List of British engineers

List

• John Allen, engineer and plasma physicist
• James Atkinson, inventor of the Atkinson cycle internal combustion engine
• George Frederick Armstrong, sanitation engineer and academic
• William Armstrong, inventor of the hydraulic accumulator and breech-loading, rifled artillery
• Hertha Ayrton, pioneered the science of electric arcs and ripples in sand and water.
• Charles Baird, managed a company which built steam-powered machinery in Saint Petersburg, including Russia's first steamboat
• Edward Barlow, inventor of the repeating clock
• John Bell, inventor of various military and nautical devices, including a gyn and a petard
• Edwin Beard Budding, inventor of the lawnmower
• Jenny Body, aerospace engineer and former president of the Royal Aeronautical Society
• Matthew Boulton, partner in the steam engineering manufacturing firm Boulton and Watt, and inventor of a steam-driven coin press
• James Brindley, pioneering engineer of canals and aqueducts
• Isambard Kingdom Brunel, noted, among other achievements, for constructing the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the Great Western Railway
• Henry Chilver, expanded Cranfield Institute of Technology by focusing on the practical application of knowledge
• Victoria Drummond, marine engineer who served at sea as an engineering officer in the British Merchant Navy and received awards for bravery under enemy fire.
• Gertrude Lilian Entwisle, electrical engineer known for her work on designing DC motors and exciters and one of the founding members of the Women's Engineering Society.
• Nigel Gresley, chief engineer of the London and [North Eastern Railway] who invented the Gresley conjugated valve gear
• Holt Samuel Hallett, pioneer railway engineer in Burma
• Caroline Haslett, electrical engineer who oversaw important requirements for electrical installations in post-war Britain
• Oliver Heaviside, electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who developed the transmission line theory and vectorized Maxwell's equations, among many other things.
• Christopher Hinton, chief engineer at ICI who worked on the first nuclear power plant, Calder Hall
• Peggy Hodges, communications and systems engineer who worked on guided missile technology at GEC Marconi
• Sue Ion, expert advisor on the nuclear power industry
• Andrew Meikle, inventor of an innovative mechanical threshing machine
• Rachel Mary Parsons, engineer and advocate for women's employment rights, was the founding president of the Women's Engineering Society in Britain.
• Lewis Paul, inventor of spinning and weaving machines
• Dorothée Pullinger, pioneering automobile engineer and businesswoman
• Harry Ricardo, researcher and developer of early internal combustion engines
• Margaret Dorothea Rowbotham, engineer in the automobile, munitions and electrical sectors, and champion of women's employment in professional engineering
• Dorothy Rowntree, first woman graduate in engineering from the University of Glasgow and the first woman graduate in naval architecture in UK
• Evelyn Roxburgh, first woman to gain a diploma in electrical engineering in Scotland.
• Thomas Savery, first person to patent a steam-powered device
• Beatrice Shilling, inventor of the "Miss Shilling's orifice", a critical component that prevented engine stall in the Rolls-Royce Merlin engines of the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire fighters.
• Dorothy Spicer, aviator and the first woman to gain an advanced qualification in aeronautical engineering
• Richard Trevithick, inventor of a high-powered steam engine
• Claude Hamilton Verity, inventor of the Veritiphone, one of the earliest methods of synchronisation of sound and film.
• Frank Whittle, credited with single-handedly inventing the turbojet engine.