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Originally Posted by Jessica Boucher
Bring back Watt.
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I'm totally with you.
James Watt's epitaph in Westminster Abbey really sums up FIRST for me.
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Not to perpetuate a name which must endure while the peaceful arts flourish, but to shew that mankind have learned to know those who best deserve their gratitude. The King, His Ministers, and many of the Nobles and Commoners of the Realm raised this monument to JAMES WATT who, directing the force of an original Genius, early exercised in philosophic research, to the improvement of the Steam Engine, enlarged the resources of his Country, increased the power of Man, and rose to an eminent place among the most illustrious followers of science and the real benefactors of the World. Born at Greenock MDCCXXXVI Died at Heathfield in Staffordshire MDCCCXIX.
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I think
Henry Maudslay, and
Isambard Kingdom Brunel also deserve spots at the table.
It's always struck me as a little odd that while FRC is practically mostly engineering, our fields were named after people who were more famous for their science than their engineering. Maybe that's a good thing though.