Things that the British invented

[Project G]

TV, Radio, Harriers, English Language

What else did they invent

[gokufusionss1]

computers
trains
steam engines
lightbulb (yes yes we did)
speakers
telephone (alexander graham bell born and rasied in scotland)
jet engine
traffic lights
vacum cleaners
RADAR
SONAR
Hovercraft
penicillin

[Zifnab]

Humour.

[Project G]

Hot English Tea, Sandwich, Banned Rock Videos- Frankie goes to Hollywood-Relax

[K-chan]

walker's crisps *nods* best thing ever.

[Mikztsu]

Football? ( soccer). Not sure about that though. British are the hillbillies of Europe though. :)

[Shlup]

computers
The men credited with inventing the first electronic digital computer are John Atanasoff (New York) and Clifford E. Berry (Iowa). So there!

lightbulb (yes yes we did)
It was invented by Thomas Edison and Sir Joseph Swan at the same time, so it only kinda counts. :p

traffic lightsThe inventor of the traffic light, Garrett Morgan, was born in Kentucky.

And yes I am just here to be a poop. ^_^

[gokufusionss1]

The men credited with inventing the first electronic digital computer are John Atanasoff (New York) and Clifford E. Berry (Iowa). So there!

It was invented by Thomas Edison and Sir Joseph Swan at the same time, so it only kinda counts. :p
The inventor of the traffic light, Garrett Morgan, was born in Kentucky.

And yes I am just here to be a poop. ^_^


the first computer was collosus developed during ww2 for code cracking

common misconcieption edison didn't invent the light bulb, despite what american history likes to think.

traffic lights i don't about that one.

[Lindy]

telephone (alexander graham bell born and rasied in scotland)

The original design for the telephone was invented by an italian, it's just he didn't have the funding, so Graham Bell stole the design and pretended it was his.

Yes, I know I'm from the UK, but I'm from ENGLAND, and so instantly I'm against anyone scottish. So there.

Lara Croft was invented in England, I'd say that was a pretty era defining invention.

We also invented punk music, y'know we did.

And don't forget, Jesus was English.

[Levian]

I misread the title. I thought it read 'things that the british invaded'. I'm a bit disappointed now, so I'll leave.

[gokufusionss1]

The original design for the telephone was invented by an italian, it's just he didn't have the funding, so Graham Bell stole the design and pretended it was his.

Yes, I know I'm from the UK, but I'm from ENGLAND, and so instantly I'm against anyone scottish. So there.

Lara Croft was invented in England, I'd say that was a pretty era defining invention.

We also invented punk music, y'know we did.

And don't forget, Jesus was English.

i know but shhhhh, it's the same thing i accused edison of.

[White Raven]

Monty Python

...

Can't think of much else good to come out of there.

[Shlup]

common misconcieption edison didn't invent the light bulb, despite what american history likes to think.
Unless he stole the idea, he invented it.

Not that I actually care.

[tankyb]

Irn-Bru. Best drink ever.

[TasteyPies]

Water.

No realy they did! Ask anyone!

[Jack]

British are the hillbillies of Europe though.

That's not technically correct, the Germans are worse. They are are really annoying booking sunbeds at 2:30am with their towels. And their general dissrespect to others.

Irony
Sarcasam
Witches

[MR PaNTS]

unfortunatlewy, we british didnt invent football/soccer, it has recently been discovered that it was the south koreans. lol strange that.

yo, who invented jaffa cakes????

[Rusty]

computers
vacum cleaners



Didn't australians invent the vacum cleaner? Or was that just the brand Hoover that makes vacum cleaners? I forgotten which...

[gokufusionss1]

Football? ( soccer). Not sure about that though. British are the hillbillies of Europe though. :)


i'm not sure what you mean by that, anyway i don't care i hate europeans, especialy the swiss....What's the point! there not quite german and not quite french?

[Jebus]

I thought the Italians invented radio. Unless Marconi was British.

[Maxico]

the first computer was collosus developed during ww2 for code cracking

common misconcieption edison didn't invent the light bulb, despite what american history likes to think.

traffic lights i don't about that one.

Well the first computer was made in the 19th centry by charles babbage(english) he designed another but died before it could be made. In 1992 they made it to his specs and it was able to keep up with the complex ballistic tradgectory calculations that were the first things that the americans calculated when they got round to making one in the 50's/60's.

The first electronic computer was made by Alan turning in world war two. It was called the colossus and it was used to crack the german code.

[Rainecloud]

Laugh-worthy humour.

Or was that the Irish? I forget.

[Skogs]

Pop Idol (later spawning American Idol, Australian Idol etc....) xD :eek:

[Zifnab]

Laugh-worthy humour.

Or was that the Irish? I forget.
...he <i>did</i> kick me up the arse!

[Cz]

Good Music. But football hooliganism cancels it out.

[Psychotic]

BAoTW (TWO Brits did that. So cool :cool: )
ME

:elk:

[DeBlayde]

boiled meat.

nasty stuff.

[Ichy]

The world's formost benchmark for poor oral hygeine.

[Skogs]

Ya have to give the Scots some due credit for the battered Mars Bar.

[Iceglow]

Well theres Me for one thing, (I'm ordered to have a positive outlook on life and to be a narcissitic *insert appropriaqte swear words*) Also there is the fact that it was brittish scientists who developed the first Nuke for america in WW2 but then that isnt such a great thing. Also theres tons of things we invented in war times but mostly I cant think of them right now

[Giga Guess]

The Spice Girls!




What...?

[Iceglow]

if you are adding the bad things too I'll just add:

Busted

Mcfly

Take That

Girls Aloud

One True Voice

Will Young

Gareth Gates

Need I add more torture to that list?

[Loony BoB]

Achromatic Lens
Air-inflated Rubber Tyre
Analytical Engine
Antiseptic Surgery
Blueprint
Breech-loading Cannon
Calotype Photography
CAT Scanner
Cathode Ray Tube
Crucible Steel Process
Diode
Diving Bell
Dynamo
Electric Generator
Electrolysis
Facsimile
Flying Shuttle
Holography
Hovercraft
Hydopermic Syringe
Hydraulic Cement
Hydraulic Press
Hygrometer
Illuminating Gas
Jet Propulsion
Knitting Machine
Mackintosh (the raincoat)
Manganese Steel
Marine Chronometer
Mercerized Cotton
Micrometer
Miner's Safety Lamp
Penicillin
Portland Cement
Power Loom
Radar Parts
Railway Locomotive
Reflecting Telescope
Seed Drill
Self-propelled Torpedo
Shrapnel Shell
Spinning Frame
Spinning Jenny
Spinning Mule
Steam Engine
Steam Engine (Reciprocating)
Steam Hammer
Steam Locomotive
Steam Pump
Steam Turbine
Steel Convertor
Steel Pen
Steel Rolling Mill
Stereophonic Sound System
Stereoscope
Stereotyping
Tank
Television
Televisor
Thresher
Vaccination for Small Pox

Amongst other things, I imagine.

If you're going to go on about bad music, I suppose that's one thing that the Brits can be proud of not beating America in, though. Although I wouldn't be surprised if the Brits outdo America in inventions throughout time. Apparently the main reason that the British have outdone their European counterparts is because Europeans spent too much time with politics to really get into action - During and just after the Industrialization phase between 1700 and 1855, Europe went through a few wars including those brought about by Napoleon.

Now, as for New Zealand... er...

[Iceglow]

So what parameters did you use to search that Bob?

One thing you forgot was we were the first people to use the Grenade in combat in the tudor/elizabethan times

[Doomgaze]

Nah, the Chinese beat the west to grenades, as they did with most things involving gunpowder.

[Loony BoB]

Indeed.

And goodness gracious, I searched for 'Inventions'. :)

http://www.smccd.net/accounts/goth/MainPages/important_inventions.htm

[Iceglow]

the chineese used grenades more for chaos and confusion on the battle field intimidating the enemies I think the brits were the first to use them purely to injure and maim people in that we differ from the orients clean kill policy of battle a man down with a leg missing was a man down even if he lived

[Psychotic]

Identifying criminals through DNA, if someone didn't say that. YAY BRITAIN! :)!

[Baloki]

I always wonder why people leave out the internet, especially considering the man who invented it and its basic protocalls recently got knighted at the grand old age of 90 something...

[Loony BoB]

the chineese used grenades more for chaos and confusion on the battle field intimidating the enemies I think the brits were the first to use them purely to injure and maim people in that we differ from the orients clean kill policy of battle a man down with a leg missing was a man down even if he lived
I'm not sure that can really be classed as an invention, though. =x

[Rainecloud]

If you're going to go on about bad music, I suppose that's one thing that the Brits can be proud of not beating America in, though.

I like to think that we also invented hating rap music.

[Giga Guess]

Oooh! Oooh!

George Michael! *drools...*

[Loony BoB]

If you're going to go on about bad music, I suppose that's one thing that the Brits can be proud of not beating America in, though.

I like to think that we also invented hating rap music.
Au contrare (or something), it's not that everyone hated it, it's that very few British people could do it without sounding American in the first place. I can think of two exceptions - Pet Shop Boys with West End Girls, which was actually written specifically as a 'British version' of rap music. Love that song. The second is The Streets, and although they're probably a love-them-or-hate-them kinda sound, they're still one of a kind. The good thing about Brits sucking so much at rap isn't just that we don't get overrun with rap music but also that when one of the rap artists does emerge, they've had to be even more innovative and the like, and the songs are therefore specialer. Or something. Yes yes oh yay.

[Lindy]

If you're talking about rap, you forgot Goldie Lookin' Chain.

Oh my god, Goldie Lookin' Chain, so brilliantly awesome.

[gokufusionss1]

we also invented concentration camps to control the boars in their rebelion like the Nazi's, but ours worked dammit!

[Project G]

Motor racing

[gokufusionss1]

Alot of New Zealand people actually just invented there stuff in Britain so there :tongue:

What it was, I'm not going to tell you. But I'm sure sometime in my life I've heard such facts, on many occassion.

duhh

we're essentialy the same people so you can share the credit for the inventions.

[Wuggly Blight]

Disc Brakes - Frederick William Lanchester
Durand
Cat Eyes - Percy Shaw
Portland Cement - Joseph Aspdin Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel
Corkscrews - H.S. Heeley
Crossword Puzzles - Arthur Wynne
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
Internet
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
Television - John Logie Baird
Thermos - Sir James Dewar Toilet Paper - British Perforated Paper Company
Torpedo - Robert Whitehead 1866
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

I know i repeated one or two, or three or four... or five...

[escobert]

Unless he stole the idea, he invented it.

Not that I actually care.
Atually the ancient egyptians invented the lightbulb. It was a glaspot which ths would put different gases in and would glow. They found one at the bottom of the Nile.

[War Angel]

Humour.
Humour: America has the Jews - the rest of the world has the British.

[Silmaril]

English?

[Lon611]

telepathy!!!
*gets shot by government*
:mad:

[Yamaneko]

If it ain't made in the USA I'm not buying it.

[Project G]

almost nothing is made in usa any more you moron! also the final fantasty series isnt!

[Polaris]

The Spice Girls!

What...?

It is true and it was a sucess until Geri got out of it!

[Project G]

Did you know that we made Americans and Australians. We used to send our prisoners over to America until they revolted so we sent them Down-under

[-N-]

Radiohead, although I'm sure it's already been said.

[Codak]

The British invented...

The biggest blunder in their history, which resulted in: America.

[Calliope]

Tea cosies! PIE AND CHIPS PLEASE! Scones! Football!

I dunno.

[nik0tine]

Does anybody know who invented the wheel?

And supposedly, the British have not yet discovered the toothbrush.

[gokufusionss1]

Does anybody know who invented the wheel?

And supposedly, the British have not yet discovered the toothbrush.

not yet but we have discovered the electric toothbrush, so soon maybe we will.

[Sisko]

It was the Chinese who invented wheel..

But it probably was the British who invented the British cuisine, which contains things most people would not prefer to call food. Think about the breakfast for example. Sausages, fried eggs, bacon, baked beans and what ever you can find from your fridge to add up to the greasy effect.. Or custard, marmade, I could continue but you know anyways what I mean. Fortunate enough, the Indians came to the rescue and made curry almost a British national food (even though it would be made in British soggy way).

Waste. I have never ever seen anyone waste as much as people do in Britain. And throw it on the streets. Apparently there are waste bins, but I doubt the British invented them though. The only reason why Britain is so expensive country is that when you buy something you also have to pay for the things they throw away. So you end up paying 'pay one, throw one away' price for everything plus if you are in London you pay extra just because you are in London.

Did I miss something? Probably much more that I haven't seen in my three months in England as a foreigner exerience.. But I can try to spot them on the three months I have left...

[Calliope]

Towns: Kiwis invented good old number eight wire, as well as buzzy bees, bungy jumping, and uh...I forget. And I think I'll always insist that Richard Pearce beat the Wright Brothers, too.

[General Zod]

British may kneel before Zod. Kneel!

[Project G]

Who the hell are you????. And we will not bow down to you

[General Zod]

Who the hell are you????. And we will not bow down to you
You will pay for these words. This planet is mine now, be prepared for the New Order. Kneel before Zod! Kneel!

[Old Manus]

If you are considering world domination what the hell are you doing on EoFF!? *kicks in balls*



Condensed milk
toilet humour

[Maxico]

British may kneel before Zod. Kneel!

We've gotten of to a bad start. Lets just leave it at that.

[K-chan]

British may kneel before Zod. Kneel!
*gives you an odd look*



if you are adding the bad things too I'll just add:

Busted

Mcfly

Take That

Girls Aloud

One True Voice

Will Young

Gareth Gates

Need I add more torture to that list?

I'll agree with all of them except Gareth Gates. I'm sorry, but his voice gets on my nerves. You didn't put the Suga Babes and Sophie Elise Bexter! shame! :D

[Giga Guess]

You will pay for these words. This planet is mine now, be prepared for the New Order. Kneel before Zod! Kneel!

Yer an odd one, aren't you?