Great British Innovation Vote

Science & Technology News

Vote for the greatest advances in science and engineering made during the last 100 years – and for the ones that are most likely to shape the coming century. The votes, which will be launched on topbritishinnovations.org.uk (http://www.topbritishinnovations.org) in mid-March to coincide with National Science & Engineering Week, will feature Audioboos in which leading figures will vote for innovations and explain the reasons why they made their choice.

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United States

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Science & Technology News

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Vote for the greatest advances in science and engineering made during the last 100 years – and for the ones that are most likely to shape the coming century. The votes, which will be launched on topbritishinnovations.org.uk (http://www.topbritishinnovations.org) in mid-March to coincide with National Science & Engineering Week, will feature Audioboos in which leading figures will vote for innovations and explain the reasons why they made their choice.

Language:

English

Website:

https://audioboom.com/channel/innovationvote

Episodes

Richard Wiseman

3/26/2013

Richard Wiseman gives his big vote to the iconic small car, the mini. Photo credit: Brian Fischbacher

Duration:00:00:52

Alison Boyle

3/26/2013

Alison Boyle, Science Museum Physics Curator, votes for the discovery of the Higgs Boson.

Duration:00:04:01

Natalie Ireland

3/19/2013

The Director of the Manchester Science Festival, Natalie Ireland celebrates the potential of Graphene.

Duration:00:01:43

Jack Kirby

3/18/2013

The Baby computer, otherwise known as the small scale experimental machine, gets the vote of the Head of Collections at the Museum of Science and Industry.

Duration:00:01:24

Fran Scott

3/18/2013

BBC presenter, Fran Scott, is backing the small yet highly important innovation that is catseye road markings.

Duration:00:01:46

Lord Coe

3/18/2013

Seb Coe celebrates Carbon Fibre and its application within sport.

Duration:00:02:02

Kevin Fong

3/15/2013

Kevin Fong, Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Fellow, gives his vote to the impressive Hubble Telescope.

Duration:00:02:47

Georgina Ferry

3/14/2013

Everyone uses computers for everything - science writer Georgina Ferry says the LEO computer was the first to show how electronic machines could multitask.

Duration:00:02:11

Molly Stevens

3/14/2013

Molly Stevens is a Professor at Imperial College London and believes stem cells should get your vote.

Duration:00:01:41

Sue Ion

3/14/2013

Sue Ion is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and is backing nuclear engineering as her top innovation of the past century.

Duration:00:01:09

Professor Stephen Hawking

3/14/2013

Professor Stephen Hawking's blackhole theory is one of the great British innovations. Does it get your vote?

Duration:00:00:26

Alice Roberts

3/14/2013

Thousands of people have benefited from the medical innovation of plastic reconstructive surgery which is why BBC science presenter, medical doctor and anatomist, Alice Roberts, gives it her vote.

Duration:00:01:55

Alex Bellos

3/14/2013

Bestselling author, Alex Bellos, talks about the mathematical power of biological chaos theory.

Duration:00:01:24

Kirtana Vallabjaneni

3/13/2013

Monoclonal antibodies is 2012's UK young scientist of the year, Kirtana, favourite innovation of the past century.

Duration:00:02:05

Paul Kirkman

3/13/2013

The National Railway Museum's Director, Paul Kirkman, wants you to vote for the beautiful Mallard locomotive.

Duration:00:01:03

Boris Jardine

3/13/2013

Boris Jardine is one of the Science Museum's curators and he believes that X-ray crystollagraphy should be recognised as the top innovation of the past century.

Duration:00:02:04

Professor Stephen Hawking

3/13/2013

British innovations have keep me alive says Professor Stephen Hawking.

Duration:00:00:25

Simon Singh

3/13/2013

The Science writer, Simon Singh, is backing the theory of General Relativity. Why? Have a listen to find out.

Duration:00:01:37

David Delpy

3/13/2013

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) changed the way medics work with the human body and that is why David Delpy, the Chief Executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, chose it as his innovation.

Duration:00:01:09

Tilly Blyth

3/13/2013

Raspberry Pi will revolutionize the way we think and use computers, that is why Tilly Blyth, the Science Museum's Keeper of Science and Technology, gives it her vote.

Duration:00:02:09