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Season 1

  • S01E01 South West

    • January 1, 1995
    • BBC

    Sarah Guppy (1775-1775) Suspension Bridge (1811) William Watts (1750-1796) Manufacture of Lead Shot (1782) Humphry Davy (1778-1829) Electrochemistry, Laughing Gas Edward Jenner (1749-1823) Vaccination George Pocock (1774-1843) Kite-Powered Carriage

  • S01E02 South

    • January 1, 1995
    • BBC

    John Milne (1850-1913) Seismograph John Stringfellow (1799-1883) Powered Flight Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) Wartime Medical Reform Edward Lyon Berthon (1813-1899) Folding Lifeboat, Nautical Chronometer, Propeller Screw

  • S01E03 Scotland

    • January 1, 1995
    • BBC

    Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900) Joseph Black (1728-1799) David Brewster (1781-1868) John Napier (1550-1617) Decimal Point, Logarithms, Pocket Calculator David Douglas (1798-1834) Douglas Fir Gilbert Mallach (1881-1955) Multi-function Walking Stick Neville Maskelyne (1732-1811) Newton's Attraction of Mountains Charles Hutton (1737-1825) Mass of The Earth

  • S01E04 Midlands

    • January 1, 1995
    • BBC

    John Barber (1734-1801) Gas Turbine Matthew Boulton (1728-1809) Central Heating William Withering (1721-1799) Heart medication James Watt (1736-1819) Photocopier William Murdoch (1754-1839) Gas lighting Alexander Parkes (1813-1890) Plastic Frederick Lanchester (1868-1946) Car

  • S01E05 Northern Ireland

    • January 1, 1995
    • BBC

    John Boyd Dunlop (1840-1921) Pneumatic Tyre (1888) Thomas Robinson (1792-1882) Anemometer, Longitude Determination Harry Ferguson (1884-1960) 3-Point Tractor Linkage

  • S01E06 North West

    • January 1, 1995
    • BBC

    John Mackereth (1921-1972) Sediment Corer John Dalton (1766-1844) Mixture of Gases James Joule (1818-1889) Energy

Season 2

  • S02E01 South West

    • January 6, 1997
    • BBC

    Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) Atmospheric Railway Henry Moule (1801-1880) Dry Closet Thomas Savery (1650-1715) Steam Engine

  • S02E02 Scotland

    • January 13, 1997
    • BBC

    Alexander Bain (1810-1877) Fax Machine Charles Macintosh (1766-1843) Waterproof Clothing James Maxwell (1831-1879) Colour Photography Robert Stirling (1790-1878) Stirling Engine

  • S02E03 East Anglia

    • January 20, 1997
    • BBC

    William Harvey (1578-1657) Double Circulation Benjamin Wiseman (1754-1809) Rotary Windmill - 1783 Robert Fitzroy (1805-1865) Weather Forecast William Wollaston (1766-1828) Camera Lucida William Gilberd (1540-1603) Magnetic Earth

  • S02E04 North East

    • January 27, 1997
    • BBC

    John Walker (1781-1859) Friction Match Charles Parsons (1854-1931) Steam Turbine Thomas Wright (1711-1786) The 'Milky Way' Galaxy Lewis Fry Richardson (1881-1953) Sonar, Wind Speed at Altitude

  • S02E05 Wales

    • February 3, 1997
    • BBC

    Thomas Telford (1757-1834) Modern Road Surface Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) Steam Locomotive (1801) Robert Recorde (1510-1558) Equals Sign Hugh Thomas (1834-1891) Thomas Splint Alfred Russell Wallace (1823-1913) Natural Selection (1858)

  • S02E06 South East

    • February 10, 1997
    • BBC

    Samuel Morland (1625-1695) Megaphone Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923) Vortices Henry Mawdsley (1771-1831) Precision Engineering Eleanor Coade (1733-1821) Artificial Stone Liborio Pedrazzoli (1896-1896) Swimming Umbrellas

  • S02E07 Science Week

    • March 20, 1997
    • BBC

    Thomas Gaddes (1897-1897) Automatic Egg-Boiler Roger Burgess Printed Road Map (1617) Aron Rathburn Printed Road Map (1617) Nicolas de Chemant (1797-1797) Dining Foot Warmer William Banting (1796-1878) Diet William Herschel (1738-1822) Infra-Red Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) Star Catalogue William Herschel (1738-1822) Uranus Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) Movies

  • S02E08 Exploding Heroes

    • October 31, 1997
    • BBC

    Roger Bacon (1214-1294) Explosives William Congreve (1772-1828) Rocket William Bickford (1774-1834) Safety Fuse Guy Fawkes (1570-1606)

Season 3

  • S03E01 Devon and Cornwall

    • March 2, 1998
    • BBC

    Thomas Newcomen (1663-1729) Steam Engine Henry Trengrouse (1772-1854) Maritime Safety Rocket William Murdoch (1754-1839) Beer clearing, Steam Carriage Henry Winstanley (1644-1703) Eddystone Lighthouse

  • S03E02 London

    • March 9, 1998
    • BBC

    Cornelius Drebbel (1572-1634) Oxygen, Submarine Michael Faraday (1791-1867) How Candles Work, Parascience Charles Babbage (1792-1871) Calculator Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) Computer Programming

  • S03E03 Egypt

    • March 16, 1998
    • BBC

    Ctsebius (300BC-250BC) Clepshyrda (Water Clock), Musical Organ Eratosthenese Earth's Circumference Ibn Alhazen (965-1038) Pinhole Camera

  • S03E04 Sicily

    • March 19, 1998
    • BBC

    Archimedes (287BC–212BC) Enemy Ship Burning, Infinite Counting, Measurement of Volume Xenophanes (560BC-478BC) Gradual Process in Geology Zeno (495BC-430BC) Philosophical Paradox Empedocles (494BC-434BC) Air

  • S03E05 South

    • March 23, 1998
    • BBC

    Robert Hooke (1635-1703) Biological Cell, Hooke's Law, Magnifying Microscope Arthur Ashwell (1809-1882) Railway WC Thomas Young (1773-1829) Translation of Hyroglyphics, Light as a Wave Anna Atkins (1799-1871) First Book with Photographs Charles Darwin (1809-1882) Evolution of Species

  • S03E06 Ireland

    • March 26, 1998
    • BBC

    John Tyndall (1820-1893) Scattering of Sunlight William (Earl of Ross) Parsons (1800-1867) Largest Telescope Robert Boyle (1627-1691) Boyle's Law, Combustion Requires Air, Sound Through Air Vibration William Petty (1623-1687) Catamaran

  • S03E07 North and West of Birmingham

    • March 30, 1998
    • BBC

    Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) Speaking Machine Thomas Wedgewood (1771-1805) Photography Henry Hickman (1800-1830) Anaesthesia Henry Faulds (1843-1930) Fingerprinting John Wilkinson (1728-1808) Spinning Canonballs

  • S03E08 North West

    • April 6, 1998
    • BBC

    William Brownrigg (1711-1800) Smoothing Troubled Waters Jeremiah Horroks (1619-1641) Transit of Venus (24/11/1639) Lionel Pilkington (1920-1995) Float Glass Frank Hornby (1863-1936) Meccano

Season 4

  • S04E01 South

    • September 7, 1998
    • BBC

    Henry Cavendish (1731-1810) Composition of Water, Mass of The Earth Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Frozen Food, Scientific Investigation John Ray (1627-1705) Botany William Heath-Robinson (1872-1944)

  • S04E02 East Of Scotland

    • September 14, 1998
    • BBC

    James Dewar (1842-1923) Vacuum Flask James Lind (1716-1794) Cure for Scurvy Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) Telephone (14/02/1876) Peter Mark Roget (1779-1869) Persistence of Vision, Thesaurus

  • S04E03 Netherlands

    • September 21, 1998
    • BBC

    Simon Stevin (1548-1620) Independence of Free-Fall, Wind-Driven Carriage Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) Compound Microscope Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) Temperature Scale Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) Pendulum Clock

  • S04E04 North

    • September 28, 1998
    • BBC

    Richard Towneley (1629-1707) Boyle's Law William Sturgeon (1783-1850) Electric Motor, Electro-magnet Joseph Paxton (1801-1865) Greenhouse James Nasmyth (1808-1890) Automatic Hammer Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) Atomic Nucleus

  • S04E05 Gloucestershire & Wiltshire

    • October 5, 1998
    • BBC

    William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) Photography Edwin Beard Budding (1795-1846) Lawn Mower Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) Concertina Jan Ingenhousz (1730-1799) Photosynthesis

  • S04E06 Heroines

    • October 12, 1998
    • BBC

    Mary Waller (1887-1960) Plate Vibrations Elizabeth Dakin Coffee Strainer Jane Marcet (1769-1858) Chemistry Textbook Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) Structure of DNA

  • S04E07 East Midlands

    • October 19, 1998
    • BBC

    Robert Bakewell (1725-1795) Evolution by Artificial Selection Edmund Cartwright (1743-1823) Interlocking Bricks, Powered Loom Emmeline Jean Hanson (1919-1973) Action of Muscle Fibre Frank Whittle (1907-1996) Jet Engine

  • S04E08 Scotland

    • October 26, 1998
    • BBC

    Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1812-1878) Pedal Driven Bicycle (1839) William (Lord Kelvin) Thomson (1824-1907) Absolute Zero James Thomson (1822-1892) Glacial Flow William (Lord Kelvin) Thomson (1824-1907) Transatlantic Cable Charles Wilson (1869-1959) Particle Detector John Logie Baird (1888-1946) Television

Season 5

  • S05E01 South

    • BBC

    Andrew Thomas Turton Peterson (1813-1906) Concrete Joseph Norman Lockyer (1836-1920) Spectroscopy Charles Lyell (1797-1875) Principles of Geology John Canton (1718-1772) Thunderstorm Warning

  • S05E02 East of Scotland

    • July 12, 1999
    • BBC

    John Scott Russell (1808-1882) Wave Mechanics Peter Guthrie Tait (1831-1901) Sports Science Robert William Thomson (1822-1873) Pneumatic Tyre (1845) Alexander Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973) Radar

  • S05E03 North

    • July 19, 1999
    • BBC

    Louis Le Prince (1841-1890) Moving Pictures Joseph Bramah (1748-1814) Hydraulics, Lavatory, Lock Tempest Anderson (1846-1913) Pyroclastic Flow George Stephenson (1781-1848) Cucumber Glass, Passenger Railway

  • S05E04 London

    • July 26, 1999
    • BBC

    Hubert Cecil Booth (1871-1955) Vacuum Cleaner Marc Isambard Brunel (1769-1849) Tunneling John Snow (1813-1858) Epidemiology Eric Laithwait (1921-1997) Linear Motor

  • S05E05 North or England

    • August 2, 1999
    • BBC

    Joseph Adamson (1853- ?? ) Syphonic Flush Charles Harrison Blackley (1820-1900) Allergy, Pollen Count William Buckland (1784-1856) Fossils George Cayley (1773-1857) Powered Flight

  • S05E06 Royal Institution

    • August 9, 1999
    • BBC

    Benjamin Thompson (1753-1814) Mechanical Heat Humphrey Davy (1778-1829) Safety Lamp Michael Faraday (1791-1867) Electric Motor Charles Vernon Boys (1855-1944) Surface Tension, Vortex Gun Joseph John Thompson (1892-1975) Electron

Season 6

  • S06E01 London

    • May 16, 2000

    Denis Papin (1647-1712) Pressure Cooker, Steam Engine (1698) David Kirkaldy (1820-1897) Engineering Testing Augustus Waller (1856-1922) Electrocardiogram Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Glass Harmonica, Lightning Conductor

  • S06E02 Yorkshire

    William Scoresby (1789-1857) Creation of Magnets by Hammering, Ice Lens, Genetics William Bateson (1861-1926) James Cook (1728-1779)

  • S06E04 South Coast

  • S06E05 Nobel Prizes

    • June 6, 2000

    Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) Blasting-Cap Detonator, Dynamite Ronald Ross (1857-1932) Communication of Malaria John Cockcroft (1897-1967) Splitting the Atom Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994) Crystallography

  • S06E06 Italy

    Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Acceleration of Falling Bodies (1590), Heliocentric Universe, Period of a Pendulum Fillipo Brunilleschi (1377-1446) Perspective Evangilista Torrichelli (1605-1647) Barometer

  • S06E07 East Midlands

    • June 27, 2000

    Richard Arkwright (1732-1792) Cotton Mill George Green (1793-1841) Green's Theorem Isaac Newton (1642-1727) Cat Flap, Gravity, Optical Dispersion

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