No, I'm not listing them, it's worth reading the stories and reasoning for the picks.
I nominate Theodore Judah. As the chief engineer of the Central Pacific Railroad, Judah surveyed the route over the Sierra Nevada along which the railroad was to be built during the 1860s. He succeeded in signing up four Sacramento merchants—the “Big Four”: Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, Mark Hopkins, and Charles Crocker to finance construction of the CPRR. Construction was completed in 1869, with virtually the entire course of the railroad having followed Judah’s plans.
Howard Walowitz
Heron of Alexandria, hands-down. Way ahead of his time. In some cases, by a millennium or more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heron_of_Alexandria
BA Baracus didn’t make the list? What about MacGyver?????
My top two nominees would be John Moses Browning ( http://www.bobtuley.com/johnbrowning.htm ) and Nikola Tesla. I have not checked the list yet.
I demand that a Muslim be put on the list so that they feel better about themselves.
Isambard Brunel
Nikola Tesla
Robert Stephenson
Robert Goddard
Sounds a little like, "You didn't build that. Someone else mad that happen."
Francis Julian Sprague, the “father of electric traction”.
He built the first successful trolley system in Richmond, in 1888. The design for suspending electric motors on locomotive trucks that he devised is still in use today.
He also invented “multiple-unit control”, which makes it possible to run two or more locomotives (or rapid-transit rail cars) from a single control station.
He pioneered modern elevator control, making skyscrapers possible.
The reason he isn’t well-known today is that he didn’t insist that his name be associated with his many inventions...
Casey Jones?
bump for later