100 Local Heroes by Hart-Davis, Adam instant download

100 Local Heroes by Hart-Davis, Adam instant download

1 online resource (445 pages), Adam Hart-Davis here presents the best of British heroes: brilliant and often eccentric pioneers of science, invention and technology, Cover; Title; Copyright; Preface; 1 Alcuin, Puzzler to Charlemagne; 2 Tempest Anderson and the Power of Volcanoes; 3 Mary Anning, the Fossil-finder; 4 Richard Arkwright's Water-frame and Mill; 5 Joseph Aspdin and his Portland Cement; 6 Hertha Ayrton and the End of Poison Gas; 7 Francis Bacon, who Died Inventing the Frozen Chicken; 8 Donald Bailey and his Bridge to Victory; 9 Alexander Bain and the Fax Machine; 10 John Logie Baird, Inventor of Undersocks and Television; 11 Joseph Banks's Chowder 'Recipe'; 12 William Banting's Diet for Corpulence; 13 Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone, 14 Edward Lyon Bethon and his Folding Lifeboats15 Henry Bessemer's Anti-seasickness Boat; 16 William Bickford's Safety Fuse; 17 George Parker Bidder, the Calculating Boy; 18 George Boole and his Vision in a Field in Doncaster; 19 Joseph Bramah's Beer Engine; 20 David Brewster and the Kaleidoscope; 21 William Brownrigg: Pouring Oil on Troubled Derwentwater; 22 Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his Atmospheric Railway; 23 William Buckland and Hyena Bones in Yorkshire; 24 Edwin Budding and the Lawnmower; 25 Edmund Cartwright and his Power Loom; 26 Sir George Cayley, Inventor of the Aeroplane, 27 John Clayton and the Discovery of Coal Gas28 Eleanor Coade, her Stone and Buckingham Palace; 29 William Cookworthy's China; 30 William Coppin and the Great Northern; 31 Moses Bruine Cotsworth and his Rational Calendar; 32 Humphry Davy's Gases for Health and Laughter; 33 Nicholas de Chemant's Stove-cum-Dining Table; 34 Arthur Doodson's Pendulums for Tide Prediction; 35 Cornelis Drebbel and his Submarine; 36 John Boyd Dunlop and the Pneumatic Tyre; 37 Thomas Edmondson -- Just the Ticket!; 38 Harry Ferguson's Tractor, the 'Wee Fergie'; 39 Robert Fitzroy, Inventor of the Weather Forecast, 40 Dennis Gabor and the Hologram41 George William…