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Inventors

A great number of wonderful people lived and worked there and made this country famous. Among them there are: writers and composers, artists and explorers, a lot of scientists. Many people from Britain took an active part in the exploration of the new lands. These travelers of the past are known to everybody now because we can see their names on the maps when we learn geography.

James Cook. James Cook is a well-known English navigator and explorer. In 1755 Cook volunteered for the Royal Navy as a seaman and he was given command of the ship Endeavour, taking on board some famous scientists. Cook became the first European to chart the coast of New Zealand, and the first to discover the eastern coast of Australia. He also sailed south to Antarctica, discovered the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), explored the Alaskan coast.

David Livingstone David Livingstone was born in Scotland. He was learning to be a doctor. During his journeys into new lands he decided that the work of a doctor was very important in Africa. He crossed Africa from the West to the East. He described everything he saw and put a lot of places on the map. His books about Africa are full of important information.

Michael Faraday. One of the greatest scientists of Great Britain is Michael Faradey. He studied different subjects but the greatest contribution was in electricity. He saw that electricity could be made by a machine. This was the beginning of all the great machines that make our electricity today. Without them we can have no telephones, no radio, no television.

Joshua Reynolds John Constable Reynolds painted portraits. He made the whole gallery of portraits of the most famous people of his time-writers, scientists and actors. He was the first President of the Royal Academy of Arts. Constable devoted himself almost entirely to landscape painting. He chose to show real places under different conditions of light and weather. He caught the movement of clouds, and the drama of storms.

Alexander Fleming. Alexander Fleming is an English discoverer of penicillin. He trained as a doctor at St Mary’s Medical School and became interested in the infections caused by bacteria that resulted in so much disease. He joined researchers looking for vaccines that would kill such bacteria.

Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale is an English founder of modern nursing. She always wanted to be a nurse and in 1851 she started work in a small London Hospital. She was so successful that she and 38 other nurses were sent to the Crimean War to take charge of the nursing of wounded British soldiers. Within a month they had 1000 men to look after. She worked 20 hours a day. She was the first woman to be awarded the Order of Merit.

Isaac Newton. Isaac Newton’s first physical experiment was carried out when he was 16 years old. At the age of 22, he began studying the theory of gravitation. Newton performed many experiments with light and found that white light was made up of rays of different colours. He invented a reflecting telescope.

Mary Curie. Marie Skłodowska-Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two fields, and the only person to win in multiple sciences. She was also the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris, and in 1995 became the first woman to be entombed on her own merits in the Panthéon in Paris.

Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). While best known for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2 (which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation"), he received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect". The latter was pivotal in establishing quantum theory.

Galileo Galilei. Galileo Galilei often known mononymously as Galileo, was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of science", and "the Father of Modern Science".

Thomas Alva Edison. Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park",he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention, and because of that, he is often credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory.