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Late great engineers

Sir John Fowler

Late great engineers: John Fowler - Mastermind of the London Underground

Shannon's work on machine learning involved a maze and an electromechanical mouse called Theseus

Late great engineers: Claude Shannon - father of the Information Age

Painting of James Brindley by F Parsons

Late great engineers: James Brindley - Eighteenth century canal building pioneer

Sci-Fi Eye: Making Mars habitable

Civil engineer John Smeaton - 1724 - 1792

Late, great engineers: John Smeaton - father of civil engineering

Fulton's Nautilus submarine. 1)Travelling on surface: 2)Submerged. Fulton demonstrated the vessel on the Seine in May 1801.

Late great engineers: Robert Fulton - renaissance man of engineering

But for a tragic accident British engineer Percy Pilcher could have become the first pilot of a powered aeroplane

Late great engineers: Percy Pilcher - unsung hero of early aviation

Elijah McCoy - 1844 - 1929

Late great engineers: Elijah McCoy - the name of engineering excellence

Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.

Late great engineers: Alexander Graham Bell - founding father of audio communications

The famous arrows of Citroen's logo were inspired by the double herringbone-shaped Polish metal gear system, which André Citroën discovered during a visit to his family in Poland

Late great engineers: André Citroën - French automaker supreme

FRITCHLE ELECTRIC CAR ADVERT 1908. Designed by American chemist and entrepreneur Oliver P. Fritchle. The IOO mile refers to his epic 1908 Lincoln to New York endurance run in which he covered 2,900 km (1,800 miles)

Late great engineers: Oliver Fritchle - EV pioneer

A drawing of two Bessemer Convertors in action

October 1856: Beating Bessemer - Forgotten engineer J. G. Martien