So what is the greatest British invention? There is a new BBC2 program I have just seen an advert for. Bloody hard list to pick from if you ask me.

Refrigerator
Stream engine
Antibiotics
Jet engine
Mobile phone
Television
Concrete

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Internet?

Posted 3 years ago

stream engine !!!!!

Posted 3 years ago

The Profanisauraus.
The Chav.
Austin Montego
Scotch Eggs
Sandals with socks

Posted 3 years ago

Your Mum.

Posted 3 years ago

Texting
Penicillin

Posted 3 years ago

???????

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Contraception

Posted 3 years ago

chitty chitty bang bang I would imagine, way beyond it’s time, saved the kidz as well from the child catcher, bonus. It had a stream engine I believe, that bit was kept a secret.

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Spangles

Posted 3 years ago

Right now in the 21st century – giving away our wealth, power and influence in a fit of stupidity!

+1 for the bicycle. although maybe I’m a little biased 🙂

Posted 3 years ago

I think the bicycle was invented by a German. So not really a British invention… 😀

Posted 3 years ago

Programmable computer.

Posted 3 years ago

I think the bicycle was invented by a German. So not really a British invention…

ok, best British invention: Nicking other countries’ ideas and resources and taking them as our own 🙂

Posted 3 years ago

Surely the programmable computer and the internet. Along with the jet engine, telephone and TV the most significant other nventions that enabled the modern world. Go team GB!

Posted 3 years ago

Rotating steam engine imo- so much else was built on that, and it’s basically the reason we led the world for so long.

Posted 3 years ago

Whitworth Thread?

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The weather.

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The proper pie, fully encased in short crust pastry. None of this flakey pastry nonsense or stew with a pastry or mashed spud lid masquerading as a Pie.

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First. The Watt Steam Engine which powered the Industrial Revolution, changed the world forever and meant that we could get around the surface of the planet without staring at the back end of a horse or waiting for the wind to blow.

Second. The Jet Engine which enabled mass international travel and a global economy.

Posted 3 years ago

Rum, sodomy and the lash

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Internet?

That was the yanks.
World Wide Web was Berners-Lee contribution.

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Concrete???? Thought that was the Romans.

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[img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_ekw0OWsAERgBa.jpg[/img]

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^^ like it ……. the picture represents British music ……March of Progess…..in reverse

Posted 3 years ago

ARM ISA.

Fits all the criteria – quietly changed the world, wildly undervalued.

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Concrete???? Thought that was the Romans.

No, what have they ever done for us?

Posted 3 years ago

Manchester’s greatest invention, surely.

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No, what have they ever done for us?

Well, sanitation, for a start.

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Well, sanitation, for a start.

ok, but apart from sanitation what have they ever done for us?

Posted 3 years ago

I’d add “the computer” to that list.

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the flushable toilet, obviously.

allowing millions of people to live in cites, without catastrophic outbreaks of ghastly diseases.

once you have cities that people can lead healthy lives in, the rest, all that good stuff above, is inevitable.

although i do like the Renishaw Revo: [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf2Kju__fDc[/video]

Posted 3 years ago

Had my bellyful of voting tbh.

Posted 3 years ago

Safety Bicycle

From the list, I’d say steam engine, followed by antibiotics (which weren’t originally “invented”).

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Well, sanitation, for a start.

ok, but apart from sanitation what have they ever done for us?[/quote]

Toga Parties..

Posted 3 years ago

British Human Rights Act.

Posted 3 years ago

The 3 plate method for creating true planes -Joseph Whitworth

Posted 3 years ago

What about our political system?

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