Contents
3300 BCE Hunter/Gatherer Tools
1492 Square-Rigged Wooden Sailboats
1670 Mechanical Pendulum Clock
1750 Simple Machines at Yates Mill
1800 High-Pressure Steam Engine
1824 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1830 Tom Thumb Steam Locomotive
1869 Transcontinental Railroad
1885 Supercharger and Turbocharger
1903 The Wright Brothers’ Airplane
1907 Professional Engineer Licensing
1908 Internal Combustion Engine
1919 Women’s Engineering Society
1919 Under Friction Roller Coaster
1937 Magnetically Levitated Train
1946 ENIAC—The First Digital Computer
1946 Top-Loading Washing Machine
1962 Atomic Clock Radio Station
1965 Gateway Arch in St. Louis
1966 Pebble Bed Nuclear Reactor
1967 Automotive Emission Controls
1970 Fiber Optic Communication
1979 Seawise Giant Supertanker
1984 Domain Name Service (DNS)
1985 Bath County Pumped Storage
1985 International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)
1990 The Hubble Space Telescope
1994 Global Positioning System (GPS)
1994 Kansai International Airport
1998 International Space Station
2008 Engineering Grand Challenges
2009 National Ignition Facility
2009 Earthquake-Safe Buildings
2010 BP Blowout Preventer Failure
2010 Harry Potter Forbidden Journey Ride
2010 The X2 and X3 Helicopters
2014 Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System