British Inventions:
Anemometer - Robert Hooke
Disc Brakes - Frederick William Lanchester
Tin Can - Peter Durand
Cat Eyes - Percy Shaw
Portland Cement - Joseph Aspdin Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel
Corkscrews - H.S. Heeley
Crossword Puzzles - Arthur Wynne
DNA - Alec Jeffreys
Depth Charges
Diving Equipment/Scuba Gear - John Smeaton, William James, Henry Fleuss
EKG (Underlying Principles) - Various
Electric Motor - Michael Faraday
Electromagnet - William Sturgeon
Fax Machine - Alexander Bain
Gas Mask -John Tyndall and others
Dew-point Hygrometer - John Frederic Daniell
Holography - Dennis Gábor
Internal Combustion Engine - Samuel Brown
Jet Engines - Sir Frank Whittle
Kelvin Scale - Lord William Thomson Kelvin
Metal Lathe - Henry Maudslay invented the first in 1797.
Lawn Mower - Edwin Beard Budding
Lightbulbs - Humphry Davy, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, James Bowman Lindsay Locomotive - Richard Trevithick
Power Loom - Edmund Cartwright
Little Nipper Mousetrap - James Henry Atkinson
Penicillin - Alexander Fleming
Penny Farthing - James Starley
Periodic Table - John Newlands
Periscope - Sir Howard Grubb
Polyester - John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson
Puckle Gun - John Puckle
Radar Locating of Aircraft - Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
Radio (Underlying Principles) - James Clerk Maxwell
Rubber Bands - Stephen Perry
Rubber Masticator - Thomas Hancock
Seed Drill - Jethro Tull
Seismometer - James Forbes
Seismograph - John Milne, Sir James Alfred Ewing, Thomas Gray
Sewing Machines - Thomas Saint
Shrapnel - Henry Shrapnel
Steam Engine - Thomas Savery, Thomas Newcomen, James Watt
Steel Production - Sir Henry Bessemer
Submarine - William Bourne,
Spinning Jenny - James Hargreaves
Spinning Frame - Richard Arkwright
Spinning Mule - Samuel Crompton
Telephone - Alexandra Graham Bell
Television - John Logie Baird
Thermos - Sir James Dewar
Toilet Paper - British Perforated Paper Company
Torpedo - Robert Whitehead 1866
Train - invented in 1822 by an English inventor named George Stephenson.
Umbrella (steel-ribbed) - Samuel Fox
Universal Joint - Robert Hooke (also Iris Diaphragm, Balance Spring)
Vacuum Cleaner - Hubert Cecil Booth
Viagra - Peter Dunn, Albert Wood, Dr Nicholas Terrett
Wacky Inventions - Arthur Paul Pedrick
Waterproof Fabric - Charles Macintosh
World Wide Web - Tim Berners-Lee
Come on Yanks, who's the Daddy really?
Anemometer - Robert Hooke
Disc Brakes - Frederick William Lanchester
Tin Can - Peter Durand
Cat Eyes - Percy Shaw
Portland Cement - Joseph Aspdin Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel
Corkscrews - H.S. Heeley
Crossword Puzzles - Arthur Wynne
DNA - Alec Jeffreys
Depth Charges
Diving Equipment/Scuba Gear - John Smeaton, William James, Henry Fleuss
EKG (Underlying Principles) - Various
Electric Motor - Michael Faraday
Electromagnet - William Sturgeon
Fax Machine - Alexander Bain
Gas Mask -John Tyndall and others
Dew-point Hygrometer - John Frederic Daniell
Holography - Dennis Gábor
Internal Combustion Engine - Samuel Brown
Jet Engines - Sir Frank Whittle
Kelvin Scale - Lord William Thomson Kelvin
Metal Lathe - Henry Maudslay invented the first in 1797.
Lawn Mower - Edwin Beard Budding
Lightbulbs - Humphry Davy, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, James Bowman Lindsay Locomotive - Richard Trevithick
Power Loom - Edmund Cartwright
Little Nipper Mousetrap - James Henry Atkinson
Penicillin - Alexander Fleming
Penny Farthing - James Starley
Periodic Table - John Newlands
Periscope - Sir Howard Grubb
Polyester - John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson
Puckle Gun - John Puckle
Radar Locating of Aircraft - Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
Radio (Underlying Principles) - James Clerk Maxwell
Rubber Bands - Stephen Perry
Rubber Masticator - Thomas Hancock
Seed Drill - Jethro Tull
Seismometer - James Forbes
Seismograph - John Milne, Sir James Alfred Ewing, Thomas Gray
Sewing Machines - Thomas Saint
Shrapnel - Henry Shrapnel
Steam Engine - Thomas Savery, Thomas Newcomen, James Watt
Steel Production - Sir Henry Bessemer
Submarine - William Bourne,
Spinning Jenny - James Hargreaves
Spinning Frame - Richard Arkwright
Spinning Mule - Samuel Crompton
Telephone - Alexandra Graham Bell
Television - John Logie Baird
Thermos - Sir James Dewar
Toilet Paper - British Perforated Paper Company
Torpedo - Robert Whitehead 1866
Train - invented in 1822 by an English inventor named George Stephenson.
Umbrella (steel-ribbed) - Samuel Fox
Universal Joint - Robert Hooke (also Iris Diaphragm, Balance Spring)
Vacuum Cleaner - Hubert Cecil Booth
Viagra - Peter Dunn, Albert Wood, Dr Nicholas Terrett
Wacky Inventions - Arthur Paul Pedrick
Waterproof Fabric - Charles Macintosh
World Wide Web - Tim Berners-Lee
Come on Yanks, who's the Daddy really?