Inventions & Inventors -- of your country?

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Inventions accredited to the little weird folk of the United Kingdom

 

Do you know any,for the country you live in ??

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CAT EYE

 

Halifax West Yorkshire England

 

Percy Shaw

 

In 1934, Percy Shaw patented Catseye road studs. Catseyes are the road reflectors which help drivers see the road in the fog or at night. In 1947, British, Labor Junior Transport Minister Jim Callaghan introduced catseyes on British roads.

 

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s_eye_%28road%29

 

 

 

 

TIN CAN

 

British merchant Peter Durand made an impact on food preservation with his 1810 patenting of the tin can. In 1813, John Hall and Bryan Dorkin opened the first commercial canning factory in England. In 1846, Henry Evans invents a machine that can manufacture tin cans at a rate of sixty per hour. An significant increase over the previous rate of only six per hour.

 

 

ELECTRIC MOTOR

 

Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

British physicist and chemist, best known for his discoveries of electromagnetic induction and of the laws of electrolysis. His biggest breakthrough in electricity was his invention of the electric motor.

 

 

JET ENGINE

 

In 1928, RAF College Cranwell cadet [6]Frank Whittle formally submitted his ideas for a turbo-jet to his superiors. In October 1929 he developed his ideas further.[7] . On 16 January 1930 in England, Whittle submitted his first patent (granted in 1932). The patent showed a two-stage axial compressor feeding a single-sided centrifugal compressor. Practical axial compressors were made possible by ideas from A.A.Griffith in a seminal paper in 1926 ("An Aerodynamic Theory of Turbine Design"). Whittle would later concentrate on the simpler centrifugal compressor only, for a variety of practical reasons. Whittle had his first engine running in April 1937. It was liquid-fuelled, and included a self-contained fuel pump.

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_engine

 

 

 

 

The TANK

 

Tanks were first manufactured during World War I in an effort to break the bloody deadlock of trench warfare. The British Army was the first to field a vehicle that combined three key characteristics: mobility over barbed wire and rough terrain, armour to withstand small arms fire and shrapnel and the firepower required to suppress or destroy machine gun nests and pillboxes.

 

 

 

 

 

THE BOUNCING BOMB

 

A bouncing bomb is a bomb designed specifically to bounce to a target such as across water to avoid torpedo nets. Unlike skip bombing,[6] which uses conventional bombs as during the March 1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea, the British, Germans, and Soviets developed World War II bombs specifically for bouncing to targets and then exploding. The inventor of this technique was the brilliant British engineer Barnes Wallis. His Upkeep bouncing bomb was used in the May 1943 British Operation Chastise to bounce into dams and explode underwater with similar effect to the underground detonation of the earth quake bomb (e.g., Grand Slam bomb and Tallboy bomb), which he also invented.

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouncing_bomb

 

 

The telephone

 

Invented by Alexandra Graham Bell from Edinburgh in 1876.

 

 

 

Steam engine

 

In 1769 the Scotsman, James Watt (1736-1819), patented an improved version of the steam engine. This launched the Industrial Revolution.

 

 

The pedal cycle

The first treadle propelled bicycle was designed by Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan in 1839 (but failed to patent it!).

In 1888 Scottish veterinary surgeon, John B Dunlop added wire wheels, a metal frame and pneumatic tyres to give us the modern bicycle.

 

 

The electromagnet

 

In 1825, British inventor William Sturgeon (1783-1850) exhibited a device that laid the foundations for large-scale electronic communications: the electromagnet. Sturgeon displayed its power by lifting nine pounds with a seven-ounce piece of iron wrapped with wires through which the current of a single cell battery was sent.

[CSATerrorist]

Most of you may know that Eli Whitney invented the Cotton Gin which removed seeds from cotton quickly and more efficiently than by hand. But did you know that he also invented the concept for replaceable parts in weapons just prior the the War Between the States? When he brought it before the War Board they thought he was a genius.

[Athlon64~SPARTA~]

American inventers

 

Tommas jefferson= eletricty

 

Gattling= first machine gun

 

offenhouser= First Atomic Bomb

 

Eli Whitney= Cotton Gin And more importantly interchangeibilty of gun parts

 

Bell Corperation= Sound barrier

 

Kelly Johnson And the skunk works= Stealth

 

General electric=First electronic computer

 

Samual Morse= Morse code

 

Marconi = Wireless radio

 

3m corp=super glue.

 

Ampec corp. =Video tape machine

 

Verner von braun= x nazi, american=satern 5 rocket that took us to the moon.

 

Albert instine =thery of retelitivty e=emc2

 

The Wright brothers= First succesfull airplane

 

Henry Ford=The assembly line

Edited June 19, 2008 by Athlon64~SPARTA~

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McDonalds: coronary artery disease

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McDonalds: coronary artery disease

 

ROFL

 

The plastic/container for said McDonalds burger = very rich bastage (forget name but from USA)

[Xross]

 

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

Al Gore (March 9, 1999)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edit: Ooops.... I thought the humor was self evident

Edited June 30, 2008 by X-Wind~SPARTA~

[Athlon64~SPARTA~]

I think it was a military thing first.

[Sopris_EBDA]

For Scotland, don't forget penicillin was invented in 1928. a discovery by the British Alexander Fleming

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The Harrier Jump Jet

 

Drawn up in 1967 & brought to servive in 1969, they still make it and the U.S. Still buy them

A great vtol jet.