GineersNow Engineering Magazine November 2016 Issue No 009

Kate Gleason
1865-1933 Kate Gleason is
known as the first female
member of the American
Society of Mechanical
Engineers. She did not
have any detailed training
in the field of engineering,
but she was able to make a
name for herself as one of
the very few accomplished
women engineers in
her era. She is also
known to be a successful
businesswoman, and is a
role model for many other
career women in the 19th
century America.
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Gustaf Dalén
1869-1937 Gustaf
Dalén was a Swedish
Nobel Laureate who
is responsible for the
invention of automatic
regulators, AGA cooker,
the Dalén light, and
many others. He founded
the AGA company, an
industrial gas company
which later was combined
into Line AG. His automatic
regulators were used with
gas accumulators that
were used for illuminating
lighthouses and buoys.
He then was called "the
benefactor of sailors." In
1912, he won the Nobel
Prize in Physics for his
work.
Aurel Stodola
1859-1942 Aurel Stodola
was an engineer and
inventor in Slovakia. A lot
of his work centered on
thermodynamics and has
contributed to several
scientific fields. He spent
almost half of his life
teaching at the Institute
of Technology in Zurich
and during that time was
consulted for help on the
improvement of the gas
turbine. His work as an
educator has helped a
lot of young minds into
engineering, including
those of the greatest
minds of our age.
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George Stephenson
1781-1848 Known as
the ‘Father of Railways’,
George Stephenson
was a pioneer inventor
in the fields of civil and
mechanical engineering.
The British inventor led
to the creation of the
world’s first inter-city
railway line that ran using
steam locomotives which
was available for public
use. Aside from that big
innovation, Stephenson
is also credited with the
creation of Rocket, the
most famous railway
locomotive of his era.
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