Inventions

Question 1

John Logie Baird

Answer 1

Television in 1920s.

1932 first television broadcast between London and Glasgow

Question 2

Sir Robert Watson-Watt

Answer 2

Radar in 1935

Question 3

Bernard Lovell

Answer 3

Biggest telescope - new discoveries in astronomy

Question 4

Alan Turing

Answer 4

Turing machine in 1930s

Question 5

John Macleod

Answer 5

Co-discoverer of insulin

Question 6

Francis Crick

Answer 6

• Structure of the DNA molecule in 1953

- Nobel Prize

Question 7

Frank Whittle

Answer 7

Jet Engine

British Royal Air Force engineer officer

Question 8

Christopher Cockerell

Answer 8

hovercraft in 1950s

Question 9

Britain and France developed?

Answer 9

Concrode, the supersonic passenger aircraft - 1969 (passengers 1976-2003)

Question 10

Name of the aircraft capable of taking off vertically

Answer 10

Called Harrier jump jet

Question 11

James Goodfellow

Answer 11

ATM in 1960s

Question 12

Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe

Answer 12

IVN (in-vitro fertilisation) therapy

psychologist and gynaecologist

Question 13

Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell

Answer 13

Led a team to clone a mammal, Dolly the sheep.

Question 14

Peter Mansfield

Answer 14

co-inventor of the MRI scanner

Question 15

Tim Berners-Lee

Answer 15

World Wide Web