Items22The creator’s order
  1. 1Sakichi ToyodaSakichi ToyodaBorn 19 Mar 1867A carpenter's son who spent decades redesigning looms himself, culminating in the Type G automatic loom of 1924, which stopped on its own when a thread broke. That small mechanical detail let one worker mind many machines and later became a founding idea of the Toyota Production System. The patent…0i
  2. 2Henry RoyceHenry RoyceBorn 27 Mar 1863Royce was an electrical engineer in Manchester who built his first car in 1904 because he was unhappy with a secondhand Decauville. Charles Rolls brought the sales and the name recognition; Royce kept designing, and he continued to direct engineering from his homes in Sussex and the south of France…0i
  3. 3Henry FordHenry FordBorn 30 Jul 1863Ford was a working engineer who built the Quadricycle himself in 1896, and he stayed involved in the design of the Model T, though Childe Harold Wills, Joseph Galamb and Eugene Farkas did much of the drafting. His fixation on one simple, repairable car drove the moving assembly line and the price…0i
  4. 4William S. HarleyWilliam S. HarleyBorn 29 Dec 1880Harley drew up his first motorised bicycle with Arthur Davidson as a young draughtsman in Milwaukee, then took an engineering degree to do it properly. As chief engineer and treasurer he was responsible for the company's engines for decades, including the V-twin layout that became its signature.…0i
  5. 5Coco ChanelCoco ChanelChanel designed the clothes that carried her name, from jersey dresses cut from a fabric then used for underwear to the little black dress of 1926 and the bouclé suit she launched on her comeback in 1954, at the age of seventy. The perfume was different: Chanel No. 5 was composed by Ernest Beaux,…0i
  6. 6Adolf DasslerAdolf DasslerBorn 3 Nov 1900Adi Dassler was a shoemaker first and a businessman second. He made spikes in his mother's laundry in Herzogenaurach, persuaded Jesse Owens to wear them in 1936, and after splitting from his brother Rudolf, who founded Puma, built Adidas around his own designs. The screw-in studs on the boots West…0i
  7. 7Edwin H. LandEdwin H. LandLand founded Polaroid on his polarising filter and then led the research on instant photography himself after his daughter asked why she could not see a picture straight away. He worked on the chemistry and the cameras for decades, unveiling the folding SX-70 in 1972 as a personal project. His…0i
  8. 8Soichiro HondaSoichiro HondaBorn 17 Nov 1906Honda was a mechanic who made piston rings before he made motorcycles, and he stayed in the workshop while his partner Takeo Fujisawa ran finance and sales. The Super Cub of 1958 came out of that pairing: Fujisawa pressed for a light, clutchless bike a noodle delivery rider could handle with one…0i
  9. 9Ferry PorscheFerry PorscheBorn 19 Sept 1909Ferry Porsche, son of the Beetle's designer, founded the sports car business in its post-war form and drove the concept of the 356 in 1948 because he could not find the car he wanted to buy. Karl Rabe engineered it and Erwin Komenda shaped the body, but the brief and the decisions were Ferry's. He…0i
  10. 10Masaru IbukaMasaru IbukaIf Akio Morita sold Sony to the world, Ibuka was the one who defined what it would make. An engineer by training, he set the challenges behind Japan's first tape recorder, the pocket transistor radio and the Trinitron colour television. The Walkman began with his request for a portable player to…0i