Engineers and naval architects who designed ships, navigation instruments and underwater equipment, and who studied how vessels move in water. A person belongs here when the cited article credits the person with ship design, navigation technology or marine equipment. It excludes inventors whose work was mainly on aircraft or on land vehicles. The group is one of the groupings of engineers under this engineering field in the Technology Atlas, and each member keeps its own entry with its own cited sources and its own place in the field.
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William Froude (Wikipedia)
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William Froude (; 28 November 1810-4 May 1879) was an English engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect.
William Francis Gibbs - Wikipedia
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William Francis Gibbs (August 24, 1886, September 6, 1967) was an American naval architect of the mid-twentieth century.
Elmer Ambrose Sperry (Wikipedia)
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He was known as the "father of modern navigation technology".
Émile Gagnan (Wikipedia)
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This allowed people to explore the ocean more easily, even though the original purpose was different.
Jacques Cousteau (Wikipedia)
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau (, also UK: ; French: [ʒak iv kusto]; 11 June 1910-25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author.
Francis Pettit Smith (Wikipedia)
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one of the inventors of the screw propeller
Ole Evinrude (Wikipedia)
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known for the invention of the first outboard motor with practical commercial application
John Ericsson (Wikipedia)
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he designed the United States Navy's first screw-propelled steam frigate USS Princeton
Robert Whitehead (Grace's Guide)
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working as a marine design engineer for Philip Taylor
Personal flotation device, Wikipedia
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The Mae West was a common nickname for the first inflatable life preserver, which was invented in 1928 by Peter Markus (1885-1974) (US Patent 1694714), with his subsequent improvements in 1930 and 1931.
Wikipedia: Otis Barton
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Born in New York, the independently wealthy Barton designed the first bathysphere and made a dive with William Beebe off Bermuda in June 1930.
John Hadley (Wikipedia)
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John Hadley (16 April 1682 - 14 February 1744) was an English mathematician, and laid claim to the invention of the octant, two years after Thomas Godfrey claimed the same.
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