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Disciplines in Engineering & Technology
Builders of machines, structures, networks and the food systems that feed us.
Era
10 figures
Johannes Gutenberg
1400 – 1468Industrialised the word and detonated the modern world.
Leonardo da Vinci
1452 – 1519Proved that art and science are one act of looking.
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.
Nikola Tesla
1856 – 1943Alternating current, induction motors and radio principles.
Guglielmo Marconi
1874 – 1937Made radio a transatlantic reality.
Konrad Zuse
1910 – 1995Built the first programmable digital computer, the Z3, in 1941.
Ernő Rubik
b. 1944His cube became a global object lesson in group theory.
Tim Berners-Lee
b. 1955Wrote the web and gave it away for nothing.