Benjamin Baker

Sir Benjamin Baker KCB KCMG FRS FRSE was an eminent English civil engineer who worked in mid to late Victorian era. He helped develop the early underground railways in London with Sir John Fowler, but he is best known for his work on the Forth Bridge. He was born in Keyford, to Benjamin Baker family and who was a , principal assistant at Tondu Ironworks and, at the age of 16, became an apprentic.....

Jethro Tull

English writer and agronomist who invented a horse-drawn drill around 1701. He promoted sowing seeds in rows rather than broadcast so that weeds could be controlled by hoeing regularly between the rows. For this purpose, he devised his seed drill, which could planted three rows at the same time. A blade cut a groove in the ground to receive the seed, and the soil was turned over to cover the sewn.....

Ingvar Kamprad

Feodor Ingvar Kamprad was a Swedish billionaire business magnate best known for founding IKEA in 1943, a multinational and largest retail company specialising in furniture. He lived in Switzerland from 1976 to 2014 Kamprad displayed entrepreneurial skills as a boy when he began selling matches to neighbours. In 1943, at age 17, he founded a company called IKEA, the name based on his own initials......

Elihu Thomson

Elihu Thomson was an English-born American engineer and inventor who was instrumental in the founding of major electrical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom and France English-American engineer and inventor whose discoveries in the field of alternating current phenomena led to the development of successful alternating current motors. Thomson invented electric welding and other impo.....

Sam Walton

Samuel Moore Walton was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. grew to be the world's largest corporation by revenue as well as the biggest private employer in the world. For a period of time, Walton was the richest man in America Walmart Today For the fiscal year ending in Janaury 2020, Walmart's total revenue wa.....

Steve Ballmer

Steven Anthony Ballmer is an American billionaire businessman and investor who served as the chief executive officer of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014. He is the current owner of the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association. Steven Anthony Ballmer as of December 2020, Forbes estimates his personal wealth at US$74.3 billion, ranking him as the 10th richest person in the world. Bal.....

Sir Joseph Bazalgette

Sir Joseph was a 19th-century English civil engineer. As chief engineer of London's Metropolitan Board of Works his major achievement was the creation of a sewer network for central London which was instrumental in relieving the city from cholera epidemics, while beginning to clean the River Thames. He was also the designer of the Hammersmith Bridge.After working on projects in Northern Ireland, B.....

John R. Pierce

Pierce was influential in the development of microwaves and radar during WW II, then began working on the theory of satellite communication in 1954. His writings, which detailed the use of satellites in beaming radio signals around the world, were largely ignored. However, he convinced NASA to convert the Echo balloon satellite into a radio wave reflector. His successful experiments with Echo in 1.....

Henry Royce

Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet, OBE was an English engineer famous for his designs of car and aeroplane engines with a reputation for reliability and longevity. With Charles Rolls and Claude Johnson, he founded Rolls-Royce. English industrialist who, having met Charles Rolls, in May 1904, found they shared a common interest to manufacture and market the finest cars. Together, in 1906 they .....

Othmar Ammann

Othmar Hermann Ammann was a Swiss-American civil engineer whose bridge designs include the George Washington Bridge, Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, and Bayonne Bridge. He also directed the planning and construction of the Lincoln Tunnel. George Washington bridge is the longest single span in the world. In 1904 Ammann immigrated to the United States, where he helped design railroad bridges. Joining the.....

Lawrence Edward Page

Lawrence Edward Page is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of the co-founders of Google along with Sergey Brin. Page, whose father was a professor of computer science at Michigan State University, received a computer engineering degree from the University of Michigan and entered into the doctorate program at Stanford, where he met Brin. The two were.....

Vasant Gowarikar

Vasant Ranchhod Gowarikar was an Indian scientist. He was a director in Indian Space Research Organization and also the scientific advisor to the Prime Minister of India in 1991–1993. Gowarikar made valuable contributions to the fields of space research, weather and population......

Norman Borlaug

Norman Ernest Borlaug was an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Father of the Green Revolution The expression "the green revolution" is permanently linked to Norman Borlaug's name. He obtained a PhD in plant protection at the age of 27, and worked in Mexico in the 1940s and 1950s to m.....

Satyendra Prasanna Sinha

Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha, was a prominent lawyer and statesman in British India. He was the first Governor of Bihar and Orissa, first Indian Advocate-General of Bengal, first Indian to become a member of the Viceroy's executive Council and the first Indian to become a member of the British ministry. He is sometimes also referred as Satyendra Prasanno Sinha or Satyendra Prasad Sinh.....

Joseph Priestley

Priestley,born in to a dissenting family of church, remained a influential religious free thinker throughout his whole life . Priestley initially became a minister and a teacher. He then became interested in electricity and after encouragement from the visiting Benjamin Franklin began experiments on what he considered unanswered questions in the field. Priestley went on to discover 10 new gases in.....

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is an Indian billionaire entrepreneur. She is the chairperson and managing director of Biocon Limited, a biotechnology company based in Bangalore, India and the former chairperson of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. The daughter of a brewmaster for India-based United Breweries, Mazumdar-Shaw originally planned to follow in her father’s footsteps. She earned an under.....

Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu

G. D. Naidu was an Indian inventor and engineer who is referred to as the "Edison of India" and "the wealth creator of Coimbatore". He is credited with the manufacture of the first electric motor in India. His contributions were primarily industrial but also spanned the fields of electrical, mechanical, agricultural and automobile engineering. Naidu developed an independently internal combustion.....

Robert Andrews Millikan

American physicist who was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize for Physics for “his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect.” Millikan's famous oil-drop experiment was far superior to previous determinations of the charge of an electron, and further showed that the electron was a fundamental, discrete particle. When its value was substituted in Niels Bohr's theor.....

Ulugh Beg Mirz

Mīrzā Muhammad Tāraghay bin Shāhrukh, better known as Ulugh Beg, was a Timurid sultan, as well as an astronomer and mathematician. Ulugh Beg was notable for his work in astronomy-related mathematics, such as trigonometry and spherical geometry, as well as his general interests in the arts and intellectual activities. Mongol astronomer and mathematician who, although the only important Mongol .....

Patcha Ramachandra Rao

Patcha Ramachandra Rao was a metallurgist and administrator. He has the unique distinction of being the only Vice-Chancellor of the Banaras Hindu University who was also a student and faculty at that institution. From 1992 to 2002, Rao was the Director of the National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur. Rao was born to S. R. Narayanaswamy Naidu and Laxmi Bai , in the Krishna District of Andhra P.....

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