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Disciplines in Engineering & Technology
Builders of machines, structures, networks and the food systems that feed us.
Era
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Benjamin Franklin
1706 – 1790Electricity, bifocals, and the American public sphere.
United States·Physics · Literature · Engineering
Thomas Edison
1847 – 19311,093 patents and the industrial research laboratory itself.
United States·Engineering
Frederick Winslow Taylor
1856 – 1915Scientific management — the origin of every productivity metric and its discontents.
United States·Business · Engineering
Henry Ford
1863 – 1947The moving assembly line and the five-dollar day created mass consumer industry.
United States·Business · Engineering
Alberto Santos-Dumont
1873 – 1932Flew the first publicly witnessed powered aircraft in Europe.
Brazil·Engineering