About This Quiz
There have been great inventors and scientists in every civilization throughout human history, but a confluence of favorable historical events means that a particularly high number of them popped up in the United Kingdom, particularly in the last several centuries. As an imperial power, Britain had a great deal of superfluous wealth flowing in, which sustained a growing and increasingly educated middle class, the key ingredient required to develop scientists and fund innovation. As new ideas, thinkers and institutions feed one another and more and more people are given access to the tools needed to create new ideas, the rate of innovation becomes faster and faster.
This means that some of the most important figures in the Industrial Revolution, the formation of the Information Age and the genetic revolution were found in Britain. They include key pioneers of the steam engine and the internet, as well as discoverers in fields as diverse as evolution and mathematics. They hailed primarily from the upper middle class, who had the education and connections necessary for study, but they were otherwise diverse, coming from all over the map and including men and women.
How many of these great innovators do you know? Let's find out!
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