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Disciplines in Engineering & Technology
Builders of machines, structures, networks and the food systems that feed us.
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Johannes Gutenberg
1400 – 1468Industrialised the word and detonated the modern world.
Germany·EngineeringFull profile
Nikolaus Otto
1832 – 1891The four-stroke engine that moved the 20th century.
Germany·Engineering
Karl Benz
1844 – 1929Built and patented the first practical automobile.
Germany·Engineering
Konrad Zuse
1910 – 1995Built the first programmable digital computer, the Z3, in 1941.
Germany·Computing · Engineering