Series 1
1 South West: Sarah Guppy: Patented the exercise bed, breakfast urn and the suspension bridge. William Watts: Invented Lead shot. Humphry Davy: Discovered laughing gas, started electrochemistry and made patients breathe gases from cows. Edward Jenner: Introduced vaccination against smallpox. Mikael Pedersen: Designed a beautiful and curious bicycle. George Pocock (inventor): Inventor of spanking machine and pioneer of kite locomotion.
2 South: John Milne: founder of modern seismology. Edward Lyon Berthon: who invented the folding lifeboat. Florence Nightingale: Colin Pullinger: John Stringfellow:
3 Scotland: Charles Piazzi Smyth: Joseph Black: John Napier: David Brewster: David Douglas: Gilbert D. Malloch (1881–1955) Nevil Maskelyne: Charles Hutton:
4 Midlands: John Barber (engineer): Patented the gas turbine. Matthew Boulton: Host of the Lunar Society, a gathering of scientists. William Withering: Made heart cure from foxgloves (digitalis). William Murdoch: Invented gas lighting. James Watt: Invented the copying machine and greatly improved steam engines. Dennis Gabor: Invented the hologram on a tennis court - before it was possible to make one. Alexander Parkes: Produced plastics, two generations ahead of its time. Frederick W. Lanchester: Built the first all British four wheel petrol driven car.
5 Northern Ireland: John Boyd Dunlop: Invented the pneumatic tyre. William Coppin: Invented the diving suit and pioneered salvage operations. George Garrett (inventor): Invented a submarine, powered by steam and called 'Resurgam'. John Getty McGee: Invented the Ulster Overcoat as worn by Sherlock Holmes. John Thomas Romney Robinson: Invented the cup anemometer and measured the position of Armagh with rockets. Harry Ferguson: Pioneered the modern tractor system.
6 North West: John Mackereth: Invented the pneumatic mud corer for taking samples from lake beds. John Gough (natural philosopher): Blind naturalist who could identify any plant by taste and touch. Thomas Edmondson: Inventor of the railway ticket. John Dalton: Meteorologist and pioneer of atomic theory. James Prescott Joule: Devised modern ideas about heat. Joseph Whitworth: Revolutionised engineering by defining standard screw threads.
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