Famous Engineers & Inventors
This engineer is known for the automotive company that still bears his name; he was an industrialist and engineer who is noted for creating the assembly line
Who is Henry Ford?
In most cases, reservoir fluids flow to the surface through the
What is tubing
The study of physical machines that may involve force and movement
What is mechanical engineering?
This suspension bridge in Washington collapsed on November 7, 1940. Caused by moderate winds which produced aeroelastic flutter that was self-exciting and unbounded, opposite to damping.
What was the Tacoma Narrows Bridge?
A device that converts motion-based power or fuel-based power into electrical power for external use.
What is a generator?
This Serbian-American engineer is best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system
Who is Nikola Tesla?
A well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of formations in bedrock by a pressurized liquid
What is hydraulic fracturing?
The study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism
What is electrical engineering?
The largest offshore oil spill in history took place in 2010
What is the BP Machonda disaster?
Invented in the late 1800s, this telecommunication device converts sounds into electronic signals that can be transmitted via cables to another receiving unit.
What is the telephone?
This man is was an American theoretical physicist and director of the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II and is often called the "father of the atomic bomb".
Who is Julius Robert Oppenheimer
This man was an American business magnate and considered the wealthiest business man of all time making his fortune in oil refining.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Study that is concerned with the optimization of complex processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information and equipment
What is industrial engineering?
This event began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of a Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian Soviet socialist republic.
What is the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster?
Commercially developed in the mid-1800s, this process has had a large impact on industry, lifestyle, agriculture, and settlement patterns by allowing for the easy preservation of food.
What is Refrigeration?
These two inventors are famous worldwide for building the worlds first successful flying machine.
Who are Wilber and Orville Wright (Wright Bothers)?
A large sedimentary basin in the southwestern part of the United States; it is the highest producing oil field in the United States
What is the Permain Basin?
Study of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft.
What is aerospace engineering?
On May 6 1937, a catastrophe that put a halt to the era of passenger airships was marked by this event.
What is the Hindenburg Disaster?
Having multiple iterations throughout history, this device is a machine that can be programmed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations (computation) automatically.
What is a computer?
This physicist was a Polish chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two scientific fields
Who is Madam (Marie) Curie?
Location of the first successful use of a drilling rig on a well drilled especially to produce oil
Where is Titusville, Pennsylvania?
The discipline concerned with designing and applying systems that utilize the energy released by nuclear processes
What is nuclear engineering?
On July 17, 1981 in Kansas City, MO, the concrete and glass platforms loaded with partygoers in a hotel fell onto a tea dance in the lobby, killing 114 and injuring 216
What is the Hyatt Regency Hotel walkway collapse ?
A construction technique which involves the prefabrication of 2D panels or 3D volumetric structures in off-site factories and transportation to construction sites for assembly
What is modular construction?