"Britain Invented Most Things Worth Inventing"

[Herr Tubthumper]

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

I thought it was a German student who patented the first tv?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Scalping - we started it.

Now you're just splitting hairs.

 

[El Presidente]

Attendance threads.

 

[Pevenseagull]

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

bonofee pie and lots of great swear words

 

[Pevenseagull]

Sadly we can't lay claim to that one.

You'd need to speak to Blade's scriptwriters

THIS ................. HArumf

 

[pastafarian]

bonofee pie and lots of great swear words

isnt Bonofee pie also a sussex invention?

w@nker is the greatest swear word in the English language,i love the way it re-invents itself ie Bus W@anker and Full Kit W@nker

 

[Bevendean Hillbilly]

isnt Bonofee pie also a sussex invention?

w@nker is the greatest swear word in the English language,i love the way it re-invents itself ie Bus W@anker and Full Kit W@nker

It is indeed. The Hungry Monk I believe.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

And the Artic Roll was invented in Eastbourne....but nobody has mentioned the great British invention....'Catseyes'...

 

[the slow norris]

Fzq

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

no you cant. the ipod is hardly an "invention", its a design of MP3 player .

Maybe not that Jonathan Ive at Apple, but what about "Kane Kramer is a British inventor and businessman. He is credited with the initial invention of the digital audio player, in 1979."

 

[melias shoes]

Jet engine
Hovercraft
Light bulb
Steam engine

 

[W.C.]

And the Artic Roll was invented in Eastbourne....but nobody has mentioned the great British invention....'Catseyes'...

 

[beorhthelm]

Maybe not that Jonathan Ive at Apple, but what about "Kane Kramer is a British inventor and businessman. He is credited with the initial invention of the digital audio player, in 1979."

absolutly, and i didnt know about him before.

 

[wardy wonder land]

Port
Gin
Porter ale
Tin cans
Sense of fair play
Plantations
Milk in tea

 

[Mr Putdown]

Champagne

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Champagne

Yes. Brilliant shout.

 

[wardy wonder land]

Stilton
Mature cheddar
Decent bacon
Fish & chips
Pirates

 

[looney]

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

Would be difinitive if you included discovered as well as invented. Penacillin, Australia and Evolution.

 

[looney]

And the concentration camp.

Not true, the first where in North america where they liked to stuff the free range praire injuns.

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_camp

"The first concentration camps were found in the United States in 1838, when the Van Buren administration saw fit to remove the indigenous Cherokee population.

Camps were used in Cuba under Spain's "Reconcentrado" Policy 1896-97. Shortly after similar concentration camps were used by the British in the Second Boer War in South Africa around 1900."

 

[Pevenseagull]

It is indeed. The Hungry Monk I believe.

yep