Edison came in 5th.
No, I'm not listing them, it's worth reading the stories and reasoning for the picks.
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I’m disappointed John Roebling didn’t make the list. He designed the Brooklyn Bridge.
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The Beaver, MIT’s mascot.
3 posted on
09/14/2012 2:29:32 PM PDT by
Huskrrrr
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I’m down with Kelly Johnson, for sure.
4 posted on
09/14/2012 2:30:23 PM PDT by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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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.
6 posted on
09/14/2012 2:31:32 PM PDT by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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The guy who invented beer should be on that list but then again, maybe he wasn’t an engineer.
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Elmer Ambrose Sperry
Charles Algernon Parsons
8 posted on
09/14/2012 2:31:43 PM PDT by
Steely Tom
(If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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The builders of the pyramids. With little technology other than rudimentary tools they built something that lasted centuries and still awe inspiring.
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#1 engineer?
George Smith. Hands down.
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12 posted on
09/14/2012 2:39:27 PM PDT by
Michael.SF.
(Romney was right about the Olympics, but neither the Brits or the Dems will admit it.)
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Kinda shocked that it wasn't:
#1 Barack Obama - Currently Engineering the downfall of America
#2 Democrats - Enabling Obama
/sarc
13 posted on
09/14/2012 2:40:44 PM PDT by
PJBankard
(I told my friends I was heading to Octermocty for the weekend. They replied... "Wear the fox hat")
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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.
15 posted on
09/14/2012 2:43:11 PM PDT by
yarddog
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Did they put Tesla in there, or was he considered more inventor than engineer? Lots of overlap from my view.
16 posted on
09/14/2012 2:44:33 PM PDT by
Secret Agent Man
(I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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Casey Jones has to be first.
17 posted on
09/14/2012 2:45:10 PM PDT by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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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.
18 posted on
09/14/2012 2:46:23 PM PDT by
meatloaf
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I’d nominate Kettering, with a honorable mention for Smokey Yunick.
20 posted on
09/14/2012 2:47:31 PM PDT by
nascarnation
(Defeat Baraq 2012. Deport Baraq 2013)
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James Clerk Maxwell
Hertz
Lee DeForest
Tesla
22 posted on
09/14/2012 2:48:42 PM PDT by
Sen Jack S. Fogbound
(We have met the enemy and they is us! After all, who voted Obama in?)
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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
24 posted on
09/14/2012 2:50:22 PM PDT by
nascarnation
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Archimedes
Edison
Tesla
JM Browning
Roebling
Brunel
da Vinci
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27 posted on
09/14/2012 3:09:05 PM PDT by
APatientMan
(Pick a side)
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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!
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