26David Barrett
An aeronautics engineer named David Barrett resigned abruptly after seeing a vision of Jesus, spent 40 years single-handedly compiling the first and only complete list of Earth’s 10,000 existing religions and 33,830 denominations of Christianity. This led him to all 238 countries on Earth.
27. An engineer named Vic Tandy established a connection between supposed paranormal activity and infrasound frequency (~19Hz), which is below the range of human hearing and also roughly the resonant frequency of our eyeballs, causing some people to 'see' things that aren't there.
28. Israeli Intelligence assassinated an electrical engineer named Yahya Ayyash, AKA The Engineer, a notorious bombmaker of Hamas in a James-Bond Style. They arranged for his friend to receive a phone from his uncle, who supposedly received a payoff. When Ayyash borrowed it, they remotely detonated it, decapitating him.
29. By 400 BC, Persian engineers had mastered the technique of using yakhchāls to create ice in the winter and store it in the summer in the desert.
30. NASA engineers had issues with the honeycomb insulation of the Saturn V rocket, so they ended up hiring local surfers, who had experience in working with the material, to apply it to the rocket.
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31Liviu Librescu
Liviu Librescu was a Romanian-born Israeli and American engineer, scientist, professor, teacher, and a Holocaust survivor who held the door of his classroom during the Virginia Tech shootings sacrificing his life while the gunman continuously shot through the door saving 22 of his 23 students.
32. The Voyager engineers calculated over 10,000 launch windows so that encounters between the craft and the planets on its trajectory didn't happen during Thanksgiving or Christmas, allowing them to stay home for the holidays.
33. Yasuteru Yamada is a retired engineer who after watching the news coverage of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster, organized a group of more than 200 fellow retirees and volunteered to go to the site and assist in the cleanup so that the younger generation didn't have to and risk exposure to radiation.
34. Taiwanese engineers put snacks of the “Kuai Kuai” brand next to or on top of machines and server rooms. They believe that because the name of the snack – “Kuai Kuai” - stands for “obedient” the device will function without errors. They use green bags only, and ensure that the snacks are not expired. This practice is even put in as a contract requirement in their German oversea contract.
35. Roger Boisjoly was an engineer working at NASA in 1986 who predicted that the O-rings on the Challenger would fail and tried to abort the mission but nobody listened to him.
