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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.
1990: The Neo Geo AES becomes the first video game system to launch that used Memory Cards. 1990: The first search engine invented was “Archie”, created by Alan Emtage a student at McGill University in Montreal. 1991: The first commercial flash-based solid-state drive is launched by SunDisk. [538]
England portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Inventions from England . The main article for this category is List of English inventions and discoveries .
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.
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]
Julia Barfield (1952– ), architect who contributed to the design of the London Eye and the i360 observation tower in Brighton, England; Trevor Baylis (1937–2018), wind-up radio; Tim Berners-Lee (1955– ), World Wide Web
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