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About.com Sir James Dewar
- Chemist and physicist born in Kincardine, Scotland in 1842 and inventor of the thermos flask.
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Answers.com: James Starley
- Sussex born inventor and manufacturer of the bicycle and known for his improvements to the sewing machine.
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Baird Television
- Scotsman and inventor of the television. Read the story of his 1926 demonstration and his life from 1888 to 1946.
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Barnes Wallis Memorial Trust
- Profile of the North Yorkshire inventor of the famous bouncing bomb, designer of the R100 airship and the swing wing for supersonic aircraft.
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BBC Historic Figures: Edmund Cartwright (1743-1823)
- Nottinghamshire born and Oxford University educated inventor of the power loom for the textile industry.
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BBC Historic Figures: Frank Whittle
- Royal Air Force officer born in 1907 who made a major contribution to the invention of the jet engine.
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BBC Historic Figures: Jethro Tull
- Inventor of the seed drill used for distributing seed into furrows.
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British Inventions A-Z
- A comprehensive list of British inventors and their inventions from the anemometer weather instrument of Robert Hooke to the World Wide Web by HTML creator Tim Berners-Lee.
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Charles Macintosh
- Tells the fascinating story of the Glasgow born inventor of the waterproof coat later known as the Macintosh or Mac for short.
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Design Museum: Percy Shaw
- Tells the story of the Halifax born inventor of the road reflective catseye.
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Henry Shrapnel 1761–1842
- An About.com page telling the story of the 1784 inventor of shrapnel, used as an anti-personnel artillery munition.
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Historic Figures: Michael Faraday
- A BBC site highlighting the life and times of the south London born inventor of the electric motor.
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History of Firearms: James Puckle
- 1718 London inventor of the tripod-mounted, single-barreled flintlock Puckle gun.
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History of the Fax Machine & Alexander Bain
- About.com page highlighting the life of the Scottish born inventor of the fax machine.
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History of the Sewing Machine: Thomas Saint
- 1790 inventor of the sewing machine. Read the history of the device and the life of Thomas Saint who died a bankrupt.
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Hubert Cecil Booth
- A History of Science page that tells the story of the Gloucester born inventor of the vacuum cleaner in 1900.
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Inventor of the Week: Arthur Wynne
- Invented the crossword in 1913. An immigrant from England who first had his puzzle published in the New York World.
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James Hargreaves c1720-1778
- Blackburn born illiterate handloom weaver and inventor of the Spinning Jenny spinning wheel between 1764 and 1767.
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James Henry Atkinson
- Born in Leeds in 1849 and inventor of the Little Nipper mousetrap, a traditional spring mechanism trap still used today.
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Kelvin, Lord William Thomson (1824-1907)
- Scottish mathematician and physicist and inventor of the The Kelvin Scale that measures the ultimate extremes of hot and cold.
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Newlands' Periodic Table
- English scientist that invented the periodic table that arranges chemical elements in order of their relative atomic masses.
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Richard Trevithick 1771 - 1833
- Son of a Cornish miner and inventor of the worlds first locomotive in 1804, running a decade before George Stephenson's.
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Robert Whitehead
- Bolton born apprentice engineer and inventor of the torpedo in the 1950's.
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Science Watch: Sir Alec Jeffreys
- British geneticist that discovered the structure of DNA in 1953. Read the story of his life and how he stumbled on DNA fingerprinting.
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Sir Alexander Fleming
- The biography of the Scottish Nobel Prize winner and inventor of Penicillin.
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Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, FRS (1892-1973)
- Brief history of Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, inventor of the range and direction finder later known as RADAR.
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The Sunday Times: Sir James Dyson
- Tells the story of this British inventor of products such as the contra-rotator washing machine and the dual cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner.
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Super Scientists: John Frederic Daniell
- British London born chemist and the first professor of chemistry at King's College and inventor of the dew-point hygromete used to measure the moisture or humidity of air or gas.
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Tim Berners-Lee
- Oxford University graduate and inventor of HTML, HTTP and ultimately the World Wide Web.
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Trivia Library: Thomas Hancock
- A brief description of the London born inventor of the rubber band in 1820.
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William Sturgeon
- An About.com page highlighting the invention of the electromagnet in 1825 by this British electrician.
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WorldLing: Edwin Beard Budding
- Inventor from Stroud, Gloucestershire that invented the lawnmower in 1830 and also the adjustable spanner.
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