List of British engineers

Isambard Kingdom Brunel whose works included the Great Western Railway and the Great Eastern

This is a historical list of British engineers.

List

• James Atkinson (1846–1914), inventor of the Atkinson cycle internal combustion engine[1]
• George Frederick Armstrong (1842–1900), sanitation engineer and academic[2]
• William Armstrong (1810–1900), inventor of the hydraulic accumulator and breech-loading, rifled artillery[3]
• Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923), pioneered the science of electric arcs and ripples in sand and water.[4]
• Charles Baird (1766–1843), managed a company which built steam-powered machinery in Saint Petersburg, including Russia's first steam boat[5]
• Edward Barlow (1639–1719), inventor of the repeating clock[6]
• John Bell (1747–1798), inventor of various military and nautical devices, including a gyn and a petard[7]
• Edwin Beard Budding (1796–1846), inventor of the lawnmower[8]
• Jenny Body, aerospace engineer and former president of the Royal Aeronautical Society[9]
• Matthew Boulton (1728–1809), partner in the steam engineering manufacturing firm Boulton and Watt, and inventor of a steam-driven coin press[10]
• James Brindley (1716–1772), pioneering engineer of canals and aqueducts[11]
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), noted, among other achievements, for constructing the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the Great Western Railway[12]
• Henry Chilver (1926–2012), expanded Cranfield Institute of Technology by focusing on the practical application of knowledge[13]
• 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.[14]
• 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.[15]
• Nigel Gresley (1876–1941), chief engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway who invented the Gresley conjugated valve gear[16]
• Caroline Haslett (1895–1957), electrical engineer who oversaw important requirements for electrical installations in post-war Britain [17]
• Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925), electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who developed the transmission line theory and vectorized Maxwell's equations, among many other things.[18]
• Christopher Hinton (1901–1983), chief engineer at ICI who worked on the first nuclear power plant, Calder Hall[19]
• Peggy Hodges (1921–2008), communications and systems engineer who worked on guided missile technology at GEC Marconi[20]
• Sue Ion (born 1955), expert advisor on the nuclear power industry[21]
• Andrew Meikle (1719–1811), inventor of an innovative mechanical threshing machine[22]
• 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[23]
• Dorothée Pullinger (1894–1986), pioneering automobile engineer and businesswoman [24]
• Margaret Dorothea Rowbotham (1883–1978), engineer in the automobile, munitions and electrical sectors, and champion of women's employment in professional engineering[25]
• 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.[26]
• Dorothy Spicer (1908–1946), aviatrix and the first woman to gain an advanced qualification in aeronautical engineering [27]
• Richard Trevithick (1771–1833), inventor of a high-powered steam engine[28]
• Frank Whittle (1907-1996) Credited with single-handedly inventing the turbojet engine. [29]

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