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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.
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 ...
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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]
The 24-year-old from Brooklyn was the first to use a new technology called digitalization to capture images. Four decades later, we carry his invention in our pockets on our phones. Courtesy of ...
Pages in category "British inventions" The following 173 pages are in this category, out of 173 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...