Following is a list of sites in London associated
with Science and Technology
- ARKWRIGHT, Sir Richard (1732-1792),
- Industrialist and Inventor, lived here.
- BAIRD, John Logie (1888-1946),
- Inventor. First demonstrated television in this house in 1926.
- BAIRD, John Logie (1888-1946),
- Inventor. Television Pioneer, lived here.
- Beijing Tong Ren Tang
- A Chinese chemists shop. It is great fun to go in and
wonder around.
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Shaftesbury Ave
- BENTHAM, George (1800-1884),
- Botanist, lived here.
- BERNAL, John Desmond (1901-1971),
- Crystallographer, lived and died here.
- BLUMLEIN, Alan Dower (1903-1942),
- Electronics Engineer and Inventor, lived here.
- BRIGHT, Richard (1789-1858),
- Physician, lived here.
- BROWN, Robert (1773-1858)
- Botanists
- CARTER, Howard (1874-1939),
- Egyptologist and Discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun, lived here.
- CATO STREET CONSPIRACY
- Discovered here, 23 February 1820.
- CAVENDISH, Honble Henry,
- Natural Philosopher, lived here, born 1731 died 1810.
- Chelsea Physic Garden
- CREED, Frederick George (1871-1957),
- Electrical Engineer, Inventor of the Teleprinter, lived and died here.
- DALE, Sir Henry (1875-1968),
- Physiologist, lived here.
- DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882),
- Naturalist, lived in a house on this site 1838-1842.
- De Quincey, Thomas
- Here stood the Chemist shop where Thomas de Quincey bought his first opium.
- DON, David (1800-1841)
- Botanists
- DYSON, Sir Frank (1868-1939),
- Astronomer Royal, lived here 1894-1906.
- EDDINGTON, Sir Arthur, OM (1882-1944),
- Mathematician and Astrophysicist, lived here.
- FARADAY, Michael,
- Man of Science, apprentice here, b.1791, d.1867.
- FITZROY, Admiral Robert (1805-1865),
- Hydrographer and Meteorologist, lived here.
- FLEMING, Sir Alexander (1881-1955),
- Discoverer of penicillin, lived here.
- Fountain Abbey
- Nice original pub, friendly staff, has a local feel to
it. On the other side of the road it the lab in which Flemming
discovered Penciling, where did the spore come from !
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- Gabor, Dennis Gabor Nobel Prize (1900 – 1979)
- Dennis Gabor (1900 – 1979), the inventor of holograms,his other great achievements are the quartz mercury street lamp and the flat television tube. Holograms have many applications in everyday life and are used on credit cards, for research, in medicine a
- GLAISHER, James (1809-1903),
- Astronomer, Meteorologist and Pioneer of weather forecasting, lived here.
- GOSSE, Philip Henry.
- Here lived Philip Henry GOSSE (1810-1888), Zoologist
- Gun Powder Plot - Terrorists
- Guy Fawkes and his co plotters, on the 5 Nov 1606, attempted to blow up the House of Commons during the Kings speech, when almost everybody of any importance would be there. The aim was to overthrow the protestant state and bring an Catholic one. Fortunately the plot was discovered and plotter later executed.
- HANSOM, Joseph Aloysius (1803-1882),
- Architect, Founder Editor of The Builder and Inventor of the Hansom Cab, lived here.
- HARRISON, John (1693-1776),
- Inventor of the Marine Chronometer, lived and died in a house on this site.
- HAY, Will (1888-1949),
- Comic Actor and Astronomer lived here 1927-1934.
- HODGKIN, Thomas (1798-1866),
- Physician, Reformer and Philanthropist, lived here.
- HOFMANN, A.W. (1818-1892),
- Professor of Chemistry, lived here.
- HUGHES, David Edward (1831-1900),
- Scientist and Inventor of the microphone, lived and worked here.
- HUXLEY, Aldous (1894-1963),
- Men of Science and Letters, lived here.
- HUXLEY, Julian (1887-1975),
- Men of Science and Letters, lived here.
- HUXLEY, Leonard (1860-1933),
- Men of Science and Letters, lived here.
- JACKSON, John Hughlings (1835-1911),
- Physican, lived here.
- JEFFERIES, Richard (1848-1887),
- Naturalist and Writer, lived here.
- KELVIN, Lord (1824-1907),
- Physicist and Inventor, lived here.
- Kew Gardens - Royal Botanic Gardens
- LOCKYER, Sir Norman (1836-1920)
- Astronomer, Physicist and Founder of Nature, lived here1876-1920
- LOVELACE, Ada, Countess of (1815-1852),
- Pioneer of Computing, lived here.
- MARCONI, Guglielmo (1874-1937),
- Inventor. The Pioneer of wireless communications, lived here in 1896-1897.
- MAXIM, Sir Hiram (1840-1896),
- Inventor and Engineer, designed and manufactured THE MAXIM GUN in a workshop on these premises.
- MAXWELL, James Clerk (1831-1879),
- Physicist, lived here.
- MORSE, Samuel (1791-1872),
- American Painter and Inventor of the Morse Code, lived here 1812-1815.
- Natural History Museum
- NEWTON, Sir Isaac (1642-1727),
- Scientist, Natural Philosopher, lived here.
- OESTERBERG, Martina Bergman (1849-1915),
- Pioneer of Physical Education for Women, lived and worked here.
- RADCLIFFE, John (1650-1714),
- Physician;
- Ramsay, Sir William (1852–1916)
- The chemist and discoverer of the noble gases
- ROSS, Sir Ronald (1857-1932),
- Doctor ,Nobel Laureate, Discoverer of the mosquito transmission of malaria, lived here.
- Royal College of Physicians
- Science Museum
- Exhiition Road
- Shelley Westbrook, Harriet - Suicide
- First wife of Percy Byshe Shelley drowned herself in the Serpentine Lake, after she discovered he had run off Mary.
- SLOANE, Sir Hans (1660-1753),
- Physican and Benefactor of the British Museum, lived here 1695-1742.
- Society of Chemistry - Burlington House
- STANHOPE, Charles, 3rd Earl (1753-1816),
- Reformer and Inventor, lived here.
- STANLEY, W.F.R. (1829-1909),
- Inventor, Manufacturer and Philanthropist, founded and designed these halls and technical school.
- THOMPSON, Sir Benjamin, Count Rumford (1753-1814),
- Inventor and Adventurer, lived here.
- TURING, Alan (1912-1954),
- FATHER OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, MATHEMATICIAN, LOGICIAN, WARTIME CODEBREAKER, creator of the Turings test, VICTIM OF PREJUDICE. Was born here.
- WALLACE, Alfred Russel (1823-1913),
- Naturalist, lived here.
- WHEATSTONE, Sir Charles (1802-1875),
- Scientist and Inventor, lived here.
- WILSON, Edward Adrian (1872-1912),
- Antarctic Explorer and Naturalist, lived here.
- YOUNG, Thomas (1773-1829),
- Man of Science, lived here.
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