• Question: Who are your Favourite Engineers.

    Asked by 123456789 to Jamie, Kristen, Sheun, Simon, Will on 24 Jun 2015.
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      William Scott-Jackson answered on 24 Jun 2015:

      John Bardeen, William Shockley and Walter Brattain. These three men invented the transistor together. Although not strictly engineers, they completely changed the face of electronics and as a result the world. The technology we are using to communicate with one another this week among countless other inventions would not exist without their efforts.

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      Jamie Johnston answered on 24 Jun 2015:

      I was always quite fond of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, he wasn’t quite as brilliant as a lot of people believe and many of his ideas were trashed but he did a lot of interesting work.

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      Simon Marchant answered on 24 Jun 2015:

      I’ve just been looking up some engineers so here is a list of some cool ones I found:-
      – James Dyson, British engineer (although he studied art but whatever, everyone says he’s an engineer) and inventor.

      – Joel Gibbard, a guy who 3D prints cheap prosthetic hands (I only discovered him while researching this).

      – Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone.

      – Alan Turing, father of artificial intelligence (technically he was a mathematician by training but the film about him is good).

      – Bill Nye, the science guy.

      – Elon Musk, crazy rich entrepreneur and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla cars (both of which are awesome).

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