Technics
Notable figures in Technics: explore engineering careers, important inventions, technologies and advances that shaped their field.

Cyrille Duquet
Canada
CanadaCanadian watchmaker, jeweler, inventor and politician.

Albert Wood
USA
USAAmerican inventor and engineer

Paul Summit
USA
USAAmerican, inventor of the most annoying and effective alarm clock

Cynthia Breazeal
USA
USAAmerican roboticist, pioneer of social robotics and the study of interactions between humans and robots

Alan Kay
USA
USAAmerican computer scientist

Zoe Quinn
USA
USAAmerican video game developer, programmer, and writer

Clarence Birdseye
USA
USAAmerican inventor, businessman and naturalist.

Elias Howe
USA
USAAmerican inventor

Cyrus Hall McCormick
USA
USAAmerican inventor

Geopge De Mestral
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss engineer, inventor of textile Velcro

Arnold Dumey
One of the inventors of the mail sorting machine

Charles Jenkins
USA
USAAmerican inventor, one of the founders of cinema and television.

Anatoliy Farfurin
Russia
RussiaRussian metallurgical engineer

Mihail Simonov
Russia
RussiaHero of the Russian Federation, laureate of the Lenin and State Prizes, general designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau

Umberto Nobile
Italy
ItalyItalian airship builder, Arctic explorer, general

John Ericsson
Sweden
SwedenSwedish-American inventor and mechanical engineer

Ravi Arimilli
USA
USAIndian-American computer scientist and inventor.

William Husband
Great Britain
Great Britain19th century British civil and mechanical engineer

Shigeo Shingo
Japan
JapanJapanese industrial engineer

Giovanni Branca
Italy
ItalyItalian inventor, architect

Mikhail Berezin
Soviet gunsmith, designer of aircraft weapons

Nikolay Sviridenko
Chief Engineer of the Great Fergana Canal Tajik SSR

Alec Issigonis
Great Britain
Great BritainGreco-British automobile designer, author of the design of the "Mini".

Wilhelm Kutter
Switzerland
SwitzerlandSwiss engineer

Philip Drinker
USA
USAInventor of the artificial respiration apparatus

Tabitha Babbitt
USA
USAAmerican weaver, toolmaker and inventor

Nikolay Kuhto
Ukraine
UkraineSoviet designer of gas turbine engines

Adolf Saks
Belgium
BelgiumBelgian inventor of the saxophone

Gottlieb Daimler
Germany
GermanyGerman engineer,

Joseph F. Engelberger
USA
USAAmerican engineer, inventor

Howard G. Cunningham
USA
USAAmerican programmer, inventor of wiki technology

Harriet Williams Russell Strong
USA
USAAmerican inventor and social activist

Robert Adler
USA
USAInventor of the TV remote control

Hellmuth Walter
Germany
GermanyGerman engine engineer

Ivan Vinnik
Ukraine
UkraineShipbuilder, private in the armored forces

John Walter Christie
USA
USAAmerican designer, engineer, inventor and racer

Felix Wankel
Germany
GermanyGerman engine designer

Viktor Kaplan
Austria
AustriaAustrian engineer, inventor of the Kaplan turbine

Oscar Barnak
Germany
GermanyGerman metrology engineer.

Latimer Clark
Great Britain
Great BritainEnglish engineer

Wilhelm Kress
Austria
AustriaAustrian engineer, one of the first pilots and aircraft designers.

Paul-Louis-Toussaint Heroult
France
FranceFrench chemical engineer

Gerald Stillit
Great Britain
Great BritainBritish inventor, publisher and polyglot

Hovannes Adamian
Armenian engineer and inventor

Martin Fowler
Great Britain
Great BritainSoftware engineer, author of books on refactoring

Jurgis Dobkevicius
Lithuanian aircraft designer, engineer

Charles Kaman
USA
USAAmerican aircraft designer, inventor of the world's first synchroter

Mihail Strukov
USA
USADesign engineer and co-owner of the American company 'Chase Aircraft' (transport aircraft for military aviation)

Masahiro Mori
Japan
JapanJapanese scientist and robotics engineer

Tanmay Bakshi
Programmer, software developer, artificial intelligence expert and blogger