Famous Engineers
The Farad, a unit of electrical capacitance, was named for this British physicist.
Who is Michael Faraday?
In the 14th century the Ming dynasty extended it 16 miles to Laolongtou, where it meets the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Great Wall of China?
28.35 grams equals one of these units of weight.
What is an ounce?
Workers cheered as this ship was launched seamlessly on May 31, 1911 from a Belfast shipyard; its maiden voyage didn't go as well.
What is the Titanic?
"Engineering" this -ology examines earthquakes from the engineering perspective.
What is seismology?
In 1909 this French engineer built a type of wind tunnel that "towered" above all others.
Who is Gustave Eiffel?
It was the Persians, not the Dutch, who invented this energy-producing machine to grind grain.
What is a windmill?
This unit of power is equal to about 746 watts.
What is a horsepower?
Soviet victims of radiation accidents are remembered every April 26, the day of the meltdown at this site.
What is Chernobyl?
Teaching aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati, was one further step for this man.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
Columbus set sail from Spain in 1492, around the time this Renaissance master drew his "Vitruvian Man".
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
This project of 1904-1914 cost the U.S. over $330 million & it wasn't even in the U.S.
What is the Panama Canal?
This unit of weight used for gemstones equals 200 milligrams.
What is a carat?
In 1983 Karol Bobko piloted the first flight of this ill-fated shuttle.
What is the Challenger?
Seriously, this actor who gets big laughs as "Mr. Bean" earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from Oxford.
Who is Rowan Atkinson?
This inventor who built a lab there in 1876 was nicknamed "The Wizard of Menlo Park".
Who is Thomas Edison?
Boulder City, Nevada was built to house the workers who constructed the 1930s structure now called this.
What is the Hoover Dam?
The EPA standard for carbon monoxide exposure includes 35 of these "parts".
What are parts per million?
During the Great Molasses Flood, a disaster causing 21 deaths after a storage tank collapsed, more than two million gallons of molasses flowed through this city's North End.
What is Boston?
A Univ. of Calif. engineering degree prepared this cartoonist for his way-out inventions.
Who is Rube Goldberg?
In the 1800s, inventions like this man's improved steam engine were adapted for trains.
Who is James Watt?
1st town attacked by the Israelites under Joshua, its 1st walls were built about 8000 B.C.
What is Jericho?
You can spell "acre" with letters in this metric measurement that equals 2.471 acres.
What is a Hectare?
1st bridge across Washington's Puget Sound, it collapsed in windstorm 4 months after opening in 1940.
What is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge?
It's the term for a rigid structure that extends horizontally, with one end unsupported, like the terraces at Fallingwater.
What is a cantilever?