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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

by 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...