Inventions

Question 1

John Logie Baird

Answer 1

Scotsman - television in the late 1920s

Question 2

Sir Robert Watson Watt

Answer 2

Scotsman - radar. First test in 1935

Question 3

Sir Bernard Lovell

Answer 3

Using radar to make new discoveries in Astronomy. Built telescope at Jodrell Bank was biggest in the world

Question 4

Alan Turing

Answer 4

British Mathematician - turing machine in the 1930s

Question 5

Jonh Macleod

Answer 5

Scottish researcher co discovered Insulin

Question 6

Francis Crick

Answer 6

Nobel Prize for using DNA for crime. Structure of DNA mollecule discovered in 1953 though work in London and Cambridge Universities

Question 7

Sir Francis Whittle

Answer 7

Jet Engine in the 1930s

Question 8

Sir Christopher Cockerell

Answer 8

Hovercraft in the 1950s

Question 9

Sir Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell

Answer 9

Cloning of Dolly the sheep.

Question 10

James Goodfellow

Answer 10

ATM in the 1960s

Question 11

Sir Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe

Answer 11

IVF

Question 12

Sir Peter Mansfield

Answer 12

MRI

Question 13

Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Answer 13

World wide web