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Henn na Hotel

Henn na Hotel (変なホテル, roughly "Strange Hotel") is a Japanese hotel chain where robots handle front-desk, luggage, and in-room tasks; its first hotel opened in 2015 and held the Guinness record as the first robot-staffed hotel.

Hennessey Blackbird

The Hennessey Blackbird is a limited-production touring hypercar revealed in 2026 by Hennessey of Sealy, Texas, powered by a naturally aspirated 6.2-liter V8 and a six-speed manual.

Hennessey Performance Engineering

Hennessey Performance, also known as Hennessey Performance Engineering, is an American company founded by John Hennessey in 1991 that builds high-performance cars in Sealy, Texas.

Hennessey Venom F5

The Hennessey Venom F5 is an American hypercar built by Hennessey Special Vehicles in Sealy, Texas, with a 1,817-horsepower twin-turbo V8 and a target top speed above 300 mph.

Hennessey Venom GT

The Hennessey Venom GT is an American mid-engine hypercar built in Sealy, Texas, from 2010 to 2017, with only 13 made, using a Lotus Elise chassis.

Henri Coandă

Henri Coandă (1886–1972) was a Romanian inventor and aeronautical engineer best known for the propellerless Coandă-1910 aircraft, the Coandă effect, and more than 250 patents.

Henri Farman

Henri Farman (1874–1958) was a Paris-born pioneer pilot, aircraft designer, and manufacturer who won the Deutsch-Archdeacon prize in 1908 for the first officially observed one-kilometer closed-circuit flight.

Henri G. Busignies

Henri G. Busignies (1905–1981) was a French-born American electronics engineer who spent his career at ITT, inventing the Huff-Duff direction finder that helped defeat German submarines and originating TACAN air navigation.

Henri Giffard

Henri Giffard (1825–1882) was a French engineer who flew the first powered, steerable airship from Paris in 1852 and invented the steam injector adopted on railways worldwide.

Henrik Ager-Hanssen

Henrik Ager-Hanssen (1930–2004) was a Norwegian nuclear physicist and energy leader who worked in reactor physics at Halden, led Scandpower, and became a senior Statoil executive.

Henrik Fisker

Henrik Fisker is a Danish automobile designer and entrepreneur who designed the BMW Z8 and Aston Martin V8 Vantage and founded Fisker Automotive and Fisker Inc.

Henry A. Schade

Henry A. Schade was an American naval architect and U.S. Navy officer who directed the Naval Research Laboratory and founded the naval architecture program at Berkeley.

Henry E. Singleton

Henry E. Singleton, also known as Henry Earl Singleton, was an American electrical engineer who pioneered aircraft inertial navigation and co-founded the Teledyne conglomerate in 1960.

Henry Earl Singleton

Henry Earl Singleton (1916–1999) was an American electrical engineer who pioneered the lightweight inertial navigation system used in military and commercial aircraft and co-founded Teledyne, Inc., leading it for three decades.

Henry Earle Vaughan

Henry Earle Vaughan was an American electrical engineer at Bell Labs who directed the design of No. 1 ESS, the first major electronic telephone switching system.

Henry Ford II

Henry Ford II, known as Hank the Deuce, was an American businessman who led Ford Motor Company from 1945, rescuing it from near-collapse after World War II.

Henry G. Schwartz Jr.

Henry G. Schwartz Jr., known as H. Gerard Schwartz Jr., is an American civil engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for wastewater treatment systems.

Henry Herman Hausner

Henry Herman Hausner, born Henry Heinz Hausner, was an Austrian-born engineer who pioneered powder metallurgy in the United States and also wrote a monograph on Süßmayr, who completed Mozart's Requiem.

Henry Hoffmann

Henry Hoffmann, often called Hank Hoffmann, is an American computer scientist at the University of Chicago known for research on self-aware and adaptive computing systems and for receiving a PECASE award.

Henry Hudson Parkway

The Henry Hudson Parkway is a limited-access urban parkway in New York City, running 11.2 miles along the Hudson River from West 72nd Street to Westchester County.

Henry J. Degenkolb

Henry J. Degenkolb (1913–1989) was an American structural engineer in San Francisco whose seismic design work, carried through the Applied Technology Council, shaped national building codes.

Henry J. Gruy

Henry J. Gruy (1915–2012) was an American petroleum engineer who founded the reserve-evaluation firm H.J. Gruy and Associates and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1989.

Henry J. Hatch

Henry J. Hatch, known as Hank Hatch, is a retired United States Army lieutenant general and civil engineer who served as Chief of Engineers from 1988 to 1992.

Henry J. Ongerth

Henry J. Ongerth (1913-2011) was an American sanitary engineer and chief engineer of the California Department of Health Services, known for work on water reuse.

Henry J. Ramey Jr.

Henry Jackson Ramey Jr. (1925–1993) was an American petroleum engineer who led Stanford's geothermal program and pioneered pressure transient well-test analysis, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1981.

Henry J. Snaith

Henry J. Snaith is a physicist at the University of Oxford and a pioneer of perovskite solar cells, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015.

Henry Kressel

Henry Kressel is an engineer who pioneered the semiconductor heterojunction laser at RCA Laboratories, work that underlies fiber-optic communications, then spent three decades in venture capital at Warburg Pincus.

Henry Larcom Abbot

Henry Larcom Abbot was an American Army engineer, born in 1831 and died in 1927, who co-led a Pacific Railroad survey and developed the U.S. system of submarine mine defense.

Henry Ludwig Michel

Henry Ludwig Michel (1924–2001) was an American civil engineer who chaired Parsons Brinckerhoff from 1975 and founded the Civil Engineering Research Foundation, ASCE's research arm.

Henry Marion Howe

Henry Marion Howe (1848–1922) was an American metallurgist, professor of metallurgy at Columbia University from 1897 to 1913, and author of The Metallurgy of Steel (1891).