Ian Churchill
Aug/070
Ian Churchill
The most intelligent famous people in Britain over the past 100 years?
Sir Winston Churchill? Maynard Keynes? John Lennon? Ian Brady?
Reasons???
Here are a few, they are scientists and inventors:
Not all within 100 years, but many are:
British scientists and inventors
The first programmable computer British was invented in Manchester university, This computer still works and is actually faster than the PC/laptop you are now using.1948 The first computer with a stored programme and memory- nicknamed 'baby'- was developed at Manchester University,UK
Internet BRITISH,(Tim Berners -Lee)
Anemometer - Robert Hooke British inventor
Disc Brakes - Frederick William Lanchester British inventor
Cordite - Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel
Electromagnet - William Sturgeon, British Scientist
Fax Machine - Alexander Bain British Inventor
Holography - Dennis Gábor British Inventor
Optical Computer Bristol University UK Sept 2009
Internal Combustion Engine - Samuel Brown, British Engineer and Inventor
Geostationary satellite feasibility was another British first, A C Clarke who died recently
Jet Engine British (Whittle)
Radio (Underlying Principles) - James Clerk Maxwell Very famous British scientist
Thermos - Sir James Dewar, British inventor
Evolution theory Darwin British
Vacuum Cleaner - Hubert Cecil Booth, British Inventor (Not Hoover)
Body scanner British
Radar British WW2
Train first train self propelled British (Stephenson)
Steam Engine British 3 British
Inventors: Thomas Savery, Thomas Newcomen, James Watt
1803 John Dalton's atomic theory was the forerunner of all modern medicine. Manchester UK
1805 The first gas street lighting illuminated part of Chapel Street in Salford, along with the Philips and Lee factory.Manchester UK
1880 The first mechanically powered submarine was launched to the designs of eccentric Hulme curate, the Reverend George Garrett.Manchester UK
George Stephenson Rocket Steam Engone
Robert Stephenson , First Box Girder Bridge
Propelling pencil . Sampson Mordan.UK associate of Michael Faraday
http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/wiki/S._Mor…
Scramjet semi orbital jet engine British
First Powered flight. John Stringfellow Attercliffe, Sheffield, England
Cat Eyes British Percy Shaw
Float Glass and self cleaning glass, Pilkington UK
First successful two-stroke engine was invented by Sir Dougald Clerk.British
Periodic Table British
British chemist, John Newlands
The "Seismometer"British James Forbes
Englishmen, Sir Henry Bessemer (1813-1898) invented the first process for mass-producing steel
Spinning Jenny - James Hargreaves
Modern Seismograph
John Milne was the English seismologist and geologist who invented the first modern seismograph and promoted the building of seismological stations. In 1880, Sir James Alfred Ewing, Thomas Gray and John Milne, all British scientists working in Japan, began to study earthquakes. They founded the Seismological Society of Japan and the society funded the invention of seismographs. Milne invented the horizontal pendulum seismograph in 1880.
Sir Isaac Newton ( British ) was the inventor of the Universal Law of Gravity
Michael Faraday (British 1791 - 1867) invented both the electrical generator and the electric motor,
John Logie Baird (1888 - 1946) is immortalised for his invention of Television (1926) but also worked on early developments in radar and fibre optics (1924/5).
Hovercraft British Sir Christopher Cockerell (1910 - 1999) - 1959
Linear induction motor - Eric Laithwite (British 1921-1997) - early 1960s
Pedal cycle ....Kirkpatrick MacMillan- British -invented the pedal cycle 1839
Penicillin--Alexander Fleming - 1928
Holography 1947...Dennis Gabon -- British
Torpedo http://www.weymouthdiving.co.uk/torpedoe…
DNA Profiling.Prof Sir Alec Jeffreys,The inventor of DNA finger printing was named as the Great Briton of 2006 at a ceremony at London's Guildhall.
1919 Ernest Rutherford discovered how to split the atom at Manchester University UK .
2009......James Dyson has launched a bladeless fan
2009 Cancer Genome Sequence break through British scientists
http://www.sanger.ac.uk/genetics/CGP/
Harrier Jump Jet, one of my British invented favourites ,I met one of the designers, he lived over the road to me
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrier_Jum…
The above is not a complete list by any means and represents a fraction of British inventions
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CQ Please explain why you mentioned Ian Brady? I suspect you are a recent immigrant to the UK, only envy would motivate a person to suggest Ian Brady as a great Britain
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