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Britain, The most inventive country in history? |
Surely the UK has to be, Jet Engine, Television, Camera, World Wide Web, Computer, Steam Engine, Trains, Railways, Underground Railways, Hovercraft, Vertical Take Off Plane, Battle Tank, Shrapnel Shell, Test Tube Babies, Penicillin, Vaccination, Telephone(Bell was Scottish!), Evolutionary Theory, Splitting the Atom, Slide Rule,Matches,Steam Pump, Postage Stamp,Piston Engine,Chronometer,Spinning Jenny,Power Loom,Sewing Machine,Gas Lighting,Lathe,Digital Calculating Machine(babbage),Portland Cement,Electromagnet,Blast Furnace,Electric Generator,Photography,Bicycle,... Propeller,Air Glider,Steel Production,Linoleum,Colour Photos,Pneumatic Tyre,Radio/Wireless,Loudhailer... Cleaner,Geiger Counter,Stainless Steel,Decompression Chamber,Radar,Computer memory/Stored Programmes,Holography,Integrat... Circuits,Animal Cloning, Industrial Revolution, Theory of Gravity,light Bulb,Guillotine etc e www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category... and lots more - i agree with Veronica Alicia - we invent these things and allow others to make the money or take the credit - it's the British way. On the other hand, history has been kind to the Romans, who seem to be credited with inventions they pinched off others - usually the Greeks. The Ancient Mesopotamians and Ancient Egyptians should also get credit for many inventions, as should the Chinese, but for modern times, there is no one to beat the Brits.... Hoodies, Chav's, drunken football fans, and of course our incredibly generous welfare system which the whole world wants a slice of England has to be at the top of everyone's list, or at least in the top two or three ... they did go through the industrial revolution before anyone else, so they have those innovations we are most familiar with. However, I might go with two other suggestions: Rome and the Roman Empire, with everything from roads to aqueducts, from the arch to the calendar ... not a bad grouping China with everything from clocks to gun powder, pasta to massive water projects This is a great questions, and gives us all pause to consider! Not bad for a nation of so called shopkeepers. It's Canada---Hockey, good beer and duck-pin bowling. Yep! Britain is great at inventing. Our problem is that we don't know what to do with the things we invent and usually end up giving them away to someone else who makes a fortune from them. We certainly have invented an awful lot of things. |
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