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2004 Max Faget, engineer, led the design of the Gemini space capsule, dies at 83
2002 Gordon Matthews, engineer, inventor of voice mail, dies at 65 1997 Robert Sutton, electronics engineer, dies at 82 1997 Edmund Charles Wolf Myers, soldier/engineer, dies at 91 1996 Michael Fenton Haddon, mining engineer, dies at 81 1996 Ronald Ogden, engineer, dies at 81 1996 Gordon Scarrott, engineer, dies at 80 1996 Richard Day, engineer/development expert, dies at 48 1996 Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer, dies at 79 1996 Walter Hassan, engineer, dies at 91 1996 Thomas Mitchell, architect/engineer, dies at 90 1996 Noel Walton Bott, engineer, dies at 88 1996 Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer, dies at 101 1996 Zora Arkus-Duntov, engineer, dies at 86 1996 Dante Giacosa, engineer/designer, dies at 91 1996 David Packard, electronic engineer and businessman, dies at 83 1996 Charles William Oatley, electrical engineer, dies at 92 1996 Ray McIntire, chemical engineer, dies at 77 1996 Edmund Happold, structural engineer, founded engineering constituency, Buro Happold, worked on Sydney Opera House, dies at 65 1996 Geoffrey Pardoe, engineer, dies at 67 1996 Arthur Rudolph, rocket Engineer, dies at 89 1995 Former WMMS engineer William Alford is sentenced to 10 days and $1,000 fine for cutting feed during Howard Stern's broadcast from Cleveland 1995 Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington, engineer, dies at 75 1995 Yahya Ayyash, nicknamed 'the Engineer,' chief bomb maker for Hamas, most wanted man in Israel, caused deaths of 90 Israelis, assassinated by Isreal's Shin Bet with a booby trapped cellular phone 1994 Mark Robert Isfeld, combat Engineer, dies at 31 1994 Lewis Boddington, aerospace Engineer, dies at 85 1987 Henk H Badings, mine engineer/composer (Orestes, Kain), dies at 80 1982 Vladimir K Zworykin, Russian/American engineer (cathode-ray tube), dies 1973 Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (War Diary), dies at 79 1969 Linus Torvalds, born in Helsinki, Finland, inventor, software engineer, pioneered development of the Linux kernel, a free, open source software operating system 1968 Paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78 1966 Yahya Ayyash, born in Palestine, nicknamed 'the Engineer,' chief bomb maker for Hamas, most wanted man in Israel, caused deaths of 90 Israelis 1963 Pedro Duque, born in Madrid, Spain, engineer and astronaut, STS-78 alt, sk:95 1962 Mark Robert Isfeld, combat engineer 1962 Jesse G Vincent, engineer designed 1st V-12 engine, dies at 82 1962 Charles-Jean baron de la Vallee-Poussin, Belgian engineer, dies at 96 1961 Pieter Tesch, mine engineer/geology (Pedestal of Netherlands), dies 1960 Georges Claude, engineer/inventor, dies 1960 Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer, dies at 58 1955 1st prototype of hovercraft patented by British engineer Christoper Cockerell 1949 Syed Kirmani, cricketer, Indian keeper after Engineer 1948 Jimmy Hood, born in Lesmahagow, Scotland, Member of Parliament for Lanark and Hamilton East, Labor Party, worked as a mining engineer 1948 Richard Day, engineer/development expert 1947 Colin Sanders, British computer engineer, Solid State Logic 1946 Anton A Mussert, engineer/NSB leader, executed 1945 John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer, dies 1943 Burt Rutan, born in Estacada, Oregon, Elbert Leander Burt Rutan, inventor, aerospace engineer, created the Voyager, the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, and SpaceShipOne, which entered space two times in fourteen days 1938 Farokh Engineer, Indian cricket wicket-keeper, 1961-75 1937 Guglielmo Marconi, Italian engineer/marquis (radio, Nobel 1909), dies 1931 Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente), dies at 84 1930 Edmund Happold, born in England, structural engineer, founded engineering constituency, Buro Happold, worked on Sydney Opera House 1929 Amar Bose, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, electrical engineer, Ph.D. from MIT, founder, chairman, Bose Corporation, patented dominantly reflecting sound field mimicking listening space of the audience in a concert hall 1929 Karl Friedrich Benz, automobile engineer (Mercedes), dies at 84 1928 Geoffrey Pardoe, engineer 1926 Kenneth H Olsen, U.S., engineer/founder, Digital Equipment Corp 1926 Jack Levy, mechanical engineer 1925 Paul MacCready, engineer/inventor, 1st man-powered aircraft 1925 Trevor Hughes, water engineer 1925 Clement Ader, French engineer (steam engine airplane), dies at 84 1923 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer (Eiffel Tower), dies at 91 1922 Diarmuid Downs, auto engineer 1920 Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburgs coal basin), dies at 73 1920 Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, engineer/Industrialist 1919 Jorge de Sena, Portuguese engineer/poet, Reino da Estupidez 1918 Ray McIntire, chemical engineer 1916 Owen Tudor Williams, civil engineer 1916 Gordon Scarrott, engineer 1915 Robert Sutton, electronics engineer 1915 Ronald Ogden, engineer 1915 Michael Fenton Haddon, mining engineer 1915 Joseph D Craggs, electrical engineer 1914 George Westinghouse, U.S. engineer (Westinghouse Electric), dies at 67 1913 Hugh Ford, FRS mechanic engineer 1913 Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper 1913 Edward Fiennes-Clinton, born in Australia, born Edward Horace Fiennes-Clinton, 18th Earl of Lincoln, engineer, landowner, inherited Earldom but formally did not prove his right to the title 1912 David Packard, electronic engineer and businessman 1912 J-Henri Poincare, French mine engineer/mathematician, dies at 58 1912 William Gordon Harris, civil engineer 1912 Roy Hofheinz, engineer, Houston Astrodome 1911 Georg Knorr, German engineer, dies 1910 Pierre Schaeffer, French engineer/composer 1907 Noel Walton Bott, engineer 1907 Lewis Boddington, aerospace engineer 1907 Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico 1907 Kenneth Allen, engineer 1907 Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer, dies at 59 1906 Arthur Rudolph, rocket engineer 1906 Edmund Charles Wolf Myers, soldier/engineer 1906 Thomas Mitchell, architect/engineer 1905 Angus Paton, civil engineer 1905 Walter Hassan, engineer 1905 Frits Philips, Dutch engineer/CEO, Philips 1905 Dante Giacosa, engineer/designer 1904 Owen Saunders, mechanical engineer 1904 Charles William Oatley, electrical engineer 1903 Herbert Spencer, British engineer/philosopher, dies at 83 1903 Alfred Pugsley, civil engineer 1902 Pieter Caland, Dutch hydraulic engineer (New Waterway), dies at 74 1902 William Lear, engineer/manufacturer/CEO, Lear Jet Corp 1902 Harold Roxbee Cox Kings Norton, aeronautical engineer 1901 Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer, typewriter 1900 A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles 1900 George Labram, U.S. mine engineer in South Africa, dies in battle 1899 Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76 1898 John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway), dies 1895 Lewis B. Combs, naval commander and civil engineer 1894 Ferdinand de Lesseps, French engineer/diplomat/earl, dies at 89 1890 Paul J M Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author 1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Engineer's Thumb" 1889 Vladimir K Zworykin, U.S.S.R., electronics engineer/inventor, father of TV 1889 Jens/John Ericsson, Swed/US, engineer (fire extinguisher), dies at 85 1885 Johannes Ringers, Dutch water engineer, dikes 1880 W Hupkes, engineer/director, Dutch Rail 1938 1880 Jesse G Vincent, Arkansas, engineer designed 1st V-12 engine 1878 Lillian Moller Gilbreth, engineer, CIOS Gold Medal-1954 1874 Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch author/engineer on Curaeao, dies at 86 1870 Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer/builder, Golden Gate Bridge 1869 Frederik W. Conrad, hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer, dies at 68 1864 Daniel Phineas Woodbury, U.S. engineer/Union general-major, dies 1864 [John] Casey Jones, RR engineer, Ballad of Casey Jones 1863 C-E Auguste Rateau, French mining engineer, Rateau steam turbine 1861 Bion Joseph Arnold, electrical engineer/inventor 1860 Joseph Locke, railway engineer, dies 1860 Philippe J Bunau-Varilla, French engineer, Colombia-Panama 1859 Georg Knorr, German engineer, brake system trains 1859 George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., engineer/inventor, Ferris Wheel 1858 Gerard L F Philips, Dutch engineer/manufacturer, Philips 1858 George Washington Goethals, engineer, built Panama Canal 1858 Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, Diesel motor 1856 Nikola Tesla, born in Croatia, electrical engineer/inventor, Tesla Coil 1854 Solomon A Andree, Swedish engineer/balloonist/Artic explorer 1854 Cornelis W. Lely, Dutch engineer and Governor of Suriname, 1902 - 1905 1852 Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes 1st dirigible flight 1848 Lewis H Latimer, inventor/engineer 1848 George Stephenson, locomotive engineer, dies 1847 Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer, Limburg's coal basin 1847 Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer, tectonic geology 1847 Karl von Bach, German engineer, Maschinenelemente 1846 Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer, designer of 1st Mercedes 1842 Carl PG von Linde, German engineer/physicist, Linde-procede 1842 Clarence King, mining engineer, geologist 1841 George Melville, polar explorer, naval engineer 1841 Clement Ader, French engineer 1838 John Whites, hydraulic engineer, dies at 82 1837 Marie Francois Carnot, engineer/French President, 1887-94, ; assassinated 1834 Gottlieb Daimler, born in Germany, engineer/inventor/designed 1st motorcycle 1834 William Preece, English electrical engineer/wireless pioneer 1832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, French engineer, Eiffel tower 1828 Jedediah Hotchkiss, Engineer Confederate Army 1827 Pieter Caland, Dutch hydraulic engineer, New Waterway 1822 Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer, rails/trains 1820 James Buchanan Eads, U.S., engineer/inventor, Eads Bridge-St. Louis 1818 Jeremy F Gilmer, Major Gen/Chief Engineer Confederate War Dept 1817 John Fowler, English engineer, London Metropolitan Railway 1813 Henry Bessemer, engineer/inventor, Bessemer engine 1810 William Froude, England, engineer/naval architect 1807 Thomas Green Clemson, mining engineer, endowed Clemson University 1805 Christian Brunings, hydraulic engineer, dies at 68 1800 Frederik W. Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer 1798 JBAL Leonce Elie de Beaumont, French mine engineer/geologist 1788 Thomas Tredgold, engineer/carpenter 1787 Hermanus J Abbring, Dutch writer/engineer on Curaeao 1772 Robert Stevenson, born in Glasgow, civil engineer 1769 Mark Isambard Brunel, engineer/inventor 1764 Benjamin Henry Latrobe, engineer/architect, built Capitol 1763 Claude Chappe, French engineer, optical telegraph 1758 Cornelis R T Krayenhoff, Dutch fortress engineer/cartographer 1755 Jan Blanken, Dutch hydraulic engineer 1754 Nicolaas S Cruquius, hydraulic engineer, (Haarlemmermeer), dies at 75 1736 Christian Brunings, Dutch hydraulic engineer 1724 John Smeaton, Leeds, civil engineer 1716 Joseph Sauveur, French sound engineer, dies at 63 1683 Rene-Antoine de Reaumur, France, biologist/engineer 1678 Nicolaas S Cruquius, Dutch hydraulic engineer, drained Haarlemmermeer 1660 Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building 1650 John Adriaensz, hydraulic engineer (Haarlemmermeer), dies at about 74 |
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