British Inventions & Discoveries
Key British inventors and scientists: Isaac Newton (laws of gravity and motion), James Watt (improved steam engine), George and Robert Stephenson (railways, the Rocket), Isambard Kingdom Brunel (bridges, tunnels, the Great Western Railway), Charles Darwin (theory of evolution, On the Origin of Species), Alexander Fleming (penicillin, 1928), Alan Turing (Enigma code-breaking, pioneer of computing), Tim Berners-Lee (invented the World Wide Web), Edward Jenner (smallpox vaccine), and Francis Crick (co-discovered DNA structure).