Quiz.

[Justin Passing]

if you want a verbal/factual question, which Brit's pioneering work did the Wright brothers refer to, and correct?

 

[Justin Passing]

That's the flying fellows in Kitty Hawk, not footballers............
The Brit is ridiculously famous

 

[opps]

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.

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

Is it some kind of lock?

 

[opps]

That's the flying fellows in Kitty Hawk, not footballers............
The Brit is ridiculously famous

If you mean the guy from Yorkshire, I must admit, I don't recall being aware of him.

 

[Justin Passing]

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

 

[Odds]

When you say 'Britain's first and greatest civil engineer' are you on about Isambard Kingdom Brunel?

 

[opps]

You'll be saying you don't know who invented the bipolar transistor next!

Was Douglas Adams' Marvin the paranoid android made out of bipolar transistors?

 

[Justin Passing]

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.

 

[Mottie]

John Smeaton. 's obvious!

 

[Justin Passing]

John Smeaton. 's obvious!

I'm surprised how early he was. Quite a bloke. O'er to you.

 

[Odds]

 

[Justin Passing]

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.

 

[Ihavenojob]

Gatlin

 

[Justin Passing]

Gatlin

If you mean GatlinG
He was American,
and 100 years later.

nearly right, then!

 

[Ihavenojob]

and 100 years later.

It was used in the American civil war, 100 years later would be the 1960's.