• Question: Who is your favourite engineer?

    Asked by flabadabadingdong to Adam, Alexander, Aron, Jess, Neil on 12 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Adam Scott

      Adam Scott answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      I think I already answered this on another question, but if you want a living one I’d have to say Elon Musk, otherwise its between Wernher Von Braun and Nikola Tesla

    • Photo: Aron Kisdi

      Aron Kisdi answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      A guy called Jeff.

    • Photo: Neil Bowles

      Neil Bowles answered on 12 Mar 2014:

      Hmm:
      Brunel (Trains, boats, bridges, tunnels, pretty much anything big and 19th century he was probably involved).

      Someone from the electronics/computing world like Sophie Wilson, who helped to design the ARM microprocessor that can now be found in just about every mobile phone and tablet computer on the planet in one form or another.

    • Photo: Jessica Marshall

      Jessica Marshall answered on 13 Mar 2014:

      Leonardo da Vinci – for his ability to think about everything around him as exciting and interesting, and for being ambitious!

    • Photo: Alexander Finch

      Alexander Finch answered on 18 Mar 2014:

      Neil has some pretty good answers… oh wait, did you mean of all engineers ever?!

      The ones in the answers above I also would say! Tesla was an amzing guy. Elon Musk is basically the real-world Tony Stark. Brunel built half of England, it seems sometimes!! Da Vinci was ahead of his time by centuries.

      I’d also suggest John Bardeen, the only guy to win not one but two Nobel Physics prizes (and along the way allowing all computers and phones to be made…) and James Watt whose work on steam engines made perhaps the single most material improvement to humanity ever by allowing the industrial revolution to really get started!

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