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"Britain Invented Most Things Worth Inventing"
- Thread starter Herr Tubthumper
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John Logie Baird perfected a system that used mechanical scanning. This system was not efficient and the Marconi Cathode Ray electronic scanning system from the US was the preferred system and used until fairly recently. There was no clash of patents as the systems were entirely different.
Bwian
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- Jul 14, 2003
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Not to mention the CJTC
Colossal Squid
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The Birdman
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Bouncing bomb , Yorkshire pudd, marbles championship
I think Johan of Gutenberg would have something to say about that
That's not a clear cut one. Certainly Bell is credited as the inventor but he built on the work of an Italian called Meucci (sp?). Bell was undoubtedly the more astute businessman and could commercially exploit the invention but it's not right to say he was the sole inventor.
It's a bit like the computer: who's the inventor? Babbage? Zuse? Turing? Flowers? Von Neumann? The device had many fathers
Bwian
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- Jul 14, 2003
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We made it our own before censorship intervened...doesn't that count then?
Lord Bracknell
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... and many users who spill their man-seed in front of one.
By coincidence I visited Derwent Dam today where they tested them!
Jim Van Winkle
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What about the
or otherwise known as the Uncle Spielberg. Can NSC lay claim to that?Cue 6 pages of US claiming I am cyber bullying him.
pastafarian
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Johan of Gutenberg has been dead some 500 years, so he can't argue about it........ but yes, you're right. I stand corrected.
half time scores
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The Lawnmower.
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Radar
What about the
Cue 6 pages of US claiming I am cyber bullying him.
Is this the flouncing bomb?
Naah..I vote for the apple crumble. My Mum made a cracker.
Well the Mirror may claim that Robbie savage is like Marmite, but since he forecast two days ago that Palace would finish last in the Premiership I reckons he's more Veggy-mite in his head.
jakarta
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Upkeep, Tallboy and Grand Slam - and all by the same man!
Bevendean Hillbilly
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Cricket? I thought this was derived from the original French Croquet where you tried to stop the ball going through the "wicket" which was a little goal, with a stick? I might have dreamt that.
Or taken drugs.
The steam engine (static) was British (Newcomen, Watt etc) but I think the first application to a vehicle of any kind was by a Frenchman called Cugnot. Unfortunately the French roads weren't up to a boiler perilously balanced on a wagon withe some kind of primitive drive mechanism.
Even that applied to early British steam locomotives was decidedly iffy. I once had a ride at Isfield behind the "Rocket" replica. You could see the whole loco "shoulder" along. Pretty soon they dropped the cylinders to where they remain on what's left of the original *Rocket" in the Science Museum.
Even that applied to early British steam locomotives was decidedly iffy. I once had a ride at Isfield behind the "Rocket" replica. You could see the whole loco "shoulder" along. Pretty soon they dropped the cylinders to where they remain on what's left of the original *Rocket" in the Science Museum.