Articles with the tag: Scientists


Sir  Frank Whittle

Sir Frank Whittle

Frank Whittle (Left, in his study)holds the distinction of having invented a piece of equipment that would have a world-wide application and which would fundamentally change the world in which we live. He was the inventor of the jet engine. Young Frank came to live in...
Sir Bernard Spilsbury, 1877 – 1947

Sir Bernard Spilsbury, 1877 – 1947

Few if any of those waiting for their prescriptions in a south Leamington chemist will know that the father of modern forensic medicine was born in the flat upstairs. On 16 May 1877 the manufacturing chemist James Spilsbury’s first child was born in the flat above his...