British Inventions?
 

Now i am happy to be british so i thought id post a list of british inventions to make other british people on here to feel just as good to be british. Sorry if any of you feel this list is incorrect...iv looked up most of them and seems ot fit in nicely. :-D


Agriculture

• Seed drill - Jethro Tull [1]

Astronomy

• Discovery of the planet Uranus[2] and the moons Titania, Oberon, Enceladus, Mimas [3] by Sir William Herschel

Chemistry

• Marsh test for Arsenic - James Marsh
• Dalton's law and Law of multiple proportions - John Dalton
• Discovery of Buckminsterfullerene - Sir Harry Kroto
• First isolation of Sodium - Humphry Davy

Communications

• Uniform Penny Post - Rowland Hill et al.
• Clockwork radio [4] - Trevor Baylis

Computing

• Analytical engine [5] - Sir Charles Babbage
• ACE and Pilot ACE [6] - Alan Turing
• Bombe [6] - Alan Turing
• Colossus computer [7] - Tommy Flowers
• Difference engine [5] - Sir Charles Babbage
• World Wide Web [8] - Sir Tim Berners-Lee
• ZX Spectrum - Sir Clive Sinclair

Clock making

• Anchor escapement [9] - Robert Hooke
• Balance spring [10] - Robert Hooke (disputed - possibly invented by Christiaan Huygens of the Netherlands)
• Grasshopper escapement, Gridiron pendulum, H1, H2, H3 and H4 watches (a watch built to solve the longitude measurement problem)[11] - John Harrison

Clothing manufacturing

• Derby Rib (stocking manufacture) - Jedediah Strutt
• Flying shuttle - John Kay
• Mauveine, the first synthetic organic dye - William Henry Perkin
• Power loom - Edmund Cartwright
• Spinning frame - John Kay
• Spinning jenny - James Hargreaves
• Spinning mule - Samuel Crompton
• Polyester - John Rex Whinfield

Cryptography

• Playfair cipher - Charles Wheatstone

Engineering

• Adjustable spanner - Edwin Beard Budding
• Cavity Magnetron - Dr Harry Boot
• First coke-consuming blast furnace - Abraham Darby I
• First working universal joint - Robert Hooke
• First Compression-Ignition engine aka Diesel Engine - Herbert_Akroyd_Stuart
• Steam Engine - Thomas Savery
• Newcomen steam engine - Thomas Newcomen
  • Modified version of the Newcomen steam engine (Pickard engine) - James Pickard
• Pendulum Governor - Frederick Lanchester
• The first screw-cutting lathe - Henry Maudslay
• Disc Brakes - Frederick Williams
• Internal combustion engine - Samuel Brown
• Jet Engine - Sir Frank Whittle

Food

• Bird's Custard - Alfred Bird
• Sandwich - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich

Household appliances

• Ballbarrow - James Dyson
• Collapsible baby buggy - Owen Maclaren
• Dyson DC01 - James Dyson
• Fire extinguisher - George William Manby
• Lawn mower - Edwin Beard Budding
• Rubber band - Stephen Perry
• Light Bulb - Joseph Wilson Swan
• Tin Can - Peter Durand
• Corkscrew - Reverend Samuell Henshall
• Mouse trap - James Henry Atkinson
• Sewing machine - Thomas Saint
• Postage Stamp - Rowland Hill
• Toilet Paper - British Perforated Paper Company
• Vacuum cleaner - Hubert Cecil Booth

Industrial processes

• English crucible steel - Benjamin Huntsman
• Steel production Bessemer process - Henry Bessemer
• Hydraulic press - Joseph Bramah
• Parkesine, the first man-made plastic - Alexander Parkes
• Portland cement - Joseph Aspdin
• Sheffield plate - Thomas Boulsover
• Water frame - Richard Arkwright
• Stainless Steel - Harry Brearley
• Rubber Masticator - Thomas Hancock

Medical

• First correct description of circulation of the blood - William Harvey
• Smallpox vaccine - Edward Jenner
• Antisepsis in surgery - Joseph Lister
• Artificial intraocular lens transplant surgery for cataract patients - Harold Ridley
• Clinical thermometer - Thomas Clifford Allbutt. [12]
• Colour blindness first described by John Dalton in Extraordinary facts relating to the vision of colours [13]
• Computed Tomography - Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
• Viagra - Peter Dunn, Albert Wood, Dr Nicholas Terrett
• EKG (underlying principles) - various

Military

• Congreve rocket - William Congreve
• High explosive squash head - Sir Charles Dennistoun Burney
• Puckle Gun - James Puckle
• Shrapnel shell - Henry Shrapnel
• Harrier Jump Jet - unknown
• Tank - unknown
• Dreadnought Battleship
• Bailey Bridge - Donald Bailey
• Chobham armour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mining

• Davy lamp - Humphry Davy
• Geordie lamp - George Stephenson

Musical instruments

• Concertina - Charles Wheatstone

Photography

• Ambrotype - Frederick Scott Archer
• Calotype - William Fox Talbot
• Collodion process - Frederick Scott Archer
• Stereoscope - Charles Wheatstone

Science

• Compound microscope with 30x magnification - Robert Hooke
• Universal Joint - Robert Hooke
• The Iris diaphragm - Robert Hooke
• Anchor escapement and the balance spring, which made more accurate clocks possible - Robert Hooke
• Correct theory of combustion - Robert Hooke
• Barometer, anemometer, and hygrometer (invented or improved) - Robert Hooke
• Hooke's Law (equation describing elasticity) - Robert Hooke
• Electrical generator (dynamo) - Michael Faraday
• Galvanometer - William Sturgeon
• Infrared radiation - discovery commonly attributed to William Herschel.
• Newtonian telescope - Sir Isaac Newton
• Micrometer - Sir William Gascoigne
  • the first bench micrometer that was capable of measuring to one ten thousandth of an inch - Henry Maudslay
• Sinclair Executive, the world's first small electronic pocket calculator - Sir Clive Sinclair
• Slide rule - William Oughtred [14]
• Synthesis of coumarin, one of the first synthetic perfumes, and cinnamic acid via the Perkin reaction- William Henry Perkin
• The Law of Gravity - Sir Isaac Newton
• Newton's laws of motion - Sir Isaac Newton
• DNA fingerprinting - Sir Alec Jeffreys
• Smallpox Vaccination - Edward Jenner
• Electromagnet - William Sturgeon
• Dew Point Hygrometer - John Frederic Daniell
• Periodic Table - John Alexander Newlands
• Seismograph - John Milne
• Theory of Evolution - Charles Darwin

• Orbital Theory of the Atom - Ernest Rutherford

Transport


Railways

• First working railway steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick

Locomotives

• Blücher - George Stephenson
• Puffing Billy -William Hedley
• Locomotion No 1 - Robert Stephenson
• Sans Pareil - Timothy Hackworth
• Stephenson's Rocket - George and Robert Stephenson

Other railway developments

• Displacement lubricator, Ramsbottom safety valve, the water trough, the split piston ring - John Ramsbottom

Roads

• Bowden cable - Frank Bowden
• Cat's eye - Percy Shaw [15]
• Caterpillar track - Sir George Cayley
• Hansom cab - Joseph Hansom
• Seat belt - George Cayley
• Sinclair C5 - Sir Clive Sinclair
• Tarmac - E. Purnell Hooley
• Belisha beacon - Leslie Hore-Belisha

Sea

• Plimsol line - Samuel Plimsoll
• Hovercraft - Christopher Cockerell
• Lifeboat - Lionel Lukin
• Resurgam - George Garrett
• Turbinia, the first steam turbine powered steamship, designed by the Irish engineer Sir Charles Algernon Parsons and built in Newcastle upon Tyne
• Submarine - William Bourne

Air

• Aeronautics and flight - George Cayley
• Jet Engine - Sir Frank Whittle

Sport

• Football - Rules as know today were established in 1848 at Cambridge University
• Rugby - William Webb Ellis
• Cricket - The worlds second most popular sport can be traced back to the 13th Century

Miscellaneous

• Daylight saving time - William Willett [16]
• Bayko - Charles Plimpton
• Linoleum - Frederick Walton [17]
• Meccano - Frank Hornby
• Crossword puzzle - Arthur Wynne
• Gas Mask - John Tyndall and others
• Steel-ribbed Umbrella - Samuel Fox

America? :-)

Considering the brits used to be the ruler of well..everything, it's not all that surprising.

Is it me, or did I get fed the wrong information when it's referring to Daylight Savings Time.. Not that Rendair gave me the wrong info on that, it's just that when growing up they told me it was Benjamin Franklin. -_-

He said we should use it.

Okay. (chars)

Where did you find this list, or did you make it yourself? It is very impressive.

Add: Chobham Armour to the military bit plz :)

its the armour on tanks, still used today by everyone

Chobham armour - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I made it up of different websites i have looked over the past couple days. Was part of an assignment as research so. :-D

You did a very good job. :-)

Can I get a subscription of being a brit ...? :-P Very nice - ! large ! - topic there Dale.