"Britain Invented Most Things Worth Inventing"

[Herr Tubthumper]

Come on then. Let's have the NSC definitive list of stuff we invented.

 

[seagully]

The tank

 

[Footsoldier]

Did we really invent the television like Cameron said?

 

[Seasider78]

Wind up radio

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

The tank

The French might have something to say about this.

 

[seagully]

Did we really invent the television like Cameron said?

Yep. Was invented in Hastings

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Wind up radio

I think "shock jocks" were a US invention?

 

[Footsoldier]

Yep. Was invented in Hastings

I really should study our history more. Am pleased

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Yep. Was invented in Hastings

Was it?

 

[seagully]

I really should study our history more. Am pleased

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/john_logie_baird_and_television.htm

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

WMD in Iraq

 

[Footsoldier]

WMD in Iraq

 

[Lord Bracknell]

The concertina.

And the concentration camp.

And cricket, cycling and curling.

And the corkscrew and Cumberland sausages.

 

[Colossal Squid]

The internet

 

[KZNSeagull]

Jet Engine
Boolean Algebra
The World Wide Web
and most importantly - Lime Cordial

 

[Giraffe]

Football, rugby, cricket

The steam engine

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Queuing

 

[The Birdman]

Hovercraft computers jump jet just few

 

[Chicken Run]

Champagne socialist's oh and Dyson Hoovers.

 

[KZNSeagull]

The Internal Combustion Engine