Mir Yousuf Ali Khan

Mir Yousuf Ali Khan, Salar Jung III Nawab Abul Quasim Owaisi, Mir Yousuf Ali Khan, Salar Jung III is commonly known as Salar Jung III. He built many tourist places like Salar Jung Museum. He was fourth in order of nobility after the three Paigah. Nawab Abul Quasim Owaisi, Mir Yousuf Ali Khan, Salar JungIII is commonly known as Salar Jung III. He built many tourist places like Salar Jung Museum.[1.....

John A. Roebling

John Augustus Roebling was a German-born American civil engineer. He designed and built wire rope suspension bridges, in particular the Brooklyn Bridge, which has been designated as a National Historic Landmark and a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. John Augustus Roebling, original name Johann August Röbling,a German-born American civil engineer, a pioneer in the design of suspension.....

E. Sreedharan

Elattuvalapil Sreedharan is an Indian engineer turned politician from Kerala who is credited with changing the face of public transport in India with his leadership in building the Konkan Railway and the Delhi Metro while he served as the managing director of Delhi Metro Rail Corporation between 1995 and 2012. Elattuvalapil Sreedharan is an Indian politician and engineer who is known for transform.....

Carl von Linde

Carl Paul Gottfried Linde was a German scientist, engineer, and businessman. He discovered a refrigeration cycle and invented the first industrial-scale air separation and gas liquefaction processes, which led to the first reliable and efficient compressed-ammonia refrigerator in 1876. Carl Paul Gottfried Linde was a German scientist, engineer, and businessman. He discovered a refrigeration cycle .....

Kowdoor Sadananda Hegde

Kowdoor Sadananda Hegde was an Indian jurist and politician who served as a judge in the Supreme Court of India and later as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha. Hegde founded the Nitte Education Trust. He is the father of Santhosh Hegde, who also served as a judge in the Supreme Court of India. Hegde served as a public prosecutor from 1947 to 1951. In 1952, he was elected to the Rajya Sabha, a positi.....

Sundar Pichai

Pichai Sundararajan, better known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian-American business executive. He is the chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google. Born in Madurai India, Pichai earned his degree from IIT Kharagpur in metallurgical engineering. As a boy growing up in Madras, Pichai slept with his brother in the living room of the cramped family home, but his father, an ele.....

Rahul Bajaj

Rahul Bajaj is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is the chairman of the Indian conglomerate Bajaj Group and a member of parliament. Bajaj comes from the business house started by Jamnalal Bajaj. He was awarded the third-highest civilian award Padma Bhushan in 2001. In a recent interview for the Creating Emerging Markets project at the Harvard Business School, Bajaj provides a devastating crit.....

Anil Manibhai Naik

Anil Manibhai Naik, popularly known as A. M. Naik, is an Indian industrialist, philanthropist and the Group Chairman of Larsen & Toubro Limited, an Indian engineering conglomerate, and since 2018, the Chairman of the National Skill Development Corporation. Anil Manibhai Naik, is one of the most influential entrepreneurs in India. Ever since he took charge of Larsen & Turbo, he has fought many batt.....

George Stephenson

George Stephenson was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Renowned as the "Father of Railways", Stephenson was considered by the Victorians a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement. Self-help advocate Samuel Smiles particularly praised his achievements. George Stephenson, English engineer and principal inventor of the railroad locomotive. Stephenson was the .....

John Smeaton

John Smeaton FRS was a British civil engineer responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses. He was also a capable mechanical engineer and an eminent physicist. Smeaton was the first self-proclaimed "civil engineer", and is often regarded as the "father of civil engineering". John Smeaton was an English engineer and a physicist, famously known as the ‘Father of Civil En.....

Ashish Sen

Ashish Sen is an American professor and transportation statistician based in Chicago. He currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Chicago Transit Authority and President of South-East Asia Center. In 1998, Sen was nominated by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the United States Senate as the Director of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics in the U.S. Department of Transportation. His re.....

John Rennie the Elder

John Rennie FRSE FRS was a Scottish civil engineer who designed many bridges, canals, docks and warehouses, and a pioneer in the use of structural cast-iron. John Rennie was a Scottish civil engineer famous for building canals, harbours, and bridges throughout Britain. Considered to be one of the greatest engineers of his time, Rennie was much respected throughout Britain for his technical brilli.....

Arvind Subramanian

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Karl Ferdinand Braun

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D. Ramanaidu

Daggubati Ramanaidu was an Indian film producer and the founder of Suresh Productions known for his work in Telugu cinema. He was placed in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most films produced by an individual, with more than 150 films in 13 Indian languages. Daggubati Ramanaidu was a multilingual Indian film producer. He was the founder of Suresh Productions and held the Guinness Book .....

Inderjit Singh

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Dennis Gabor

Dennis Gabor CBE FRS was a Hungarian-British electrical engineer and physicist, most notable for inventing holography, for which he later received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics. Dennis Gabor, invented holography, a system of lensless, three-dimensional photography that has many applications. Gabor was born as Günszberg Dénes, into a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary. In 1918, his family co.....

Christopher Cockerell

Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell CBE RDI FRS was an English engineer, best known as the inventor of the hovercraft. Cockerell was born in Cambridge, where his father, Sir Sydney Cockerell, was curator of the Fitzwilliam Museum. Christopher attended the preparatory school of St Faith's. Christopher was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk. He matriculated at Peterhouse, Cambridge to read mec.....

S. P. Balasubrahmanyam

Indian playback singer Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam, credited and also known as S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, S. P. B. or Balu, was an Indian playback singer, television presenter, music director, actor, dubbing artist, and film producer who worked predominantly in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, and Malayalam films. Balasubrahmanyam has won six National Film Awards for Best Male Playback Singer for .....

Flinders Petrie

Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, FRS, FBA, commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artefacts. Sir Flinders Petrie, in full Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie, British archaeologist and Egyptologist who made valuable contributions to the techniques and methods of field excavation and invented a se.....

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