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Herbert Saffir
Herbert Saffir (1917–2007) was an American civil engineer in South Florida who created the hurricane damage scale that, adapted by Robert Simpson, became the Saffir-Simpson scale.
Herbert Shea
Herbert R. Shea is a physicist and professor at EPFL in Switzerland who heads the Soft Transducers Laboratory, working on soft robotics, wearable haptics, and stretchable pumps.
Herbert Woodson
Herbert Woodson (1925–2018) was an American electrical engineer at MIT and the University of Texas at Austin, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1975.
Herc Rentals
Herc Rentals is an equipment rental company headquartered in Bonita Springs, Florida, founded in 1965 as Hertz Equipment Rental and made independent in a 2016 spin-off.
HERIC inverter
The HERIC inverter is a transformerless single-phase photovoltaic inverter topology combining an H-bridge with an AC-side bypass leg that suppresses ground leakage current while keeping efficiency high.
Heritage aero-engine restoration
Heritage aero-engine restoration is the preservation, overhaul, and running of historic aircraft engines so they can fly again or run safely for the public, from Merlin overhauls to museum rebuilds.
Heritage airworthiness regulation
Heritage airworthiness regulation lets historic and ex-military aircraft fly legally through lighter certification paths such as the UK Permit to Fly and the US experimental category.
Heritage designation of canals and waterways
Heritage designation of canals and waterways is the protection of historic canals through UK listing and scheduling, UNESCO World Heritage inscription, US historic districts, and Canadian permit rules.
Heritage documentation standards for engineering works
Heritage documentation standards for engineering works are the Secretary of the Interior's standards governing measured drawings, photographs, and histories for the Library of Congress's HABS/HAER collection.
Heritage Oil
Heritage Oil is an independent oil and gas exploration company founded in 1992, known for discovering Uganda's Kingfisher field and now holding a stake in Nigeria's OML 30.
Heritage protection of the Overland Telegraph Line
Heritage protection of the Overland Telegraph Line covers the listed reserves, surviving station precincts, pole routes, and memorials preserving the 1870–1872 telegraph corridor between Darwin and Adelaide.
Heritage railway
A heritage railway, also called a museum railway, is a preserved or tourist railway line operated as a living attraction, typically running historic, often steam-hauled, trains.
Heritage streetcar
A heritage streetcar, also known as a heritage trolley or vintage trolley, is an original streetcar built before 1956 or a replica of one, operated in regular urban transit service.
Heritage-designated telephone exchange and telegraph office buildings in Canada
Telephone exchanges and telegraph offices across Canada carry heritage protection at every government level, from 1899 Yukon log telegraph offices to a 2025 Peterborough designation.
Heritage-listed bridges in Australia
Heritage-listed bridges in Australia are spans entered on national, state, or territory heritage registers for cultural significance, including the convict-built Richmond Bridge of 1823 and the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Herman E. Sheets
Herman E. Sheets (Herman Ernst Sheets, 1908–2006) was a German-born American engineer who led research at Electric Boat and invented the slotted-blade axial-flow blower installed in Navy submarines.
Herman Goldstine
Herman Goldstine (1913–2004) was an American mathematician who directed the ENIAC project at the University of Pennsylvania, collaborated with von Neumann, and became an IBM Fellow.
Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith (1860–1929) was an American inventor who developed the punched-card tabulating system first used for the 1890 US Census and founded the company that became IBM.
Herman Miller
Herman Miller is an American furniture manufacturer based in Zeeland, Michigan, known for modern design and the Eames Lounge Chair and Aeron Chair; it joined MillerKnoll in 2021.
Herman P. Schwan
Herman P. Schwan (1915–2005) was a German-born American biophysicist and electrical engineer, a founding father of biomedical engineering who measured the electrical properties of cells and tissues.
Hermann A. Haus
Hermann A. Haus (1925–2003) was an Austrian-American electrical engineer and physicist at MIT known for work on noise in quantum electronics, optical fiber communications, and ultrashort-pulse optics, receiving the National Medal of Science in 1995.
Hermann Frahm
Hermann Frahm (1867–1939) was a German shipbuilding engineer, technical director of the Hamburg yard Blohm & Voß from 1904 to 1936, and inventor of the Schlingertank.
Hermann Glauert
Hermann Glauert (1892–1934) was a British aerodynamicist at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, who established the Prandtl–Glauert compressibility rule, rebuilt propeller theory, and wrote a still-in-print textbook.
Hermann Hauser
Hermann Hauser (Hermann Maria Hauser), born 1948, is an Austrian-born physicist and entrepreneur based in Cambridge, England, co-founder of Acorn Computers, maker of the BBC Micro, and of Amadeus Capital Partners.
Hermann K. Gummel
Hermann K. Gummel, also known as Hermann Gummel, was a German-born physicist at Bell Laboratories who pioneered semiconductor device modeling and won the first Phil Kaufman Award in 1994.
Hermann Klare
Hermann Klare (1909–2003) was a German chemist who helped build the first large-scale Perlon plant and led East Germany's Academy of Sciences from 1968 to 1979.
Hermann Ney
Hermann Ney is a German computer scientist and RWTH Aachen professor known for Kneser-Ney smoothing and the phrase-based machine translation approach his students used to build Google Translate.
Hermann Statz
Hermann Statz (1928–2020) was a German-born solid-state physicist and microwave engineer who spent forty years at Raytheon's Research Division and won the 2005 IEEE Microwave Pioneer Award.
Hermes 900
The Hermes 900 is a medium-altitude long-endurance surveillance drone built by Elbit Systems of Israel, first flown in 2009 and serving more than 20 customers.
Hermes Agent
Hermes Agent is a free, open-source, self-hosted AI agent framework in Python by Nous Research, released in February 2026, known for persistent memory and skills that improve with use.