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Jul 12, 2024 · John Logie Baird, the forgotten pioneer of television, first demonstrated his invention, the colour television, changing the world forever. "A potential social menace of the first magnitude!" proclaimed Sir John Reith, first Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Jul 16, 2024 · Decoding da Vinci (2019) Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance genius. Not only did he paint masterpieces of art, but he was an obsessive scientist and inventor, dreaming up complex machines ...
3 days ago · He was one of the main presenters of the BBC1 science series Tomorrow's World from 1965 to 1971 and created and presented the television series Connections (1978), and its more philosophical sequel The Day the Universe Changed (1985), about the history of science and technology.
2 days ago · Stephen William Hawking, CH, CBE, FRS, FRSA (8 January 1942 – 14 March 2018) was an English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author who was director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge. [6] [17] [18] Between 1979 and 2009, he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, widely ...
Jul 5, 2024 · Tim Berners-Lee (born June 8, 1955, London, England) is a British computer scientist, generally credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web. In 2004, he was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and the inaugural Millennium Technology Prize (€1 million) by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation.
2 days ago · Alan Turing was such a genius, and those, like myself, who had the astonishing and unexpected opportunity, created by the strange exigencies of the Second World War, to be able to count Turing as colleague and friend will never forget that experience, nor can we ever lose its immense benefit to us.
4 days ago · Mon 22 July 2024 9:00, UK. Only a fool would argue that Patrick Stewart is not one of the most iconic British actors to perform for the good of entertainment. As admired on the stage as he is on the big screen, the Yorkshire-born dramatic arts legend is with great ease one of the greatest to ever grace the theatre or cinema.
