HISTORY OF

ENGINEERING
17th – 20th Century
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Presented by:
Abrau, Denzil
Agustin, Kenneth
Pagaran, John Harvey
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THE REVIVAL OF SCIENCE
Evangelista Torricelli and Blaise Pascal
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 Hydrostatics and Dynamics develop the barometer
 Robert Boyle
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 Expansion quality of air and the correlation between
temperature, volume, and pressure (Boyle’s Law)
 Robert Hooke
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 Material lengthens in proportion to the force exerted on
it, up to the elastic limit, and in compression it shortens
in a similar fashion (Hooke’s Law)
 Christiaan Huygens
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 Spiral watch spring and the pendulum clock and measures
gravitational acceleration
Hargreaves, Crampton, and Arkwright
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 Develops the spinning and weaving machinery
 Isaac Newton
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 Developed Calculus, essential to mathematical analysis of
most physical systems
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THE DEVELOPING
INDUSTRIAL AGE
 James Watt
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 Steam engine for textile mills, iron furnaces, rolling mills
and other industries
Pieter van Musschenbroek
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 Develops a device to hold a static electrical charge, now
called the leyden jar forerunner to the capacitor
 Luigi Galvani
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 Principles of electrical conduction
 Alessandro Volta
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 Principles of the electric battery
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Beginnings of Modern
Science
19 Century
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 Andre-Marie Ampere
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 Confirms the flow of electrical current, leading to the
science of electrodynamics
 Michael Faraday
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 Found the means to generate electricity by moving a
conductor through a magnetic field.
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 Jagadis Chandra Bose
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 Demonstrated the transmission of electric signals
through space; Marconi was awarded a patent for
the same achievement a year later.
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 James Watt
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 Refines and produces an efficient steam engine.
 Henry Ford
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 Builds and sells automobiles and mass production
emerges
Thomas Edison and Lee
DeForest
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 Developed electrical equipment and electron tubes
which starts the widespread use of power systems
and communication networks.
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 Nikola Tesla
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 Introduces the first practical application of
alternating current, the polyphase induction motor.
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Orville & Wilbur Wright
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 Developed the first successful aircraft.
 Wallace Carothers
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 Leads a team of organic chemists and chemical
engineer researchers at duPont to develop NYLON
the first of many “synthetic fibers”. The beginnings
of polymer research.
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Albert Einstein’s model
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 John Brainerd
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 Developed the first computer called the

“ENIAC”
John Bardeen, Walter
Brattain and William
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Shockley
 Discovered that current changes in one part of a
diode caused current changes in another.
 Created the transistor
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Pratt and Whitney
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 Develop turbojet engines

Communication
Satellites
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