Quiz.

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if you want a verbal/factual question, which Brit's pioneering work did the Wright brothers refer to, and correct?
 
That's the flying fellows in Kitty Hawk, not footballers............
The Brit is ridiculously famous
 
Justin Passing said:
Because I blurted out a correct answer for the previous question so it's my turn.
So that's a picture quiz.
I thought it could make a new running thread of pics, but if not, there's a picture anyway.
You can ask yes/no questions.
Click to expand...

Sorry, I wasn't being combative, I just didn't understand why you re asking.

Is it some kind of lock?
 
Yes, pillar of the industrial revolution!!! Britain's first and greatest Civil Engineer.
You'll be saying you don't know who invented the bipolar transistor next!


The picture one continues HERE
 
When you say 'Britain's first and greatest civil engineer' are you on about Isambard Kingdom Brunel?
 
No he wasn't the first. This fellow was the first to coin the term, having influences everywhere.
Perhaps the least known great influencer
wiki:
"(8 June 1724 – 28 October 1792) was a British civil engineer responsible for the design of bridges, canals, harbours and lighthouses.[1] He was also a capable mechanical engineer and an eminent physicist. He was the first self-proclaimed "civil engineer", and is often regarded as the "father of civil engineering".[2] He pioneered the use of hydraulic lime in concrete, using pebbles and powdered brick as aggregate."

He contributed a lot to water wheels, was one of the many to improve a steam engine (tripled its efficiency), had theories about laminar flow in water and air, which the Wright brothers used. They changed one of his coefficients, using a wind tunnel.
The successful Eddystone lighthouse was one of his.

Pity we can't clone people like him.

OK, IKB has his points. ;-) He was a generation or two later.
 
OK let's try an other British Engineer.
Which one had his name associated with a weapon in the American Civil War.
Google away.
Qudos if you know it.
If you don't know it, there's a fair chance you'd guess.

And this chap is one you've probably heard of.
 
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