• Question: who is your favourite engineer and why

    Asked by 549kvna45 to Lisa, Katie, David, Colin on 15 Nov 2014. This question was also asked by 439kvna32.
    • Photo: Colin Keogh

      Colin Keogh answered on 15 Nov 2014:

      Nikola Tesla is mine. He was an inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist, who helped design the -modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. He was a sterotypical “Mad Scientist”, but invented some crazy stuff like wireless power & communication.

    • Photo: Katie Mahon

      Katie Mahon answered on 15 Nov 2014:

      Leonardi di Vinci is one of my favourites, he was an amazing scientist, engineer, artist, writer… he was a true genius. He was way ahead of his time, designing helicopters in the 1400’s, nearly 500 years before anyone actually made one!

      Here’s a look at some of his sketches & ideas for inventions:
      http://www.da-vinci-inventions.com/

    • Photo: David Taylor

      David Taylor answered on 17 Nov 2014:

      Samuel Haughton was Ireland’s first Biomedical Engineer. He lived in the 1800’s and was involved in lots of different sciences: medicine, biology, geology, etc. He wrote the first ever book about the science which we now call Biomechanics, explaining how our bodies work, how we move, breath, pump blood around, etc.

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