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Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla, born in the Austrian Empire in what is now Croatia, emigrated to the United States in 1884 and became a pioneering electrical engineer whose work on alternating current (AC) electrical systems proved foundational to how electricity is generated and distributed worldwide today. Tesla's rivalry with Thomas Edison during the late-19th-century "War of the Currents," pitting Tesla's AC electrical system against Edison's competing direct current (DC) system, ultimately ended with AC becoming the dominant standard for long-distance electrical power transmission. Tesla held patents on the induction motor and numerous other electrical innovations, and though he died in relative financial hardship in 1943, his scientific contributions gained substantially greater posthumous recognition in the decades since, including the naming of the SI unit of magnetic flux density in his honor. Nikola Tesla's combination of his foundational work on alternating current power systems and his high-profile rivalry with Thomas Edison has made him one of the most historically significant inventors in the history of electrical engineering.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci, the Italian Renaissance polymath best known as a painter, also filled numerous notebooks with detailed engineering and mechanical designs centuries ahead of the technology available to actually build them, including concepts for flying machines, armored vehicles, and hydraulic systems. Da Vinci's notebooks contain detailed studies of human anatomy conducted through his own dissections, along with designs that anticipated later inventions including a rudimentary helicopter concept, a parachute design, and various mechanical devices, reflecting an unusually integrated approach combining art, science, and engineering. Very few of da Vinci's mechanical designs were actually built during his lifetime, since many required manufacturing precision and materials that didn't yet exist in 15th and 16th-century Italy, but his notebooks have had a substantial influence on later scientific and engineering history once rediscovered. Leonardo da Vinci's combination of his uniquely integrated Renaissance approach spanning art, anatomy, and engineering and his remarkably prescient mechanical designs has made him one of the most historically significant inventive minds in human history.
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