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This is a 'list of mechanical engineers', notable people who were trained in or practiced mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering, etc. This is not a list of engineers practicing that profession.
See also List of engineers for links to other engineering professions.
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Reference

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★ Willis Carrier - Father of air conditioning

★ André Citroën - Automobile

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★ Rudolf Diesel - inventor of the Diesel engine

★ Keith Duckworth - designer of the Cosworth DFV

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★ John Ericsson - Inventor of Ship Propeller[[1]]

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★ Henry Ford - automobiles

★ Yuan-Cheng Fung - Biomechanics

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★ Emile Gagnan - underwater apparatus

★ Henry Laurence Gantt - Gantt chart

★ John Josiah Guest - iron production

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★ Beulah Louise Henry - nicknamed lady Edison

★ Hero of Alexandria - ancient

★ Alfred Hitchcock - filmmaker

★ August Horch - automobiles

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★ Alan Kulwicki - 1992 NASCAR Champion

★ Çağla Kubat - Turkish actress / model

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★ Frederick Lanchester - automobiles and aviation

★ Leonardo Da Vinci - perhaps the greatest engineer

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★ Ma Jun - 3rd century China, invented the South Pointing Chariot, mechanical puppet theaters, chain pumps, improved silk looms, etc.

★ Elijah McCoy

★ Andrew Meikle - threshing machine and windmill sails

★ James Morgan - Applied Materials CEO

★ Thomas Midgley, Jr. - He developed tetra-ethyl lead (TEL) and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

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★ Bill Nye - (The Science Guy)

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★ Charles Algernon Parsons - steam turbine inventor

★ Ferdinand Porsche - automobile

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★ William John Macquorn Rankine - Steam engine, fatigue

★ Richard Roberts - machine tool and machinery maker.

★ Alfred H. Rzeppa - constant-velocity joint

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★ Igor Sikorsky - Inventor of the single-rotor Helicopter

★ George Stephenson - Railway Engineer and Founder of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

★ Robert Stephenson - Railway Engineer

★ Su Song - 11th century China, first to use an escapement mechanism (see Yi Xing below) and chain drive to operate his astronomical clock tower

★ John H. Sununu - Presidential Chief of Staff

★ Dr. Victor Szebehely- Aerospace Engineering & Celestial Mechanics

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★ Dr. Andy Thomas - Australian Astronaut

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★ Boris Vian - writer

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★ James Watt - Scottish inventor of the Watt steam engine that fundamentaly changed the Industrial Revolution and considered by many in the discipline as the father of mechanical engineering.

★ Samuel T. Wellman - various inventions used in the steel industry

★ Eli Whitney - cotton gin, interchangeable parts

★ Joseph Whitworth - mechanical

★ Ludwig Wittgenstein - aerospace engineer turned philosopher

★ Nathaniel C. Wyeth - inventor, chemical engineer

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Yi Xing - 8th century China, first to use an escapement mechanism in operating a water-powered armillary sphere

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Zhang Heng - 1st century-2nd century China, invented the first hydraulic-powered armillary sphere, and the first seismometer device to detect the direction of earthquakes

Reference