Famous Engineers
The designer of the Statue of Liberty and Eiffel Tour.
Who was Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel?
Bridges, dams, buildings, airports, roads & tunnels.
What structures do civil engineers build?
The force pulling objects towards the Earth
What is Gravity?
An Atom
What is the smallest unit of matter?
Burj Khalifa, Dubai
What is the world's tallest building?
Neil Armstrong
Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
The design of airplanes
What is Aerospace Engineering?
Thrust, drag, weight, and lift.
What are the 4 forces involved in aeroplane flight?
What is the subatomic particle with a positive electric charge?
Three Gorges Dam, China
What is the world's largest hydroelectric power station?
The inventor of mass production. Specifically, the assembly line technique.
Who was Henry Ford?
Power and energy, telecommunications, components such as resistors, capacitators, inductors and diaodes.
What does an electrical engineer study?
the method that engineers use to identify and solve problems
Acid
What is the opposite of an Alkali
Danyang Kunshan Grand Bridge, China
What is the name of the longest bridge in the world?
Thomas Edison, 1879
Who invented the lightbulb? (and in what year?)
electric generators, power-producing machines, internal combustion engines, steam and gas turbines, robots....
What are some of the things designed and manufactured by a mechanical engineer?
A stream of charged particles
What is an electric current ?
an admixture of metals, or a metal combined with one or more other elements
What is an alloy?
Folkestone and Coquelles
What two places/towns are connected by the Channel Tunnel?
Percy Spencer
Who build the microwave?
a switch
What is the device that opens and closes an electric circuit
A beam connected to ground by a hinge, or pivot, called a fulcrum
What is a lever?
100 degrees
What is the boiling temperature of water?
the Large Hadron Collider
What is the world's largest and highest-energy particle collider?