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      This is a historical list of British engineers.


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      John Allen (born 1928), engineer and plasma physicist
      James Atkinson (1846–1914), inventor of the Atkinson cycle internal combustion engine
      George Frederick Armstrong (1842–1900), sanitation engineer and academic
      William Armstrong (1810–1900), inventor of the hydraulic accumulator and breech-loading, rifled artillery
      Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923), pioneered the science of electric arcs and ripples in sand and water.
      Charles Baird (1766–1843), managed a company which built steam-powered machinery in Saint Petersburg, including Russia's first steamboat
      Edward Barlow (1639–1719), inventor of the repeating clock
      John Bell (1747–1798), inventor of various military and nautical devices, including a gyn and a petard
      Edwin Beard Budding (1796–1846), inventor of the lawnmower
      Jenny Body, aerospace engineer and former president of the Royal Aeronautical Society
      Matthew Boulton (1728–1809), partner in the steam engineering manufacturing firm Boulton and Watt, and inventor of a steam-driven coin press
      James Brindley (1716–1772), pioneering engineer of canals and aqueducts
      Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), noted, among other achievements, for constructing the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the Great Western Railway
      Henry Chilver (1926–2012), expanded Cranfield Institute of Technology by focusing on the practical application of knowledge
      Victoria Drummond (1894–1978), marine engineer who served at sea as an engineering officer in the British Merchant Navy and received awards for bravery under enemy fire.
      Gertrude Lilian Entwisle (1892–1961), electrical engineer known for her work on designing DC motors and exciters and one of the founding members of the Women's Engineering Society.
      Nigel Gresley (1876–1941), chief engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway who invented the Gresley conjugated valve gear
      Holt Samuel Hallett (1841 – 11 November 1911), pioneer railway engineer in Burma
      Caroline Haslett (1895–1957), electrical engineer who oversaw important requirements for electrical installations in post-war Britain
      Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925), electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who developed the transmission line theory and vectorized Maxwell's equations, among many other things.
      Christopher Hinton (1901–1983), chief engineer at ICI who worked on the first nuclear power plant, Calder Hall
      Peggy Hodges (1921–2008), communications and systems engineer who worked on guided missile technology at GEC Marconi
      Sue Ion (born 1955), expert advisor on the nuclear power industry
      Andrew Meikle (1719–1811), inventor of an innovative mechanical threshing machine

      Rachel Mary Parsons (1885–1956), engineer and advocate for women's employment rights, was the founding president of the Women's Engineering Society in Britain.
      Lewis Paul (died 1759), inventor of spinning and weaving machines
      Dorothée Pullinger (1894–1986), pioneering automobile engineer and businesswoman
      Harry Ricardo (1885–1974), researcher and developer of early internal combustion engines
      Margaret Dorothea Rowbotham (1883–1978), engineer in the automobile, munitions and electrical sectors, and champion of women's employment in professional engineering
      Dorothy Rowntree, first woman graduate in engineering from the University of Glasgow and the first woman graduate in naval architecture in UK
      Evelyn Roxburgh (1896–1973), first woman to gain a diploma in electrical engineering in Scotland.
      Beatrice Shilling (1909–1990), inventor of the "Miss Shilling's orifice", a critical component that prevented engine stall in the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines of the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire fighters.
      Dorothy Spicer (1908–1946), aviator and the first woman to gain an advanced qualification in aeronautical engineering
      Richard Trevithick (1771–1833), inventor of a high-powered steam engine
      Claude Hamilton Verity (1880–1949), inventor of the Veritiphone, one of the earliest methods of synchronisation of sound and film.
      Frank Whittle (1907–1996), credited with single-handedly inventing the turbojet engine.


      References



      Hall, Carl (2008), A Biographical Dictionary of People in Engineering, vol. 1, Purdue University Press, ISBN 9781557534590

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