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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 ...
1780: Modified version of the Newcomen engine (the Pickard engine) developed by James Pickard (dates unknown). 1781: The Iron Bridge, the first metal bridge, cast and built by Abraham Darby III (1750–1789). [ 54] 1791: The first true gas turbine invented by John Barber (1734–1801).
Edward Craven Walker (1918-2000) invented the lava lamp. Barnes Wallis (1887–1979), bouncing bomb. Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795) invented jasperware. Edward Weston (1850–1936), Weston cell. Frank Whittle (1907–1996), co-inventor of the jet engine. William Winlaw (d.1796), patented agricultural machinery.
Pages in category "British inventions" The following 174 pages are in this category, out of 174 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
1952:The first thermonuclear weaponis developed. 1953:The first video tape recorder, a helical scan recorder, is invented by Norikazu Sawazaki. 1954:Invention of the solar battery by Bell Telephone scientists, Calvin Souther Fuller, Daryl Chapin and Gerald Pearson capturing the Sun's power.
James Kay (British inventor) John Kendrew (inventor) Georgina Kermode. Gordon S. Kino. William Kitchiner. Arthur Kitson. Kane Kramer. John Howard Kyan.
Paternoster lift. Paul-Wyatt cotton mills. Pax (liturgical object) Pedrail wheel. Perkin's mauve. Personal watercraft. Pilot ACE. Plasticine. Plate glass.
List. John Allen (born 1928), engineer and plasma physicist. James Atkinson (1846–1914), inventor of the Atkinson cycle internal combustion engine [1] George Frederick Armstrong (1842–1900), sanitation engineer and academic [2] William Armstrong (1810–1900), inventor of the hydraulic accumulator and breech-loading, rifled artillery [3 ...