Engineers and inventors

Background to the schools Wikipedia

SOS Children made this Wikipedia selection alongside other schools resources. SOS Children is the world's largest charity giving orphaned and abandoned children the chance of family life.

Alberto Santos-Dumont	Alexander Graham Bell	Andrew Carnegie
Cai Lun	Christopher Wren	Eilmer of Malmesbury
Ernest Rutherford	Francis Petre	Frank Whittle
Galileo Galilei	George Stephenson	Guglielmo Marconi
Henry Ford	Isambard Kingdom Brunel	J. J. Thomson
James Watt	Johannes Gutenberg	John Flamsteed
John Logie Baird	Karl Benz	Leonardo da Vinci
Thomas Edison	Wernher von Braun	Wright brothers

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