawk, NC
The Wright’s Engineer Journal
Shows diagram, data, and first circle flight on Sep 20th, 1904

12. Grace Murray Hopper
A computer engineering & Rear Admiral in US Navy developed first computer compiler & computer language COBOL
Popularized term “bug” after discovering that a moth had jammed the workings of an early computer
Rear Admiral Grace M. Hopper, USN, Ph.D.

13. Joseph B. Strauss 1870-1938 Construction of the Golden Gate bridge
At its opening, it held the world record for the longest span of 1,280 meters
The total length of the cables is long enough to circle the entire world 3 times!

14. Leo Szilard
Generated the first controlled nuclear chain reaction
Credited with building the first atomic bomb, but he advocated against its use
Made contributions to political science, nuclear physics, statistical mechanics, genetics, & molecular biology