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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]
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.
1995 - The Java programming language is developed by Sun Microsystems (now Oracle). The Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K), the computer glitch disaster expected to happen on January 1, 2000. The development of web browsers such as Netscape Navigator (originally known as Mosaic) in 1993 and Internet Explorer in 1995 makes surfing the ...
The Portuguese Caravel, one of the naval creations made by the Portuguese [1] [2] The Portuguese inventions are the inventions created by the people born in Portugal (continent or overseas), or whose nationality is Portuguese. These inventions were created mainly during the age of Portuguese discoveries, and during modernity.
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.
Alheira, a type of sausage made with meats other than pork (usually veal, duck, chicken, quail or rabbit) and bread; São Jorge cheese, a type of semi-hard to hard cheese; Castelo Branco cheese, type of goat cheese; Serra da Estrela cheese, a type of ewes cheese; Port wine, a type of fortified wine; Moscatel, a type of fortified wine
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Robert K. Merton defined such "multiples" as instances in which similar discoveries are made by scientists working independently of each other. [1] "Sometimes", writes Merton, "the discoveries are simultaneous or almost so; sometimes a scientist will make a new discovery which, unknown to him, somebody else has made years before." [2]