Engineering
Engineering is discovery made load-bearing. Steam, structural steel, alternating current and rocketry all appear here, along with the safety cultures and failures that followed them.
23 indexed lives · 1 Nobel laureates · 13 countries
Where to start
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
Nobel recognition in Engineering
- Guglielmo Marconi
Nobel Prize in Physics, 1909