* 1896 – Sir Lawrence Wackett, Australian aircraft engineer ( d. 1982 )

* 1827 – Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer ; introduced Universal Standard Time ( d. 1915 )

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

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.

Credit for invention of the steam turbine is given both to the British engineer Sir Charles Parsons ( 1854 – 1931 ), for invention of the reaction turbine and to Swedish engineer Gustaf de Laval ( 1845 – 1913 ), for invention of the impulse turbine.

Using concepts from his earlier hypertext systems like ENQUIRE, British engineer and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ), wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually become the World Wide Web.

* September 15 – Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer ( died 1985 )

* April 5 – Sir Nigel Gresley, English steam locomotive engineer ( Flying Scotsman and Mallard ) ( b. 1876 )

* May 19 – Sir Benjamin Baker, English civil engineer ( b. 1840 )

* May 27 – Sir William Stanier, English steam locomotive engineer ( London, Midland and Scottish Railway ) ( d. 1965 )

* June 19 – Sir Nigel Gresley, English steam locomotive engineer ( Flying Scotsman & Mallard ) ( d. 1941 )

* November 20 – Sir John Fowler, British civil engineer ( b. 1817 )

** Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer ( b. 1819 )

Sir Henry Bessemer ( 19 January 1813 – 15 March 1898 ) was an English engineer, inventor, and businessman.

Initiated in 1859 by the then president of the Toronto Turf Club, Sir Casimir Gzowski, a distinguished Polish engineer and ancestor of the popular Canadian broadcaster, Peter Gzowski, the Queen's Plate was inaugurated on June 27, 1860, at the Carleton racetrack in Toronto, Ontario.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

* Sir Henry Royce, 1st Bt ( engineer and founder Rolls-Royce )

John, an engineer and anthropologist with a doctorate from the London School of Economics, headed the rural development division of USOM, the United States Operations Mission administering U.S. aid.

* 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 )

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.

* 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.

** Riccardo Muti, conductor ; Duain Wolfe, chorus master ; Christopher Alder, producer ; David Frost, Tom Lazarus & Christopher Willis, engineers / mixers ; Silas Brown, mastering engineer, for Verdi: Requiem ( performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Chorus )

Wolfe was born in London and during World War II he worked as a radio engineer at Marconi.

In 1758, he was commissioned a practicing engineer in the Corps of Engineers, and as such was present at the siege of Louisbourg, and later, at that of Quebec, there drawing one of the last known portraits of General Wolfe, who died in the deciding battle.

Cuthbert Arthur Brereton ( 17 September 1850 – 12 September 1910 ) was a civil engineer and a partner of Sir John Wolfe Barry.

Robert Pearson Brereton came from a Norfolk family that produced other notable Victorian engineers Cuthbert A. Brereton ( Sir John Wolfe Barry's partner ) and Robert Maitland Brereton ( chief engineer on part of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway and advocate in the US Congress for the building of irrigation canals in California ).

* John Wolfe Ambrose ( 1838-1899 ), Irish-American engineer and developer