List of mechanical engineers

This is a list of mechanical engineers, notable people who were trained in or practiced mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, etc. This is not a list of engineers practicing that profession.

See also List of engineers for links to other engineering professions.

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B

* Joseph Cyril Bamford - Founder of the JCB company, manufacturing heavy plant, and especially backhoes
* Keith Black - American high performance automobile engineer.

C

* André Citroën - automobile

D

* Rudolf Diesel - inventor of the diesel engine
* Keith Duckworth - designer of the Cosworth DFV

E

* John Ericsson - Inventor of Ship Propeller [http://www.invent.org/hall_of_fame/54.html]

F

* Henry Ford - automobile
* Yuan-Cheng Fung - biomechanics

G

* Emile Gagnan - underwater apparatus
* Henry Laurence Gantt - Gantt chart
* John Josiah Guest - iron production

H

* James Harrison - pioneer in the field of mechanical refrigeration
* Beulah Louise Henry - nicknamed lady Edison
* Hero of Alexandria - ancient
* Alfred Hitchcock - filmmaker
* August Horch - automobile

I

K

* Alan Kulwicki - 1992 NASCAR Champion

L

* Frederick Lanchester - automobile and aviation
* Leonardo Da Vinci

M

* Ma Jun - 3rd century China, invented the South Pointing Chariot, mechanical puppet theaters, chain pumps, improved silk looms, etc.
* Elijah McCoy
* Andrew Meikle - threshing machine and windmill sails
* James Morgan - Applied Materials CEO
* Thomas Midgley, Jr. - He developed tetra-ethyl lead (TEL) and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

N

* Bill Nye - (The Science Guy)

P

* Charles Algernon Parsons - steam turbine inventor
* Ferdinand Porsche - automobile and German tank designs

R

* William John Macquorn Rankine - fatigue and one of the founders of the science of thermodynamics, particularly in reference to steam engine theory.
* Richard Roberts - machine tool and machinery maker.
* Alfred H. Rzeppa - constant-velocity joint
* Osbourne Reynolds - prominent innovator in the understanding of fluid dynamics

S

* Igor Sikorsky - Inventor of the single-rotor Helicopter
* George Stephenson - Railway Engineer and Founder of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
* Robert Stephenson - Railway Engineer
* Su Song - 11th century China, first to use an escapement mechanism (see Yi Xing below) and chain drive to operate his astronomical clock tower
* John H. Sununu - Presidential Chief of Staff
* Dr. Victor Szebehely- Aerospace Engineering & Celestial Mechanics

T

* Dr. Andy Thomas - Australian Astronaut
* Nikola Tesla - Serbian Physician, Mathematist, Engineer

U

V

* Boris Vian - writer

W

* James Watt - Scottish inventor of the Watt steam engine that fundamentally changed the Industrial Revolution and considered by many in the discipline as the father of mechanical engineering.
* Samuel T. Wellman - various inventions used in the steel industry
* Eli Whitney - cotton gin, interchangeable parts
* Joseph Whitworth - mechanical
* Ludwig Wittgenstein - aerospace engineer turned philosopher
* Nathaniel C. Wyeth - inventor, chemical engineer
* Felix Wankel - Inventor of the Wankel Rotary Engine

X

Y

Yi Xing - 8th century China, first to use an escapement mechanism in operating a water-powered armillary sphere

Z

Zhang Heng - 1st century-2nd century China, invented the first hydraulic-powered armillary sphere, and the first seismometer device to detect the direction of earthquakes

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