British achievements in science and technology

Knowledge is power and with knowledge you can face up to anything. Science is one of its leading forces. Those who have best opportunities for scientific researches and progress has best future prospect: highly developed countries has best industrial equipment, best arms, stable profit and good position on the world area.

Introduction………………………………………………………..…….……..
1 Science before the Industrial Revolution ………………………....................
1.1 The Royal Society………………….…………...…….................................
1.2 Sir Isaac Newton...........................................................................................
1.3 Robert Hooke……………….………………………………..………….…
1.4 Robert Boyle……………….………………………………………………
1.5 William Harvey …………...……………………………………………….
1.6 Henry Cavendish, William Gilbert and Joseph Priestley ………………….
2 Science during the Industrial Revolution…………………………………….
2.1 Inventions and inventors that made revolution closer……..……………….
2.2 The history of the steam engine …………………………………...............
2.3 Invention of locomotive and railway …………………………………..….
2.4 Michael Faraday ……………………….…………………………………..
2.5 James Joule and Thompson Kelvin …………………………......................
2.6 Charles Darwin ………………………….…………………………………
2.7 Charles Bell and James Young ……………………………………………
3 British science today…………………………………………………………
3.1 Medicine and biology …………………………………...............................
3.2 Genetics…………………………………………………………………….
3.4 Botany and agriculture……………………………………………………..
3.5 Engineering and technology………………………………………………..
3.6 Air and space exploration…………………………………………………
3.7 Military technologies………………………………………………………
Conclusion……………………………………………………………………...
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