10 remarkable engineers

Remarkable engineers

10

Alan Turing

NEEDS TO BE DONE

We Can Only See a Short Distance Ahead,

But We Can See Plenty There That

Developed The Binary Theory

Nikolaus Otto

BUILT THE FIRST INTERNAL

COMBUSTION ENGINE

Otto’s work was the beginning of engine

development for the automotive age.

Inventor of The First Internal-Combustion Engine

Nikola Tesla

ONE CAN THINK DEEPLY

AND BE QUITE INSANE

The scientists of today think deeply instead of

clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but

Developed the alternating-current

electrical system

Archimedes

Give me a lever long enough and a

fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall

Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer,

Inventor, and Astronomer

MOVE THE EARTH

James Watt

A Lie Can Run Around The

World Before Truth Can

Made Improvements To The

Newcomen Steam Engine

GET IT’S BOOTS ON

Hero of Alexandria

…by the union of [compressed] air, earth, fire, and

water, and the concurrence of elementary principles,

supply the most pressing wants of human life, [or]

PRODUCE AMAZEMENT

AND ALARM

Inventor Who Invented The Steam Engine

The Wright Bros

Thousands of men had thought about flying

machines and a few had even built machines

which they called flying machines, but these

were guilty of almost everything

EXCEPT FLYING

Invented And Flew The First Powered And Piloted Airplane

Henry Ford

Failure is simply the opportunity to

begin again, this time

Developed A Design And A

Method Of Manufacture

MORE INTELLIGENTLY

Thomas Edison

I have not failed. I’ve just

found 10,000 ways that

Developed The Phonograph, The Motion Picture

Camera and Long Lasting Electric Light Bulb

WONT WORK

Leonardo Da Vinci

Simplicity is the ultimate form of

Sophistication

Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Musician, Mathematician, Engineer,

Inventor, Anatomist, Geologist, Cartographer, Botanist And Writer

By Raymond Keane

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