Chain Reactions: Pioneers of British Science & Technology

Adam Hart-Davis presents the scientists and inventors to be found upon the walls of the National Portrait Gallery, and the often extraordinary connections between them. Relationships familial and intellectual, amicable and implacable are unearthed, as are the unexpected roles played by coincidence, happenstance, and accident in some of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time.Packed with detail and anecdote, this entertaining yet informative guide is fully illustrated in color and includes such major figures as Samuel Pepys and Christopher Wren, William Harvey and Marie Stopes, Charles Babbage and Henry Bessemer, Matthew Boulton and Josiah Wedgwood, Charles Darwin and T.H. Huxley.