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Joseph Priestley
English chemist, theologian, educator, and political theorist
John Muir
Scottish-American naturalist
Charles Babbage
English mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer
Alexander Graham Bell
Scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone
Barrie Chaplin
British electrical engineer and inventor
Humphry Davy
English chemist
Frank Whittle
British Royal Air Force engineer air officer
Robert Hooke
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath
Roger Bacon
Medieval philosopher and theologian
Eadweard Muybridge
English-american photographer
William Shockley
American physicist and inventor
Captain R. T. Claridge
British hydrotherapist
Michael Faraday
English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry
Charles Wheatstone
British physicist
Preston Watson
Scottish aviation pioneer
George Stephenson
English civil engineer, mechanical engineer, inventor
Arthur C. Clarke
British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host
John Scott Lillie
British Army officer
Charles K. Kao
Hong Kong-British-American physicist
John Cyril Porte
British aviator
Peter Atherton
British inventor and instrument designer
James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist
Alexander Fleming
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist
Robert Watson-Watt
Physicist
Hiram Stevens Maxim
American-born British inventor
Jethro Tull
British agricultural pioneer, activist of the British Agricultural Revolution
Sir Lowthian Bell, 1st Baronet
Ironmaster, industrial chemist, railway owner
Graeme Obree
Scottish cyclist
James Watt
Scottish inventor and engineer
James Dyson
British inventor, industrial designer and founder of the Dyson company
Michael Aldrich
English inventor, innovator and entrepreneur
Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web
David Edward Hughes
Welsh-American scientist and musician
William Morrison
Scottish chemist
John Barnard
British motorsport designer
William Fairbairn
Scottish civil engineer, structural engineer and shipbuilder
William John Macquorn Rankine
Civil engineer
Benjamin Thompson
American-born British physicist and inventor
William Thornton
British-American physician, inventor, painter and architect
William Murdoch
Scottish engineer and inventor