Charles Babbage Forget your Steve Jobs and your Sergey Brins, without Charles Babbage their creations may never have become possible. Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer that eventually led to more complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found in Babbage's analytical engine. | |
| Alexander Graham Bell The man who gave us the first practical telephone and founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, better known as AT&T. His work was profoundly influenced by his deaf mother and deaf wife leading to his research on hearing and speech. Almost ironically, Bell considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study. |
| Gustave Eiffel If the name doesn’t ring a bell, you might need to travel a bit more. Alexandre Gustave Bell was a civil engineer and architect. His most famous creation being the Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris and still standing to this day. Eiffel also contributed to the building of the Statue of Liberty in New York as well as numerous bridges for the French railway network. |
| Orville & Wilbur Wright Two brothers from America who are credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane. Whilst the topic of flight had been covered and attempted in the past, the wright brothers actually managed to make the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft on Dec 17, 1903. |
| Nikola Tesla One of the original ‘Mad Scientists’, shrouded in mystery and the source of many tales, Tesla is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern Alternating Current (AC) electrical supply system. His experiments also delved into early X-ray imaging, a wireless-controlled boat as well as wireless communications. Arguably one of his most iconic, and legendary legacies will always be the Tesla Coil which allows the wireless transfer of electricity in the most beautiful and mesmerising way…. Like lightning through the air. |
| Henry Ford Whilst Ford did not invent the automobile, nor the assembly line, he managed to manufacture the first affordable vehicle available to the masses. He helped develop the assembly line technique of mass production and is credited with ‘Fordism’: mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers. |
And there you have it, 6 inspirational men and 6 inspirational women to get your imaginations and inspiration fired up. If your interested in furthering your career in the engineering or manufacturing industries then please get in touch.
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