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Born July 10, 1821
Died December 9, 1881 (aged 60) • Zürich • Switzerland
Notable Works “Die graphische Statik”
Subjects Of Study graphical statics
Eugen Langen
German engineer
Sir William Siemens, engraving after a portrait by Rudolf Lehmann
Sir William Siemens
British inventor
Wankel, Felix; Wankel engine
Felix Wankel
German inventor
Diesel, 1883
Rudolf Diesel
French-German engineer
Guericke, engraving by C. Galle, 1649, after a portrait by Anselmus von Hulle
Otto von Guericke
Prussian physicist, engineer, and philosopher
Ohain, Hans Joachim Pabst von
Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain
German designer
Wilhelm Maybach
German engineer and manufacturer
Gottlieb Daimler
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and inventor
Nikolaus Otto, c. 1868
Nikolaus Otto
German engineer
Karl Benz
Karl Benz
German engineer
Robert Bosch
German engineer
Carl von Linde
Carl von Linde
German engineer
Ruhmkorff coil
Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff
German inventor
Max Eyth
German engineer and inventor
Emil von Škoda
Bohemian engineer
Paul Gottlieb Nipkow
German scientist
Robert Moog
American electrical engineer
Ed Yost
American engineer
Herbert Seymour Saffir
American structural engineer
Sir Christopher Cockerell
British inventor