[null and void]

Edison came in 5th.

No, I'm not listing them, it's worth reading the stories and reasoning for the picks.

[BillyBonebrake]

I’m disappointed John Roebling didn’t make the list. He designed the Brooklyn Bridge.

[Huskrrrr]

The Beaver, MIT’s mascot.

[andyk]

I’m down with Kelly Johnson, for sure.

[GonzoGOP]

That Leonardo da Vinci made the list and Isambard Kingdom Brunel didn't tells me they have their priorities wrong. Leonardo da Vinci’s designs were advanced, but he never got most of them to work. Brunel may have been ahead of his time, but all of his stuff worked. It may not have made money, but from an engineering perspective it always worked. Finall there is the low ranking of Edision. His stuff was advanced, worked and made tons of money.

[Hot Tabasco]

The guy who invented beer should be on that list but then again, maybe he wasn’t an engineer.

[Steely Tom]

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Elmer Ambrose Sperry

Charles Algernon Parsons

[DainBramage]

The builders of the pyramids. With little technology other than rudimentary tools they built something that lasted centuries and still awe inspiring.

[bigheadfred]

#1 engineer?

George Smith. Hands down.

[Michael.SF.]

James Eads - Eads Bridge St. Louis

[PJBankard]

Kinda shocked that it wasn't:

#1 Barack Obama - Currently Engineering the downfall of America

#2 Democrats - Enabling Obama

/sarc

[yarddog]

When Julius Caesar invaded Germany, his engineers built a wooden bridge across the Rhine in just a few days. It was capable of carrying infantry and vehicles.

When they recrossed headed back towards Rome, they destroyed it.

[Secret Agent Man]

Did they put Tesla in there, or was he considered more inventor than engineer? Lots of overlap from my view.

[mountainlion]

Casey Jones has to be first.

[meatloaf]

I’m glad to see Tesla was at the top. He invented the basis for modern civilizaion to the extent it depends on AC power. If Edison would have had his way we would have been stuck with small local DC power plants. The Supreme Court finally ruled that Tesla, not Marconi invented the radio.

[nascarnation]

I’d nominate Kettering, with a honorable mention for Smokey Yunick.

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

James Clerk Maxwell
Hertz
Lee DeForest
Tesla

[nascarnation]

Oh and we gotta include the guy who wrote the Engineer’s Song, whoever he is...

Godiva was a lady who through Coventry did ride
To show the royal villagers her fine and pure white hide
The most observant man of all, an engineer of course,
Was the only one who noticed that Godiva rode a horse

Chorus:
We are, we are, we are, we are, we are the Engineers
We can, we can, we can, we can, demolish forty beers
Drink rum, drink rum, drink rum all day, and come along with us
‘Cause we don’t give a damn for any old man who don’t give a damn for us!

She said, “I’ve come a long, long way, and I will go as far
With the man who takes me from this horse and leads me to a bar
The man who took her from her steed and lead her to a beer
Was a bleary-eyed surveyor and a drunken engineer

Godiva was a lady well-endowed there is no doubt
She never wore a stitch of clothes, just wound her hair about
The first man who did make her was a Engineer, of course,
But on just one beer an artsie queer had made Godiva’s horse

[Paine in the Neck]

Archimedes
Edison
Tesla
JM Browning
Roebling
Brunel
da Vinci

[APatientMan]

God

[17th Miss Regt]

They have completely ignored the Muslims! What about all the miraculous inventions created by Muslims?? For this slight Muslims all over the world should storm American facilities and burn them to the ground!