Sepuluh Penemu Inggris Terbaik

Orang-orang Inggris disebut sebagai penemu jalur kereta, jembatan-jembatan, telepon, dan bahkan kunci Inggris. Berikut 10 orang Inggris yang dianggap sebagai penemu terbaik.

Michael Faraday, 1791-1867, was an English chemist and physicist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. In this engraving he holds up a piece of glass of the type he used in 1845 to show that magnetism can affect light - the magneto-optical effect or Faraday Effect. 

Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922) invented the telephone in 1876. The Scottish-born inventor is pictured here making the first telephone call from New York to Chicago in 1892.

Richard Trevithick, 1771 - 1833, was a Cornish mining engineer who built the world's first high-pressure steam engine and the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.

George Stephenson, 1781-1848, was known as the 'Father of Railways'. He invented the world's first inter-city railway line in the world to use steam locomotives and the 'Rocket' an early railway locomotive.

John Logie Baird, 1988 - 1946, was a pioneer in the development of television. The Scot invented the world's first television and the first purely electronic colour television picture tube. 

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1806 - 1859, designed Bristol's Clifton Suspension Bridge, pictured here in 1900. He also built the Great Western Railway and the Thames Tunnel.

Alan Turing, 1912 - 1954, was an English mathematician and code-breaker. He helped develop the Colossus, an electronic computer built in Bletchley Park during World War Two which was instrumental in breaking German code.

Sir Frank Whittle, 1907 - 1996, was a British Royal Air Force engineer officer, who single-handedly invented the turbo jet engine. Here he is pictured with actress Janette Scott at London Airport.

James Dyson, 1947 - present, pictured with his revolutionary design of the cyclonic bagless vacuum cleaner in 2000.

Sir Henry Royce, 1863 - 1933, was a car designer and engineer who co-founded the Rolls Royce company.