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Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, inventor, and futurist (1917–2008)
John Logie Baird
Scottish inventor, demonstrating the world's first working television (1888–1946)
John Desmond Bernal
Irish scientist (1901-1971)
Charles Algernon Parsons
inventor of the steam turbine (1854-1931)
David Edward Hughes
Welsh-American scientist and musician (1831–1900)
William Robert Grove
British judge and chemist (1811–1896)
John Shepherd-Barron
British inventor (1925-2010)
Carl Wilhelm Siemens
engineer and inventor (1823–1883)
Hubert Cecil Booth
British engineer (1871–1955)
George Washington
American inventor and businessman of Anglo-Belgian origin (1871–1946)
William Friese-Greene
British photographer and inventor (1855–1921)
Walter Clopton Wingfield
Welsh sportsman and military officer (1833–1912); inventor of modern tennis
Roger C. Field
British inventor and musician
Donald Davies
British computer scientist (1924-2000)
Home Riggs Popham
Royal Navy admiral (1762-1820)
Frederick Richard Simms
Engineer and manufacturer (1863–1944)
John Spilsbury
Cartographer/inventor of the jigsaw puzzle (1739–1769)
Oscar Eckenstein
British mountain climber (1859–1921)
James Marsh
British chemist who invented the Marsh test for detecting arsenic (1794–1846)
Rick Dickinson
British industrial designer
Harold Hopkins
British physicist
Pratibha Gai
British microscopist
Kane Kramer
British businessman
Peter Durand
British merchant
Adelaide Claxton
British artist and inventor (1841–1927)
Norman W. Walker
American nutritionist (1886-1985)
Nevil Maskelyne
British magician and inventor (1863–1924)
David Gestetner
Austrian inventor (1854–1939)
William Brunton
British engineer
Robert Davis
British inventor (1870–1965)
William Kitchiner
British maker of scientific instruments and food writer
Sidney Brown
British inventor (1873-1948)
Lord George Murray
British bishop (1761-1803)
John Barraclough Fell
British railway engineer
Fiona Fairhurst
British inventor
Arthur William Savage
American firearm designer
Isaac Shoenberg
Russian-British engineer and entrepreneur
Theophilus Carter
British inventor (1824–1904)
Emma Parmee
British chemist
Wilfred Stokes
British civil engineer (1860–1927)
William Moon
British inventor (1818-1894)
John Cyril Porte
British aviator (1884–1919)
Ezekiel Baker
Inventor of Baker Rifle
St. George Fox-Pitt
British electrical engineer and student of psychic phenomena (1856-1932)