Technology and the built world

Marsha Anderson Bomar

Marsha Anderson Bomar is an American transportation engineer who founded Street Smarts, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2025, and serves as ASCE president.

Marshall B. Standing

Marshall B. Standing, also known as Marshall Burton Standing, was an American petroleum reservoir engineer at Standard Oil of California, now Chevron, known for the Standing correlations.

Marshall I. Nathan

Marshall I. Nathan is an American electrical engineer who co-demonstrated stimulated emission from gallium arsenide p-n junctions in 1962, showing the injection laser was viable.

Marshall Jones (mechanical engineer)

Marshall Jones (born 1941) is an American mechanical engineer at General Electric known for industrial laser materials processing and elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.

Marshall mix design method

The Marshall mix design method is an empirical laboratory procedure that determines the optimum asphalt binder content for hot mix asphalt through stability and flow testing.

Marshall Steam Station

Marshall Steam Station is a four-unit coal-fired power plant in Terrell, North Carolina, on Lake Norman about 30 miles north of Charlotte, operated by Duke Energy Carolinas.

Marshalling (computer science)

Marshalling, also called data marshalling, is the process of transforming an object's memory representation into a format suitable for transmission across a process or network boundary.

Marsokhod

Marsokhod (Russian for "Mars Walker") is a family of Russian-built six-wheeled rovers for Mars exploration, best known through a test vehicle NASA used in field experiments in the 1990s.

Marta C. Hatzell is an American electrochemical engineer and Woodruff Professor at Georgia Tech whose research on bipolar membrane electrolysis applies to carbon capture, ammonia production, and desalination.

Martand Sun Temple

The Martand Sun Temple is the ruin of an 8th-century Hindu temple dedicated to the solar deity Surya, built by King Lalitaditya Muktapida on a plateau in Kashmir's Anantnag district.

Martell (cognac)

Martell is a French cognac house founded in 1715 in Cognac by Jean Martell, the oldest of the great cognac houses and now owned by Pernod Ricard.

Martello tower

A Martello tower is a small circular coastal artillery fort that Britain built along England's south and east coasts between 1805 and 1812 against Napoleonic invasion.

Martensite

Martensite is a metastable phase formed by a diffusionless, shear-like transformation, most familiarly as the hard body-centered tetragonal phase produced when steel is quenched from austenite.

Martensitic transformation

A martensitic transformation is a diffusionless, shear-driven solid-state phase change named for the German microscopist Adolf Martens, central to steel hardening and shape memory alloys.

Martial Hebert

Martial Hebert is a French-born computer vision and robotics researcher, Dean of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science since 2019, known for spin images for 3D object recognition.

Martin B-10

The Martin B-10, also known as the Martin YB-12, was an American twin-engine bomber, the first all-metal monoplane bomber produced in quantity for the US Army Air Corps.

Martin B-26 Marauder

The Martin B-26 Marauder was an American twin-engine medium bomber built by Glenn L. Martin that served the USAAF in World War II, with more than 5,000 built.

Martin B-57 Canberra

The Martin B-57 Canberra was an American twin-engine jet light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft, license-built by Martin from the British English Electric Canberra and flown by the US Air Force from 1953 until 1983.

Martin C. Hemsworth

Martin C. Hemsworth (1918–2009) was an American mechanical engineer at General Electric Aircraft Engines who led the design of the TF39, the world's first high-bypass turbofan engine.

Martin Cooper (engineer)

Martin Cooper, born in 1928, is an American engineer who led Motorola's team in making the first public handheld cellular phone call, in New York in 1973.

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Martin Dyer

Martin Dyer is a British computer scientist and emeritus professor at the University of Leeds, known for randomized counting and sampling algorithms and the path coupling technique.

Martin E. Glicksman

Martin E. Glicksman is an American materials scientist elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996, known for solidification theory and Space Shuttle crystal growth experiments.

Martin Eberhard

Martin Eberhard, born in 1960, is an American engineer who co-founded Tesla Motors with Marc Tarpenning in 2003 and was its first CEO; he also created the Rocket eBook e-reader.

Martin Edward Hellman

Martin Edward Hellman, born in New York in 1945, is an American cryptographer and Stanford professor emeritus who co-invented public-key cryptography, winning the 2015 Turing Award with Whitfield Diffie.

Martin EHL theory

Martin EHL theory is the 1916 closed-form solution of the Reynolds equation for lubrication between a rigid cylinder and a plane, a model of gear-tooth lubrication.

Martin Fowler (software engineer)

Martin Fowler (born 1963) is a British software engineer, Chief Scientist at Thoughtworks, and author of Refactoring (1999) and a co-author of the 2001 Agile Manifesto.

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Martin Fürchtegott Grübler

Martin Fürchtegott Grübler (1851–1935) was a German professor of engineering mechanics and a principal founder of Getriebelehre, the German theory of mechanisms, remembered for Grübler's mobility criterion.

Martin Fussenegger

Martin Fussenegger is a Swiss synthetic biologist, professor of biotechnology and bioengineering at ETH Zurich's Basel department, known for synthetic gene circuits and elected to the US National Academy of Engineering.

Martin Gerard Plys

Martin Gerard Plys is a nuclear engineer at Fauske and Associates in Illinois, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023 for modeling severe reactor accidents.