Famous in STEM: Extraordinary Engineers

The Remarkable Lives of the Builders, Inventors, and Visionaries Who Engineered the Modern World

By: Javier Sanz

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A woman supervises the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge because the men in charge can’t. A rocket scientist designs a machine powerful enough to carry humans to the Moon. An ironworker builds a tower in Paris that the whole city hates, until it becomes the most visited monument on Earth.

Inside Extraordinary Engineers, the latest volume in the bestselling Famous in STEM series, you’ll meet the builders, inventors, and visionaries who turned impossible ideas into the structures, machines, and systems that define the modern world.

Discover the engineers who built the future:

• Gustave Eiffel — built the Eiffel Tower as a “temporary” structure, then watched it become the symbol of Paris forever
• Emily Warren Roebling — took over the Brooklyn Bridge project when the chief engineer fell ill, becoming the first woman to oversee a major engineering work
• James Watt — transformed the steam engine from a clumsy pump into the machine that powered the Industrial Revolution
• Wernher von Braun — designed the Saturn V rocket that carried astronauts to the Moon
• Fazlur Rahman Khan — immigrated from Bangladesh and invented the structural system that made modern skyscrapers possible, including the Sears Tower
• Claude Shannon — wrote a single paper that invented information theory and made the entire digital age possible
• …and 14 more extraordinary stories of ambition, ingenuity, and world-changing engineering

From George Stephenson building the first public railway, to Sergei Korolev launching Sputnik in secret, to Henry Ford reinventing manufacturing with the assembly line, each chapter reads like an adventure story while making the engineering accessible to everyone.

Featuring 20 engineers who built bridges, rockets, skyscrapers, engines, railways, and the digital world itself. Perfect for anyone who has ever looked at a great structure and wondered: how did they build that?

Part of the Famous in STEM series.