Charles R. O'Melia
Charles R. O'Melia (1934–2010) was an American environmental engineer and Abel Wolman Professor at Johns Hopkins University, known for the first theoretical model of particle removal in water filters.
Charles R. Trimble
Charles R. Trimble is an American electrical engineer who founded Trimble Navigation in 1978 and led it to dominance in commercial GPS equipment, later chairing the U.S. GPS Industry Council.
Charles R. Wilke
Charles R. Wilke (1917–2003) was an American chemical engineer at the University of California, Berkeley, who founded its chemical engineering department and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.
Charles Rackoff
Charles Rackoff, born in 1948, is a cryptographer and Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto who co-originated zero-knowledge proofs with Goldwasser and Micali, co-winning the 1993 Gödel Prize.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, often called Rennie Mackintosh, was a Scottish architect and designer of the Glasgow Style, best known for the Glasgow School of Art and the Hill House.
Charles S. Barrett
Charles S. Barrett, or Charles Sanborn Barrett, was an American metallurgist and X-ray crystallographer, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1967, known for Structure of Metals.
Charles S. Matthews
Charles S. Matthews was an American chemical engineer and reservoir engineer who spent over 40 years at Shell Oil and co-authored SPE's first monograph, Pressure Build-Up and Flow Tests in Wells (1967).
Charles Simonyi
Charles Simonyi (Simonyi Károly), born 1948 in Budapest, is a Hungarian-born American software engineer who created the first WYSIWYG text editor and was chief architect of Microsoft Word and Excel.
Charles Stark Draper
Charles Stark Draper (1901–1987) was an American aeronautical engineer who founded and directed MIT's Instrumentation Laboratory, which built the guidance systems for the Polaris missile and the Apollo spacecraft.
Charles Steele (mechanical engineer)
Charles Steele was an American mechanical engineer and Stanford professor known for work on thin-shell mechanics and the cochlea, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995.
Charles T. Haan
Charles T. Haan (1941–2024) was an American agricultural engineer and hydrologist known for applying statistical methods to hydrology, and a National Academy of Engineering member who taught at Oklahoma State University.
Charles Tilston Bright
Sir Charles Tilston Bright (1832–1888) was an English telegraph engineer who, as engineer-in-chief of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, laid the first working transatlantic cable in 1858.
Charles Todd (astronomer)
Sir Charles Todd (1826–1910) was a British-born astronomer and electrical engineer who served South Australia for fifty years and built the Overland Telegraph Line, completed in 1872.
Charles V. Jakowatz Jr.
Charles V. "Jack" Jakowatz Jr. (1951–2015) was an American radar signal-processing engineer at Sandia National Laboratories who developed phase gradient autofocus and coherent change detection.
Charles W. Morgan
The Charles W. Morgan is a wooden whaling ship built in New Bedford in 1841, preserved at Mystic Seaport as the last wooden whaleship in the world.
Charles W. Pryor Jr.
Charles W. Pryor Jr. is an American nuclear-energy executive and structural engineer, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003, who led B&W Nuclear Technologies, Westinghouse, and Urenco Investments.
Charles W. Stephens
Charles W. Stephens was vice president and general manager of TRW's Electronic Systems Group, developing satellite and communications equipment, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1985.
Charles W. Wampler II
Charles W. Wampler II is an American applied mathematician and mechanical engineer who co-founded numerical algebraic geometry, developed robot kinematics methods at General Motors, and joined Notre Dame.
Charles Wheatstone
Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875) was an English physicist and inventor who co-invented the Cooke and Wheatstone electric telegraph, popularized the Wheatstone bridge, and invented the concertina and stereoscope.
Charleston International Airport
Charleston International Airport (CHS) is a joint civil-military airport in North Charleston, South Carolina, about 12 miles from downtown Charleston and South Carolina's largest and busiest airport.
Charlotte Douglas International Airport
Charlotte Douglas International Airport, also known as CLT Airport, is a city-owned airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, opened in 1936 and the second-largest hub of American Airlines.
Charlotte Waters, Northern Territory
Charlotte Waters, near the South Australian border, is a Northern Territory locality and heritage site known for the ruins of its 1872 Overland Telegraph repeater station, closed in 1930.
Charlottetown Airport
Charlottetown Airport is the principal airport of Prince Edward Island, near Charlottetown. Operated by the not-for-profit Charlottetown Airport Authority since 1999, it handled a record 410,773 passengers in 2024.
Charmin
Charmin is an American brand of toilet paper and bathroom products, introduced in 1928 by the Hoberg Paper Company of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and owned by Procter & Gamble since 1957.
Charoen Pokphand Foods
Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) is a Thai agro-industrial and food company, part of CP Group, with production in 17 countries and exports to more than 40, founded in 1978.
Charrette
A charrette is an intensive multi-day collaborative design workshop where community members, decision makers, and experts co-develop solutions to planning problems; the French word for cart comes from 19th-century École des Beaux-Arts deadlines.
Charter Arms Bulldog
The Charter Arms Bulldog is a five-shot, double-action/single-action revolver chambered in .44 Special, made in Connecticut since 1973 and sold as a compact big-bore carry gun.
Charter Communications
Charter Communications is an American broadband company, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, that serves homes and businesses under its Spectrum brand and trades on NASDAQ as CHTR.
Chartered Engineer
Chartered Engineer (CEng) is a protected professional title awarded by the UK Engineering Council, the highest of its four registration titles, assessed by peer review against UK-SPEC.
Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors
The Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (CICES) is a British professional body and educational charity representing civil engineering surveyors, founded in 1969 and granted a royal charter in 2009.