Scottish Engineering Hall of Fame 2017 Inductees
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Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Baronet of Ardwick (1789-1874), civil engineer, mechanical engineer, structural engineer and industrialist
William Fairbairn developed from a skilled practical millwright to a great engineer and businessman basing decisions on logic and experiment...
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Elijah McCoy (1844-1929), mechanical engineer and patentor of automated lubrication for steam engines
Elijah McCoy, born in Canada to a fugitive slave, was educated in Scotland, and returned to North America ultimately building a hugely inventive career...
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Anne Gillespie Shaw (1904-1982), production engineer and businesswoman
Anne Shaw was an early pioneer of motion study and production efficiency, her talents used in the aircraft industry in WW2 and beyond...
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Craig Clark (b. 1973), electronics engineer, entrepreneur, founder of Clyde Space
Craig Clark built a business in Glasgow producing small satellites, galvanising a space technology cluster in Scotland...