On this thread we will talk all about why the British are superior in every way to all other countries*. I shall start, we invented the jet engine, football, computer, tv and penicillin. *Or not
Reflecting telescope: Isaac Newton, 1668 Seed drill: Jethro Tull, 1701 Marine chronometer: John Harrison, 1761 Spinning frame: Richard Arkwright, 1768 Toothbrush: William Addis, c. 1770 Soda water: Joseph Priestley, 1772 Hydraulic press: Joseph Bramah, 1795 Steam engine: Richard Trevithick, 1801 Glider: George Cayley, 1804 Tension-spoked wheel: George Cayley, 1808 Tin can: Peter Durand, 1810 Modern fire extinguisher: George William Manby, 1818 Electric motor: Michael Faraday, 1821 Waterproof material: Charles Macintosh, 1823 Cement: Joseph Aspdin, 1824 Passenger railway: George Stephenson, 1825 Lawnmower: Edwin Beard Budding, 1827 Photography: William Henry Fox Talbot, 1835 Electric telegraph: Charles Wheatstone & William Cooke, 1837 Chocolate bar: JS Fry & Sons, 1847 Hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood, 1853 Synthetic dye: William Perkin, 1856 Bessemer process: Henry Bessemer, 1856 Linoleum: Frederick Walton, 1860 Sewage system: Joseph Bazalgette, 1865 Modern Torpedo: Robert Whitehead, 1866 Telephone: Alexander Graham Bell, 1876 Light Bulb: Joseph Swan, 1880 Steam turbine: Charles Parsons, 1884 Safety bicycle: John Kemp Stanley, 1885 Pneumatic tyre: John Boyd Dunlop, 1887 Thermos flask: Sir James Dewar, 1892 Electric vacuum cleaner: Hubert Cecil Booth, 1901 Disc Brakes: Frederick William Lanchester, 1902 Stainless Steel: Harry Brearley, 1913 Military tank: Ernest Swinton, 1914 Television: John Logie Baird, 1925 Catseye: Percy Shaw, 1933 Jet Engine: Frank Whittle, 1937 Electronic programmable computer: Tommy Flowers, 1943 Hovercraft: Christopher Cockerell, 1953 Automatic kettle: Peter Hobbs, 1955 Float Glass: Alastair Pilkington, 1959 Hip Replacement: John Charnley, 1962 Carbon fibre: Royal Aircraft Establishment engineers, 1963 Collapsible baby buggy: Owen Maclaren, 1965 ATM: John Shepherd-Barron, 1967 World Wide Web: Tim Berners-Lee, 1989 Wind-up radio: Trevor Baylis, 1991 Steri-spray: Ian Helmore, c. 2008
It costs us $10000 to see a dentist I think its down to bleaching teeth, which is just not done this side of the pond.
Quite a lot of those have been put to far better use by other countries Whittle was co inventor of the jet engine with Hans Von Ohain.
You make me laugh, you go off and read some web pages and then post as if you are displaying your knowledge when you had no clue until you regurgitated information you just read on the web
