GREATEST PIONEERS

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EDISON VS TESLA
Sparks flew when these two
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MEDICAL FIRSTS
Discover the origins of some of the
electricity heavyweights clashed w o r l d ’s g r e a t e s t m e d i c a l i n n o v a t i o n s

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LEONARDO DA VINCI
Arguably the greatest polymath the
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CHARLES DARWIN
D a r w i n’s t h e o r y o f e v o l u t i o n
world has ever seen shook Victorian society

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ADA LOVELACE
A computing prodigy with a
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HEDY LAMARR
More than a pretty face, this actress
riotous reputation devised early Wi-Fi technology

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MARIE CURIE
A true pioneer in nuclear physics
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ISAAC NEWTON
Meet one of the most inf luential
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GALILEO GALILEI
The man from Tuscany who
and chemistry scientists of all time defined gravity

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One of the most inf luential
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EINSTEIN
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WRIGHT BROTHERS
The brothers who built a plane in the
Who was the man behind the
engineers in the history of Britain moustache? back of a bike shop

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GUGLIELMO MARCONI
W i t h o u t M a r c o n i ’s i n v e n t i o n , w e ’d
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YURI GAGARIN
Gagarin smashed through a new
have no radio frontier when he conquered Space

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