Technology and the built world

James Shelby Thorp

James Shelby Thorp (1937–2018) was an American electrical engineer and a principal contributor to the phasor measurement unit, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996.

James Toseland

James Toseland, born 1980 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, is a British former motorcycle road racer who won the Superbike World Championship in 2004 and 2007, then became a rock singer.

James U Lemke

James U Lemke was an American engineer and physicist in magnetic recording, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1988, who later founded Achates Power.

James W. Mar

James W. Mar (1920–2017) was an American aeronautical engineer and MIT professor who served as Chief Scientist of the US Air Force from 1970 to 1972.

James W. Mayer (1930–2013) was an American physicist who pioneered ion implantation and Rutherford backscattering spectrometry for semiconductors, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1984.

Oct 10, 2026

James W. Plummer

James W. Plummer (1920–2013) was an American aerospace engineer who managed Lockheed's Corona reconnaissance satellite program and served as Director of the National Reconnaissance Office from 1973 to 1976.

James W. Poirot

James W. Poirot (1931–2011) was an American civil engineer who chaired the engineering firm CH2M Hill for a decade and led an industry-wide quality-management initiative in the 1980s.

James W. Westwater

James W. Westwater (1919–2006) was an American chemical engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who filmed bubble growth through a microscope, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1974.

James Watt

James Watt (1736–1819) was a Scottish engineer and instrument maker whose separate condenser, patented in 1769, made steam power practical; with Matthew Boulton he commercialized the engine and introduced horsepower.

James Webb Space Telescope

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), formerly the Next Generation Space Telescope, is a NASA-led infrared space telescope launched on December 25, 2021 to observe the early universe from a point 1.5 million kilometers from Earth.

James West (acoustician)

James West is an American acoustics scientist who co-invented the foil electret microphone with Gerhard Sessler at Bell Labs in 1962, the basis of most microphones today.

James William Westwater

James William Westwater (1919–2006) was an American chemical engineer at the University of Illinois who pioneered the study of boiling heat transfer through microscopic, high-speed films.

Sep 20, 2026

James Zou

James Zou is a Stanford computer scientist working on machine learning for medicine, known for EchoNet and leading the Stanford AI for Science Lab since 2016.

Jamesway (incubation company)

Jamesway Incubator Company is a Canadian manufacturer of poultry incubation and hatchery ventilation equipment, tracing its roots to a 1912 Wisconsin firm and supplying hatcheries in more than 150 countries.

Jamf Holding Corp.

Jamf Holding Corp. is a Minneapolis, Minnesota software company founded in 2002 that develops device management and security products for Apple devices in businesses, schools, and healthcare.

Jamie Hyneman

Jamie Hyneman, full name James Franklin Hyneman, is an American special effects expert and inventor who co-hosted MythBusters from 2003 to 2016 and founded the San Francisco effects studio M5 Industries.

Oct 10, 2026

Jamie Paik

Jamie Paik is a roboticist, professor, and director of the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab at EPFL, known for origami-inspired robogamis and spin-offs in surgery, haptics, and space.

Sep 20, 2026

Jamie Warner

Jamie H. Warner is a nanomaterials scientist who studies graphene and 2D crystals by atomic-resolution electron microscopy, a professor at UT Austin after 13 years at Oxford.

Jamie Zawinski

Jamie Zawinski, known online as jwz, is an American programmer who created Lucid Emacs, wrote the Unix Netscape Navigator, ran mozilla.org, and owns the DNA Lounge nightclub.

Jammu railway division

The Jammu railway division, inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in January 2025 and effective from June, is the 70th division of Indian Railways, headquartered at Jammu Tawi and serving Kashmir.

Jammu Tawi–Srinagar Vande Bharat Express

The Jammu Tawi–Srinagar Vande Bharat Express, also called the SMVD Katra–Srinagar service, is an Indian Railways semi-high-speed train linking Jammu and Srinagar directly, flagged off in April 2026.

Jammu–Baramulla line

The Jammu–Baramulla line, known as the Udhampur Srinagar Baramulla Railway Link (USBRL), connects Jammu Tawi to Baramulla, first linking the Kashmir Valley to India's rail network in 2025.

Jamnagar Loni Pipeline

The Jamnagar Loni Pipeline is a 1,427 km liquefied petroleum gas pipeline in India, operated by GAIL from refineries on the Gujarat coast to Loni near Ghaziabad.

Jamnagar Refinery

The Jamnagar Refinery, also called Reliance Jamnagar Refinery, is a crude-oil refining and petrochemical complex in Gujarat, India, the world's largest single-site refinery at 1.4 million barrels per day.

Jamuna Bridge

Jamuna Bridge, formally the Bangabandhu Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge, is a 4.8 km combined road and railway bridge over the Jamuna River in Bangladesh, opened in 1998.

Jan A. Rajchman

Jan A. Rajchman (1911–1989) was an electronics engineer who spent his career at RCA, known for the Selectron tube, magnetic-core memory, and the first read-only memory.

Jan A. Veltrop

Jan A. Veltrop (1922–2007) was a Dutch-American engineer who developed design technology for thin, double-curved concrete arch dams and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.

Jan Blanken

Jan Blanken Jansz. (1755–1838) was a Dutch hydraulic engineer who became inspector-general of the Dutch water authority and designed the roughly 80 km canal between Amsterdam and Den Helder.

Jan D. Achenbach

Jan D. Achenbach (1935–2020) was a Dutch-born American mechanician at Northwestern University, regarded as the founder of quantitative nondestructive evaluation and author of the 1973 textbook Wave Propagation in Elastic Solids.