Technics

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

Cyrille Duquet
Cyrille Duquet
Canada
Canadian watchmaker, jeweler, inventor and politician.
Albert Wood
Albert Wood
USA
American inventor and engineer
Paul Summit
Paul Summit
USA
American, inventor of the most annoying and effective alarm clock
Cynthia Breazeal
Cynthia Breazeal
USA
American roboticist, pioneer of social robotics and the study of interactions between humans and robots
Alan Kay
Alan Kay
USA
American computer scientist
Zoe Quinn
Zoe Quinn
USA
American video game developer, programmer, and writer
Clarence Birdseye
Clarence Birdseye
USA
American inventor, businessman and naturalist.
Elias Howe
Elias Howe
USA
American inventor
Cyrus Hall McCormick
Cyrus Hall McCormick
USA
American inventor
Geopge De Mestral
Geopge De Mestral
Switzerland
Swiss engineer, inventor of textile Velcro
Arnold Dumey
Arnold Dumey
One of the inventors of the mail sorting machine
Charles Jenkins
Charles Jenkins
USA
American inventor, one of the founders of cinema and television.
Anatoliy Farfurin
Anatoliy Farfurin
Russia
Russian metallurgical engineer
Mihail Simonov
Mihail Simonov
Russia
Hero of the Russian Federation, laureate of the Lenin and State Prizes, general designer of the Sukhoi Design Bureau
Umberto Nobile
Umberto Nobile
Italy
Italian airship builder, Arctic explorer, general
John Ericsson
John Ericsson
Sweden
Swedish-American inventor and mechanical engineer
Ravi Arimilli
Ravi Arimilli
USA
Indian-American computer scientist and inventor.
William Husband
William Husband
Great Britain
19th century British civil and mechanical engineer
Shigeo Shingo
Shigeo Shingo
Japan
Japanese industrial engineer
Giovanni Branca
Giovanni Branca
Italy
Italian inventor, architect
Mikhail Berezin
Mikhail Berezin
Soviet gunsmith, designer of aircraft weapons
Nikolay Sviridenko
Nikolay Sviridenko
Chief Engineer of the Great Fergana Canal Tajik SSR
Alec Issigonis
Alec Issigonis
Great Britain
Greco-British automobile designer, author of the design of the "Mini".
Wilhelm Kutter
Wilhelm Kutter
Switzerland
Swiss engineer
Philip Drinker
Philip Drinker
USA
Inventor of the artificial respiration apparatus
Tabitha Babbitt
Tabitha Babbitt
USA
American weaver, toolmaker and inventor
Nikolay Kuhto
Nikolay Kuhto
Ukraine
Soviet designer of gas turbine engines
Adolf Saks
Adolf Saks
Belgium
Belgian inventor of the saxophone
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
Germany
German engineer,
Joseph F. Engelberger
Joseph F. Engelberger
USA
American engineer, inventor
Howard G. Cunningham
Howard G. Cunningham
USA
American programmer, inventor of wiki technology
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
USA
American inventor and social activist
Robert Adler
Robert Adler
USA
Inventor of the TV remote control
Hellmuth Walter
Hellmuth Walter
Germany
German engine engineer
Ivan Vinnik
Ivan Vinnik
Ukraine
Shipbuilder, private in the armored forces
John Walter Christie
John Walter Christie
USA
American designer, engineer, inventor and racer
Felix Wankel
Felix Wankel
Germany
German engine designer
Viktor Kaplan
Viktor Kaplan
Austria
Austrian engineer, inventor of the Kaplan turbine
Oscar Barnak
Oscar Barnak
Germany
German metrology engineer.
Latimer Clark
Latimer Clark
Great Britain
English engineer
Wilhelm Kress
Wilhelm Kress
Austria
Austrian engineer, one of the first pilots and aircraft designers.
Paul-Louis-Toussaint Heroult
Paul-Louis-Toussaint Heroult
France
French chemical engineer
Gerald Stillit
Gerald Stillit
Great Britain
British inventor, publisher and polyglot
Hovannes Adamian
Hovannes Adamian
Armenian engineer and inventor
Martin Fowler
Martin Fowler
Great Britain
Software engineer, author of books on refactoring
Jurgis Dobkevicius
Jurgis Dobkevicius
Lithuanian aircraft designer, engineer
Charles Kaman
Charles Kaman
USA
American aircraft designer, inventor of the world's first synchroter
Mihail Strukov
Mihail Strukov
USA
Design engineer and co-owner of the American company 'Chase Aircraft' (transport aircraft for military aviation)
Masahiro Mori
Masahiro Mori
Japan
Japanese scientist and robotics engineer
Tanmay Bakshi
Tanmay Bakshi
Programmer, software developer, artificial intelligence expert and blogger