Things that the British invented

The Spice Girls!




What...?

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?

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...

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

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

Indeed.

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

http://www.smccd.net/accounts/goth/M...inventions.htm

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

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

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...

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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

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I'm not sure that can really be classed as an invention, though. =x

[QQ]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.[/QQ]

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

Oooh! Oooh!

George Michael! *drools...*

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[QQ]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.[/QQ]

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

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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.

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

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

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