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This great Scotsman invented one of the most popular 20th century inventions – the television. It wasn't a smooth journey for Logie Baird though, as he suffered many setbacks (and explosions) on his road to greatness, but his dedication for building big, mad machines paid off in the end.

Great British Inventors: John Logie Baird

In the 1930s women were expected to stay home, but rebellious Rosalind Franklin had her sights set on scientific glory. When a photograph she took revealed DNA's elusive double helix structure, things went wrong for Franklin as her lab partner double crossed her. History now remembers her as a pioneer of both DNA research and women in science, as this video reveals.

Great British Inventors: Rosalind Franklin

A former book binders apprentice, Faraday was a humble self-taught inventor who went on to make huge strides in the world of electricity. Finding the key to making electrical currents and motors, Faraday's finds still power pretty much everything in the modern world.

Great British Inventors: Michael Faraday

Inventor, philosopher, and politician, Charles Babbage led an eccentric life that was thought to have been a result of his home schooling. Still, his designs for two inventions called the 'difference engine' and the 'analytical engine' are enough to see him now heralded as the father of modern computing.

Great British Inventors: Charles Babbage

Runner, inventor, and code cracker, Alan Turing was a spirited all-rounder who ate setbacks for breakfast. His skill for breaking Nazi codes during WWII helped end the war at least two years earlier than predicted, and he was testing the code-breaking abilities of computers before they'd been invented. It is for this that he's known as the godfather of computer science.

Great British Inventors: Alan Turing

Joseph Bazalgette was the kind of man you'd want around in a drainage crisis. Yes, engineer Joe knew more about drains than you could ever want to know and was eventually knighted for his efforts in cleaning up the Thames and building London's modern sewage system that still stands proud to this day.

Great British Inventors: Joseph Bazalgette

Was Newton the greatest thinker of all time? This episode of great British inventors shows him to be much more than an apple-toting one trick pony. His earth-shattering inventions include calculus and modern telescopes, as well as homemade theories on gravity and movement, and he also expanded our knowledge of the solar system.

Great British Inventors: Isaac Newton

Oxford educated Tim Berners-Lee had all the geek pedigree to become a great inventor and when experimenting with sending data between computers using phone lines, he invented the World Wide Web. It's an understatement to say that his invention caught on but Berners-Lee was also revolutionary in making all his ideas free - internet freedom is something he stills campaigns for today.

Great British Inventors: Tim Berners-Lee

Inspired by his mother's loss of hearing, Graham Bell became obsessed with the idea of transmitting sounds, and after a few early pioneering experiments in the field, he patented the telephone. Not resting on his laurels, Graham Bell also went on to create the first ever metal detector.

Great British Inventors: Alexander Graham Bell

Maths-mad Ada, in writing theoretical programmes for theoretical machines that wouldn't even be invented for 100 years, became posthumously recognised as the world's first computer programmer. Not bad for the only legitimate child of the poet Lord Byron.

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