Life stories that are sure to inspire you

摘要

Ask anyone to name a famous engineer, and there's a strong chance that they'll go back into the 19th century and pick one of just a handful of predictable people. Two new paperback books of engineering biography draw their inspiration wider.rnIoan James, emeritus professor of maths at Oxford, has already done slim volumes on Remarkable Mathematicians and Remarkable Physicists, now he's added Remarkable Engineers and, though the usual suspects are there, many others, particularly 20th-century engineers who are much less celebrated, are among the 51 brief profiles.