Engineers/Inventors
- Carlo Abarth, motorcycle racer and car designer
- Igo Etrich, aviation pioneer and pilot 1879-1967
- Anselm Franz, pioneer in jet engine engineering
- Gaston Glock, inventor, founder of GLOCK GmbH
- Eduard Haas, inventor of the Pez candy
- Hedy Lamarr, (known for research in frequencies, needed for mobile phones)
- Viktor Kaplan, inventor of turbines for river power plants
- Wilhelm Kress, aviation pioneer, inventor of the stick control for airplanes
- Siegfried Marcus, automobile pioneer (vehicles of 1870 and 1889), lived most of his life in Austria
- Alois Negrelli, engineer and railroad pioneer (created the plans for the Suez Canal)
- Ferdinand Porsche, automotive engineer, designed the Volkswagen (the "people's car"), born in Austria-Hungary
- Johann Puch, engineer and entrepreneur
- Josef Ressel, inventor of the marine screw propeller
- Edmund Rumpler, engineer, aviation pioneer
- Alois Senefelder, inventor of the printing technique of Lithography
- Nikola Tesla, inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer (prior to moving to Paris in 1882)
- Max Valier, rocketry pioneer
- Auer von Welsbach, inventor of gaslight
- Claire Gmachl, quantum cascade laser and mid-IR technologies pioneer
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“A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.”
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