X-Nico

unusual facts about Mechanical Engineer



Ann Dowling

Professor Dame Ann Patricia Dowling, DBE, FRS, FREng (born 15 July 1952) is a British mechanical engineer who researches combustion, acoustics and vibration, focusing on efficient, low-emission combustion and reduced road vehicle and aircraft noise.

Bruce Molsky

His father, Milton, a mechanical engineer, was a first-generation American descendant of Jewish immigrants from Poland.

Eugene Houdry

Eugène Jules Houdry (Domont, April 18, 1892 - Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, July 18, 1962) was a French, later naturalised American, mechanical engineer (graduated from École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers in 1911) who invented catalytic cracking of petroleum feed stocks.

Guthrey Centre

Both started their working career in Scotland, with John as a mechanical engineer in Glasgow, and Andrew as a civil engineer in Edinburgh.

Paul Victor Obeng

Paul Victor Obeng popularly known as P. V. Obeng is a Ghanaian Mechanical Engineer, politician and chairman of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology council.

Ramarajapuram

The village has seen a lot of growth among the students leaving to complete higher education including BE, ME, CA, MBA, MCA etc.

Reimund Neugebauer

Reimund Neugebauer (born 27 June 1953 in Esperstedt am Kyffhäuser) is a German mechanical engineer and professor who has been working in the field of machine tools and forming processes.

Roger Boisjoly

Roger Mark Boisjoly (April 25, 1938 – January 6, 2012) was an American mechanical engineer, fluid dynamicist, and an aerodynamicist who is best known for having raised objections to the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger the day before the loss of the spacecraft and its crew.

Tytus Maksymilian Huber

Tytus Maksymilian Huber (also known as Maksymilian Tytus Huber; born 4 January 1872, Krościenko nad Dunajcem – died 1950) was a world renowned Polish mechanical engineer, educator, and scientist.

William Speight

He trained as a mechanical engineer in his father's firm and emigrated to New Zealand in 1865 on the Maori.


see also

Adesh Gupta

Adesh Gupta is a Mechanical Engineer (1977–82) from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (Haryana).

Al Meyers

After graduating from college as a mechanical engineer he worked for Chance Vought, Glenn Martin and Stinson Aircraft Company.

Alfred Hill

Alfred John Hill (1862–1927), Chief Mechanical Engineer at the Stratford Works of the Great Eastern Railway, 1912–1922

Carbutt

Edward Carbutt (1838–1905), English mechanical engineer and politician

Charles Dickinson

Charles Dickinson West (1847–1908), Irish mechanical engineer and naval architect

Computer keyboard

The teleprinter, in its more contemporary form, was developed from 1903 to 1910 by American mechanical engineer Charles Krum and his son Howard, with early contributions by electrical engineer Frank Pearne.

Coriolis

Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis (1792–1843), French mathematician, mechanical engineer and scientist

Daniel Mulville

He served as a program manager for Structures Research at the Office of Naval Research in 1975 and was a mechanical engineer at the Naval Research Laboratory involved in design and analysis of aircraft, missile and ship structures from 1962 to 1979.

David Pye

Sir David Randall Pye CB, FRS (1886–1960), mechanical engineer and academic administrator

Eastleigh Works

In 1903, the Chief Mechanical Engineer, Dugald Drummond oversaw the construction of a large motive power depot in the town replacing the existing maintenance and repair shops at Northam, Southampton.

Ezel Akay

After Ezel Akay graduated as a mechanical engineer from the Bosporus University, he was trained as actor at the US-American Villanova University.

Family Fortunes

The computer screen name "Mr Babbage" was in recognition to the English mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer, Charles Babbage.

Frank McClintock

Frank A. McClintock (1921–2011), American mechanical engineer in material science

Giaconda Winery

Throughout the 1970s Rick Kinzbrunner, a mechanical engineer, travelled and spent time with wineries in New Zealand, the USA and France including Stag's Leap, Simi Winery and the owners of Chateau Petrus, the Moueix group.

Gooch baronets

The Gooch Baronetcy of Clewer Park, in the County of Berkshire, was created in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom on 15 November 1866 for the mechanical engineer, businessman and Conservative politician Daniel Gooch.

Gymnasium Karlovac

The gymnasium's most famous alumnus is inventor, physicist, and electrical and mechanical engineer Nikola Tesla who attended the school from 1870 until 1873.

Hackworth

Timothy Hackworth (1786–1850), steam locomotive mechanical engineer

Harold G. Dick

Harold Gustav "Hal" Dick (January 19, 1907 – September 3, 1997) was an American mechanical engineer employed by Goodyear, who flew on almost all of the Hindenburg flights.

Hay Frederick Donaldson

Alongside his latter two projects, he was based as Chief Mechanical Engineer at the Royal Ordnance Factories, Woolwich, from 1889 to 1903, during which period he also served as its Deputy Director-General in 1898-99.

Idesign

Nils Löventorn is an Industrial Designer with a degree from both Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm and University of Jönköping as a Mechanical Engineer, including ergonomics for a semester at University of Michigan.

Institution of Civil Engineers

Mechanical engineer and tool-maker Henry Maudslay was an early member and Joseph Whitworth presented one of the earliest papers – it was not until 1847 that the Institution of Mechanical Engineers was established (with George Stephenson as its first President).

J. Denis Summers-Smith

After the war, Summers-Smith began his successful career as a mechanical engineer for Imperial Chemical Industries.

John Haswell

In 1837 at the prompting of Matthias Schönerer, who was also heavily involved in the BudweisLinzGmunden wagonway, he drew up plans for the repair shop of the Wien-Raaber railway (later Lokomotivfabrik der StEG), and in 1839 became entrusted with carrying them out, along with the mechanical engineer Kraft.

John Sweet

John Edison Sweet (1832–1916), American mechanical engineer who built the first micrometer caliper

Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp

In 1926 he became Chairman of the LMS and was instrumental in getting William Stanier appointed in 1932 as Chief Mechanical Engineer to resolve the locomotive problems of the Company.

Lionel Simeon Marks

His most famous work is Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, which was first published in 1916 as Mechanical Engineer's Handbook and contained 1836 pages.

Madhurima

Madhurima's father is a mechanical engineer who served in the Indian Navy, before he began working as the General Manager of the largest private shipyard of India.

Maksymilian

Tytus Maksymilian Huber (1872–1950), Polish mechanical engineer, educator, and scientist

Maunsell

Richard Maunsell, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway and Southern Railway

Odor amplifier

Odor amplifier is the plausible, but fictitious, invention of mechanical engineer Thomas A. McMahon that is described in his 1970 novel, Principles of American Nuclear Chemistry: A Novel, in which it is invented by a character modeled on Richard Feynman.

Otto Kissenberth

Born in Landshut, Bavaria in 1893, Kissenberth studied at Grenoble University before completing an engineering degree in Munich and then working for the Gustav Otto aircraft works as a mechanical engineer.

Paul Wright

Paul K. Wright (born 1947), English/American mechanical engineer

Peru, New York

Francis A. Pratt (1827–1902), was a Connecticut mechanical engineer, inventor, and founder of Pratt & Whitney.

Reg Hollingworth

Hollingworth, born in Doncaster but raised in Rainworth, was training as a mechanical engineer and playing amateur football for Sutton Junction when he was spotted by Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Reuleaux

Franz Reuleaux, a German mechanical engineer and lecturer, 1829 – 1905

Richard Rice

Richard H. Rice (1863–1922), American mechanical engineer and inventor

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

The Academy was founded on 2 June 1739 by naturalist Carl Linnaeus, mercantilist Jonas Alströmer, mechanical engineer Mårten Triewald, civil servants Sten Carl Bielke and Carl Wilhelm Cederhielm, and politician Anders Johan von Höpken.

Rudolf A. Haunschmied

Even as a youngster, before his education as a mechanical engineer, he researched the "lost" history of the St. Georgen-Gusen-Mauthausen area with its four Nazi concentration camps and focused as a pioneer on the history of the KZ Gusen I & II & III Concentration Camps.

Sigurd Lewerentz

Sigurd Lewerentz (29 July 1885 in Sandö, Sweden – 29 December 1975 in Lund, Sweden) was an architect, initially trained as a mechanical engineer at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg (1905–8).

Sima Milutinović

Sima Milutinović (Serbian Cyrillic:Сима Милутиновић) (12 July 1899, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina - 11 December 1981, Belgrade, Yugoslavia), was a mechanical engineer and a professor at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, at the University of Belgrade, the most prolific Yugoslav aircraft constructor.

South African Class 16E 4-6-2

The Class 16E 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive was designed by A.G. Watson, the Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the South African Railways (SAR) from 1929 to 1936, and built by Henschel and Son in Kassel, Germany.

South African Class 26 4-8-4

The rebuilding took place at the Salt River Works in Cape Town and was based on the principles developed by Argentinian mechanical engineer L.D. Porta.

Stanier

William Stanier (1876–1965), Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway

This Week in Science

William Gurstelle, mechanical engineer and author of Notes from the Technology Underground

Thomas Hogg

Thomas Hogg (MR&LE) (1808–1881), English-born chief mechanical engineer for the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad, the first railroad in Ohio

William McFee

Educated at Culford School, he became a mechanical engineer at Richard Moreland & Sons and W. Summerscales & Sons in the City, before going to sea as a marine engineer in 1906.

William Nye

Bill Nye (born 1955), American science educator, comedian, television host and mechanical engineer