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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 predecessor states in the history of the formation of the United Kingdom .
Nonetheless, science and technology in England continued to develop rapidly in absolute terms. Furthermore, according to a Japanese research firm, over 40% of the world's inventions and discoveries were made in the UK, followed by France with 24% of the world's inventions and discoveries made in France and followed by the US with 20%. [1]
Mobile phones become smaller and more affordable throughout the decade, being rare bulky devices everywhere in 1990 but affordable and common in Japan, the Nordic countries, Germany, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom by 1999. Video telephones are released.
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1990 until the present. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related history of the British Isles.
The invention of the jet engine, by Frank Whittle (1907–96). [21] The invention of the hovercraft, by Christopher Cockerell (1910–99). [22] The colossus computer, by Alan Turing (1912–54), an early digital computer (a code breaker in WWII made in Bletchley Park). [21] The structure of DNA, by Francis Crick (1916–2004) and others. [23]
From the first Apple computer to the COVID-19 vaccine, here are the most revolutionary inventions that were born in the U.S.A. in the past half-century.
Sports originating in England (1 C, 39 P) T. Turing machine (31 P) Pages in category "English inventions" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of ...
Northern Irish inventions (2 P) Scottish inventions (6 C, 89 P) Welsh inventions (3 C, 6 P) H. Holography (4 C, 71 P) M. British musical instruments (6 C, 3 P) R ...