Britains Greatest Invention

Tv ?
phone?

Penicillin surely.

BTW 99% certain that whatever it is a Scot will be involved.

rain - we stay in and invent.

mexico has little invention? too bloody hot.

Sliced bread

Glasses - the world would be full of Mr Magoos without them

World Wide Web
light bulb

The Beautiful Game   

Reflecting telescope: Isaac Newton, 1668
Seed drill: Jethro Tull, 1701
Marine chronometer: John Harrison, 1761
Spinning frame: Richard Arkwright, 1768
Toothbrush: William Addis, c. 1770
Soda water: Joseph Priestley, 1772
Hydraulic press: Joseph Bramah, 1795
Steam engine: Richard Trevithick, 1801
Glider: George Cayley, 1804
Tension-spoked wheel: George Cayley, 1808
Tin can: Peter Durand, 1810
Modern fire extinguisher: George William Manby, 1818
Electric motor: Michael Faraday, 1821
Waterproof material: Charles Macintosh, 1823
Cement: Joseph Aspdin, 1824
Passenger railway: George Stephenson, 1825
Lawnmower: Edwin Beard Budding, 1827
Photography: William Henry Fox Talbot, 1835
Electric telegraph: Charles Wheatstone & William Cooke, 1837
Chocolate bar: JS Fry & Sons, 1847
Hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood, 1853
Synthetic dye: William Perkin, 1856
Bessemer process: Henry Bessemer, 1856
Linoleum: Frederick Walton, 1860
Sewage system: Joseph Bazalgette, 1865
Modern Torpedo: Robert Whitehead, 1866
Telephone: Alexander Graham Bell, 1876
Light Bulb: Joseph Swan, 1880
Steam turbine: Charles Parsons, 1884
Safety bicycle: John Kemp Stanley, 1885
Pneumatic tyre: John Boyd Dunlop, 1887
Thermos flask: Sir James Dewar, 1892
Electric vacuum cleaner: Hubert Cecil Booth, 1901
Disc Brakes: Frederick William Lanchester, 1902
Stainless Steel: Harry Brearley, 1913
Military tank: Ernest Swinton, 1914
Television: John Logie Baird, 1925
Catseye: Percy Shaw, 1933
Jet Engine: Frank Whittle, 1937
Electronic programmable computer: Tommy Flowers, 1943
Hovercraft: Christopher Cockerell, 1953
Automatic kettle: Peter Hobbs, 1955
Float Glass: Alastair Pilkington, 1959
Hip Replacement: John Charnley, 1962
Carbon fibre: Royal Aircraft Establishment engineers, 1963
Collapsible baby buggy: Owen Maclaren, 1965
ATM: John Shepherd-Barron, 1967
World Wide Web: Tim Berners-Lee, 1989
Wind-up radio: Trevor Baylis, 1991
Steri-spray: Ian Helmore, c. 2008

The Venetian Blind - because ...

But for the Venetian Blind - it would be Curtains for all of us.

claymore

Not bad onlooker. Got me laughing.

The ' Darkies Walloper' nothing comes close.

Got to be the railways,it opened up the world and has allowed us plebs to travel and benefit from trade between countries and communities all over the world.

Nah, Sinclair C5 by miles.

Spectrum a close second.

creme eggs

Zorro, you are the master.

Food wise it must be chips.
Closely followed by chippie sauce.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Lived on chips as a student and never got fed up with them.

spoken like a true Scotsman aka

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SH..Sewage system: Joseph Bazalgette, 1865

The Ancient Romans had this covered 2000 years before Mr Bazalgette.
http://quatr.us/romans/science/sewage.htm

computer

As said above
The beautiful game ... and excuses

Jun 16, 2017 -- 3:06PM, treetop wrote:

Got to be the railways,it opened up the world and has allowed us plebs to travel and benefit from trade between countries and communities all over the world.

very good

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