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- Ada Lovelace – Among this extensive annotation, she devised a method for calculating Bernoulli numbers using the machine. On the basis of this, some historians of science consider her to be the first “computer programmer.”
- Alvar Aalto – An architect, painter, designer and sculptor, it was Aalto’s focus on the ideal of Gesamtkunstwerk that led to him creating not just the building but the interior surfaces, furnishings, and even the glasswork that would fill it.
- Bi Sheng – Bi Sheng is mentioned only by name in the writings of the polymath Shen Kuo, although technical details of his moveable type – made from porcelain – abound in the literature of China.
- Charles Correa – The first structure to bring him attention outside India was the Gandhi Ashram – a grouping of brick and stone pavilions celebrating the life of the hero, completed in 1963.
- Filippo Brunelleschi – Having lost a competitive commission to craft bronze reliefs for the doors of a Florentine church, Brunelleschi decided to concentrate his energy on architecture rather than sculpture. With his friend Donatello (yes, that one).
- Gustav Eiffel – He soon moved from bridges to buildings, among others the entrance hall for the Palace des Machines for the 1878 Paris Exposition, for which he developed innovative lightweight (relatively) iron trusses and arches.
- Isidore of Miletus – He taught at the universities of Alexandria and Constantinople, made the first comprehensive compilation of the writings of Archimedes, and designed baths and temples.
- James of St. George – Edward likely had met James – son of a master mason working in Savoy – in 1273 on a state visit, and hired him as his ‘ingeniator’ (chief engineer) in 1278.
- James Watt – Wealthy beyond belief by 1800, Watt retired to devote himself to research, inventing the rotary steam engine, the double-action engine, and the steam pressure indicator. He died in 1819, still tinkering.
- Jane Drew – As architecture was an exclusively male-dominated art at the time, this accomplishment was a real feather in her cap. Soon enough she married another architect, James Allison, and joined his firm. But she kept her maiden name, being a “modernist” sort.
