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Isambard Kingdom Brunel
The Great Western Railway, Clifton Suspension Bridge, SS Great Britain
John Smeaton
Eddystone Lighthouse, Smeaton's Tower, Invention of hydraulic lime
Thomas Telford
Menai Suspension Bridge, Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, Edinburgh-to-London road
James Brindley
Bridgewater Canal, Trent & Mersey Canal, The Brindley Water Mill
Gustave Eiffel
Eiffel Tower, Statue of Liberty framework, Garabit viaduct
John A. Roebling
Brooklyn Bridge, Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct, Allegheny Suspension Bridge
Joseph Bazalgette
London sewer network, Thames Embankment, Putney Bridge
John Rennie the Elder
London Bridge (old), Bell Rock Lighthouse, Waterloo Bridge (old)
Benjamin Baker
Forth Bridge, Aswan Dam, London's Central Line
Fazlur Rahman Khan
Willis (Sears) Tower, John Hancock Center, Structural tube system concept
Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya
Krishna Raja Sagara Dam, Flood protection system for Hyderabad, Block System of irrigation
Othmar Ammann
George Washington Bridge, Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, Bayonne Bridge
Jules Hardouin-Mansart
Place Vendôme, Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, Grand Trianon
George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.
Ferris Wheel, World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
Ralph Modjeski
Benjamin Franklin Bridge, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (part design), Ambassador Bridge
John Bradfield
Sydney Harbour Bridge, Story Bridge, Bradfield Highway
Leslie E. Robertson
World Trade Center (original), Shanghai World Financial Center, Lotte World Tower
Sir Alec Skempton
Contributions to soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering
Emily Warren Roebling
Completion of Brooklyn Bridge, Represented John A. Roebling at the bridge site
Squire Whipple
Development of the Whipple truss bridge design, Author of 'A Work on Bridge Building'
Elmina Wilson
First woman to receive a civil engineering degree from Iowa State College, Advocate for women in engineering
Henry Marc Brunel
Thames Tunnel, Great Eastern (ship), Renovation of the Crystal Palace
James Buchanan Eads
Eads Bridge, Mississippi River jetty system, Ironclad warships design
Arthur Casagrande
Developments in soil mechanics, Casagrande's method for determining the liquid limit
Carlos Fernandez Casado
Reinosa Bridge, Basque Y Railroad, PL-16 Girder
Heinz Isler
Thin-shell concrete structures, Garden Festival Hall in Germany, Wyssachen School Hall
Jack Kilby
Invention of the integrated circuit, Work with Texas Instruments, Nobel Prize in Physics
Michel Virlogeux
Millau Viaduct, Vasco da Gama Bridge, Normandy Bridge
Robert Maillart
Salginatobel Bridge, Tavanasa Bridge, Schwandbach Bridge
Tung-Yen Lin
Expansion of San Francisco International Airport, Guandu Bridge in Taiwan, Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco
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