Comments on: Top 10 remarkable engineers of all time

By: Tesla coil

Tesla coil — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:11:53 +0000

This is a great compilation! thanks for putting this together. I know a few people who will get a kick out of this, and of course I like it because you mentioned one of my heroes, Mr. Nikola Tesla

By: admin

admin — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:41:09 +0000

Beth,
You will be glad to know that we made an entry for Dr. Wernher von Braun. Please let us know what you think.
Thank you.
Ken.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:39:55 +0000

Tomi,
You will be glad to note that we have posted a brief article on Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Please tell us what you think?
Ken.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:38:51 +0000

Would you be kind to share an article on an renowned Indian scientist. This site exist solely to provide that kind of information.
Email details to me at kenneth@engineeringdaily.net
Thank you for using our website.
Cheers.

By: srams

srams — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 03:23:51 +0000

Everything is right here but how can you forgot contribution of indian scientist and engineers, They gave everything us which we want and world never forget their presence. The ancient india mathamatics guru were teacher and guider of all time great Mathamatician of Greek, Italy,France.so dont forget indians were pioneer in all sector.

jai hind

By: Nikola

Nikola — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 19:05:09 +0000

Yeah Tesla got ripped of by Edison and died poor in terrible conditions…how is that for an American Dream and doing business with American companies.

“You don’t understand our American humor.”

Edison…”let me show you this very funny invoice…where you get to match the number on the bottom with some green papers and pictures of dead presidents”
~Nikola

By: admin

admin — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 02:55:30 +0000

The guy is clearly impressive but he was not an engineer unfortunately.
Thanks you for the suggestion though.

By: ken-ken

ken-ken — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:00:58 +0000

Thank you for pointing that out. Quite frankly I was not familiar with this obviously remarkable engineer.
Our research was based on names submitted by some of our audience. Now that we have Isambard’s name added we will include him in future lists.
Thank you for using our site.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:43:35 +0000

I agree with Tomi on the point about inventors. Alan Turing? Great man, but he wasn’t an engineer.

Even stating ‘engineers’ seems a bit generic. There are many facets of engineering and each has their own champions.

By: Jorge Montaño

Jorge Montaño — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:09:20 +0000

I like the list very much, I understand that there are more capable engineers and inventors in the last time, but the list is about the top ten engineers of all time, without them the world wouldn’t be as we know right now.

Thanks for the list.

By: Mark Cooper

Mark Cooper — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:48:31 +0000

what about Josia Wedgewood and his pottery…. if it wasn’t for him there would be no breaks over a cup of tea or coffee when those light bulb moments happened!

By: Tomi Ahonen

Tomi Ahonen — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:43:45 +0000

Oh please… your list includes several inventors, not engineers, and of modest achievements. You said ‘engineers’ and you left out the greatest engineer of all time – Isambard Kingdom Brunel – first to take man where life is not possible – built tunnel under water – first to build steam ship capable of cross the ocean under power ie ocean travel without nature’s wind – first to move man faster than nature – his trains achieved speeds of 60 miles per hour faster than Cheetah – he built longer bridge than anyone before him to the point his peers said such a bridge was impossible – he built the largest longest and most expensive construction up to that point in time, the Great Western Railway – then went onto build the largest man-made object ever, the ship Great Eastern that stood as the pinnacle for 50 years until larger ships like Titanic were finally made. Only engineer to master all areas of engineering, he went beyond the greatest constructions in every category of engineering that existed in the era of steam and iron, no engineer before or since has set records in every category of engineering – and his greatest achievement – his last ship was able to travel under power more than 10 times as far as anything had ever travelled before, literally to other side of planet under its own power – the 19th century equivalent to modern man going to the moon. Where is Isambard Kingdom Brunel on your list, the greatest engineer of all time. His ships achieved twice the top speed of previous ships. His trains achieved twice the speed of fastest trains before him. Thats like the same goy creating the Concorde and the bullet train in our times… IK Brunel, needs to be on your list. I’d say number 1.

Thanks… Tomi Ahonen

By: beth beck

beth beck — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:30:20 +0000

What about Dr. Wernher von Braun? Rocket physicist, astronautics engineer, and space architect — visionary of today’s space program.

http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun/bio.html