DNB - Mechanical Engineers

A search in the 2010 on-line edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography lists very few mechanical engineers. Its primary focus would appear to be on the titled classes and other non-productive sectors.

Also see DNB - Electrical Engineers, DNB - Industrialists

Those found are:

• Adams, William (1823–1904), engineer
• Arrol, Sir William (1839–1913), civil engineer
• Aspinall, Sir John Audley Frederick (1851–1937), mechanical engineer
• Bentley, Walter Owen (1888–1971), designer and racer of motor cars
• Bishop, Richard Evelyn Donohue (Dick) (1925–1989), mechanical engineer and naval architect
• Bramwell, Sir Frederick Joseph, baronet (1818–1903), mechanical engineer
• Brennan, Louis Philip (1852–1932), mechanical engineer
• Brotherhood, Peter (1838–1902), mechanical engineer
• Bulleid, Oliver Vaughan Snell (1882–1970), mechanical engineer
• Chadwick, Roy (1893–1947), aircraft designer
• Churchward, George Jackson (1857–1933), railway engineer
• Clerk, Sir Dugald (1854–1932), mechanical engineer
• Cockerell, Sir Christopher Sydney (1910–1999), electronic and mechanical engineer
• Coker, Ernest George (1869–1946), civil and mechanical engineer
• Coles, Sherard Osborn Cowper (1866–1936), electrometallurgist and inventor
• Cowper, Edward Alfred (1819–1893), mechanical engineer
• Cowper, Edward Shickle (1790–1852), printing engineer and university teacher
• Darwin, Sir Horace (1851–1928), civil engineer
• Day, Joseph Mary (1855–1946), mechanical engineer
• Dewrance, Sir John (1858–1937), mechanical engineer
• Dobson, Sir Benjamin Alfred (1847–1898), textile machinery manufacturer
• Donkin, Bryan (1835–1902), mechanical engineer
• Drebbel, Cornelis (1572–1633), inventor and mechanical engineer
• Drummond, Peter (1850–1918), locomotive engineer
• Fairbairn, Sir Peter (1799–1861), mechanical engineer
• Fairburn, Charles Edward (1887–1945), railway engineer
• Fairlie, Robert Francis (1830–1885), civil and mechanical engineer
• Farey, John (1791–1851), mechanical engineer
• Fowler, Sir Henry (1870–1938), mechanical engineer and metallurgist
• Gibb, Sir Claude Dixon (1898–1959), mechanical engineer
• Gordon, Lewis Dunbar Brodie (1815–1876), civil engineer and university teacher
• Gough, Herbert John (1890–1965), mechanical engineer and expert on metal fatigue
• Green, William Pringle (1785–1846), naval officer and mechanical engineer
• Gresley, Sir (Herbert) Nigel (1876–1941), railway engineer
• Grubb, Thomas (1800–1878), engineer and telescope builder
• Guy, Sir Henry Lewis (1887–1956), mechanical engineer
• Hall, Arthur Henry (1876–1949), engineer
• Hann, James (1799–1856), mechanical engineer and mathematician
• Harrison, Thomas Elliot (1808–1888), civil and mechanical engineer
• Holtzapffel, Charles (1806–1847), mechanical engineer
• Hornblower, Jabez Carter (1744–1814), steam engineer
• Husband, William (1822–1887), civil and mechanical engineer
• Joicey, James, first Baron Joicey (1846–1936), colliery owner
• Kennedy, Sir Alexander Blackie William (1847–1928), mechanical and electrical engineer
• Kennedy, James (1797–1886), mechanical engineer
• Kerensky, Oleg Alexander [Oleg Aleksandrovich] (1905–1984), civil engineer
• Kinder, Thomas William (1817–1884), engineer and director of the Japanese imperial mint
• Kirk, Alexander Carnegie (1830–1892), mechanical engineer and inventor
• Sir Ernest John Hutchings Lemon (1884–1954), engineer and railway administrator
• McNaught, William (1813–1881), mechanical engineer
• Martin, Percy (1871–1958), engineer and motor vehicle manufacturer
• Mather, Sir William (1838–1920), mechanical engineer and textile equipment manufacturer
• Maudslay, Henry (1771–1831), mechanical engineer
• Medhurst, George (bap. 1759, d. 1827), mechanical engineer
• Michell, Anthony George Maldon (1870–1959), mechanical engineer
• Morris, Peter (d. 1588), mechanical engineer
• Muir, William (1805–1888), mechanical engineer
• Murray, Matthew (1765–1826), mechanical engineer
• Napier, David (1790–1869), shipbuilder and engineer
• Napier, Montague Stanley (1870–1931), motor car and aero-engine manufacturer
• Nasmyth, Alexander (1758–1840), artist and engineer
• Nasmyth, James Hall (1808–1890), mechanical engineer
• Neilson, Walter Montgomerie (1819–1889), railway locomotive manufacturer
• Nock, Oswald Stevens (1905–1994), engineer and railway historian
• Paterson, Sir William (1874–1956), mechanical engineer
• Perkins, Loftus (1834–1891), mechanical engineer
• Perrins, Isaac (1755–1801), pugilist and mechanical engineer
• Pye, Sir David Randall (1886–1960), mechanical engineer and academic administrator
• Rambush, Niels Edward [formerly Niels Edvard Rambusch] (1889–1957), chemical engineer
• Ramsbottom, John (1814–1897), railway engineer
• Raper, George Frederick (1909–1973), mechanical engineer and inventor of wool textile
• Rendel, Sir Alexander Meadows (1829–1918), civil engineer
• Rennie, John (1761–1821), engineer
• Reynolds, Osborne (1842–1912), engineer and physicist
• Ricardo, Sir Harry Ralph (1885–1974), mechanical engineer
• Roberts, Richard (1789–1864), mechanical engineer
• Robertson, Andrew (1883–1977), mechanical engineer and academic administrator
• Robinson, John George (1856–1943), mechanical engineer
• Rolt, (Lionel) Thomas Caswall (1910–1974), engineering historian
• Salmon, Robert (1763–1821), architect and mechanical engineer
• Simms, Frederick Richard (1863–1944), mechanical engineer and businessman
• Spurrier, Sir Henry (1898–1964), motor vehicle manufacturer
• Stanier, Sir William Arthur (1876–1965), locomotive engineer and railway administrator
• Stanton, Sir Thomas Ernest (1865–1931), mechanical engineer and aerodynamicist
• Stirling, Patrick (1820–1895), mechanical engineer
• Stoney, George Gerald (1863–1942), mechanical engineer
• Stroudley, William (1833–1889), mechanical engineer
• Stuart, (Herbert) Akroyd (Ackroyd) (1864–1927), mechanical engineer
• Tetlow, Norman (1899–1982), mechanical engineer
• Thomson, James (1822–1892), mechanical engineer
• Trevithick, Richard (1771–1833), engineer
• Turner, Edward (1901–1973), motorcycle designer and manufacturer
• Tweddell, Ralph Hart (1843–1895), mechanical engineer and inventor of the hydraulic riveter
• Unwin, William Cawthorne (1838–1933), civil and mechanical engineer
• Walker, Sir Herbert Ashcombe (1868–1949), railway manager
• Webb, Francis William (1836–1906), civil engineer and local politician
• Whitworth, Sir Joseph, baronet (1803–1887), mechanical engineer and machine tool
• Wilde, Henry (1833–1919), electrical engineer and inventor
• Wilson, Walter Gordon (1874–1957), mechanical engineer
• Wright, Sir (William) Charles, second baronet (1876–1950), ironmaster and steelmaker

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