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Late great engineers

William Higginbotham

Late great engineers: Atom bomb pioneer and games designer William Higinbotham

Air Commodore Frank Whittle seated at his desk at during World War II. The two models on his desk are the first British prototype jet aircraft to fly and the Meteor, the first jet to enter service with the RAF.

Late, great engineers: Frank Whittle: Founder of the jet age

Late Great Engineers: Rudolf Diesel - Powering the modern world

Late Great Engineers: Charles Wheatstone - Britain’s great Victorian inventor

Late Great Engineers: László Bíró - mightier than the sword

Late Great Engineers: Geoffrey Ballard - fuel cell visionary

Late Great Engineers: Mikhail Kalashnikov - the man behind the gun

Late Great Engineers: Norbert Wiener - father of cybernetics

Late Great Engineers: Gene Cernan - the last man on the Moon

Late Great Engineers: Amy Johnson - pioneering pilot

Late Great Engineers: Oskar Barnack - 20th century image maker

Late Great Engineers: Soichiro Honda