Category
page 119th-century American engineers
Thomas Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American engineer and inventor (1856–1943)
Wright brothers
American aviation pioneers
Robert E. Lee
Confederate States general (1807–1870)
Frederick Winslow Taylor
American mechanical engineer (1856–1915)
Charles Goodyear
American inventor (1800-1860)
George Meade
United States Army general and civil engineer (1815–1872)
Elias Howe
American inventor (1819–1867)
P. G. T. Beauregard
Confederate general (1818–1893)
John Augustus Roebling
German-American engineer
James Ferguson
American astronomer (1797–1867)
George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr.
American engineer (1859-1896)
James Bicheno Francis
American engineer (1815-1892)
Heinrich Göbel
German-American inventor (1818–1893)
Joseph Strauss
American structural engineer (1870–1938)
Oliver Evans
American inventor
Elmer Ambrose Sperry
American mechanical engineer (1860–1930)
Gouverneur Kemble Warren
general in the Union Army during the American Civil War
Kate Gleason
American engineer and businesswoman (1865–1933)
Benjamin B. Hotchkiss
American engineer (1826–1885)
James Buchanan Eads
American civil engineer (1820–1887)
Hiram Berdan
Union Army General (1824–1893)
Zhan Tianyou
Chinese railroad engineer (1861-1919)
Powell Clayton
American politician (1833-1914)
William H. Emory
Union Army general (1811-1887)
Sylvester H. Roper
American inventor (1823-1896)
Frank Conrad
American electrical engineer (1874–1941)
Alexander Dallas Bache
American scientist (1806-1867)
Maria Beasley
American entrepreneur and inventor
William Strickland
American architect (1788–1854)
William Samuel Henson
Aviation engineer and inventor (1812–1888)
Adolph Sutro
American mayor (1830-1898)
William Otis
American inventor (1813–1839)
George Brayton
American mechanical engineer (1830–1892)
Linus Yale
American mechanical engineer (1821–1868)
Robert Henry Thurston
American mechanical engineer (1839-1903)
Paul Octave Hébert
Confederate Army general (1818–1880)
John Stevens
American lawyer, engineer and inventor (1749-1838)
Quincy Adams Gillmore
Union Army general (1825–1888)
Franklin Leonard Pope
American engineer (1840-1895)
Mary Brush
American painter, sculptor, and pioneer of aviation
George Herman Babcock
American inventor (1832–1893)
George Henry Corliss
American engineer (1817-1888)
Horatio Wright
United States Army general (1820–1899)
William Mulholland
engineer and builder of the Los Angeles Aqueduct (1855-1935)
Elizabeth Bragg
American engineer
Frederick W. Lander
Union Army general (1821–1862)
George Washington Whistler
railroad engineer; (1800-1849)
Horace Lawson Hunley
Confederate marine engineer during the American Civil War (1823-1863)
Margaret Wilcox
American inventor (born 1838)
Stephen Wilcox
American inventor (1830–1893)
Oliver B. Shallenberger
American electrical engineer and inventor (1860–1898)
George S. Greene
Union United States Army general (1801-1899)
Alexander Lyman Holley
American engineer (1832–1882)
Gottlieb Schumacher
German-American civil engineer, architect, and archaeologist (1857–1925)
Chester Greenwood
American inventor (1858–1937)
Henry Ossian Flipper
American soldier, formerly enslaved person, and first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point (1856–1940)
Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth
American explorer and inventor (1802-1856)
Daniel McCallum
Canadian engineer and early organizational theorist (1815–1878)
Herman Haupt
Union United States Army general (1817-1905)