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What are some innovations that were created in England?

Was England responsible for any major or minor innovations? If So, what were they?

Public Comments

1. The TRain Engine fo one, also the herrieri jet
2. Hmm, let's see and in no particular order: Steam engines, Light bulbs (check out Joseph Swan, he invented it before Edison) Football Rugby Cricket Tennis Hockey (field) Polo Computer - mechanical & programmable Bessemer process Hovercraft Hydrofoil Machine gun Disc brakes Tank Vacuum cleaner Submarine Jet Engine Fire extinguisher Police force Microphone Internet Magnifying glass Clockwork radio Magna Carta Bill of Rights Stainless Steel Baseball Plate glass Tincan Sticking tape Electric motor and the flush toilet There are countless others See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:English_inventions http://madeupinbritain.camio.co.uk/index.php?title=Sport
3. 1764 James Hargreves invents the Spinning Jenny 1769 James Watt patents the steam engine 1775 Alexander Cumming of Bond Street, London, patents the water-closet 1779 Samuel Crompton perfects the spinning mule 1781 james Watt perfectss his steam-engine, using a cog-wheel to give it a rotary movement 1783 Henry Cort perfects a method for 'puddling' iron 1785 Edmund Cartwright invents power loom for weaving 1796 Edward Jenner discovers vaccine against smallpox from cows 1801 Steam-carriage of Richard Trevithick carries road passengers at Camborne, Cornwall 1802 the world's first steam-vessel, the Charlotte dundas, a wooden ship with a single paddle-wheel, designed by William Symington, covers 20 miles of the Forth and Clyde canal with lighters in tow 1803 Henry Shrapnell perfects his exploding shell, first fired on the French in 1808 1804 Trevithick demonstrates steam-locomotive in Glamorgan 1806 Humphrey Davy uses electronics to issolate sodium and potassium Ralph Wedgewood pioneers 'ink paper' (carbon) 1812 Henry Bell installs single-cylinder steam engine in his vesssel, Comet, and begins passenger and cargo steamship service on the river Clyde 1813 Smooth-wheeled steam locomotive Puffing Billy invented by William Hedley, hauls wagons at Wylam colliery, Durham 1814 geroge Stephenson's My Lord, a steam locomotive, hauls carts at 6 mph Steam press first used to print The Times 1815 Sir humprhey Davy invents miner's safety lamp 1817 Gas used to light Covent Garden Theatre 1829 Rainhill Locomotive Speed Trials, at Liverpool, won by Stephenson's Rocket at 29 mph. 1831 Michael Faraday's experiments discover electromagnetic current 1834 Charles Babbage designs 'analytical engine' a digital computer, proves too complex to manufacture Pedal tricycle invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan, blacksmith 1837 Charles Wheatstone and William Cooke patent the electric telegraph 1838 William Fox Talbot experiments with photographic prints on silver chloride paper 1839 kirkpatrick Macmillan perfects pedal bicycle 1843 Isambard Brunel's Great Britain launched, first screw-propelled iron transatlantic liner 1849 Robert Stephenson builds cast-iron bridge over Tyne at Newcastle 1852 James Joseph Sylvester develops the theory of calculus 1855 Henry Bessemer patents a process for turning molten pig-iron nto ssteel 1860 Joseph Swan invents electric lamp 1864 J. Swan patents carbon process for photographic printing James Slater patents driving chain for textile industry, later developed for bicycles 1865 Benjamin Maugham patents first gas-fired geyser boiler for domestic use 1867 Joseph Lister introduces an antiseptic system based on phenol 1872 William Thompson perfects Kelvin sounding machine for determining depth of the sea 1873 William Crookes first observes cathode rays 188 John boyd Dunlop patents a pneumatic tyre 1890 First electric power station is construced, at Deptford, south east London 1896 Queen Victoria and Tsar's family filmed at Balmoral by William Downey in first roaly moving cinematograph photographs 1898 John Philip Holland builds first succesful submarine for royal navy 1904 F G Heath patents hydraulic braking system for motor vehicles 1911 first electric escalators, Earl's Court underground station, London 1912 Charles Belling perfects an electric cooker with wired fierclay elements 1913 Frederick Soddy discovers and names the isotope 1915 First plastic surgery ward opens, aldersshot 1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicilin John Logie Baird successful experiments with colour television 1937 Frank Whittle shows effectiveness of jet engine, in demonstrations on the ground
4. ok here we go. the concorde Formula 1 racing the light bulb penicillin almost every sport apart from american ones the steam train industrial revolution hugh laurie america australia new zealand etc...