The Greatest Engineers of all time...

[What happened?]

My blog post comes a little late this week. The subject which I had planned to write about was the sticky and rather personal subject of Engineers salaries, and their status relative to other professions. I planned to summarise the results of this rather feisty LinkedIn discussion as my weekly post. [see here] for the live link to the group discussion page.

Unfortunately for us - the discussion exploded, failed to reach a consensus and then eventually spilt out into other nearby Civil and Structural group forums which riddle LinkedIn. Still with no discernible consensus, I started a [poll] to see if I could wrap it all up with some nice statistics.

It's not looking like our quest is going to finish anytime soon - but 47 have voted [17:50, 12/12/11] and 90% are not happy with their lot in life. No surprises there.

[So what we going to do about it now then?]

Therefore I have decided create a rather interesting list whilst waiting for a solid answer for our week long question...


The Worlds Greatest or most Famous Engineers. It's a good list this one - and I have a few to get us started. 


Isambard Kingdom Brunel - English Civil/Structural Engineer, Architect, Mechanical Engineer and Inventor.
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel - French Civil/Structural Engineer, Product Designer, Mechanical Engineer and Inventor.
Sir James Dyson - English Industrial Engineer, Product Designer and Inventor.
Archimedes - Greek Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer, Inventor, and Astronomer.
Steve Jobs - American Business man, Software Engineer and Inventor. 


I have a ton more Engineers that I could mention... but let's get a Twitter list going. Please just search for #greatengineers and start adding your favourites. I will use this list to do something very special.




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