From Ford’s V8 to the iPhone’s glass to rockets that land themselves, some of industry’s biggest leaps began as orders engineers called impossible In 1903, George Bernard Shaw wrote that the reasonable man adapts himself to the world, while the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. “Therefore,” he concluded, “all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” More than a century later, the engineers who worked for Henry Ford, Steve Jobs and Elon Musk