Remarkable Engineers : From Riquet to Shannon (Hardcover)

Part I. From Peter Paul Riquet to James Watt: Peter Paul Riquet (1604?1680); Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban (1633?1707); James Brindley (1716?1772); John Smeaton (1724?1792); James Watt (1736?1819); Part II. From William Jessop to Marc Brunel: William Jessop (1745?1814); Lazare Carnot (1753?1823); Thomas Telford (1757?1834); John Rennie (1761?1821); Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (1769?1849); Part III. From Richard Trevithick to Sadi Carnot: Richard Trevithick (1771?1833); Sir George Cayley (1773?1857); George Stephenson (1781?1848); Charles Babbage (1792?1871); Charles Vignoles (1793?1875); Sadi Carnot (1796?1832); Part IV. From Joseph Henry to Sir Joseph William Bazalgette: Joseph Henry (1797?1878); John Ericsson (1803?1899); Robert Stephenson (1803?1859); Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806?1859); John Roebling (1806?1869); Sir Joseph William Bazalgette (1819?1891); Part V. From James Buchanan Eads to Alexander Graham Bell: James Buchanan Eads (1820?1887); William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) (1824?1907); Gustav Eiffel (1832?1923); George Westinghouse (1846?1914); Thomas Alva Edison (1847?1931); Alexander Graham Bell (1847?1922); Part VI. From Ferdinand Braun to Heinrich Hertz: Ferdinand Braun (1850?1918); Hertha Ayrton (1854?1923); Charles Parsons (1854?1931); Granville Woods (1856?1910); Nikola Tesla (1856?1943); Heinrich Hertz (1857?1894); Part VII. From Rudolf Diesel to Guglielmo Marconi: Rudolf Diesel (1858?1913); Elmer Sperry (1860?1930); Wilbur Wright (1867?1912) and Orville Wright (1871?1948); Frederick Lanchester (1868?1946); Guglielmo Marconi (1874?1937); Part VIII. From Peter Pal'chinskii to Vladimir Zworykin: Peter Pal'chinskii (1875?1929); Edith Clarke (1883?1958); Andrei Tupolev (1888?1972); John Logie Baird (1888?1946); Vladimir Zworykin (1889?1982); Part IX. From Dennis Gabor to Claude Shannon: Dennis Gabor (1900?1979); Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (1906?1966); Frank Whittle (1907?1996); William Shockley (1910?1989); Wernher von Braun (1912?1977); Claude Shannon (1916?2001).