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Yeah, how many designers and inventors of industrial processes, or materials, or techniques or such we know widely in the west? Never mind that even for those
by coldtea 2y ago
Yeah, how many designers and inventors of industrial processes, or materials, or techniques or such we know widely in the west?
Never mind that even for those well known to us engineers, regular people couldn't name what they did either, except maybe Edisson, Tesla, Wright Brothers, and a few more. E.g. would even more modern PhD holders know what Watt contributed? Or Lord Kelvin?
People like Gates, Bezos, Musk, and Jobs on the other hand, everybody knows.
- indoordin0saur 2y agoYes, the engineer CEOs like Gates, Musk and Jensen Huang certainly become very well known. Not so much for their engineering prowess (though it is typically great) but for being the symbol of the products they create.
- Frieren 2y ago> Not so much for their engineering prowess (though it is typically great) but for being the symbol of the products they create. They are mostly known for being rich. Very very rich. Way better engineers creating way better products are not well known. "Great engineering" is not the word choice I will go for to describe their legacy.