Award-winning science series starring Adam Hart-Davis, who cycles round the country (and sometimes the world) telling the stories of pioneers of science and invention, visiting the places where they lived and worked, telling the stories of what they did, and recreating their science with his unique demonstrations.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel:
Henry Moule:
Thomas Savery:
Mary Anning:
ALEXANDER BAIN: Electro-chemical telegraph
CHARLES MCINTOSH: Mac
JAMES CLERK MAXWELL:
REV ROBERT STIRLING: Inventor
JAMES GREGORY: Mathmatician
BENJAMIN WISEMAN JNR: Patented a Windmill in 1783.
WILLIAM HARVEY: Reformed incorrect thinking about the circulation of blood.
ADMIRAL ROBERT FITZROY: Pioneered storm warning system and invented the weather
forecast.
WILLIAM HASE: Modified prison treadmills to take power outside the prison.
WILLIAM GILBERD: Discovered the earth is a magnet.
JOHN JEYES: Invented a unique three-function toilet cleaner.
WILLIAM HYDE WOLLASTON: Invented a clever mirror-and-prism device (Camera
Lucida) that lets you see your subject superimposed on your sketch pad.
CHARLES ALGERNON PARSONS: Invented the steam turbine.
JOSEPH WILSON SWAN: Invented the incandescent light bulb.
LEWIS FRY RICHARDSON: Inventor of sonar and the understanding of the mathematics
of the weather.
THOMAS WRIGHT: First to understand the Milky Way.
JOHN WALKER: Invented the friction match.
GLADSTONE ADAMS: Invented the windscreen wiper.
ALFRED RUSSELL WALLACE: Devised theory of natural selection jointly with
Darwin.
WILLIAM PRICE: Pioneer of cremation.
HARRY GRINDELL MATTHEWS: Invented a portable radio, and supposed Death Ray
inventor.
RICHARD TREVITHICK: Ran world's first steam locomotive at Merthyr.
ROBERT RECORDS: Invented equals sign.
TH0MAS TELFORD: Developed a system for road building & built bridges.
HUGH OWEN THOMAS (and the bonesetters of Anglesey): Four generations of
bonesetters and founder of orthopaedic surgery.
HERTHA AYRTON: Invented way of clearing trenches of Mustard Gas.
ELEANOR COADE: Her artificial stone was used for many landmarks.
HENRY MAUDSLAY: Founder of precision engineering and first production
line.
THOMAS YOUNG: Discovered how the eye works and translated the Rosetta Stone.
LIBORIO PEDRAZZOLI: Inventor of swimming umbrellas.
RALPH WEDGWOOD: Invented carbon paper.
WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY COLE VERNER: Invented cavalry sketching board to enable
cavalrymen to make accurate maps whilst on horseback.
SAMUEL MORLAND: Invented giant megaphones and was master mechanic to Charles II