Do you know that Steve Wozniak, Henry Ford, Jimmy Carter and Alfred Hitchcock are all engineers? For a complete list of world famous engineers, read on....
What would happen if there were no multi-storeyed buildings? Would it be possible to accommodate a billion plus world population? Now, imagine a world without any means of transportation or communication. No automobiles, no railways, no telephones, no ships, nothing. Can't even think of it right? Engineers, people who designed the first tunnel, the first bridge, the first sky scrapper and the first railways, have made all these things so commonplace that it's hard to even think of the times when these means of connectivity were not there.
Although, there are some engineers, who did not practice engineering, but still made a name for themselves in other fields such as film-making, politics, business, etc. Among such famous people is the film maker Alfred Hitchcock, who is an engineer and so is the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Infact, Osama Bin Laden is a qualified engineer too! Besides these, who else are the world famous engineers in history? Let's find out, by looking at the lists of famous civil, mechanical and electrical engineers.
List of Famous Engineers in History