Inventions Flashcards

1
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MRI Scanner

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Sir Peter Mansfield

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TV

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Scotsman John Logie Baird in the 1920s

in 1932 he made the first tv broadcast between London and Glasgow

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3
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DNA

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Francis Crick

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4
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ATM

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James Goodfellow

Late 1960s

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5
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Mammal clone

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  1. Sir Ian Wilmut
  2. Keith Campbell

Dolly the sheep

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IVF

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  1. Physiologist Sir Robert Edwards
  2. Gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe

First ‘test-tube baby’ born in Oldham, Lancashire, 1978

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7
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WWW

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British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee

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Middle Ages writer

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  1. Geoffrey Chaucer
  2. The Canterbury Tales
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Elizabethian period writer

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  1. William Shakespeare
  2. Hamlet
  3. Macbet
  4. Romeo & Juliet
  5. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Georgian period writer

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  1. Jane Austen (1775 -1817)
  2. Pride and Prejudice
  3. Sense and Sensibility
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Victorian Period writer

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Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist, Great Expectations)
Thomas Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Scottish - Sherlock Holmes

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Modern Writers

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Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall, Scoop
Sir Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim
Graham Greene - The Heart of the Matter, The Honorary Consul, Brighton Rock, Our Man in Havana
J K Rowling

imo by tu mel byt take Lee Child (Jack Reacher)

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