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1932: Discovery of the Neutron by James Chadwick (1891–1974). 1935: Possibility of Radar first proven in the "Daventry experiment" by Englishman Arnold Frederic Wilkins (1907–1985) and Scot Robert Watson-Watt. 1947: Holography invented in Rugby, England by Hungarian-British Dennis Gabor (1900–1979; fled from Nazi Germany in 1933).
Engineers during World War Two test a model of a Halifax bomber in a wind tunnel, an invention that dates back to 1871.. The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including the predecessor states before the Treaty of Union in 1707, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.
Sports originating in England (1 C, 39 P) T. ... Pages in category "English inventions" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 223 total ...
February 8 – After 84 days in space, the last crew of the temporary American space station Skylab return to Earth.; February 13–15 – Sagittarius A*, thought to be the location of a supermassive black hole, is identified by Bruce Balick and Robert Brown using the baseline interferometer of the United States National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
1974: Russell Alan Hulse and Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. discover indirect evidence for gravitational wave radiation in the Hulse–Taylor binary 1977: Frederick Sanger sequences the first DNA genome of an organism using Sanger sequencing
Events from the year 1974 in the United Kingdom. The year is marked by the Three-Day Week , two general elections , a state of emergency in Northern Ireland , extensive Provisional Irish Republican Army bombing of the British mainland, several large company collapses and major local government reorganisation.
1974 events in the United Kingdom by month (12 C) 1974 disestablishments in the United Kingdom (9 C, 8 P) 1974 establishments in the United Kingdom (10 C, 67 P)
6 January – The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders announces that a record of nearly 1.8 million cars were sold in Britain last year. The best-selling car for the second year running was the Ford Escort with more than 174,000 sales. [1] 9 January – Sarah Tisdall, a 23-year-old Foreign Office clerk, is charged under the Official ...