The 10 Greatest Engineers of All Time

Engineering Potpourri History
#21

He has a BA in Physics and a BS in Economics. His occupation is listed as * entrepreneur

  • investor * engineer in Wikipedia.
#22

It’s because of Terzhaghi that Russia knows that Winnipeg is west of Transcona…

Dik

#23

There has to be a back story to this dik.
Can you share?

#24

The grain elevator failures were classic cohesive soil slip plane failures predicted by Terzhaghi’s theory. Failure occurred in 1913, but, was classic.

I thought everyone knew this.:grinning:

Dik

#25

Thanks dik. I apologize for not re-reading the first part of this thread.
By the way, I agree with one of your earlier posts.
Harrison Ford does not belong on the list.

#26

No apology required… sort of a local first year engineering joke… Some engineers really do have a sense of humour.:joy:

Dik

#27

Seems the list is endless and very diverse, maybe it would be better to list the greatest by category and bring some order / sense to the discussion.

#28

How about Imhotep?

#29

I just saw an amusing anagram of my favourite British engineer.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel = Man making rubber dildos

#30

Edstainless,

I’ll see your Imhotep, and I’ll raise you one Hammurabi.

229. If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.

230. If it kill the son of the owner the son of that builder shall be put to death.

231. If it kill a slave of the owner, then he shall pay slave for slave to the owner of the house.

232. If it ruin goods, he shall make compensation for all that has been ruined, and inasmuch as he did not construct properly this house which he built and it fell, he shall re-erect the house from his own means.

233. If a builder build a house for some one, even though he has not yet completed it; if then the walls seem toppling, the builder must make the walls solid from his own means.

234. If a shipbuilder build a boat of sixty gur for a man, he shall pay him a fee of two shekels in money.

235. If a shipbuilder build a boat for some one, and do not make it tight, if during that same year that boat is sent away and suffers injury, the shipbuilder shall take the boat apart and put it together tight at his own expense. The tight boat he shall give to the boat owner.

#31

That’s why I keep all the ships I build at 59 gur and under :sailboat:

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