Engineering & Technology
Builders of machines, structures, networks and the food systems that feed us.
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- Indexed lives
- 24
- Nobel laureates
- 1
- Countries
- 14
- Earliest birth
- 2650 BCE
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Laureates and fully researched profiles first, in order of birth.
Guglielmo Marconi
1874 – 1937Made radio a transatlantic reality.
Italy·Engineering · PhysicsNobel
Johannes Gutenberg
1400 – 1468Industrialised the word and detonated the modern world.
Germany·EngineeringFull profile
Leonardo da Vinci
1452 – 1519Proved that art and science are one act of looking.
Italy·Engineering · Biology · Astronomy · LiteratureFull profile
Tim Berners-Lee
b. 1955Wrote the web and gave it away for nothing.
United Kingdom·Computing · EngineeringFull profile
Imhotep
2650 BCE – 2600 BCEArchitect of the first pyramid and the earliest named physician in history.
Egypt·Medicine · Engineering
Cai Lun
50 – 121Standardised papermaking, the substrate of recorded civilisation.
China·Engineering
Disciplines in this category
Every figure in Engineering & Technology
- Imhotep · Egypt
- Cai Lun · China
- Zhang Heng · China
- Su Song · China
- Shen Kuo · China
- Sejong the Great · South Korea
- Johannes Gutenberg · Germany
- Leonardo da Vinci · Italy
- Mimar Sinan · Türkiye
- Benjamin Franklin · United States
- Nikolaus Otto · Germany
- Alfred Nobel · Sweden
- Karl Benz · Germany
- Thomas Edison · United States
- Nikola Tesla · Serbia
- Frederick Winslow Taylor · United States
- Henry Ford · United States
- Alberto Santos-Dumont · Brazil
- Guglielmo Marconi · Italy
- Konrad Zuse · Germany
- Taiichi Ohno · Japan
- Ernő Rubik · Hungary
- Vandana Shiva · India
- Tim Berners-Lee · United Kingdom