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Henry McDonald (aeronautical engineer)

Henry "Harry" McDonald (1937–2021) was a Scottish-born aeronautical engineer known for pioneering computational fluid dynamics and for serving as the eighth director of NASA's Ames Research Center.

Henry Paynter

Henry Paynter (1923–2002) was an American mechanical engineer and MIT professor known as the inventor of bond graphs, a graphical language for modeling energetic systems across many domains.

Henry Petroski

Henry Petroski (1942–2023) was an American civil engineer and historian of engineering, a Duke professor best known for To Engineer Is Human (1985) and his argument that form follows failure.

Henry R. Linden

Henry R. Linden (1922–2009) was an Austrian-born American chemical engineer who directed the Institute of Gas Technology in Chicago and served as the first president of the Gas Research Institute.

Henry rifle

The Henry rifle, formally the Model 1860, is an American lever-action repeating rifle in .44 Henry rimfire, made by the New Haven Arms Company from 1860 to 1866.

Henry Rowan

Henry Rowan was an American electrical engineer and industrialist who founded Inductotherm Corp. in 1953 and gave $100 million to Glassboro State College in 1992, which became Rowan University.

Henry Samueli

Henry Samueli, born in 1954 in Buffalo, New York, is an American electrical engineer who co-founded the semiconductor company Broadcom in 1991 and holds more than 75 U.S. patents.

Henry Townley Heald

Henry Townley Heald (1904–1975) was an American civil engineer and academic administrator, first president of Illinois Institute of Technology and president of the Ford Foundation.

Henry Z. Kister

Henry Z. Kister is an American chemical engineer, a Fluor Corporation senior fellow credited with turning distillation troubleshooting from an art into a science, and author of four distillation textbooks.

Henschel & Son

Henschel & Son (Henschel & Sohn) was a German engineering company founded in Kassel in 1810 that became Germany's leading steam locomotive builder and later made trucks and buses.

Henschel Hs 129

The Henschel Hs 129 was a German twin-engine, single-seat anti-tank aircraft of the Second World War, nicknamed the flying can-opener, serving mainly on the Eastern Front from 1942.

Henschel Hs 293

The Henschel Hs 293 was a German rocket-boosted, radio-controlled glide bomb of World War II, generally the first operational anti-ship guided missile, developed by Henschel under Herbert Wagner.

HENSOLDT

HENSOLDT AG is a German defense and security electronics company headquartered in Taufkirchen near Munich, known for radars, electronic warfare systems, and the Eurofighter's ECRS Mk1 radar.

HEPA

HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) is a class of air filters, defined by the U.S. Department of Energy, that remove at least 99.97% of 0.3 µm airborne particles.

HEPA filter

A HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) filter is a disposable pleated air filter removing at least 99.97% of 0.3-micrometer particles, used in cleanrooms, hospitals, nuclear facilities, and household air purifiers.

Hepsiburada

Hepsiburada is a Turkish e-commerce platform operated by D-MARKET in Istanbul, founded in 2000, which became the first Turkish company listed on Nasdaq in 2021.

Hera Group

Hera Group (Gruppo Hera) is an Italian multi-utility headquartered in Bologna, providing water, gas, electricity, waste management, and related services mainly in Emilia-Romagna. It was formed in 2002 from 11 municipal utilities.

Herald Man'shin

Herald Grigoryevich Man'shin was a Belarusian scientist in technical cybernetics who studied the reliability of human–machine systems, founded ergatic support of automated control systems, and won the USSR State Prize in 1985.

Herb Grosch

Herb Grosch, born Herbert Reuben John Grosch in 1918, was a Canadian-born astronomer who became an early computing pioneer and ACM president from 1976 to 1978.

Herbert A. Mang

Herbert A. Mang, born 1942 in Vienna, is an Austrian civil engineer and computational mechanist, Professor Emeritus at TU Wien and a professor at Tongji University in Shanghai.

Herbert A. Simon

Herbert A. Simon (1916–2001) was an American polymath at Carnegie Mellon who co-founded artificial intelligence and won both the 1975 Turing Award and the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Herbert G. MacPherson

Herbert G. MacPherson (1911–1993) was an American nuclear engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory who developed boron-free graphite for Manhattan Project reactors and led the molten-salt reactor program.

Herbert H. Johnson

Herbert H. Johnson (1931–1989) was an American materials scientist and engineer at Cornell University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987, known for his work on hydrogen embrittlement of steels.

Herbert H. Richardson

Herbert H. Richardson is an American mechanical engineer in dynamic systems, measurement, and control who led the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M until 2006.

Herbert Henry Dow

Herbert Henry Dow (1866–1930) was a Canadian-born American chemist and industrialist who founded The Dow Chemical Company in Midland, Michigan, and pioneered extracting bromine from underground brine by electrolysis.

Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover, also known as Herbert Clark Hoover, was an American mining engineer and the 31st President of the United States, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1922.

Herbert L. Misch

Herbert L. Misch, born Herbert Louis Misch, was an American mechanical engineer at Packard and Ford who led the 1962 Mustang I prototype and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1976.

Herbert N. Straus House

Herbert N. Straus House, also called Nine East 71st Street or the Epstein townhouse, is a 1930 Horace Trumbauer French neoclassical limestone mansion in Manhattan, built for a Macy's heir, later a hospital annex, school, Leslie Wexner's home, and Jeffrey Epstein's residence until 2019.

Herbert Paul Maruska

Herbert Paul Maruska is an American engineer who, as a young scientist at RCA Laboratories in Princeton, New Jersey, created the first gallium nitride blue-violet LED, reported in 1972.

Herbert S. Cheng

Herbert S. Cheng, also known as Herbert SuYuen Cheng, was a Chinese-born American mechanical engineer at Northwestern University, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.