6 lives in this collection worked in engineering, from 1548 to today. Each has a full course on their life and the mathematics and physics they made.
Flemish engineer who popularized decimal fractions and founded modern statics and hydrostatics.
arithmetic, algebra, statics
Lyon engineer and architect whose 1639 Brouillon project on conics founded projective geometry and whose theorem on perspective triangles underlies the foundations of geometry.
projective geometry, perspective, architecture
Magdeburg engineer and burgomaster who invented the air pump and demonstrated atmospheric pressure with the Magdeburg hemispheres.
pneumatics, vacuum physics, electrostatics
Civil engineer who made the wave theory of light quantitative, explaining diffraction, polarization and double refraction, and invented the lighthouse lens.
physical optics, wave theory of light, engineering
Engineer and mathematician who gave work and kinetic energy their modern definitions and derived the compound centrifugal force, now called the Coriolis force, in rotating frames.
mechanics, engineering, mathematical physics
Manchester's first professor of engineering, who discovered the criterion for turbulence in pipes and founded lubrication theory and the averaged equations of turbulent flow.
fluid mechanics, engineering, heat transfer