A shed means a workshop ashore where an engineer could continue experimenting outside official work. That definition favors army and aviation projects because inventions developed aboard Royal Navy ships generally fall outside it. The boundary becomes less clear when an official laboratory project branches into experiments at home and the home solution becomes the main research route. National credit can also be uncertain when a British-born inventor works with Australians in France. The ten candidates mainly belong to the period around the two world wars, and viewers are invited to rank them themselves. A modern design workstation provides a comparison for the private space where engineers could keep testing ideas after work.
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What counts as a British shed invention?
Private experiments could redirect official research, but the place of work and an inventor's nationality make the British-shed category difficult to define.