Britains Greatest Invention

Jet engine .....so far

Sorry leopard , didn't spot your thread.

No probs......Antibiotics win

I thought we were overpopulated though ?

The Internet (if we can claim it)

We didn't invent the internet, arguably the WWW part of it but the internet itself was a US defence/academic thing.

I started watching this program but it was getting on my nerves so switched to brooklyn nine nine.
Not sure you could say we invented jet engine as such either, Germans were developing them in parallel.
Not detracting from whittle who was obviously a genius and didnt copy their work!
(and then AFAIK we gave the research to the yanks then a ***ing labour government gave them to the russians who used copies of our designs in Migs...)

Did it include the thoroughbred?

Odd how in the French-speaking world it's called le pur-sang anglais, in the German-speaking world das englische Vollblut, and so on. Yet in the country which invented this astonishing animal it's called simply the thoroughbred.

What is the definition of an invention?

Were Antibiotics invented, or did they already exist but were developed?

English invented the world wide web, American's invented the internet, the English developed the first programmable computer on which their both used.

sfb, Thank God for the Arabian, Barb, and Turk.

With the growth of resistance to antibiotics they may have to review this result in the future.

I thought it was the push up bra!

boxingthefox: Thank goodness the Lords Byerly, Darley and Godolphin had the sense to breed those Middle Eastern imports to British mares with speed, precocity and balance. And then to choose a trial as testing and daunting as Epsom as 3yos to be the benchmark for sorting out the next generation.

I wouldn't fancy having to bet on those pure-bred Arabian races they sometimes stick on the start of cards: ungenuine ponies stumbling all over the course with their heads in the air.

I wonder how much further the breeding process go before a horses legs snap in a fierce wind.