Inventions Flashcards
MRI Scanner
Sir Peter Mansfield
TV
Scotsman John Logie Baird in the 1920s
in 1932 he made the first tv broadcast between London and Glasgow
DNA
Francis Crick
ATM
James Goodfellow
Late 1960s
Mammal clone
- Sir Ian Wilmut
- Keith Campbell
Dolly the sheep
IVF
- Physiologist Sir Robert Edwards
- Gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe
First ‘test-tube baby’ born in Oldham, Lancashire, 1978
WWW
British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Middle Ages writer
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Canterbury Tales
Elizabethian period writer
- William Shakespeare
- Hamlet
- Macbet
- Romeo & Juliet
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Georgian period writer
- Jane Austen (1775 -1817)
- Pride and Prejudice
- Sense and Sensibility
Victorian Period writer
Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist, Great Expectations)
Thomas Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd, Jude the Obscure
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Scottish - Sherlock Holmes
Modern Writers
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)