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?

Filed under: Henry Vacuum Cleaner Faqs

Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!