Notable Scientists: Applied Sciences and Technology

Agriculturalists, computer scientists, electrical engineers, engineers, and inventors

Agriculturalists

• Atwater, Wilbur Olin
• Bennett, Hugh Hammond
• Boyd Orr, John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron
• Carver, George Washington
• Dorset, Marion
• Downing, Andrew Jackson
• Fairchild, David Grandison
• Hilgard, Eugene Woldemar
• Lindley, John
• Marbut, Curtis Fletcher
• Osborne, Thomas Burr
• Wiley, Harvey Washington

Computer Scientists

• Babbage, Charles
• Berners-Lee, Tim
• Gates, Bill
• Jobs, Steven Paul
• Knuth, Donald Ervin
• Turing, Alan Mathison
• Wozniak, Steve

Electrical Engineers

• Ferraris, Galileo
• Fleming, Sir John Ambrose
• Goldmark, Peter Carl
• Gramme, Zénobe-Théophile
• Hounsfield, Sir Godfrey Newbold
• Kennelly, Arthur Edwin
• Poulsen, Valdemar
• Ruska, Ernst
• Siemens, Ernst Werner von
• Siemens, Sir William
• Sperry, Elmer Ambrose
• Sprague, Frank Julian
• Steinmetz, Charles Proteus

Engineers

• Ammann, Othmar Hermann
• Baker, Sir Benjamin
• Belidor, Bernard Forest de
• Benz, Karl
• Brunel, Sir Marc Isambard
• Bunau-Varilla, Philippe Jean
• Caus, Salomon de
• Cierva, Juan de la
• Daimler, Gottlieb
• Eiffel, Alexandre Gustave
• Ewing, Sir James Alfred
• Fowler, Sir John
• Fresnel, Augustin Jean
• Freyssinet, Eugène
• Fuller, R. Buckminster
• Giocondo, Fra Giovanni
• Giorgio, Francesco di
• Jenney, William Le Baron
• L'Enfant, Pierre Charles
• Lesseps, Ferdinand Marie, vicomte de
• Maillart, Robert
• Nervi, Pier Luigi
• Otto, Nikolaus August
• Parsons, Sir Charles Algernon
• Rankine, William John Macquorn
• Reynolds, Osborne
• Roebling, John Augustus
• Savery, Thomas
• Smeaton, John
• Stephenson, George
• Trevithick, Richard
• Tupolev, Andrei Nikolayevich
• Vitruvius

Inventors

• Arkwright, Sir Richard
• Babbage, Charles
• Baird, John Logie
• Baran, Paul
• Bell, Alexander Graham
• Birdseye, Clarence
• Blériot, Louis
• Borden, Gail
• Bramah, Joseph
• Cartwright, Edmund
• Chappelle, Emmett
• Cierva, Juan de la
• Colt, Samuel
• Cooper, Peter
• Crompton, Samuel
• Ctesibius
• Curtiss, Glenn Hammond
• Cushman, David
• Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé
• Daimler, Gottlieb
• Davies, Donald
• De Forest, Lee
• Drebbel, Cornelis Jacobszoon
• Eastman, George
• Edgerton, Harold
• Edison, Thomas Alva
• Evans, Oliver
• Farmer, Moses Gerrish
• Farnsworth, Philo Taylor
• Franz, John
• Fulton, Robert
• Gatling, Richard Jordan
• Goddard, William
• Goldmark, Peter
• Goodyear, Charles
• Gray, Elisha
• Gutenberg, Johann
• Heron of Alexandria
• Hilleman, Maurice
• Hollerith, Herman
• Hood, Leroy
• Hounsfield, Godfrey
• Howe, Elias
• Hyatt, John Wesley
• Ives, Frederic Eugene
• Jacquard, Joseph Marie
• Kay, John
• Land, Edwin Herbert
• Lanston, Tolbert
• Lauterbur, Paul
• Lumière, Louis Jean
• Lynott, John
• Mansfield, Peter
• Mergenthaler, Ottmar
• Metcalfe, Robert
• Montgolfier, Joseph Michel
• Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
• Newcomen, Thomas
• Nobel, Alfred Bernhard
• Nobile, Arthur
• Otis, Elisha Graves
• Remington, Eliphalet
• Singer, Isaac Merrit
• Sperry, Elmer Ambrose
• Talbot, William Henry Fox
• Trevithick, Richard
• Watt, James
• Westinghouse, George
• Whitney, Eli
• Wichterle, Otto
• Wright, Orville
• Zeppelin, Ferdinand, Graf von

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