Biographies
The Archives holds a wealth of biographical information on many eminent scientists and pioneers in the engineering profession.
For individual biographies please click on the names below.
- Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney
- Alhazen
- Sir Edward Appleton
- Hertha Ayrton
- William Ayrton
- Alan Blumlein
- Henry Boot
- Arthur C Clarke
- Sir William Fothergill Cooke
- W R Cooper
- Colonel R.E.B. Crompton
- Sir William Crookes
- Douglas Chick
- Sir Humphry Davy
- Gertrude Entwisle
- Michael Faraday
- Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti
- Sir Arthur Fleming
- Dame Caroline Haslett
- Oliver Heaviside
- Paul Jablochkoff
- Lord Kelvin
- James Clerk Maxwell
- John W. Meares
- Sir Eric Mensforth
- Viscount Nuffield
- Robert William Paul
- Peter Peregrinus
- J S Raworth
- Alec Reeves
- Sir Francis Ronalds
- Sir Henry Royce
- A W Rucker
- Sir William Siemens
- Alan Turing
- Sir Charles Wheatstone
Free Archives Exhibition brochures!
If you would like to receive a free copy of one of the IET's Archive brochures that accompanied our past exhibitions held at Savoy Place please contact us and we shall post them out to you. Topics covered are: "Sailing Ship to Satellite- the Transatlantic Connection"; "The BBC at Savoy Place 1923-1932"; "Secret Machines- British Code-Breaking during World War II" and "A new kind of vision- the discovery of X-rays".
