applied scientist, engineer, technologist - a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems

Vannevar Bush, Bush - United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974)

De Forest, Lee De Forest, The Father of Radio - United States electrical engineer who in 1907 patented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (1873-1961)

Dolby, Ray M. Dolby - United States electrical engineer who devised the Dolby system used to reduce background noise in tape recording

Heaviside, Oliver Heaviside - English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925)

A. E. Kennelly, Arthur Edwin Kennelly, Kennelly - United States electrical engineer noted for his work on the theory of alternating currents; independently of Oliver Heaviside he discovered the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1861-1939)

Guglielmo Marconi, Marconi - Italian electrical engineer known as the father of radio (1874-1937)

Ernst Werner von Siemens, Siemens - German electrical engineer (1816-1892)

Clive Sinclair, Sir Clive Marles Sinclair, Sinclair - English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940)

Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Steinmetz - United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Germany) (1865-1923)

Nikola Tesla, Tesla - United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943)

Elihu Thomson, Thomson - United States electrical engineer (born in England) who in 1892 formed a company with Thomas Edison (1853-1937)