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Heroes
of Engineering —
visit
the 20th century with us ... through
the comics
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 December
— Dean Kamen
"One
Idea After Another"
PDF (1.1MB)
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 November
— James Morgan
"Behind
the Scenes" — Microchip-Manufacturing Machines
PDF (950KB)
Applied
Materials' biography for James
C. Morgan
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 October
— Bonnie Dunbar
"No
Limits" — An Engineering Path to Space
PDF (888KB)
ASME
Poster Series of Women
in Engineering
NASA
Biography: www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/dunbar.html
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 September—
Allen Breed
"Determination"
— Safety Air Bag
PDF (780KB)
MIT
Inventor of the Week (March 2004): Allen
K. Breed
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 August
— Margaret Ingels
"Ahead
of Her Time" — Air Conditioning
PDF (1M)
Related
link: ME Magazine (May 2000) article "Cool
Story"
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 July
— Henry Kaiser
"The
Man Who Got Things Done" — U.S. Liberty Ships
PDF (1.1M)
Related
link: ASME Landmark Brochure PDF
or Djvu
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 June
— Richard McLean Dilworth
"The
Man Behind the Machine" — The Pioneer Zephyr
PDF (1.1M)
Related
link: ASME Landmark Brochure PDF
or Djvu
(Pioneer Zephyr)
Related link: ASME Landmark Brochure PDF
or Djvu
(MW-31 / bio)
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 May
— Albert Thompson
"Step
by Step" — The Rotary Pressure Sterilizer
PDF
(1M)
Related
link: ASME Landmark Brochure PDF
or Djvu
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 April
— Garrett Morgan
"Hero"
— The Inhalator
PDF
(829KB)
Related
links: Lienhard's Engines
or "About" Inventors
biography
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 March
— Wright Brothers
"Wind
Tunnel Visionaries"
PDF
(956KB)
Related
link: ASME Landmark
Brochure PDF
or Djvu
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 February
— Michael Owens
"The
Automatic Glassblower"
PDF
(721KB)
Related
link: ASME Landmark
Brochure PDF
or Djvu
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 January
— Robert Thurston
"Closing
the gap between practice and theory"
PDF
(907KB)
Related
link: Robert Thurston biography
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About
the artist:
Ron Spellman is a U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer and assistant
editor of the monthly Coast Guard Magazine, for which he
has produced "Astonishing Sea Stories," a comic featuring
historical Coast Guard heroes. More of his work can be viewed at
www.astonishingheroes.com.
Technical
Advisor:
Captain Vincent Wilczynski, Ph.D., a member of ASME's 125th anniversary
steering committee and also current vice-president of the Pre-College
Education Board of ASME, is a professor of mechanical engineering
at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn.
ASME
History and Heritage Advisor:
J. Lawrence Lee, Ph.D., P.E., a Fellow of ASME and former ASME History
and Heritage Committee chair (1994-2000), is engineer-historian
at the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), a branch of
the U.S. National Park Service.
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