Marine engineers and naval architects

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 107. Chapters: John Philip Holland, John Ericsson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Edmund Dummer, Julius H. Kroehl, LOMOcean Design, Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology, Henry A. Schade, Lewis Nixon, Henry Eckford, William John Macquorn Rankine, Nathanael Herreshoff, John Scott Russell, Phil Bolger, John Penn, William Fairbairn, Luke & co, Benjamin F. Isherwood, John Aitken, Cowper Phipps Coles, James Buchanan Eads, Igor Spassky, Thomas Phillips, Henri Dupuy de Lôme, Vladimir Yourkevitch, Christine Griffin, Dennis Puleston, Louis-Émile Bertin, Yuzuru Hiraga, Edward James Reed, Alexei Krylov, Edward L. Cochrane, Robert Napier, William Starling Burgess, Graham Hawkes, Hitoshi Narita, William Francis Gibbs, William Fife, William Henry White, James Wilson King, Paul Elvstrøm, Peter Ibold, Joseph d'Aguilar Samuda, John Laird, Thomas Slade, Bowdoin B. Crowninshield, John Elder, Charles Ernest Nicholson, Sir Eustace Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, 1st Baronet, Emory S. Land, Philip Rhodes, Edward Burgess, Günther Clauss, John Isaac Thornycroft, Samuda Brothers, Colin Archer, Josiah Fox, Leopold Katzenstein, Homer N. Wallin, James Robert Napier, Edwin Augustus Stevens, Jr., Geerd Hendel, Samuel Hartt Pook, Francis Pettit Smith, Nathaniel Barnaby, Victoria Drummond, George Thurston, Jan Herman Linge, Jacques-Noël Sané, Gibbs & Cox, List of Russian naval engineers, Mark Beaufoy, Philip Watts, William W. Wood, United States naval architect, Joshua Humphreys, South Dock, Rotherhithe, Eugene McAllaster, David B. Macomb, Samuel Humphreys, Cox & Stevens, Isaac Peral, George Young Blair, William Laird, Jean Alexander Heinrich Clapier de Colongue, David Napier, Samuel M. Pook, Pierre Ozanne, Harold E. Saunders, William B. Morgan, Siegfried Popper, George A. Converse, William Hand, Jacob Samuda, Charles Ward Engineering Works, Archibald Ross, Charles A. Morris, Michael Carlisle, William A. Thompson, Zygmunt Choren, Klaus Filter, David A. Walker, Lewis Francis Herreshoff, John Henslow, Joel White, Robert B. Dashiell, Nigel Irens, William Garden, Alfred C. Malchiodi, John Harper Narbeth, Harold Payson, J.R. Perret. Excerpt: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 - 15 September 1859), was a leading British civil engineer, famed for his bridges and dockyards, and especially for the construction of the first major British railway, the Great Western Railway; a series of famous steamships, including the first propeller-driven transatlantic steamship; and numerous important bridges and tunnels. His designs revolutionised public transport and modern engineering. Though Brunel's projects were not always successful, they often contained innovative solutions to long-standing engineering problems. During his short career, Brunel achieved many engineering "firsts", including assisting in the building of the first tunnel under a navigable river and development of SS Great Britain, the first propeller-driven ocean-going iron ship, which was at the time (1843) also the largest ship ever built. Brunel set the standard for a very well-built railway, using careful surveys to minimise grades and curves. That necessitated expensive construction techniques and new bridges and viaducts, and the famous two-mile-long Box Tunnel. One controversial feature was the wide gauge, a "broad gauge" of in (2,140 mm), instead of what was later to be known as 'standard gauge' of in (1,435 mm). The wider gauge added to passenger comfort but made construction mu...