• Question: What engineer has the most impact in your everyday life?

    Asked by 707hspc24 to Jamie, Kristen, Sheun, Simon, Will on 16 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: William Scott-Jackson

      William Scott-Jackson answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      That’s an excellent question and no an easy one to answer. I suppose the most obvious are the three co-inventors of the transistor; without whom modern electronics would not have evolved at the blindingly fast rate we have observed.
      I also own thanks to the likes of scientists such as Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage who pioneered computing and programming long before it was implemented.
      And I think an honourable mentioned should go to Marie Curie (even if she isn’t an engineer) for work in discovering radioactivity. The form of medical imaging I’m involved in wouldn’t even exist without her work.

    • Photo: Sheun Oshinbolu

      Sheun Oshinbolu answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      I’m not too sure about a specific person but I think all engineers impact my everyday life. Somethings are just so subtle that people don’t realise it. From inventing a table, a bridge, the internet, vaccines, cancer discoveries; all these things are vital to me everyday being and without it life would be much different and difficult.

    • Photo: Simon Marchant

      Simon Marchant answered on 16 Jun 2015:

      To add to William’s excellent mentions of historical engineers, Alan Turing was a British engineer who did a lot for making computers better (he was also an absolute boss, the film The Imitation Game was out recently and was about him), and Tim Berners-Lee is seen by most people as inventing the internet!! Which is just insane, imagine everything that wouldn’t happen without the internet…

    • Photo: Jamie Johnston

      Jamie Johnston answered on 23 Jun 2015:

      There are so many technological things I reply on day to day from so many different people! I guess I could say my project manager has the biggest impact, but don’t let him know I said that! 😉

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