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Eric Cheney (January 5, 1924 - December 30, 2001) was an independent British motorcycle designer and manufacturer. ... Thomas Savery (c. ... Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell (June 4, 1910 â€“ June 1, 1999) was an English engineer, inventor of the hovercraft. ... Stephen Perry was a 19th century British inventor and businessman. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... James Puckle (1667 - 1724) was an English inventor from London who developed what he called the Puckle Gun, a multi-shot rifle capable of firing 9 rounds before being reloaded. ... Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton (1863 - 1930) was a consulting electrical engineer born in Edinburgh. ... Alexander Cumming invented the flush toilet under English patent number 814 in 1775. ... Robert Mylne (1734-5 May 1811) was a noted Scottish architect and engineer, particularly remembered for his work in the late 18th century. ... George Hughes (9 October 1865 â€” 27 October 1945) was a locomotive engineer, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway. ... Sir Horace Darwin, F.R.S. (13th May 1851 - 29th September 1928), a son of the British naturalist Charles Darwin, was a civil engineer. ... A 1919 picture of Frederick Handley Page Sir Frederick Handley Page, (1885-1962) was an English industrialist who was a pioneer in the design and manufacture of aircraft. ... John Rennie. ... George Rennie, engineer, Born in London, England, on 3 December 1791 Died in 1866 Son of John Rennie Brother of Sir John Rennie A consultant in the construction of the foundations of Londons Grosvenor Bridge 1832, two years early he had worked with his brother, Sir John Rennie, in... Frederick Brian Pickering is a leading British metallurgist. ... Professor Alexander Thom (1894 - 1985) was a Scottish engineer most famous for his theory of the Megalithic yard. ... Christopher Hinton, Baron Hinton of Bankside (12 May 1901, Tisbury, Wiltshire, England â€“ 22 June 1983, London, England) was an English nuclear engineer, and supervisor of the construction of Calder Hall, the worlds first large-scale commercial nuclear power station. ... Joseph Hinks was a British inventor, working in Birmingham. ... John Dadford was an English canal engineer, as were his father Thomas Dadford and brothers Thomas Dadford Junior and James Dadford. ... John Perry John Perry (1850-1920) F.R.S. was an Ulsterman and engineer. ... Edward B Ellington (1845-1914) was a British hydraulic engineer. ... Tim Hunkin (born 1950) is an English engineer, cartoonist, writer, and artist living in Suffolk, England. ... Ernest F G Cox (1883-1959) was an engineer and marine salvage expert from Wolverhampton. ... William Barnett was a British inventor who, in 1838, applied for a patent for an internal combustion engine design. ... Samuel Brown is an English engineer who developed an internal combustion engine. ... Lionel Alexander Bethune Pilkington known as Sir Alastair Pilkington (1920_1995) was the inventor of Float glass. ... Peter Stevens (born 1943) is a British car designer. ... Roy Chadwick (1893â€“August 23, 1947) was an aircraft designer for Avro. ... Geoffrey Nathaniel Pyke (1893â€“1948) was a British inventor whose generally unorthodox ideas were often very difficult to implement. ... Sir Frederic Calland Williams (1911 - 1977), known as Freddie Williams, was an English engineer. ... Sir Ralph Freeman (27 November 1880 – 11 March 1950) was an English civil engineer, responsible for the design of several of the worlds most impressive bridges. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... George Shillibeer, born in London, England c. ... Sir Donald Coleman Bailey (15 September 1901 â€“ 5 May 1985) was a British civil engineer who invented the Bailey bridge. ... Ian Oswald Liddell was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. ... Sir John Fowler (July 15, 1817â€“November 10, 1898) was born in Wadsley, South Yorkshire, England. ... Thomas Steers was born in 1672 in Kent and died in 1750. ... Sir John Adams (1920 â€“ 1984) was a British scientist and administrator. ... In 1810, Peter Durand (also known as Pierre Durand) was granted a patent by King George III of England for his idea of preserving food in vessels of glass, pottery, tin, or other metals or fit materials. ... John Ramsbottom (11 September 1814 â€” 20 May 1897) was an English mechanical engineer who created many inventions for railways, including the Ramsbottom safety valve, the displacement lubricator, and the water trough. ... George Thomas Clark (May 26, 1809 - April 6, 1885) was a British engineer and antiquary, particularly associated with the management of the Dowlais Iron Company. ... Henry Trengrouse (March 18th, 1772 - Feb 14th, 1854) was born in Helston, Cornwall, was educated at the Grammar School, and lived there all of his life, working as a builder and cabinet-maker. ... Alan Bond (born 1944) is Managing Director of Reaction Engines Ltd [1] and associated with Project Daedalus, Blue Streak missile, HOTOL and Skylon. ... William Fothergill Cooke (Ealing 1806- Farnham, Surrey 25 June 1879) was, with Charles Wheatstone, the co-inventor of the Cooke-Wheatstone electrical telegraph, which was patented in May 1837. ... Joseph Smith was a British aircraft designer who took over as Chief Designer for Supermarines upon the death of R. J. Mitchell and led the team responsible for the subsequent development of the Supermarine Spitfire. ... John Milne (1850 â€“ 1913) was the English geologist and mining engineer who invented the seismograph. ... Sir William Lyons (born 1901, died 1985) was a British automobile designer and the founder of the Jaguar car company. ... John Urpeth Rastrick (January 26, 1780 â€“ November 1, 1856) was one of the first English steam locomotive builders. ... Thomas Earnshaw (born on February 4, 1749 in in Ashton-under-Lyne - died March 1, 1829 in London) was an English watchmaker who first simplified the process of chronometer production, making them available to the general public. ... Sir (Isaac) Lowthian Bell (18 February 1816 - 20 December 1904), Fellow of the Royal Society, was a Victorian Iron Master of Washington, Co. ... London watchmaker John Arnold (1736–99), was one of the true master clockmakers from what was unarguably England’s golden age of horology. ... Major Frank Bernard Halford, (1894â€“1955), was an aircraft engine designer. ... Jeremy Broun is amongst a handful of pioneers of the Seventies British Craft Furniture Revival and a leading innovative designer maker of wood furniture. ... John Makepeace (b 1939), OBE, FCSD, FRSA,is a British furniture designer who established a workshop in 1963. ... Fred Baier is regarded as one of the most avant garde British furniture designer makers since the Seventies when he graduated from The Royal College of Art. ... Andrew Vivian (1759-1842), Cornish mechanical engineer, inventor, and mine captain of the famous Dolcoath Silver Mine in Cornwall. ... William Edward Willoughby Petter (1908-1968) known as Teddy was an English aircraft designer. ... Owen Mclaren MBE (died April 1978), inventor of the collapsible baby buggy. ... Augustus Applegath (1788-1871) was the inventor of the vertical printing-press. ... Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle (30 September 1791 â€“ 3 November 1847) was an officer of the British army active in Upper Canada. ... William Pickersgill (1861 - 2 May 1928) was CME of the Caledonian Railway from 1914 when he replaced John Farqharson McIntosh until grouping in 1923. ... William Barton Wright (13 November 1828 - 7 May 1915) was a British mechanical engineer and locomotive superintendent of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. ... Oswald Stevens Nock (1904-1994) known as O.S. Nock was a British railway author. ... Captain Henry Joseph Round (2 June 1881, Kingswinford, Staffordshire, Englandâ€“17 August 1966, Bognor Regis) was one of the early pioneers of radio and received 117 patents. ... Patrick Stirling (29 June 1820 - 11 November 1895) was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Northern Railway His father Robert Stirling was also an engineer. ... John Armstrong (1674â€“1742) was a British Engineer. ... Magnus Volk (1851-1937 in Brighton) was a British electrical engineer who built Volks Electric Railway. ... Sir Richard Lee (1513-1575) was a military engineer. ... Edward Orange Wildman Whitehouse (1816 - January 26, 1890) was an English surgeon, better-known for his ultimately unsuccessful endeavours at electrical engineering on the transatlantic telegraph cable. ... Frank Perkins (20 February 1889 Peterborough, United Kingdom - 1967) British engineer, businessman, creator of the Perkins Diesel Engine, and founder of the Perkins Engines Company. ... Sir William Cubitt (1785-1861) was an eminent British civil engineer and millwright. ... Eugenius Birch was a 19th Century English naval architect, engineer and pier builder. ... Rudolf Kingslake,(1903-2003) An emminent academician, lens designer, and engineer. ... William Stroudley (6 March 1833-1889) was locomotive superintendent of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) from 1870 (replacing John Craven) until his death. ... Humphrey Gainsborough (1718â€“1776), a non-conformist minister, engineer and inventor. ... John Barraclough Fell (1815 â€“ 18 October 1902), was a British railway engineer and inventor of the Fell mountain railway system. ... William Mayo (c. ... John Shae Perring (1813 - 1869) was a British engineer, anthropologist and Egyptologist. ... For Thomas Gray the classical scholar, see Thomas Gray For Thomas Gray, recipient of the Victoria Cross, see Thomas Gray (VC) Thomas Lomar Gray, of the British Imperial College of Engineering, helped John Milne and James Alfred Ewing develop the first modern seismometers in Japan from 1880-1895. ... Sir Martin Francis Wood, CBE, FRS (born 19 April 1927) was co-founder of Oxford Instruments, one of the first spin-out companies from the University of Oxford and still one of the most successful. ... John Stringfellows flying machine in the Science Museum, London. ... David May is a British chip designer and computer scientist. ... From 1979 to 1990 he worked at Ford working between Dunton, Japan, Italy and Australia, mainly working on â€˜bits of cars, mostly steering wheelsâ€™.[1] As well as working on bread-and-butter Fiestas and Mondeos, he contributed to image builders such as the RS200 and Escort RS Cosworth, the... John Pinkerton (August 2, 1919 â€“ December 22, 1997), pioneering computer designer. ... Thomas Fowler (born 1777 in Great Torrington, Devon, England - died March 31, 1843) was a British inventor whose most notable invention was the thermosiphon which forms the basis of most modern central heating systems. ... Henry Winstanley (1644â€“November 27, 1703) was an English engineer. ... Charles Benjamin Collett (September 10, 1871 - April 5, 1952) was chief mechanical engineer of the Great Western Railway from 1922 to 1941. ... Peter Wheeler (born 1945) is a chemical engineer from Yorkshire, UK, who owned the Blackpool-based TVR sports car company for 23 years. ... Colonel Richard William Howard Vyse (1784 â€“ 1872) was a British soldier, anthropologist and Egyptologist. ... Frank Barnwell (1880 - August 2, 1938) was an aeronautical engineer, who performed the first powered flight in Scotland and later went on to a career as an aircraft designer. ... Harris Mann (b. ... Alexander Hamilton Church ( ? - ? ) was an English efficiency engineer and author. ... Thomas Wedgwood (1771-1805), son of Josiah Wedgwood, was an early experimenter with Humphry Davy in photography though he was unable to permanently fix the image. ... Henry Booth was born 4 April 1788 died 1869, on Rodney Street, Liverpool, England. ... Robert Stirling Newall (1812 - 1889) was a Scottish engineer and astronomer. ... William Arrol (1839 - 1913) was a Scottish civil engineer and bridge builder. ... Sir William McLellan, sometimes called 1st Lord Kirkcudbright, was the son of Sir Patrick of Bombie, and is best remembered in his undertaking as inspired by a proclamation of King James II of Scotland to give a forfeited McLellan estate to whoever should disperse a troublesome troupe of unwanted gypsies... Jasper Morrison (born 1959) is an English product and furniture designer. ... Rear Admiral Henry Stafford Brockman(1884-1958), an engineer, was the father of Sir Ronald Brockman. ... Fergus Pollock is a British car designer. ... Geoff Lawson (1944 â€“ June 24, 1999) was a British car designer[1] . He was a graduate of the British Royal College of Art, London[2]. Some of his cars Jaguar XJ220[2] Jaguar XJ6[2] Jaguar XJ8[2] Jaguar XK8[2] Jaguar S-Type[2] References ^ a Business: The Company... Sir Guilford Lindsey Molesworth (1828-1925) was an English civil engineer. ... Oliver Winterbottom is one of Britains best-known automotive designers. ... Henry Phillip Folland (1889â€“1994) was an English aviation engineer and aircraft designer who was the chief designer at Gloster Aircraft Company until he bought British Marine Aircraft Ltd. ... John Wardley is a consultant who specialises in concept design and development for the Theme Park and other mass tourism and leisure industries. ... Ford Cortina MkII 1976 Mini Clubman 1973 Morris Marina Roy Haynes was a British automobile designer. ... Richard Walker (1918 â€“ 1985) was an English angler. ... Dickinson designed the ZX81 personal computer, and holds a patent for its design. ... Henry Berry, (1719-1812) was Liverpools second dock engineer succedding Thomas Steers. ... Richard Leach Maddox (August 4, 1816 â€“ May 11, 1902) was a British photographer and physician who invented lightweight gelatin negative plates for photography in 1871. ... Sir Alex Smith was born in Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland, in 1922 and died in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, England. ... John Inshaw (1807-1893) was a mechanic and inventor who lived in Aston, now a district of Birmingham, England. ... Ernest Leopold Ahrons (February 12, 1866-March 30, 1925) was a British engineer and author. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Harry Mundy (b. ... Douglas Ferreira, O.B.E., (1929 - 2003) was the longest serving General Manager of the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway, a heritage railway in Cumbria, England known as the Ratty. He was at the heart of the Ratty for thirty four years. ... William Adams (1823â€“1904) was the Locomotive Superintendent of the North London Railway from 1858 to 1873; the Great Eastern Railway from 1873 until 1878 and the London and South Western Railway from then until his retirement in 1895. ... William Bridges Adams (1797â€“1872) was an author, inventor and locomotive engineer. ... Francis Fox was an English civil engineer born in Derby in the nineteenth century. ... Willoughby Smith (April 6, 1828, Great Yarmouth, England â€” July 17, 1891, Eastbourne, England) was an electrical engineer who discovered the photoconductivity of the element selenium. ... Sir Nathaniel Barnaby (born February 25, 1829 in Chatham, England) was the Chief Constructor of the Royal Navy between 1872 and 1885. ... Rover P6 Rover SD1 David Bache (14 June 1925â€“26 November 1994) was a British car designer. ... Roy Axe is a British car designer. ... A well known Purveyor Of Hentai in England. ... James Thomson (February 16, 1822 - May 8, 1892) was an Irish engineer and physicist whose reputation would have been substantial had it not been overshadowed by that of his brother William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin. ... Gustav William Wolff (born Hamburg, 1834 as Gustav Wilhelm Wolff - 17 April 1913, London) was one of the founders of Harland and Wolff and a Member of Parliament. ... Alexander Lodge (1881-1938) was an inventor who did early work and held some patents on the spark plug. ... William Gordon Bagnall was a British mechanical engineer born in Tamworth, Staffordshire in 1852. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Sir George Robert Edwards, OM, CBE, FRS, DL (born 9 July 1908 in Highams Park, England; died 2 March 2003 in Guildford, England) was a British aircraft designer and industrialist. ... Professor Sir Edmund Happold was a structural engineer and founder of Buro Happold. ... Oliver North was the designer for Scammell Lorries Ltd from 1922. ... Adrian Farrel is a co-chair of three IETF working groups namely CCAMP[1], PCE[2] and L1VPN [3] which are responsible for developing GMPLS and MPLS related standards. ... Sir John Jackson (4 February 1851 â€“ 14 December 1919) Civil engineer and Unionist Member of Parliament for Devonport, 1910-8. ... Kenneth Reginald Dakin (born November 18, 1948) is an English software developer and author of several software products for the IBM mainframe. ... James M Langtry 1894-1971 Langtry, James MacKay (1894-1971) was a British Technical Advisor who was seconded by the engineering firm Vickers Armstrong to the Spanish naval shipbuilder Sociedad EspaÃ±ola de ConstrucciÃ³n Naval (SECN), of which it owned a part. ...