Culture corner eight, exercise two, page 151.0:01
The best of British Inventions Michael Faraday is the inventor of the electric motor.0:11
Without this, we would not have the technological appliances we take for granted today.0:24
Faraday's face used to be on the British 20 pound note.0:30
From 1991 to 2001, George Stephenson designed a steam train locomotive called the Rocket.0:34
It was a great success and encouraged the growth of railways, which played a very important part in the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.0:44
Many of the items we use today were invented during that time.0:57
Charles Babbage is considered by most to be the father of computing.1:03
By 1834 he had invented the Analytical Engine, which established the basic principles of computing.1:08
Although he never completed any of his machines, his detailed drawings were used to build a model of his difference engine number two at the London Science Museum.1:17
It was completed in 1991 and it performed mathematical calculations very accurately.1:29
John Logie Baird worked hard to transmit the first real television images, a dream of many scientists for decades before his first TV set could be made from everyday objects such as a biscuit tin, cardboard and string.1:37
Later, others took Baird's ideas and slowly developed TV as we know it today.1:56
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