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Disciplines in Engineering & Technology
Builders of machines, structures, networks and the food systems that feed us.
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Nikolaus Otto
1832 – 1891The four-stroke engine that moved the 20th century.
Alfred Nobel
1833 – 1896Invented dynamite, then endowed the prizes to redeem the legacy.
Karl Benz
1844 – 1929Built and patented the first practical automobile.
Thomas Edison
1847 – 19311,093 patents and the industrial research laboratory itself.
Nikola Tesla
1856 – 1943Alternating current, induction motors and radio principles.
Frederick Winslow Taylor
1856 – 1915Scientific management — the origin of every productivity metric and its discontents.
Henry Ford
1863 – 1947The moving assembly line and the five-dollar day created mass consumer industry.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
1873 – 1932Flew the first publicly witnessed powered aircraft in Europe.
Guglielmo Marconi
1874 – 1937Made radio a transatlantic reality.