Technology and the built world

Martin Green (photovoltaics researcher)

Martin A. Green is an Australian photovoltaics researcher at UNSW Sydney who invented the PERC solar cell in 1983 and won the 2022 Millennium Technology Prize.

Martin Jekel

Martin Jekel is a German environmental engineer who headed TU Berlin's water quality control department from 1988 to 2018, researching arsenic removal, micropollutant elimination, and phosphorus removal.

Martin JRM Mars

The Martin JRM Mars is a large four-engine flying boat built for the US Navy during World War II, the largest Allied flying boat of the war.

Martin Julian Blunt

Martin Julian Blunt, also known as Martin Blunt, is Professor of Petroleum Engineering at Imperial College London, known for research on multiphase flow in porous media and carbon storage.

Oct 26, 2026

Martin Kleppmann

Martin Kleppmann, British computer scientist and Cambridge Associate Professor, author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications (2017, 2nd ed. 2026), co-founder of Rapportive and Automerge, and coiner of local-first software.

Martin Lake Steam Station

Martin Lake Steam Station is a lignite-fired electric power station in Rusk County, Texas, owned and operated by Vistra Corp. through its Luminant subsidiaries since 1977.

Martin Lang (engineer)

Martin Lang is a civil and environmental engineer specializing in water resources, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for sustainable water resources and education.

Martin Linge Oil and Gas Field

Martin Linge, previously called Hild, is an Equinor-operated oil and gas field in the northern North Sea, discovered in 1978 and started up in 2021 on power from shore.

Martin M-130

The Martin M-130 was a four-engine flying boat built by Glenn L. Martin for Pan Am, which opened transpacific air service with it in 1935.

Martin M. Mikulas, Jr.

Martin M. Mikulas Jr. is an American aerospace structural engineer who worked on the Saturn V and Viking parachute during 30 years at NASA Langley.

Martin Marietta

Martin Marietta Corporation was an American aerospace and defense company formed in 1961 and based in Bethesda, Maryland, known for Titan rockets and Viking Mars landers.

Martin Marietta Materials

Martin Marietta Materials is an American building-materials company headquartered in North Carolina, formed in 1993 from the materials group of Martin Marietta Corporation and one of the two largest US aggregates producers.

Martin P. Lepselter

Martin P. Lepselter (c. 1929–2020) was an American semiconductor process engineer at Bell Labs, known for inventing the beam-lead structure used in silicon integrated circuits.

Martin PBM Mariner

The Martin PBM Mariner, also known as the Martin Mariner, was an American twin-engine gull-wing flying boat patrol bomber that served the US Navy from 1940 to 1956.

Martin Point power station

Martin Point power station is a 2,449 MW natural gas-fired generating station in Indiantown, Florida, owned and operated by Florida Power & Light, a NextEra Energy subsidiary.

Martin Stolterfoht

Martin Stolterfoht is a physicist researching perovskite and organic solar cells, an associate professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 2023 after leading a group at Potsdam.

Martin Summerfield

Martin Summerfield (1916–1996) was an American physicist and rocket propulsion researcher who co-founded the Aerojet Engineering Corporation in 1942 and later built Princeton University's combustion and solid-propellant propulsion laboratory.

Oct 26, 2026

Martin Traverso

Martin Traverso, software engineer; co-creator of Presto (2012, Facebook) and its fork Trino, with Sundstrom, Phillips, and Hwang; co-founder of the Trino Software Foundation and CTO of Starburst Data.

Martin Vetterli

Martin Vetterli, born in Switzerland in 1957, is an electrical engineer known for wavelet theory and sampling research, and was president of EPFL from 2017 to 2024.

Martin-Baker

Martin-Baker is a British family-run engineering company based at Denham, Buckinghamshire, founded in 1934, whose ejection seats have saved 7,825 aircrew since 1946 across 86 countries.

Martine Rothblatt

Martine Rothblatt (Martine Aliana Rothblatt, born 1954) is an American entrepreneur and lawyer who founded satellite radio company SiriusXM and United Therapeutics, a biotech company developing treatments for pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Martinez Renewables

Martinez Renewables is a renewable fuels plant in Martinez, California, a 50/50 joint venture of Marathon Petroleum and Neste producing renewable diesel from vegetable oils, animal fats, and used cooking oils.

Martini–Henry

The Martini–Henry was a single-shot, lever-actuated breech-loading rifle adopted in 1871 that armed British and colonial troops for roughly two decades before the Lee-Metford.

Martins Creek power station

Martins Creek power station is a TalenEnergy-owned gas and oil-fired plant on the Delaware River in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, about 10 miles north of Easton.

Marulk Oil and Gas Field

Marulk is a producing gas field in the Norwegian Sea, discovered in 1992 and producing since 2012 as a subsea development tied to the Norne FPSO, operated by DNO Norge AS.

Marun Oil Field

Marun (Persian: مارون) is a giant onshore oil field in the Dezful Embayment of southwestern Iran, discovered in 1964 and producing mainly from the Asmari reservoir.

Marun–Isfahan Oil Pipelines

The Marun–Isfahan Oil Pipelines are two parallel Iranian crude oil pipelines, about 430 km long, carrying crude from the Marun oil field in Khuzestan to the Isfahan refinery.

Marunouchi Line (丸ノ内線)

The Marunouchi Line (丸ノ内線) is a 24.2 km Tokyo Metro subway line from Ogikubo to Ikebukuro through central Tokyo, opened in 1954 as the city's first postwar subway.

Maruti 800

The Maruti 800 is a small city car Maruti Suzuki built in India from 1983 to 2014, credited with making cars affordable for the Indian middle class.