* 1888 – John Logie Baird, Scottish engineer and inventor ( d. 1946 )

* 1886 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian pilot and engineer ( d. 1961 )

Parsons asked Woolfson to become his manager and Woolfson managed Parsons ' career as a producer and engineer through a string of successes including Pilot, Steve Harley, Cockney Rebel, John Miles, Al Stewart, Ambrosia and The Hollies.

* 1800 – John Appold, British fur dyer and engineer ( d. 1865 )

He was born in the Queens borough of New York, New York, as a son of Jayne ( née Quinlan ), of Irish descent, and John George Costas, an electrical engineer of Greek descent.

Some have stated that the secret of concrete was lost for 13 centuries until 1756, when the British engineer John Smeaton pioneered the use of hydraulic lime in concrete, using pebbles and powdered brick as aggregate.

The earliest known use of an expert witness in English law came in 1782, when a court that was hearing litigation relating to the silting-up of Wells harbour in Norfolk accepted evidence from a leading civil engineer, John Smeaton.

* 1926 – John Frank Davidson, British chemical engineer and Royal Medal holder

Also important was the 1756 rediscovery of concrete ( based on hydraulic lime mortar ) by the British engineer John Smeaton, which had been lost for 1300 years.

In the 1770s, the engineer John Smeaton built some very large examples and introduced a number of improvements.

* John D. Ford ( 1840 – 1918 ), American naval officer who served as ship engineer during Civil War and as commander in Spanish-American War

* 1806 – John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge ( d. 1869 )

* 1820 – William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish engineer and physicist ( d. 1872 )

* 1724 – John Smeaton, English engineer ( d. 1794 )

Sir John Ambrose Fleming FRS ( 29 November 1849 – 18 April 1945 ) was an English electrical engineer and physicist.

On the recommendation of Wilkes, Lyons recruited John Pinkerton, a radar engineer and research student at Cambridge, as team leader for the project.

* 2006 – John Reynolds Gardiner, American engineer ( b. 1944 )

This phenomenon was described in detail by John Elder Robison ( a former Milton Bradley engineer ) in his book Look Me in the Eye.

Sir John Call, member of Parliament and the Royal Society, and former chief engineer of the East India Company, stated the advantages of Norfolk Island in a proposal for colonization he put to the Home Office in August 1784: “ This Island has an Advantage not common to New Caledonia, New Holland and New Zealand by not being inhabited, so that no Injury can be done by possessing it to the rest of Mankind … there seems to be nothing wanting but Inhabitants and Cultivation to make it a delicious Residence.

* 1904 – English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve ( vacuum tube ).

In early 2005, Gordon Buck, John Crane Inc .’ s chief engineer for Field Operations in Baton Rouge, LA, examined the repair records for a number of refinery and chemical plants to obtain meaningful reliability data for centrifugal pumps.

In some cases, the alliance contract included having a John Crane Inc. technician or engineer on-site to coordinate various aspects of the program.

The man credited with the invention of the ploughing engine and the associated balance plough, in the mid nineteenth century, was John Fowler, an English agricultural engineer and inventor.

Rankine is a thermodynamic ( absolute ) temperature scale named after the Glasgow University engineer and physicist William John Macquorn Rankine, who proposed it in 1859.

A species of Paranthropus, such as Paranthropus robustus, with its crested skull and bipedal gait, was suggested by primatologist John Napier and anthropologist Gordon Strasenburg as a possible candidate for Bigfoot's identity, despite the fact that fossils of Paranthropus are found only in Africa.

In response to some of the potentially fractious implications sociobiology had for human biodiversity, anthropologist John Tooby and psychologist Leda Cosmides founded the field of evolutionary psychology.

In 2002, the anthropologist John H. Moore estimated that a population of 150 – 180 would allow normal reproduction for 60 to 80 generations — equivalent to 2000 years.

From 1882 Pitt Rivers served as Britain's first Inspector of Ancient Monuments: a post created by anthropologist and parliamentarian John Lubbock who was married to Pitt Rivers ' daughter, Alice.

However, anthropologist Dr. John Moore estimated in 2002 that a population of 150 to 180 would allow normal reproduction for 60 to 80 generations, equivalent to 2000 years.

To end the War of 1812 John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and Albert Gallatin ( a leading anthropologist ) and the other American diplomats negotiated the Treaty of Ghent in 1814 with Britain.

The anthropologist John R. Swanton of the Smithsonian Institution tried to identify the origin of the people known as Croatan Indians before the 1950s ( they have since identified as Lumbee ).

An example of such criticism is the following by the American anthropologist John G. Owens in Folk-Lore from Buffalo Valley ( 1891 ):

The word Choctaw ( also known as Chahta, Chato, Tchakta, and Chocktaw ) may derive from the Castilian word " chato ," meaning flat ; however, noted anthropologist John Swanton suggests that the name belonged to a Choctaw leader.

John Whittaker, an anthropologist at Grinnell College, Iowa, suggests the device was a social equaliser in that it requires skill rather than muscle power alone.

To end the War of 1812 John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and Albert Gallatin ( a leading anthropologist ) and the other American diplomats negotiated the Treaty of Ghent in 1814 with Britain.

In his book " What Women Want, What Men Want ,", anthropologist John Townsend takes the genetic basis of love one step further by identifying how the sexes are different in their predispositions.

* John Davy Hayward ( 1906 – 1965 ), English editor, critic and anthropologist

* John Arundel Barnes ( 1918 – 2010 ), Australian and British social anthropologist

John Marshall, the son of Harvard anthropologist Lorna Marshall, documented the lives of Bushmen in the Nyae Nyae region of Namibia over a more than fifty year period.

* John Collier ( anthropologist ), visual anthropologist

* John Lawrence Angel ( 1915-1986 ), anthropologist

* John H. Moore, American anthropologist

The anthropologist John Steckley was erroneously reported in 2007 as being " the sole speaker " ( non-native ) of Wendat.

Without the telephone, one could not have a conversation across long distances ; and without the sanctified image in the temple, one cannot easily talk with the Deity .” Moreover, anthropologist Christopher John Fuller notes that an image in Hinduism cannot be equated with a deity and the object of worship is the divine whose power is inside the image, and the image is not the object of worship itself, Hindus believe everything is worthy of worship as it contains divine energy emanating from the one god.

The espionage historian John Costello in The Mask of Treachery ( London: William Collins & Sons, 1988 ) points a finger at the mathematician Alister Watson and anthropologist Lewis Daly.

Furthermore, she points out, following the lead of another anthropologist, John Janzen, that religious ideas and emphasis in the same sector have changed over time.

For example, recent scholarship by John Levi Martin has theorized that certain macro-scale structures are the emergent properties of micro-scale cultural institutions ( this meaning of " structure " resembles that used by anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss ).