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词条 List of British engineers
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This is a historical list of British engineers.

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List

  • James Atkinson (1846–1914), inventor of the Atkinson cycle internal combustion engine[1]
  • George Frederick Armstrong (1842–1900), sanitation engineer and academic[2]
  • William Armstrong (1810–1900), inventor of the hydraulic accumulator and breech-loading, rifled artillery{{sfn|Hall|p=8}}
  • Hertha Ayrton (1854–1923), pioneered the science of electric arcs and ripples in sand and water.[3]
  • Charles Baird (1766–1843), managed a company which built steam-powered machinery in Saint Petersburg, including Russia's first steam boat[4]
  • Edward Barlow (1639–1719), inventor of the repeating clock[5]
  • John Bell (1747–1798), inventor of various military and nautical devices, including a gyn and a petard[6]
  • Edwin Beard Budding (1796–1846), inventor of the lawnmower[7]
  • Matthew Boulton (1728–1809), partner in the steam engineering manufacturing firm Boulton and Watt, and inventor of a steam-driven coin press[8]
  • James Brindley (1716–1772), pioneering engineer of canals and aqueducts[9]
  • Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), noted, among other achievements, for constructing the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the Great Western Railway[10]
  • Henry Chilver (1926–2012), expanded Cranfield Institute of Technology by focusing on the practical application of knowledge[11]
  • Victoria Drummond (1894–1978), marine engineer who served at sea as an engineering officer in the British Merchant Navy and received awards for bravery under enemy fire.[12]
  • Gertrude Lilian Entwisle (1892–1961), electrical engineer known for her work on designing DC motors and exciters and one of the founding members of the Women's Engineering Society.[13]
  • Nigel Gresley (1876–1941), chief engineer of the London and North Eastern Railway who invented the Gresley conjugated valve gear{{sfn|Hall|p=88}}
  • Caroline Haslett (1895–1957), electrical engineer who oversaw important requirements for electrical installations in post-war Britain [14]
  • Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925), electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who developed the transmission line theory and vectorized Maxwell's equations, among many other things.[15]
  • Christopher Hinton (1901–1983), chief engineer at ICI who worked on the first nuclear power plant, Calder Hall{{sfn|Hall|p=101}}
  • Peggy Hodges (1921–2008), communications and systems engineer who worked on guided missile technology at GEC Marconi[16]
  • Sue Ion (born 1955), expert advisor on the nuclear power industry[17]
  • Andrew Meikle (1719–1811), inventor of an innovative mechanical threshing machine[18]
  • Lewis Paul (died 1759), inventor of spinning and weaving machines[19]
  • Dorothée Pullinger (1894–1986), pioneering automobile engineer and businesswoman [20]
  • Margaret Dorothea Rowbotham (1883–1978), engineer in the automobile, munitions and electrical sectors, and champion of women's employment in professional engineering[21]
  • Beatrice Shilling (1909–1990), inventor of the "Miss Shilling's orifice", a critical component that prevented engine stall in the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines of the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire fighters.[22]
  • Dorothy Spicer (1908–1946), English aviatrix and the first woman to gain an advanced qualification in aeronautical engineering [23]
  • Richard Trevithick (1771–1833), inventor of a high-powered steam engine[24]

References

1. ^{{cite book|last1=Hayes|first1=John G.|last2=Goodarzi|first2=G. Abas|title=Electric Powertrain: Energy Systems, Power Electronics and Drives for Hybrid, Electric and Fuel Cell Vehicles|date=2018|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9781119063667|page=132|chapter=Chapter 5. Conventional and hybrid powertrains}}
2. ^{{cite journal|title=Obituary. George Frederick Armstrong|journal=The Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute|date=1900|volume=LVIII|issue=II|pages=387–388|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N-FOAQAAMAAJ}}
3. ^{{cite journal|first=Hertha|last=Ayrton|date=21 October 1910|url=http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/84/571/285|title=The Origin and Growth of Ripple-Mark|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of London|series= A |volume=84 |issue=571 |pages=285–310 |doi=10.1098/rspa.1910.0076 |jstor=93297|access-date=28 April 2016}}
4. ^{{cite book|last1=Chrimes|first1=Mike|editor1-last=Skempton|editor1-first=A. W.|editor2-last=Chrimes|editor2-first=M.M.|editor3-last=Cox|editor3-first=R.C.|editor4-last=Cross-Rudkin|editor4-first=P.S.M.|editor5-last=Rennison|editor5-first=R.W.|editor6-last=Ruddock|editor6-first=E.C.|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500-1830|date=2002|publisher=Thomas Telford|isbn=9780727729392|pages=30–31|chapter=BAIRD, Charles}}
5. ^{{cite book|last1=Stephen|first1=Leslie|title=Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 3|date=1885|publisher=Smith, Elder & Co.|location=London|pages=219–220|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9gIJAAAAQAAJ|chapter=BARLOW, alias Booth, EDWARD}}
6. ^{{cite book|editor1-last=Stephen|editor1-first=Leslie|editor2-last=Lee|editor2-first=Sidney|title=Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 2|date=1908|publisher=Smith, Elder & Co.|location=London|page=167|edition= 2nd|chapter=Bell, John (1747-1798)|title-link=Dictionary of National Biography}}
7. ^{{cite news|title=Blue plaque for lawn-mower inventor|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-32427078|accessdate=2018-03-25|work=BBC News|date=23 April 2015}}
8. ^{{cite book|editor1-last=Thackeray|editor1-first=Frank W.|editor2-last=Findling|editor2-first=John E.|title=Events That Formed the Modern World|date=2012|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9781598849011|pages=223–224|chapter=Matthew Boulton (1728-1809)}}
9. ^{{cite book|last1=Ben-Menahem|first1=Ari|title=Historical Encyclopedia of Natural and Mathematical Sciences|date=2009|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9783540688310|page=1364}}
10. ^{{cite news|last1=Parkes|first1=Pamela|title=The engineering giant with 'short man syndrome'|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-43323013|accessdate=2018-03-25|work=BBC News|date=23 March 2018}}
11. ^{{cite news|last1=McKeown|first1=Pat|title=Lord Chilver obituary|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/jul/25/lord-chilver|accessdate=2018-03-25|work=The Guardian|date=25 July 2012}}
12. ^{{Cite book|title=The Remarkable Life of Victoria Drummond – Marine Engineer|last=Drummond|first=Cherry|publisher=Institute of Marine Engineers|year=1994|isbn=978-0-907206-54-5|location=London|pages=}}
13. ^{{Cite journal|last=Hardwich|first=Isabel Helen|date=Autumn 1954|title=Retirement of Miss Gertrude L Entwisle AMIEE|url=http://www.theiet.org/resources/library/archives/research/wes/WES_Vol_7.html|journal=The Woman Engineer|volume=7 no, 14|pages=3–9|via=Institution of Engineering and Technology}}
14. ^"Post-War Building Studies No. 11 Electrical Installations", HMSO, London 1944
15. ^{{Cite book|title=Oliver Heaviside : the life, work, and times of an electrical genius of the Victorian age|last=J.|first=Nahin, Paul|date=2002|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|isbn=978-0801869099|edition= Johns Hopkins paperback |location=Baltimore, Md.|oclc=47915995}}
16. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.theiet.org/resources/library/archives/research/wes/WES_Vol_11.html|title=The Woman Engineer|website=www.theiet.org|access-date=2018-08-01}}
17. ^{{cite web|title=Woman's Hour Power List, Woman's Hour - Dame Sue Ion|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/36rCGwCR8ylPNSLmJH5Nk6k/dame-sue-ion|website=BBC Radio 4|accessdate=2018-03-25}}
18. ^{{cite book|last1=Treasure|first1=G. R. R.|title=Who's who in Early Hanoverian Britain, 1714-1789|date=2002|publisher=Stackpole Books|isbn=9780811716437|page=249|chapter=Andrew Meikle}}
19. ^{{cite book|last1=Hendrickson|first1=Kenneth E., III|title=The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History|date=2014|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=9780810888883|pages=710–711|chapter=Paul, Lewis (D. 1759)}}
20. ^{{Cite journal|last=Clarsen|first=Georgine|date=2003-09-01|title='A fine university for women engineers': a Scottish munitions factory in world war I|journal=Women's History Review|language=en|volume=12|issue=3|pages=333–356|doi=10.1080/09612020300200363|issn=0961-2025}}
21. ^{{Cite book|title=Rowbotham, Margaret Dorothea (1883–1978), engineer|volume = 1|last=Baker|first=Nina C.|date=2018-07-12|publisher=Oxford University Press|series=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|language=en|doi=10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.110231}}
22. ^{{cite book|last1=Price|first1=Alfred.|title= The Spitfire Story: Second edition|date=1986|publisher= London: Arms and Armour Press Ltd.|isbn= 978-0-85368-861-7}}
23. ^{{Cite book|title=Spicer [married name Pearse], Dorothy Norman (1908–1946), aviator and aeronautical engineer|volume = 1|last=Fahie|first=Michael|date=2004-09-23|publisher=Oxford University Press|series=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/67672}}
24. ^{{cite book|last1=James|first1=Ioan|title=Remarkable Engineers: From Riquet to Shannon|date=2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9781139486255|page=33|chapter=Chapter 3: From Trevithick to Sadi Carnot}}
  • {{citation |title=A Biographical Dictionary of People in Engineering |volume=vol. 1 |first=Carl |last=Hall |publisher=Purdue University Press |year=2008|isbn=9781557534590}}

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