A mural at the Edison Tech Center depicting the top 10 engineers of GE: Edison, Steinmetz, Sprague, Alexanderson, Coolidge, Whitney, Thomson, Steenstrup, Curtis, Langmuir

Engineering Hall of Fame

In the list below you will find some of the most influential and interesting engineers of the 19th and 20th century. We are profiling each with concise biographies, photos, and even videos.

While there are plenty of technical papers and watered-down biographies on the internet, we attempt to help the viewer understand the accomplishments and life of each pioneer through the engineering and educational perspective of our staff who often use a rich library of historical engineering books and magazines. Some information has been gathered from oral history on audio and video tapes. We use photos of the technology, and sometimes online videos and old films illuminate the fascinating individual and their effect on the progression of our technological world. This is a large undertaking and so not all pages are well developed, but every month new material is added. Some links below connect to wikipedia since we are still at work.

The emphasis in this Hall of Fame is on engineers and experimental scientists who invented patentable devices or who made discoveries that led to their development. Our list includes Mechanical, Chemical, and Electrical Engineers. Many of them worked for Westinghouse, General Electric, Western Electric and AT&T.

For a similar Hall of Fame, but one which focuses on electrical engineering in general and microwave development in particular, see the microwaves101 website. See scientists for biographies of those for whom physical units are named.

For a condensed list of our Unsung Heroes of Engineering, click here

 

Albert W. Hull

Sanford Moss

Eliphalet Nott 

Charles Proteus Steinmetz

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