Mechanical Engineering

Engineers whose defining technological contribution is a machine, engine or mechanical device: internal combustion and steam engines, the automobile, mechanical calculating and printing devices, and mechanical household and industrial hardware. Belongs here: James Watt and Thomas Newcomen for the steam engine, Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler for the automobile, Charles Babbage for the mechanical Analytical Engine, and the ancient and early-modern mechanists such as the Banu Musa brothers and Bi Sheng. Does not belong here: engines and mechanisms built specifically for flight, grouped under Aerospace Engineering, or the electrical and electronic devices that share a household-appliance shelf with mechanical ones, grouped under Electrical Engineering.