The British make the rest of the world look like cave-dwelling simpletons. Here is a sample of Britain's contribution to human civilisation:
The first navigable submarine - William Bourne The first commercial steam-powered device, a water pump - Thomas Savery The first steam engine - James Watt The first electrostatic motor - Andrew Gordon Modern economics - Adam Smith First arch bridge made of cast iron - Abraham Darby III Selective breeding and artificial selection - Robert Bakewell Vaccination - Edward Jenner Computing - Charles Babbage First incandescent light - Sir Humphry Davy Steam train - Richard Trevithick Percussion ignition, the foundation of modern firearms - Alexander John Forsyth Electromagnet - William Sturgeon Incandescent light bulb - James Bowman Lindsay Pedal bicycle - Kirkpatrick Macmillan. Electric clock - Alexander Bain Chemical fertiliser - John Bennet Lawes. First steam-powered, iron-hulled passenger liner - Isambard Kingdom Brunel Boolean algebra - George Boole Hypodermic syringe - Alexander Wood Steel alloy Traffic lights Telephone - ALexander Graham Bell Light bulb - Joseph Wilson Swan (yes, Swan beat Edison to it. They later merged to become Swan-Edison Co.) Classifying fingerprints in forensic science - Sir Francis Galton The Colossus computer, developed by British codebreakers Farm tractor - Dan Albone Electroluminescence, the principle behind LEDs - Henry Joseph Round The Royal Air Force was the first independent air force in the world TV - John Logie Baird makes the first public demonstration of a mechanical television on 26 January (the first successful transmissions were in early 1923 and February 1924). Later, in July 1928, he demonstrated the first colour television.
Jet engine - Sir Frank Whittle Cat's eye road marking - Percy Shaw The world's first public broadcasts of high-definition television are made from Alexandra Palace, North London, by the BBC Television Service. It is the first fully electronic television system to be used in regular broadcasting. Microprogramming - Maurice Wilkes Autocode, first compiled programming language - Alick Glennie. DNA - Englishman Francis Crick and American James Watson Atomic clock - Louis Essen First commercial transistor computer - Metropolitan-Vickers Carbon fibre - Royal Aircraft Establishment Lava lamp - Edward Craven Walker. Cash machine and personal identification number system - James Goodfellow. First handheld television - Sir Clive Sinclair. IVF - Steptoe and Edwards First laptop computer, the GRiD Compass - Bill Moggridge DNA profiling - Sir Alec Jeffreys World Wide Web, HTML, the hypertext language, and HTTP - Sir Tim Berners-Lee The first SMS message in the world is sent over the UK's GSM network. Animal cloning, a female domestic sheep became the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell, by scientists at the Roslin institute. Lever escapement, the greatest single improvement ever applied to pocket watches - Thomas Mudge Marine chronometer - John Harrison Self-winding watch - John Harwood Sewing machine - Thomas Saint The pencil Mechanical pencil - Sampson Mordan and John Isaac Hawkins in 1822. Clockwork radio - Trevor Baylis Radio - James Clerk Maxwell , David E. Hughes, William Eccles Electromagnetic induction - Michael Faraday LCD display - Team headed by Sir Brynmor Jones Typewriter - Henry Mill Fiber optics - Charles K. Kao and George Hockham The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark - James Chalmers Universal Standard Time - Sir Sandford Fleming Radar - Robert Watson-Watt ACE and Pilot ACE - Alan Turing ARM architecture - The ARM CPU design is the microprocessor architecture of 98% of mobile phones and every smartphone.
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First programmer - Ada Lovelace Argo system the world's first electrically powered mechanical analogue computer (also called at the Argo Clock) - Arthur Pollen Sumlock ANITA calculator the world's first all-electronic desktop calculator - Bell Punch Co Pocket calculator - Sir Clive Sinclair The first commercially successful portable computer, the precursor to the Laptop computer - Adam Osborne The Integrated Circuit - Geoffrey W.A. Dummer The first modern computer Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine - (SSEM), nicknamed Baby. Was the world's first stored-program computer - Frederic Calland Williams & Tom Kilburn Ferranti Mark 1 - Also known as the Manchester Electronic Computer was the first computer to use the principles of early CPU design (Central processing unit) - Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn - Also the world's first successful commercially available general-purpose electronic computer. The oldest known recordings of computer generated music were played by the Ferranti Mark 1 computer - Christopher Strachey The first graphical computer game OXO on the EDSAC at Cambridge University - A.S. Douglas Atlas Computer, the world's first supercomputer and was the fastest computer in the world until the release of the American CDC 6600 - Tom Kilburn MP3 Player - Kane Kramer Electric transformer - Michael Faraday First coke-consuming blast furnace - Abraham Darby I First compression ignition engine aka the Diesel Engine - Herbert Akroyd Stuart Hydrogen Fuel Cell - William Robert Grove Gas turbine - John Barber The world's first oil refinery and a process of extracting paraffin from coal laying the foundations for the modern oil industry - James Young Internal combustion engine - Samuel Brown Microchip - Geoffrey W.A. Dummer LED - H. J. Round Two-stroke engine - Joseph Day The electroscope - William Gilbert Hydraulic crane - William George Armstrong Supercharger - Dugald Clerk Wind tunnel - Francis Herbert Wenham Baby pram - William Kent
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Collapsible baby buggy - Owen Maclaren Dishwasher - William Howard Livens "Bagless" vacuum cleaner - James Dyson Fire extinguisher - George William Manby Lawn mower - Edwin Beard Budding Rubber band - Stephen Perry Tin can - Peter Durand Corkscrew - Reverend Samuell Henshall Mouse trap - James Henry Atkinson Modern flushing toilet - John Harington Electric toaster - Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton Magnifying glass - Roger Bacon Automatic electric kettle - Russell Hobbs Toothbrush - William Edward Addis Sunglasses - James Ayscough Refrigerator - William Cullen Can Opener - Robert Yeates Crucible steel - Benjamin Huntsman Plastic - Alexander Parkes Stainless steel - Harry Brearley First commercially successful manufacture of high quality flat glass - Alastair Pilkington First correct description of circulation of the blood - William Harvey Antiseptics in surgery - Joseph Lister First blood pressure measurement - Stephen Hales FIrst successful blood transfusion - James Blundell Stem cell transplant - John Raymond Hobbs Laughing gas - Humphry Davy First complete human anatomy - Henry Gray Discovered Parkinson's disease - James Parkinson[168] General anaesthetic - James Young Simpson and Jon Snow MRI Scanner - Sir Peter Mansfield First baby genetically selected to be free of a breast cancer - University College London Viagra - Peter Dunn, Albert Wood, Dr Nicholas Terrett Vitamins - Frederick Gowland Hopkins Hypnotism - James Braid Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria - Sir Ronald Ross Insulin - John J R Macleod Artificial kidney - Kenneth Lowe Beta-blocker drugs - Sir James W. Black Electrocardiography - Alexander Muirhead Penicillin - Sir Alexander Fleming Battle Tank/The tank - Ernest Dunlop Swinton Fighter aircraft - The Vickers F.B.5 Gunbus of 1914 was the first of its kind.
Ayden Martinez
Mashallah we appreciate it
Isaiah Rogers
I think Africans are. Aren't they? Aren't we all technical African?
Lincoln Stewart
VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing aircraft) Aircraft Carrier - HMS Argus Modern battleship - HMS Dreadnought Bouncing bomb - Barnes Wallis Nuclear fission chain reaction - Leo Szilard whilst crossing the road near Russell Square. The double barreled shotgun - Anson and Deeley Stun grenades - Invented by the SAS in the 1960s. Smokeless propellant to replace gunpowder with the use of Cordite - Frederick Abel Rubber bullet and Plastic bullet - Developed by the Ministry of Defence during The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Depth charge Torpedo - Robert Whitehead First sniper rifle - Sir Joseph Whitworth Sonar - Albert Beaumont Wood Machine gun - Sir Hiram Maxim, Although the Inventor is American, the Maxim gun was financed by Albert Vickers of Vickers Limited company and produced in Hatton Garden London Tuning fork - John Shore Stereoscope - Charles Wheatstone Thomas Wedgwood - pioneer of photography, devised the method to copy visible images chemically to permanent media. Dry plate process also known as gelatine process, is the first economically successful durable photographic medium - Richard Leach Maddox Kinemacolor was the first successful colour motion picture process, used commercially from 1908 to 1914 - George Albert Smith Cinematography - William Friese-Greene The first movie projector, the Zoopraxiscope - Eadweard Muybridge The first experimental film called "The Horse in Motion" in 1872 - Eadweard Muybridge Modern atomic theory - John Dalton Equals sign - Robert Recorde Discovery of the first cells - Robert Hooke Compound microscope with 30x magnification - Robert Hooke Calculus - Sir Isaac Newton Infrared radiation - William Herschel. Newtonian telescope - Sir Isaac Newton Hawking radiation - Stephen Hawking Electrical energy - James Prescott Joule Micrometer - William Gascoigne Gravity - Sir Isaac Newton Newton's laws of motion - Sir Isaac Newton
Hunter Thomas
The (((British)))
Jaxon Green
Helium - Norman Lockyer Periodic Table - John Alexander Reina Newlands Splitting the atom - John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton First full-scale commercial Nuclear Reactor at Calder Hall, opened in 1956 Seismograph - John Milne Discovery of oxygen gas - Joseph Priestley Discovery of the atom - Ernest Rutherford Theory of Evolution - Charles Darwin Discovery of Proxima Centauri, the closest known star to the Sun - Robert Innes Discovery of the planet Uranus - Sir William Herschel Predicts the existence and location of Neptune from irregularities in the orbit of Uranus - John Couch Adams 'Big Bang' theory - Fred Hoyle First theorised existence of black holes, binary stars; invented torsion balance - John Michell Spiral galaxies - William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse Gene-splicing - Richard J. Roberts Buckminsterfullerene - Sir Harry Kroto Thallium - William Crookes Hydrogen - Henry Cavendish Atomic number to fix inadequacies of Mendeleev's periodic table, which had been based on atomic weight - Henry Moseley Sodium - Humphry Davy Potassium - Humphry Davy Boron - Humphry Davy Hydrocarbons - Michael Faraday Aluminium - Sir Humphry Davy Football Rugby Cricket Tennis Golf Billiards Badminton Darts Table-Tennis Snooker Hockey Netball Rounders Thoroughbred Horseracing Polo
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The kelvin SI unit of temperature - William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Chemical bonds - Alexander Crum Brown The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay The Cloud chamber - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson The ultrasound scanner - Ian Donald Linoleum - Frederick Walton Chocolate bar - J. S. Fry & Sons Crossword puzzle - Arthur Wynne Gas mask - John Tyndall Carbonated soft drink - Joseph Priestley Earliest known concept of a Metric system - John Wilkins Prime meridian - George Biddell Airy Vulcanisation of rubber - Thomas Hancock Silicone - Frederick Kipping Second largest number of Nobel laureates after our colony, USA (who just import their scientists from UK, Germany and Russia anyway)
And much, much more.
Anthony Reed
British contribution = jewry
Alexander Wright
Why am I told that vaccination was invented by niggers then? Beyond just Jew lies, is there any truth to it?
Jose Fisher
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Samuel Evans
you forgot about how they perfected spreading negros all over the world and bad teeth.
Henry Evans
Edward Jenner formulated the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine.
Edward Jenner was, so far as I can tell, not a nigger.
Jayden Johnson
UK banned the slave trade about 60 years before the USA.
Robert Robinson
>Chemical fertiliser - John Bennet Lawes.
I'm pretty sure that was Fritz Haber
Cooper Morales
jenner saw how milk maids would catch cowpox from milking cows and would never catch smallpox (which was wreaking havoc at the time) and put two and two together, and began purposely infecting the population with cowpox before they could be exposed to smallpox to allow the body to grow an immunity to the smallpox virus, no blacks involved.
Jack Wilson
>Britain's contribution to human civilisation Stopped reading here
Andrew Nelson
Sir John Bennet Lawes, 1st Baronet, FRS (28 December 1814 – 31 August 1900) was an English entrepreneur and agricultural scientist.
He founded an experimental farm at his home at Rothamsted Manor that eventually became the Rothamsted Experimental Station, where he developed a superphosphate that would mark the beginnings of the chemical fertilizer industry.
Aaron Murphy
yeah but they shipped slaves for 300 years so and only abolished slavery when they had no more use for them, so....
Ryder Barnes
ah, the eternal finn.
'REEEEEEEEE'!
Zachary Wilson
As did Portugal, France, Spain, the Dutch, the USA.....
Oh yeah that's right, the British INVENTED SLAVERY
HURRR!
Daniel Wright
this thread isnt about the rest of europe, m8.
Colton Ramirez
BTW it was only 200 years.
Camden Miller
Saw a list of top 50 British inventions on the telegraph a few years back. Was ashamed id never heard or been taught about all the inventors and their creations.
David Perez
Oh and the answer is we're closer to god than other races, hence the current war by certain groups.
Ian Anderson
it was 245 if you want to be autistic, m8.
Luis Powell
Yes, we are taught about Mendeleev at school but not John Newlands or Henry Moseley.
Newlands was the first person to devise a periodic table of chemical elements arranged in order of their relative atomic masses, not Mendeleev.
Landon Cook
Brit fags invented beans on bread for breakfast.
Colton Mitchell
I would think that it's because of all the outside influences. You weren't very innovative when the Romans found you.
Landon Johnson
>all these butthurt foreigners good job OP
Tyler Thompson
>we do civilisation better than the people we learned it from >MUH ROMANS!!!!1 typical spaghettinigger mutt.
Jack Ramirez
As usual, the Ameritard isn't fully conversant with reality.
Easton Stewart
wtf I love the British now
Robert Baker
If only we had kept those inventions for ourselves. How strong we would be while the rest struggle to escape sickness and death.
Lincoln Stewart
>Electric clock - Alexander Bain Slow down there Nigel!
Owen Anderson
How can Non Anglos even compete?
Zachary Barnes
>Why are the British the most innovative race in the world?
If you were stuck on a tiny, rainy island, slowly getting invaded by shitskins, you'd want to invent ways to improve your situation too.
Brayden Bennett
This is deluded. Check out wilberforce
Parker Sullivan
John Hanning Speke Discovered the source of the Nile.
Nathaniel Lopez
Anglo supremacy confirmed.
Shame the ((((politicians)))) keep fucking us.
Blake Young
>be on island for 2000 years >get bored >build awesome shit
William Perry
True, I didn't even touch on explorers, adventurers, pioneers of empire etc.
Thomas Mitchell
Bretty gud to be honest. Based bongs
Jeremiah Richardson
>be on island for 2000 years >get bored >build awesome shit >get totally bored >import explosive sandcoons to spice things up
Nicholas Turner
And what good did any of it do you?
Cameron Miller
>be on island for 2000 years >get bored >build awesome shit >conquer world with awesome shit >leave people in a frozen wasteland >they get bored >import academic chinamen to spice things up
Luis Nguyen
and the amerjews with their shekels saved your ass ww2.
Connor Bell
Biggest mistake in history imo. We should've sided with you in WW1
Angel Thompson
Mostly ensuring that a good portion of first world nations are of the same heritage giving us a lot of natural allies. Its impressive how relevant we still are considering we have no empire anymore and are so tiny.
But yea it’s all going to shit, same for the entire west though.
Ryan Lopez
It did the world inestimable good, that's the point.
The modern world is formed in the British image. Language, sports, commerce, industry, parliamentary democracy, literature, popular music - even the business suits worn by the Chinese premier are British.
but yeah muslims and africans can fuck off.
the one thing Britain does WORSE than any other country in the world bar perhaps Sweden is politics.
Nolan Hall
If Hitler had won, Europe would be free of Muslims but USA would still be infested with negroes.
Hudson Davis
The worst thing we did by FAR was bringing civilisation and irrigation to literal hunter gatherer tribes in Places like Africa, the population explosion it has caused will be the end of all of us.
Easton Roberts
True. But if we sided with Hitler we might have taken notes and sent em all back to Africa. Wishful thinking I guess
Matthew Turner
>be on island for 2000 years >get bored >build awesome shit >conquer world with awesome shit >leave criminals in arid hellhole >build cities and shitpost on your internet just to spite you Well something went right
Justin Jones
And cooking. There's more ways to prepare a meal than boiled or burnt.
Lincoln Morris
Oh really, professor.
Britain was secure from invasion, thanks to the English Channel, the Royal Navy and the RAF.
We beat Italy in North Africa in 1940 and beat the Germans for air superiority in the Battle of Britain in 1940.
Hitler by his own admission was a 'coward at sea'. The Royal Navy would have sank any invasion force.
Sebastian Kelly
truly the power of the anglo, how are things over there in quebec?
Aiden Cooper
D U N K I R K U N K I R K
Brody Howard
Yeah, the royal navy with their American built ships.
Alexander Nguyen
I refuse to be lectured on food by an American, inventors of... spray-on cheese.
British food is the best in the world. Chiinese, India, Italy, France... all invented rich sauces to disguise the fact they were eating cat, rat or spoiled meat
British husbandry was historically the best in the world, hence no need to disguise the meat.
Jackson Davis
It's because the British had a strict death penalty that killed off the shittiest 1.7% of people every year, an economic system that allowed the (more intelligent) upper classes to reproduce more, and a strict code of sexual conduct where single mothers had their children taken from them and were shunned from the rest of society. These things gradually raised the intelligence of the population.
Tl;dr: kill criminals + have the smart people reproduce + and don't enable roasties = solid eugenics program
Charles Adams
The bombe was probably more influential than any of that
Thomas Lopez
None of this is even remotely true.
Christian Turner
Because life in Britain is really boring
Kayden Cooper
What about Dunkirk? The French surrendered so we got our army safely back home.
The evacuation was a total success.
In the same year we destroyed the Italians in North Africa.
Jason Price
>Hitler by his own admission was a 'coward at sea'.
Yeah because he didn't have a navy.
It's not very impressive when your navy defeats another navy that doesn't exist.
Angel Garcia
Even then, a good chuck of American inventors were ethnically British.
And an even bigger chunk Germanic.
Noah Stewart
Dont forget we also invented gayness
Sebastian Jenkins
>how are things over there in quebec Better than the rest of us on the mudslime front, they just tabled a law to ban provincial workers such as doctors, nurses, teachers and daycare workers from wearing a niqab, burka or any other face covering while delivering services. >People would also be required to uncover their faces while receiving those services The liberals and SJWs including Trudeau are throwing a fit, so for once I'd say good for the frenchies
Landon Edwards
At the mercy of Hitler. Had he given the order, your army would've been crushed during the evacuation. He waited three days so you could get out because he had a boner for bongland
Jaxon Barnes
The only US built ships in the RN were the 50 provided in 1941 under the Ships for Bases Agreement. We already had almost 200 destroyers alone.
The Royal Navy, still the largest in the world in September 1939, included:
15 Battleships & battlecruisers, of which only two were post-World War 1. Five 'King George V' class battleships were building.
7 Aircraft carriers. One was new and five of the planned six fleet carriers were under construction. There were no escort carriers.
66 Cruisers, mainly post-World War 1 with some older ships converted for AA duties. Including cruiser-minelayers, 23 new ones had been laid down.
184 Destroyers of all types. Over half were modern, with 15 of the old 'V' and 'W' classes modified as escorts. Under construction or on order were 32 fleet destroyers and 20 escort types of the 'Hunt' class.
60 Submarines, mainly modern with nine building.
45 escort and patrol vessels with nine building, and the first 56 'Flower' class corvettes on order to add to the converted 'V' and 'W's' and 'Hunts'. However, there were few fast, long-endurance convoy escorts.
This doesnt include the ships of our commonwealth navies.
Nolan Martin
>British food is the best in the world I guess if you have rotten teeth and need to eat oatmeal and soft boiled eggs it might seem ok. Spray cheese is a vital component in a Philly cheese steak. Fucking delicious and affordable. Not having enough land to raise cattle you probably wouldn't know the nutritious deliciousness of red meat.
Jeremiah Reyes
Can’t help it if our enemies don’t want to destroy us m8.
Carter Richardson
Anyone with iq over 80 knows that Germans made the most breakthroughs in science and maths. Brits don't even come close.
Liam Torres
>hides flag
Ryan Carter
'REEEEEEEEEE'!
oh yeah of course it's not! America invented everything! haha - oh wait, they merely were standing on the shoulders of giants.
Butthurt yank.
Levi Peterson
Do you know why Germany had a tiny navy in WWII?
Because Britain sank it in WWI
Elijah Howard
Are you hiding an American flag?
Cooper Martinez
Checked. But I wouldn't consider Dunkirk a victory.
Gavin Morales
By mistake. I'm not German.
Adrian Morris
*after WWII
Zachary Davis
Christ and antichrist, and all in between, all love mother England
mfw Angus, Highland, Hereford and Shorthorn are all British breeds and the worlds most commonly bred.
The bad teeth thing is a meme, you understand, invented by hollywood in the 40s and 50s when the craze for orthodontics took off. it is no longer a reflection of reality.
Luis Morgan
No - I'm British to my bootstraps.
Jose Johnson
Oh but of course you;re Irish
we call the hammer an 'irish screwdriver' for a reason, you know.
Japanese study showed 54% of the worlds most important inventions were British.
Jaxon Robinson
>Isambard Kingdom Brunel that's one weird fucking name
I remember being totally confused the first time I heard of him
Kayden Barnes
"Japanese study" Wow I'm convinced now.
Julian Foster
Do you have a lot of cattle in jolly old England or do your royal landlords prefer to use their vast estates for fox hunts? Speaking of memes, nice flag.
Josiah Williams
It's in the Brits blood to conquer and innovate the world. Well, until the Jews got into power in the UK.
Julian Reyes
the fuck up was sending an army to help france in the first place.
the operation was to ecavuate the expeditionary force
in that respect it was a huge success.
it can be termed neither victory nor defeat, becasue it wasnt a battle, it was an evacuation
Chase Hernandez
I can tell by the thoroughly British flag you're posting with
Owen Ross
why do you think Im an American?
Tyler Anderson
>The first navigable submarine - William Bourne But not the first submarine? >The first commercial steam-powered device, a water pump - Thomas Savery Not the first "uncommercial" steam-powered device though? >The first steam engine - James Watt Not the first engine though? >The first electrostatic motor - Andrew Gordon Not the first motor though? >Modern economics - Adam Smith Not economics though? >First arch bridge made of cast iron - Abraham Darby III Not the first arch bridge though? >Selective breeding and artificial selection - Robert Bakewell Not breeding though? >Vaccination - Edward Jenner Thanks for the autism. >Computing - Charles Babbage Ok >First incandescent light - Sir Humphry Davy Not the first light? >Steam train - Richard Trevithick Not the first train though? >Percussion ignition, the foundation of modern firearms - Alexander John Forsyth Not the first firearms though? >Electromagnet - William Sturgeon Not the first magnet though? >Incandescent light bulb - James Bowman Lindsay Ok... >Pedal bicycle - Kirkpatrick Macmillan. Not the first bicycle though? >Electric clock - Alexander Bain Not the first clock though? >Chemical fertiliser - John Bennet Lawes. Not the first fertiliser though? >First steam-powered, iron-hulled passenger liner - Isambard Kingdom Brunel Not the first non- steam-powered, iron-hulled passenger liner though? >Boolean algebra - George Boole Nice contribution to an already well understood field. >Hypodermic syringe - Alexander Wood Not the first syringe though? >Steel alloy Not the first alloy though? >Traffic lights Ok. >Telephone - ALexander Graham Bell Not first instant communication device though? >Light bulb - Joseph Wilson Swan (yes, Swan beat Edison to it. They later merged to become Swan-Edison Co.) Sure :^) >The Colossus computer, developed by British codebreakers Not the first computer?
Considering your high population throughout history, you did far less than expected. kys