>Just to demonstrate how easy this when you're British I'm going to add a ton more off the top of my head
George Stephenson - Inventor of the steam locomotive, made industrial capitalism possible, changd the world, considered greater than Brunel in his own time, thanks to him railways totally transformed the world
JJ Thompson - Not much, he just scientifically discovered the atom, making atomic physics possible and making the modern world possible
Charles Lyell - Invented modern geology, thanks to his work we have things such as plate tectonic theory and continential drift, instead of believing the world was fixed in it's current shape since forever, like some sort of savage.
Michael Faraday - Discovered electro-magnetism and the magnetic field, totally revolutionalised modern science, changed the world for as long as it exists
Titus Salt - Pioneer industrialist, built the world's first super-factories in the 19th century (at a time when your nations were living like filthy peasants) made the industrial revolution possible, which became the blueprint for every economy on earth for the next century or more, thereby changed the world forever
Edmund Halley - Pioneer of astronomy, made numersous observations of the heavenly bodies, tracked and named a recurring comet using early 18th century technology securing immortality for both himself and his countrymen.
Charles Babbage - austic who built a working computer in the 19th century with nothing more than maths, brass and steam. Without him your chinese origami board isn't even possible.
Frank Whittle - Invented the turbojet engine, made modern jet travel, space travel, missiles, satellites all possible, in the process revolutionising warfare, the economy, telecommnications and changing the world forever.
>This is by no means comprehensive. Just a few of the many hundreds of British people who built the world.
