Charles Babbage

1792-1871

Inventor of the Computer

Trevor Baylis O.B.E.

1937 -

Inventor of the clock work radio

Sir Christopher Sydney Cockerell CBE FRS

Inventor of the Hovercraft

Sir Humphry Davy

1778-1829

Inventor of the miners safety lamp

John Harrison

1693-1776

English horologist and instrumentmaker

Sir Frank Whittle

1907-1996

Inventor of the Jet Engine

Sir Isaac Newton

1642 - 1727

English Scientist

Isaac Newton is one of the greatest names in the history of human thought

Clive Sinclair 1940-

Inventor of the 1st pocket calcalator

Samuel Fox 1815 - 1887

Inventor of the umberella

Humphry Davy,

Inventor of the 1st eletric lightbulb in 1800

Edwin Beard Budding

1795-1846

Inventor of the 1st lawn mower

Percy Shaw

Inventor of Cats eyes (1933)

Arthur Wynne

Inventor of the Crossword puzzle

John Hadley 1682-1744

Inventor of the 1st reflective telescope

Henry Wickham

Inventor of latex

Stephen Perry

Inventor of the rubber band.

John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich

You guessed it invented the sandwich!

Tim Berners-Lee 1955-

Inventor of the World Wide Web

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