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Re:What's Happening to Reading? by bregma on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @02:08PM (#44585222)
Isambard Kingdom Brunel? Gustav Eiffel? Robert Stephenson? Nikola Tesla? Alexander Graham Bell? Orville and Wilbur Wright? Thomas Edison?

I guess it depends on how much you honour those who lit the way before you.

Re:What's Happening to Reading? by Izkata on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @03:00PM (#44585691)
Ignoring the first three, the rest I've mentally bucketed into "inventor" and not "engineer". And that's assuming I have them associated with the right century - definitely would have excluded the Wright brothers anyway because of that.
Re:What's Happening to Reading? by AceyMan on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @11:09PM (#44589312)
> The aircraft we fly today is the same design as the Wright Brothers. They solved the control problem. They did wind tunnel studies. And yet you claim they're "not engineers."

As the joke goes, 'I want some of what he's smoking.' Just. Wow.

Re:What's Happening to Reading? by Izkata on Thursday July 17, 2025 @01:09AM (#44589869)
When did I ever claim they're not engineers? I said I mentally bucketed them into "inventor" instead of "engineer". People can be more than one thing at once, it's just not the association I have in my mind, so they don't come to mind when I try to think of engineers.
Re:What's Happening to Reading? by bee_rider on Wednesday July 16, 2025 @02:27PM (#44585390)
FWIW I (incorrectly, I guess) thought of Tesla and Edison as early 20’th century instead of 19’th.

The Wright brothers just barely squeeze by the “19’th century” bar.