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Howard Aiken 1900–1973Technology & BuildingPhysicist and engineer who designed the Harvard Mark I, an early electromechanical computer.Othmar Ammann 1879–1965Technology & BuildingSwiss-American structural engineer who designed the George Washington Bridge and other major spans.Daniel Burnham 1846–1912Technology & BuildingArchitect and planner whose City Beautiful vision shaped downtowns, civic centers, and urban planning.John Ericsson 1803–1889Technology & BuildingSwedish-American engineer who designed the ironclad USS Monitor, revolutionizing naval warfare.Buckminster Fuller 1895–1983Technology & BuildingPopularized the geodesic dome and promoted resource-efficient structural design.R. Buckminster Fuller 1895–1983Technology & BuildingDesigner and inventor who developed the geodesic dome and promoted sustainable design principles.Robert Fulton 1765–1815Technology & BuildingEngineer and inventor whose steamboat Clermont revolutionized American river transportation.Frank Gehry 1929–2025Technology & BuildingDeveloped a sculptural architectural language seen in the Walt Disney Concert Hall and other landmarks.Robert Goddard 1882–1945Technology & BuildingPhysicist and engineer who built the first liquid-fueled rocket, laying the foundation for space exploration.Jane Jacobs 1916–2006Technology & BuildingWriter and activist whose defense of mixed, walkable neighborhoods transformed urban planning.William Le Baron Jenney 1832–1907Technology & BuildingArchitect and engineer who designed the first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building in Chicago.Kelly Johnson 1910–1990Technology & BuildingLed Lockheed's Skunk Works and designed the U-2 and SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft.Fazlur Rahman Khan 1929–1982Technology & BuildingDeveloped tubular structural systems that made the Sears Tower and John Hancock Center possible.Maya Lin b. 1959Technology & BuildingDesigner of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial whose work transformed American memorial architecture.Ralph Modjeski 1861–1940Technology & BuildingPolish-American bridge engineer who designed major spans including the Bay Bridge and Benjamin Franklin Bridge.Julia Morgan 1872–1957Technology & BuildingFirst woman licensed as an architect in California and designer of Hearst Castle.Robert Moses 1888–1981Technology & BuildingMaster builder whose roads, parks, and public works reshaped metropolitan New York while displacing communities and entrenching car dependence.Frederick Law Olmsted 1822–1903Technology & BuildingLandscape architect who designed Central Park and established public parks as essential American civic infrastructure.I. M. Pei 1917–2019Technology & BuildingArchitect whose monumental modern buildings reshaped American civic and cultural architecture.John Roebling 1806–1869Technology & BuildingCivil engineer who designed the Brooklyn Bridge, a landmark of 19th-century engineering.John A. Roebling 1806–1869Technology & BuildingDeveloped wire-rope suspension bridge design and planned the Brooklyn Bridge.Washington Roebling 1837–1926Technology & BuildingEngineer who oversaw the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge after his father's death.Eero Saarinen 1910–1961Technology & BuildingArchitect whose expressive buildings and furniture became icons of postwar American modernism.Elmer Sperry 1860–1930Technology & BuildingInventor and engineer who developed gyroscopic stabilizers for ships and aircraft.Charles Proteus Steinmetz 1865–1923Technology & BuildingElectrical engineer whose work on alternating current systems powered the electrification of America.Joseph Strauss 1870–1938Technology & BuildingChief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge, one of the most photographed structures in the world.Louis Sullivan 1856–1924Technology & BuildingArchitect whose skyscraper designs and “form follows function” principle helped define modern architecture.Gustavus Franklin Swift 1839–1903Technology & BuildingMeatpacking pioneer who developed the refrigerated rail car, transforming the food industry.Frederick Winslow Taylor 1856–1915Technology & BuildingMechanical engineer who pioneered scientific management, reshaping industrial efficiency worldwide.Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 1886–1969Technology & BuildingDirected architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology and defined American modernist steel-and-glass buildings.Wernher von Braun 1912–1977Technology & BuildingGerman-American aerospace engineer who led the development of the Saturn V rocket that took humans to the Moon.George Westinghouse 1846–1914Technology & BuildingEngineer and industrialist who championed alternating current and founded the Westinghouse Electric Company.Frank Lloyd Wright 1867–1959Technology & BuildingArchitect and engineer whose organic architecture, including Fallingwater, reshaped the built environment.