Engineers/Inventors
- Carlo Abarth, motorcycle racer and car designer
- Igo Etrich, aviation pioneer and pilot 1879-1967
- Anselm Franz, pioneer in jet engine engineering
- Gaston Glock, inventor, founder of GLOCK GmbH
- Eduard Haas, inventor of the Pez candy
- Hedy Lamarr, (known for research in frequencies, needed for mobile phones)
- Viktor Kaplan, inventor of turbines for river power plants
- Wilhelm Kress, aviation pioneer, inventor of the stick control for airplanes
- Siegfried Marcus, automobile pioneer (vehicles of 1870 and 1889), lived most of his life in Austria
- Alois Negrelli, engineer and railroad pioneer (created the plans for the Suez Canal)
- Ferdinand Porsche, automotive engineer, designed the Volkswagen (the "people's car"), born in Austria-Hungary
- Johann Puch, engineer and entrepreneur
- Josef Ressel, inventor of the marine screw propeller
- Edmund Rumpler, engineer, aviation pioneer
- Alois Senefelder, inventor of the printing technique of Lithography
- Nikola Tesla, inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer (prior to moving to Paris in 1882)
- Max Valier, rocketry pioneer
- Auer von Welsbach, inventor of gaslight
- Claire Gmachl, quantum cascade laser and mid-IR technologies pioneer
Read more about this topic: List Of Austrian Scientists
Famous quotes containing the word inventors:
“In America, the geography is sublime, but the men are not: the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)