This element is a solid. Nickel is classified as a Transition Metal which are located in Groups 3 - 12 of the Periodic Table. Elements classified as Transition Metals are generally described as ductile, malleable, and able to conduct electricity and heat.
The man who invented the first ATM cash machine has died, aged 84, after a short illness. John Shepherd-Barron, cash machine inventor, dies Photo: BOBBY NELSON.
Alan Turing's Universal Machine is named greatest British innovation of the 20th Century. 1  The 'universal machine' is the theoretical basis for all modern computers. 2  Alan Turing created the theory in a paper 'on computable numbers' in 1936. 3  After WWII, Turing made the first designs for a stored-program computer.roundbreaking: Alan Turing also invented the code breaking naval Enigma machine, pictured, which cracked the Nazis' coding machine and stripped U-boats blockading Britain of their cover. Turing's invention was one of 100 to be shortlisted for the national vote.