Friday Five: Engineers

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Apparently engineers are the salt of the earth - so says Him Outdoors. So this post is actually his. I asked him to name the greatest engineers that sprang to his mind and these are the results.

5 Great Engineers:

1. Isambard Kingdom Brunel - dockyards; railways; steamships; bridges; tunnels... need we go on?
2. Robert Stephenson - him of Rocket fame; the father of the railways and bridge-builder extraordinaire.
3. James Watt - according to Him Outdoors, Watt's improvements to the Newcomen Steam Engine were fundamental to the Industrial Revolution.
4. J. Robert Oppenheimer - for better or worse, his work on the Manhattan Project changed our lives in unforeseeable ways.
5. Charles Babbage - credited with inventing the first mechanical computer, he revolutionised modern technology.