2006-07-05 21:45:31 · 32 answers · asked by KJRainforth 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Magnifying glass Roger Bacon
1668 Reflecting telescope Isaac Newton
1698 Steam pump Thomas Savery
1701 Seed drill Jethro Tull
1712 Steam engine Thomas Newcomen
1717 Diving bell Edmund Halley
1725 Stereotyping William Ged
1758 Achromatic lens John Dollond
1759 Marine chronometer John Harrison
1764 Spinning jenny James Hargreaves
1769 Spinning frame R. Arkwright
1769 Steam engine (with separate condenser) James Watt
1780 Steel pen Samuel Harrison
1784 Threshing machine Andrew Meikle
1785 Power loom Edmund Cartwright
1788 Flyball governor James Watt
1791 Gas turbine John Barber
1792 Illuminating gas William Murdock
1795 Hydraulic press Joseph Bramah
1796 Smallpox vaccination Edward Jenner
1804 Solid-fuel rocket William Congreve
1804 Steam locomotive Richard Trevithick
1814 Railroad locomotive George Stephenson
1815 Safety lamp Sir Humphry Davy
1820's Difference Engine (Computer) Charles Babbage
1820 Hygrometer J.F. Daniell
1821 Electric motor Michael Faraday
1823 Electromagnet William Sturgeon
1824 Portland cement Joseph Aspdin
1827 Friction match John Walker
1831 Dynamo Michael Faraday
1837 Telegraph Sir Charles Wheatstone
1839 Photography William Henry Fox Talbot
1839 Steam hammer James Nasmyth
1839 Bicycle (with pedals) Kirkpatrick MacMillan
1850 Mercerized cotton John Mercer
1855 Hypodermic syringe Alexander Wood
1856 Bessemer converter (steel) Sir Henry Bessemer
1861 Electric furnace Wilhelm Siemens
1865 Antiseptic surgery Joseph Lister
1876 Telephone Alexander Graham Bell
1878 Cathode ray tube Sir William Crookes
1879 Incandescent filament lamp Sir Joseph Wilson Swan
1884 Steam turbine Sir Charles Algernon Parsons
1884 Multiple-wheel steam turbine Sir Charles Algernon Parsons
1887 Air-inflated rubber tire J.B. Dunlop
1891 Motion picture camera (kinetograph) William K. L. Dickson
1891 Motion picture viewer (kinetoscope) William K. L. Dickson
1891 Synthetic rubber Sir William Augustus Tilden
1892 Rayon (viscose) Charles Frederick Cross
1892 Vacuum bottle (Dewar flask) Sir James Dewar
1895 Rayon (acetate) Charles Frederick Cross
1905 Diode rectifier tube (radio) Sir John Ambrose Fleming
1908 Two-color motion picture camera C. Albert Smith
1919 Mass spectrograph Sir Francis William Aston
1926 Television John Logie Baird
1928 Penicillin Sir Alexander Fleming
1930 Modern gas-turbine engine Sir Frank Whittle
1935 Radiolocator (radar) Sir Robert Watson-Watt
1941 Turbojet aircraft engine Sir Frank Whittle
1947 Holography Dennis Gabon
1956 Hovercraft Christopher Cockerell
1975 CAT (computerized axial tomography) scanner Godfrey N. Hounsfield
1996 Clockwork Radio Trevor Baylis
Ejector Seat Sir James Martin
2006-07-05 21:51:23 · answer #1 · answered by Xenu.net 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Refrigeration - Oliver Evans Wrench Vulcanized Rubber Safety Pin Potato Chips Condensed Milk Rolled Toilet Paper Burglar Alarm Can Opener Modern Oil Well Vacuum Cleaner Postcard Motorcycle Paper Clip Vibrator Fire Hydrant Clothes Hanger Chewing Gum Jeans Tattoo Machine Modern District Heating Thermostat Dishwasher And those are just little things, all before 1900...
2016-03-27 05:51:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We invented Concentration Camps during the Boer War. We invented Rugby, Cricket and Football. And Chicken Tikka Masala. And the Internet. And the Telephone. And Electric Lighting. And the Spinning Jenny, and I'm sure there are a million other very useful things we've given to the world.
2006-07-05 21:55:07 · answer #3 · answered by Kango Man 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The British invented the good old tradtional full English Breakfast (rather than a crappy Continental breakfast), English Breakfast Tea, the BBC accent, and other nations that are good at inventing things.
2006-07-05 21:59:40 · answer #4 · answered by Bratfeatures 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whole hosts of things. Pacemakers, atomic pacemakers, rejection free catheters. modern glass eyes, lots of drugs.
Lots of mechanical inventions. The fuel cell that the shuttle and spacelab cannot exist without and a whole host more.
Many were invented in Britain and went abroad to be developed like the maglev train and the Hovercraft.
Britain actually leads the world at inventing things but it suffers a poor record in developing them.
2006-07-05 21:50:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Football, Tennis, Discovering America, The Bowler Hat, Monkey Tennis, Newspapers, How to fry any food substance, Fish and Chips, Fish Fingers, Chicken Fingers, Chavs, Beatles, Sisters Of Mercy, Telephone, Aloofness, Brogue shoes, stripy neck ties, jellyed eels, pork pies, jaffa cakes, yorkshire puddings and humour.
2006-07-06 09:52:08 · answer #6 · answered by smutmonkey71 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing all good british inventions had been made or made by Scottish people
2006-07-05 21:50:55 · answer #7 · answered by Fraser M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the best invention was the knack to rule the rest of the world for centuries, impose their culture on all countries they ruled as the perfect culture and retract royally when situations became too hot in those places!!!!!
2006-07-05 21:51:46 · answer #8 · answered by THE WORRIER 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here is a trivia one the only thing that went to the moon in 69 that was british was the astonauts heated underwear!!
2006-07-05 21:50:59 · answer #9 · answered by BackMan 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
By british u mean england scotland wales etc? Well I can tell you that hyperdermic needles and chicken-tikka-massala are scottish creations (adding gravy to balti chicken)
2006-07-05 21:59:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋