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The exception that confirms the rule. One person in millenia counts as "didn't talk much" in my book.

• gh02t 9y ago
  I mean it's not like it's one in a millennia. Archimedes, Cauchy, Galileo, Babbage, Lovelace, Maxwell, Ampere, Lord Kelvin, Navier... those are just the famous ones off the top of my head.
  • inamberclad 9y ago
    Don't think Lovelace did much in Engineering. Besides, what was engineering at the time when AC power was invented? Steam engines and sewing looms?
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    • JumpCrisscross 9y ago
      > what was engineering at the time when AC power was invented? Cathedrals, cannons, trebuchets, telescopes, ships and their sails, metallurgy for swords and later steam engines.
      • mannykannot 9y ago
        ...chemical engineering, ceramics, fabrics, metal structures, clocks, railways (including their control systems), agriculture, scientific equipment, navigation, musical instruments, road-building, mining and tunneling, scientifically-based medicine, the telegraph...