List of British engineers

Isambard Kingdom Brunel whose works included the Great Western Railway and the Great Eastern.

This is a historical list of British engineers.

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List

• William Armstrong – inventor of the hydraulic accumulator and breech-loading, rifled artillery.^[1]
• Nigel Gresley – chief engineer of the LNER who invented the Gresley conjugated valve gear.^[2]
• Christopher Hinton – chief engineer at ICI who worked on the first nuclear power plant, Calder Hall.^[3]

References

1. Hall, p. 8.
2. Hall, p. 88.
3. Hall, p. 101.

Further reading

• Bell, S. Peter (1975), A Biographical Index of British Engineers in the 19th Century
• Hall, Carl (2008), A Biographical Dictionary of People in Engineering, vol. 1, Purdue University Press, ISBN 9781557534590
• Sharp, Robert (1993), Obituaries of British Engineers 1901-1920: An Alphabetical Index, Science Museum
• Walker, Derek (1987), The Great Engineers: the art of British engineers 1837-1987
• Who's Who of British Engineers, 1966
• Who's Who of British Engineers, 1970
• Who's Who of British Engineers, 1980