1. It is named for Marie Adolphe Carnot (1839–1920), French mining engineer and chemist.

2. Henry Fayol ( 1841-1925 ) was a French mining engineer working for a coal mining company .

3. By the time he was 32 years old, he had made a large personal fortune as a mining engineer and consultant.

4. He then became a mining engineer in Vesoul and Nancy, but left that profession at the age of 29 to enter politics.

5. Born in Forbes, New South Wales, on 27 February 1903, Lester Brain was the second son of an English mining engineer and manager, Austin Brain, and his Australian wife, Katie.