Explore the historic reasons women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics today.

American scientist and engineer

American scientist and engineer

(1805-1894) French diplomat and engineer, most famous for building the Suez canal.

A famous Italian artist, mathematician, and engineer.

A career U.S. Army officer and engineer involved in coastal construction. During the American Civil War he served as a Union general, and is best known for defeating Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni[1] (March 6, 1475 - February 18, 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his...

Explains the different ways that metamorphic rocks can form. Looks at high temperature, high pressure, and chemically active fluids. Discusses structures created in metamorphic rocks by different forces and the classifications based on...

Much of the landscape of Cornwall and West Devon was transformed in the 18th and early 19th centuries as a result of the rapid growth of pioneering copper and tin mining. Its deep underground mines, engine houses, foundries, new towns,...

John Ericsson was born in Sweden, July 31, 1803. He early showed great inventive skill and was employed as an engineer in the Swedish service. He resigned in 1826 and went to England to introduce an engine he had invented. In 1829 he won...

General Totten, born in New Haven, Conn., August 23rd, 1788, died in Washington, D. C., April 23rd, 1864. Was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1805, and promoted second lieutenant in the corps of engineers. After the...

George Edwin Waring was born in Poundridge, NY, July 4, 1833. He was agricultural engineer of Central Park, New York City in 1857. He was the drainage engineer of the park until the Civil War broke out, when he entered the Union army as...

General Cullum, born in New York city, February 25th, 1809, died in New York city, February 28th, 1892, was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1833, and brevetted a second lieutenant in the Engineer Corps. During the...

General Warren, born in Cold Spring, N. Y., January 8th, 1830, died in Newport, R. I., August 8th, 1882, was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1850, and assigned to the Topographical Engineers as brevet second...

Includes general information about mining engineering such as the careers history and employment opportunities. It also has helpful links to sites of mining engineering organizations as well as general links to mining industry information.

Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (May 3, 1816 - January 2, 1892) was a career United States Army officer, civil engineer, construction engineer, and Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army during and after the American Civil War.

James Watt (19 January 1736 - 25 August 1819) was a Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer whose improvements to the steam engine were fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both Britain and the world.

General Benham, born in Connecticut in 1817, died in New York June 1st, 1884, was graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1837, and assigned to the Corps of Engineers. Served in the Mexican War, 1847-'8, and was brevetted...

General King, born in New York city, January 26th, 1814, died there, October 13th, 1876, was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1833, and appointed to the Engineer Corps. He resigned from the army, September 30th, 1836,...

Charles Ellet, Jr. (1 January 1810 - 21 June 1862) was a civil engineer and a colonel during the American Civil War, mortally wounded at the Battle of Memphis.

He joined the Western Louisiana campaign, and from May till September, 1864, was chief engineer of the Army of the James. In August 1864, he was brevetted major general of volunteers.

Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 - October 12, 1870), was a career United States Army officer, an engineer, and among the most celebrated generals in American history.

George Gordon Meade (December 31, 1815 - November 6, 1872) was a career United States Army officer and civil engineer involved in coastal construction, including several lighthouses.

James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 - March 8, 1887) was an American structural engineer and inventor.