"Britain Invented Most Things Worth Inventing"

[Herr Tubthumper]

Marmite
Piccalilli
Scotch Eggs
Steak and Kidney Pie
Worcestershire Sauce
Yorkshire Pudding
Bubble and Squeak
Branston Pickle
Cornish Pasty

 

[the wanderbus]

Champagne socialist's oh and Dyson Hoovers.

Dyson and Hoover are both brand names for vacuum cleaners.....I think, I know they're things that women use to annoy men who are watching the football on T.V.


Tarmac

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Can we include the greatest invention of all time the Apple ipod? That English guy was a key member of the team which designed it.

 

[seagully]

Scotch eggs

 

[Coach_Carter_92]

Toothbrush, telescope(?), light bulb.

 

[beorhthelm]

Correct. Invented by US Army/Navy.

to split hairs, strictly speaking it was DARPA, ok US defence departmartment but seperate from the pointy end people.

Can we include the greatest invention of all time the Apple ipod? That English guy was a key member of the team which designed it.

no you cant. the ipod is hardly an "invention", its a design of mp3 player. Would be like saying Ford invented the motor car. whats overlooked and made a paradigm shift was iTunes.


add to the list the dynamo and electric transformer.

 

[Pinkie Brown]

The flush toilet as it is today, yes, but flushing toilets were around in the Roman times.

Tis true. Its often thought Thomas Crapper was the inventor of the modern day bog. He was merely the pioneer of the ballcock type cisterns we know today.

 

[Chicken Run]

I think the French might have something to say about the former.

Nope-Champagne socialist is a pejorative political term originating in the United Kingdom.[1][2] The phrase is used to describe self-identified socialists whose comfortable upper middle class lifestyles are perceived to be incompatible with their professed political convictions.

For France see "Gauche caviar"

 

[Bakero]

Hovercraft computers jump jet just few

The comma.

 

[seagully]

The comma.

 

[Bwian]

Although it is from the Greek term Sarkasmos. Although I am sure you are an linguistic expert and know best.

(See what I did there)

Yes, we saw.

 

[Bwian]

Emigration, quickly followed by moaning about immigration and immigrants.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Scalping - we started it.

The Printing Press - Caxton.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Toothbrush, telescope(?), light bulb.

I thought Galileo invented the telescope, but it goes back before him to the Dutch - Thomas Lippershay(?)

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

vertical take off and landing

Having worked in the Aircraft Industry at one point, most Americans think they invented VTOL with the McDonnell Douglas Jump-Jet - BUT OF COURSE THEY ARE WRONG!

 

[desprateseagull]

Did we really invent the television like Cameron said?

Some Italian bloke, I believe, but John Bogie Laird got in first with the patent application..

 

[Colossal Squid]

Has nobody mentioned the telephone?

 

[Coach_Carter_92]

Might be some variation on the telescope then, i'm sure a Brit was involved with something to do with it...

 

[Franks Wild Years]

Nope-Champagne socialist is a pejorative political term originating in the United Kingdom.[1][2] The phrase is used to describe self-identified socialists whose comfortable upper middle class lifestyles are perceived to be incompatible with their professed political convictions.

For France see "Gauche caviar"

I was joking.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

And don't forget the invention that NSC can claim for our very own ...

the Binfest.