People who change the world may, or may not, be famous in their own lifetimes. Often it takes years for others to understand forward-thinking contributions. This collection introduces you to some of the world's most-famous people
Before they understood what caused electricityand whether it is producible naturally and artificiallyexperimentalists demonstrated its power.
Two Italian academics, who helped propel the world into the modern age, were working in, or near, Bologna in the late-18th century.
Underneath London's Royal Institution, Humphry Davy creates more than 800 Voltaic-Pile batteries and stuns his audience with an extremely bright elect...
Thomas-Francois Dalibard and Georges-Louis Leclerc (the Count of Buffon) translated Benjamin Franklins theories about studying electricity into French...
Conducting an experiment to measure the voltage emitted by a Torpedo Fish, when catching its prey, Professor Jim Al-Khalili (from the Open University)...
Fyodor Dostoevsky was born in Moscow.
As a young man, Dostoevsky - and some of his friends - received a death sentence.
This clip, from 26 Days in the Life of Dostoevsky, recreates the scene in which Fyodor Mikhailovich first meets Anna Grigoryevna Snitkina (his future ...
A late-nineteenth-century hero from Scotland, Dr.
During a televised segment of the Rogers Commission hearings (on the 11th of February, 1986), Dr.
Dr. Robert Goddard - a genuine rocket scientist whose pioneering work still impacts space travel and today's rockets - was a visionary.
Prince Albert, known to his friends and family as "Bertie," has a new title - the Duke of York - when Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon finally agrees to marry him...
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