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]
Matthew Boulton (1728–1809), partner in the steam engineering manufacturing firm Boulton and Watt, and inventor of a steam-driven coin press^[9]
James Brindley (1716–1772), pioneering engineer of canals and aqueducts^[10]
Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), noted, among other achievements, for constructing the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the Great Western Railway^[11]
Henry Chilver (1926–2012), expanded Cranfield Institute of Technology by focusing on the practical application of knowledge^[12]
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.^[13]
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.^[14]
Nigel Gresley (1876–1941), chief engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway who invented the Gresley conjugated valve gear^[15]
Caroline Haslett (1895–1957), electrical engineer who oversaw important requirements for electrical installations in post-war Britain ^[16]
Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925), electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who developed the transmission line theory and vectorized Maxwell's equations, among many other things.^[17]
Christopher Hinton (1901–1983), chief engineer at ICI who worked on the first nuclear power plant, Calder Hall^[18]
Peggy Hodges (1921–2008), communications and systems engineer who worked on guided missile technology at GEC Marconi^[19]
Sue Ion (born 1955), expert advisor on the nuclear power industry^[20]
Andrew Meikle (1719–1811), inventor of an innovative mechanical threshing machine^[21]
Lewis Paul (died 1759), inventor of spinning and weaving machines^[22]
Dorothée Pullinger (1894–1986), pioneering automobile engineer and businesswoman ^[23]
Margaret Dorothea Rowbotham (1883–1978), engineer in the automobile, munitions and electrical sectors, and champion of women's employment in professional engineering^[24]
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.^[25]
Dorothy Spicer (1908–1946), English aviatrix and the first woman to gain an advanced qualification in aeronautical engineering ^[26]
Richard Trevithick (1771–1833), inventor of a high-powered steam engine^[27]

References

↑ Hayes, John G.; Goodarzi, G. Abas (2018). "Chapter 5. Conventional and hybrid powertrains". Electric Powertrain: Energy Systems, Power Electronics and Drives for Hybrid, Electric and Fuel Cell Vehicles. John Wiley & Sons. p. 132. ISBN 9781119063667.
↑ "Obituary. George Frederick Armstrong". The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute. LVIII (II): 387–388. 1900.
↑ Hall, p. 8.
↑ Ayrton, Hertha (21 October 1910). "The Origin and Growth of Ripple-Mark". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. 84 (571): 285–310. doi:10.1098/rspa.1910.0076. JSTOR 93297. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
↑ Chrimes, Mike (2002). "BAIRD, Charles". In Skempton, A. W.; Chrimes, M.M.; Cox, R.C.; Cross-Rudkin, P.S.M.; Rennison, R.W.; Ruddock, E.C. A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500-1830. Thomas Telford. pp. 30–31. ISBN 9780727729392.
↑ Stephen, Leslie (1885). "BARLOW, alias Booth, EDWARD". Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 219–220.
↑ Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1908). "Bell, John (1747-1798)". Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 2 (2nd ed.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 167.
↑ "Blue plaque for lawn-mower inventor". BBC News. 23 April 2015. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
↑ Thackeray, Frank W.; Findling, John E., eds. (2012). "Matthew Boulton (1728-1809)". Events That Formed the Modern World. ABC-CLIO. pp. 223–224. ISBN 9781598849011.
↑ Ben-Menahem, Ari (2009). Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 1364. ISBN 9783540688310.
↑ Parkes, Pamela (23 March 2018). "The engineering giant with 'short man syndrome'". BBC News. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
↑ McKeown, Pat (25 July 2012). "Lord Chilver obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
↑ Drummond, Cherry (1994). The Remarkable Life of Victoria Drummond – Marine Engineer. London: Institute of Marine Engineers. ISBN 0-907206-54-9.
↑ Hardwich, Isabel Helen (Autumn 1954). "Retirement of Miss Gertrude L Entwisle AMIEE". The Woman Engineer. 7 no, 14: 3–9 – via Institution of Engineering and Technology.
↑ Hall, p. 88.
↑ "Post-War Building Studies No. 11 Electrical Installations", HMSO, London 1944
↑ J., Nahin, Paul (2002). Oliver Heaviside : the life, work, and times of an electrical genius of the Victorian age (Johns Hopkins paperback ed.). Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801869099. OCLC 47915995.
↑ Hall, p. 101.
↑ "The Woman Engineer". www.theiet.org. Retrieved 2018-08-01.
↑ "Woman's Hour Power List, Woman's Hour - Dame Sue Ion". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
↑ Treasure, G. R. R. (2002). "Andrew Meikle". Who's who in Early Hanoverian Britain, 1714-1789. Stackpole Books. p. 249. ISBN 9780811716437.
↑ Hendrickson, Kenneth E., III (2014). "Paul, Lewis (D. 1759)". The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 710–711. ISBN 9780810888883.
↑ Clarsen, Georgine (2003-09-01). "'A fine university for women engineers': a Scottish munitions factory in world war I". Women's History Review. 12 (3): 333–356. doi:10.1080/09612020300200363. ISSN 0961-2025.
↑ Baker, Nina C. (2018-07-12). Rowbotham, Margaret Dorothea (1883–1978), engineer. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.110231.
↑ Price, Alfred. (1986). The Spitfire Story: Second edition. London: Arms and Armour Press Ltd. ISBN 0-85368-861-3.
↑ Fahie, Michael (2004-09-23). Spicer [married name Pearse], Dorothy Norman (1908–1946), aviator and aeronautical engineer. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67672.
↑ James, Ioan (2010). "Chapter 3: From Trevithick to Sadi Carnot". Remarkable Engineers: From Riquet to Shannon. Cambridge University Press. p. 33. ISBN 9781139486255.

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

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[1] Hayes, John G.; Goodarzi, G. Abas (2018). "Chapter 5. Conventional and hybrid powertrains". Electric Powertrain: Energy Systems, Power Electronics and Drives for Hybrid, Electric and Fuel Cell Vehicles. John Wiley & Sons. p. 132. ISBN 9781119063667.

[2] "Obituary. George Frederick Armstrong". The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute. LVIII (II): 387–388. 1900.

[FOOTNOTEHall8-3] Hall, p. 8.

[4] Ayrton, Hertha (21 October 1910). "The Origin and Growth of Ripple-Mark". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. 84 (571): 285–310. doi:10.1098/rspa.1910.0076. JSTOR 93297. Retrieved 28 April 2016.

[5] Chrimes, Mike (2002). "BAIRD, Charles". In Skempton, A. W.; Chrimes, M.M.; Cox, R.C.; Cross-Rudkin, P.S.M.; Rennison, R.W.; Ruddock, E.C. A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500-1830. Thomas Telford. pp. 30–31. ISBN 9780727729392.

[6] Stephen, Leslie (1885). "BARLOW, alias Booth, EDWARD". Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 219–220.

[7] Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1908). "Bell, John (1747-1798)". Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 2 (2nd ed.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 167.

[8] "Blue plaque for lawn-mower inventor". BBC News. 23 April 2015. Retrieved 2018-03-25.

[9] Thackeray, Frank W.; Findling, John E., eds. (2012). "Matthew Boulton (1728-1809)". Events That Formed the Modern World. ABC-CLIO. pp. 223–224. ISBN 9781598849011.

[10] Ben-Menahem, Ari (2009). Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 1364. ISBN 9783540688310.

[11] Parkes, Pamela (23 March 2018). "The engineering giant with 'short man syndrome'". BBC News. Retrieved 2018-03-25.

[12] McKeown, Pat (25 July 2012). "Lord Chilver obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-03-25.

[13] Drummond, Cherry (1994). The Remarkable Life of Victoria Drummond – Marine Engineer. London: Institute of Marine Engineers. ISBN 0-907206-54-9.

[14] Hardwich, Isabel Helen (Autumn 1954). "Retirement of Miss Gertrude L Entwisle AMIEE". The Woman Engineer. 7 no, 14: 3–9 – via Institution of Engineering and Technology.

[FOOTNOTEHall88-15] Hall, p. 88.

[16] "Post-War Building Studies No. 11 Electrical Installations", HMSO, London 1944

[17] J., Nahin, Paul (2002). Oliver Heaviside : the life, work, and times of an electrical genius of the Victorian age (Johns Hopkins paperback ed.). Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0801869099. OCLC 47915995.

[FOOTNOTEHall101-18] Hall, p. 101.

[19] "The Woman Engineer". www.theiet.org. Retrieved 2018-08-01.

[20] "Woman's Hour Power List, Woman's Hour - Dame Sue Ion". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 2018-03-25.

[21] Treasure, G. R. R. (2002). "Andrew Meikle". Who's who in Early Hanoverian Britain, 1714-1789. Stackpole Books. p. 249. ISBN 9780811716437.

[22] Hendrickson, Kenneth E., III (2014). "Paul, Lewis (D. 1759)". The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 710–711. ISBN 9780810888883.

[23] Clarsen, Georgine (2003-09-01). "'A fine university for women engineers': a Scottish munitions factory in world war I". Women's History Review. 12 (3): 333–356. doi:10.1080/09612020300200363. ISSN 0961-2025.

[24] Baker, Nina C. (2018-07-12). Rowbotham, Margaret Dorothea (1883–1978), engineer. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.110231.

[25] Price, Alfred. (1986). The Spitfire Story: Second edition. London: Arms and Armour Press Ltd. ISBN 0-85368-861-3.

[26] Fahie, Michael (2004-09-23). Spicer [married name Pearse], Dorothy Norman (1908–1946), aviator and aeronautical engineer. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67672.

[27] James, Ioan (2010). "Chapter 3: From Trevithick to Sadi Carnot". Remarkable Engineers: From Riquet to Shannon. Cambridge University Press. p. 33. ISBN 9781139486255.