1.

John Bradford- He was a prominent Australian engineer who is best known

for his work overseeing the design and building of the Sydney Harbor Bridge.
From 1889 to 1891, Bradfield worked for the Queensland Railways
Department as a draftsman. In 1891 he joined the New South Wales Public
Works Department. In 1912 he was appointed Chief Engineer for metropolitan
railway construction, when he commenced his long association with Secretary
Kathleen Muriel Butler. In 1915 Bradfield submitted a report outlining a grand
scheme for Sydney's railways involving the electrification of the suburban
railways, a city underground railway and the Sydney Harbor Bridge.
2. John Smeaton- He was an English civil engineer responsible for the design
of bridges, canals, harbors and lighthouses. Smeaton designed the third Eddy
stone Lighthouse (175559). He pioneered the use of hydraulic lime and
developed a technique involving dovetailed blocks of granite in the building
of the lighthouse. In 1789 Smeaton applied an idea by Denis Papin, by using a
force pump to maintain the pressure and fresh air inside a diving bell. This
bell, built for the Hexham bridge project, was not intended for underwater
work, but in 1790 the design was updated to enable it to be used underwater
on the breakwater at Ramsgate Harbor. Smeaton is also credited with
explaining the fundamental differences and benefits of overshot versus
undershot water wheels.
3. Squire Whipple- He was a civil engineer that became known as the father of
Iron Bridge building in America. He built the first successful long span
trapezoidal railroad bridges on New York Railroads in West Troy and Utica,
New York. In 1852-53, he built a wrought and cast iron bridge over the Albany
and Northern railroad. He also built an iron railroad bridge of 146 foot span near
Watervliet, New York. N 1872, he designed and patented the first ever vertical lift
bridge in America. In 1874, he built a bridge of this design over the Erie Canal in
Utica.
In 1867-69, Whipple Cast and Wrought Iron Bowstring Truss Bridge, commonly
known as the Norman skill Farm Bridge, was built by Simon de Graff, a Syracuse
builder, who copied its design from Whipples original bowstring truss design. In
1971 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is currently one
of the oldest surviving iron bridges in the country.
4. Isambard Kingdom Brunel- Work on the Clifton Suspension Bridge began in
1831. The bridge had the longest span of any bridge in the world at that time.
However, the work had to be stopped because of the Queen Square Riots. The
bridge would not be completed within Brunels lifetime.
Over the course of his career he designed many bridges including the Royal
Albert Bridge spanning the River Tamar, the Somerset Bridge, the Windsor
Railway Bridge, and the Maidenhead Railway
Bridge over the Thames.
5. Ellen Swallow Richards-