Technology and the built world

Joseph Gerber

H. Joseph Gerber (1924–1996) was an Austrian-born American inventor who founded Gerber Scientific, invented the Gerber Variable Scale, and won the 1994 National Medal of Technology.

Joseph Gilbert Totten

Joseph Gilbert Totten (1788–1864) was an American Army engineer, Chief of Engineers for over 20 years, and a founding member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Joseph Glidden

Joseph Glidden, also known as Joseph Farwell Glidden, was an American farmer from DeKalb, Illinois, who in 1874 patented the form of barbed wire still widely used today.

Joseph H. Newman

Joseph H. Newman (Joseph Herbert Newman) was an American engineer who led Tishman Research Corporation and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1973.

Joseph Halpern

Joseph Y. Halpern (1953–2026) was a computer scientist at Cornell University who shaped reasoning about knowledge, reasoning about uncertainty, and the formal definition of actual causality.

Joseph Hendrie

Joseph Hendrie was an American nuclear engineer who co-invented Brookhaven's High Flux Beam Reactor and chaired the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the 1979 Three Mile Island accident.

Joseph Henry Keenan (1900–1977) was an American mechanical engineer and thermodynamicist, a professor and department head at MIT known for his 1941 textbook Thermodynamics and the steam tables used by the power industry.

Joseph J. Jacobs

Joseph J. Jacobs (1916–2004) was an American chemical engineer who founded Jacobs Engineering Group in Pasadena, California, in 1947, growing it into a global engineering and construction firm.

Joseph Jefferson Beaman Jr.

Joseph Jefferson Beaman Jr., known as Joseph J. Beaman, is an American mechanical engineer at the University of Texas at Austin who co-invented selective laser sintering, an early form of 3D printing.

Joseph Kestin

Joseph Kestin (1913–1993) was a Polish-born thermodynamicist and Brown University professor known for precision measurement of steam and fluid properties, his two-volume A Course in Thermodynamics, and election to the National Academy of Engineering in 1982.

Joseph Kittinger

Joseph William Kittinger, known as Joe Kittinger, was an American Air Force officer and balloonist who set a 1960 record parachute jump from 102,800 feet over New Mexico.

Joseph M. Colucci

Joseph M. Colucci (1937–2026) was an American mechanical engineer who spent 36 years at General Motors, becoming known as the "father of clean gasoline" for reducing vehicle emissions.

Oct 15, 2026

Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant

The Joseph M. Farley Nuclear Plant (Plant Farley) is a two-unit nuclear power station in Houston County, Alabama, owned by Alabama Power and operated by Southern Nuclear.

Oct 26, 2026

Joseph M. Hellerstein

Joseph M. Hellerstein (not Joseph L. Hellerstein of UW) is a UC Berkeley EECS computer science professor, Jim Gray Professor, database researcher, Trifacta and RunLLM co-founder, and 2023 SIGMOD Codd Innovations Award winner.

Oct 15, 2026

Joseph M. Juran

Joseph M. Juran, born Joseph Moses Juran (1904–2008), was a Romanian-born American management consultant who shaped modern quality management through the Pareto principle, the Juran Trilogy, and his Quality Control Handbook.

Sep 20, 2026

Joseph M. Luther

Joseph M. Luther, known as Joey Luther, is an American photovoltaics researcher at the National Laboratory of the Rockies known for the first colloidal perovskite nanocrystal solar cell.

Joseph M. Pettit

Joseph M. Pettit was an American electrical engineer, dean of engineering at Stanford from 1958 to 1972, and president of Georgia Tech from 1972 until his death in 1986.

Joseph Massolle

Joseph Massolle (1889–1957) was a German audio engineer and inventor who, with Hans Vogt and Josef Engl, developed the Tri-Ergon sound-on-film process, holding 87 of the group's more than 150 patents.

Joseph Miller (aerospace engineer)

Joseph Miller was an American aerospace engineer at TRW who led development of the Apollo Lunar Module Descent Engine and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1991.

Joseph Neng Shun Kwong

Joseph Neng Shun Kwong (1916–1998) was a Chinese-born American chemical engineer who co-created the Redlich–Kwong equation of state with Otto Redlich at Shell in 1949.

Joseph Nguthiru

Joseph Nguthiru is a Kenyan climate-tech engineer and entrepreneur who founded HyaPak Ecotech, converting invasive water hyacinth from Lake Naivasha into biodegradable plastic alternatives. In 2025 UNEP named him a Young Champion of the Earth.

Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.

Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., also known as Joe Kennedy Jr., was a United States Navy aviator and the eldest Kennedy sibling, killed in 1944 when his explosive-laden drone bomber exploded over England in World War II.

Joseph Penzien

Joseph Penzien (1924–2011) was an American structural engineer at UC Berkeley who pioneered probabilistic methods in earthquake engineering, founded its Earthquake Engineering Research Center, and co-wrote Dynamics of Structures.

Joseph S. B. Mitchell

Joseph S. B. Mitchell is an American computer scientist and SUNY Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University, known for shortest-path algorithms and the 2010 Gödel Prize.

Joseph Slepian

Joseph Slepian, born 1891 in Boston, was an American electrical engineer and mathematician at Westinghouse who invented the autovalve lightning arrester, Deion circuit breaker, and ignitron.

Joseph Swan

Sir Joseph Wilson Swan was a British chemist and inventor who developed the incandescent lamp independently of Edison and invented carbon printing and bromide paper.

Joseph T. Ling

Joseph T. Ling (1919–2006) was a Chinese-born American environmental engineer who led pollution control at 3M and created its Pollution Prevention Pays program in 1975.

Joseph V. Charyk

Joseph V. Charyk (1920–2016) was a Canadian-born engineer, first director of the US National Reconnaissance Office and founding president of COMSAT, credited with founding the geosynchronous satellite industry.