Some of MEN'S inventions,and this is just from the UK
MCP
Agriculture
a.. Seed drill - Jethro Tull
Communications
a.. Clockwork radio - Trevor Baylis
Computing
a.. Analytical engine - Sir Charles Babbage
b.. ACE and Pilot ACE - Alan Turing
c.. Bombe - Alan Turing
d.. Colossus computer - Tommy Flowers
e.. Difference engine - Sir Charles Babbage
f.. World Wide Web - Sir Tim Berners-Lee
g.. ZX Spectrum - Sir Clive Sinclair
Clock making
a.. Anchor escapement - Robert Hooke
b.. Balance spring - Robert Hooke (disputed - possibly invented by
Christiaan Huygens of the Netherlands)
c.. Grasshopper escapement - John Harrison
d.. Gridiron pendulum - John Harrison
Clothing manufacturing
a.. Derby Rib (stocking manufacture) - Jedediah Strutt
b.. Flying shuttle - John Kay
c.. Mauveine, the first synthetic organic dye - William Perkin
d.. Power loom - Edmund Cartwright
e.. Spinning frame - John Kay
f.. Spinning jenny - James Hargreaves
g.. Spinning mule - Samuel Crompton
Cryptography
a.. Playfair cipher - Charles Wheatstone
Engineering
a.. Adjustable spanner - Edwin Beard Budding
b.. First coke-consuming blast furnace - Abraham Darby I
c.. First working universal joint - Robert Hooke
d.. Newcomen steam engine - Thomas Newcomen
a.. Modified version of the Newcomen steam engine (Pickard engine) -
James Pickard
e.. Pendulum Governor - Frederick Lanchester
f.. The first screw-cutting lathe - Henry Maudslay
Food
a.. Bird's Custard - Alfred Bird
b.. Sandwich - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
Household appliances
a.. Ballbarrow - James Dyson
b.. Cat flap - Sir Isaac Newton (attributed)
c.. Collapsible baby buggy - Owen Maclaren
d.. Dyson DC01 - James Dyson
e.. Fire extinguisher - George William Manby
f.. Lawn mower - Edwin Beard Budding
g.. Rubber band - Stephen Perry
Industrial processes
a.. Bessemer process - Henry Bessemer
b.. Hydraulic press - Joseph Bramah
c.. Parkesine, the first man-made plastic - Alexander Parkes
d.. Portland cement - Joseph Aspdin
e.. Sheffield plate - Thomas Boulsover
f.. Water frame - Richard Arkwright
Medical
a.. Artificial intraocular lens transplant surgery for cataract patients -
Harold Ridley
Military
a.. Congreve rocket - William Congreve
b.. High explosive squash head - Sir Charles Dennistoun Burney
c.. Puckle Gun - James Puckle
d.. Shrapnel shell - Henry Shrapnel
Mining
a.. Davy lamp - Humphry Davy
b.. Geordie lamp - George Stephenson
Musical instruments
a.. Concertina - Charles Wheatstone
Photography
a.. Ambrotype - Frederick Scott Archer
b.. Calotype - William Fox Talbot
c.. Collodion process - Frederick Scott Archer
d.. Stereoscope - Charles Wheatstone
Science
a.. Compound microscope with 30x magnification - Robert Hooke
b.. Electrical generator (dynamo) - Michael Faraday
c.. Galvanometer - William Sturgeon
d.. Marsh test for Arsenic - James Marsh
e.. Newtonian telescope - Sir Isaac Newton
f.. Micrometer - Sir William Gascoigne
a.. the first bench micrometer that was capable of measuring to one ten
thousandth of an inch - Henry Maudslay
g.. Sinclair Executive, the world's first small electronic pocket
calculator - Sir Clive Sinclair
h.. Slide rule - William Oughtred
i.. Synthesis of coumarin, one of the first synthetic perfumes, and
cinnamic acid via the Perkin reaction- William Perkin
Transport
Railways
Locomotives
a.. Blucher - George Stephenson
b.. Puffing Billy -William Hedley
c.. Locomotion No 1 - Robert Stephenson
d.. Sans Pareil - Timothy Hackworth
e.. Stephenson's Rocket - George and Robert Stephenson
Other railway developments
a.. Displacement lubricator, Ramsbottom safety valve, the water trough,
the split piston ring - John Ramsbottom
Roads
a.. Bowden cable - Frank Bowden
b.. Cat's eye - Percy Shaw
c.. Caterpillar track - Sir George Cayley
d.. Hansom cab - Joseph Hansom
e.. Seat belt - George Cayley
f.. Sinclair C5 - Sir Clive Sinclair
g.. Tarmac - E. Purnell Hooley
Sea
a.. Hovercraft - Christopher Cockerell
b.. Lifeboat - Lionel Lukin
c.. Resurgam - George Garrett
d.. Turbinia, the first steam turbine powered steamship, designed by the
Irish engineer Sir Charles Algernon Parsons and built in Newcastle upon Tyne
Air
a.. Jet engine - Sir Frank Whittle
Miscellaneous
a.. Daylight saving time - William Willett
b.. Meccano - Frank Hornby
Scottish Inventions
Road Transport Innovations
a.. A steam car (steam engine): William Murdoch (1754-1839)
b.. Macadam roads: John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836)
c.. Driving on the left: Determined by a Scottish-inspired Act of
Parliament in 1772
d.. The pedal bicycle: Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1813-1878)
e.. The pneumatic tyre: Robert William Thomson (1822-1873) and John Boyd
Dunlop (1840-1921)
f.. The overhead valve engine: David Dunbar Buick (1854-1929)
g.. The speedometer: Sir Keith Elphinstone (1864-1944)
h.. The motor lorry: John Yule in 1870
i.. The steam tricycle: Andrew Lawson in 1895
Civil Engineering Innovations
Bridges
a.. Bridge design: Sir William Arrol (1838-1913), Thomas Telford
(1757-1834) & John Rennie (1761-1821)
b.. Suspension bridge improvements: Sir Samuel Brown (1776-1852)
c.. Tubular steel: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)
Canals & Docks
a.. Falkirk Wheel: ??? (Opened 2002)
b.. Canal design: Thomas Telford (1757-1834)
c.. Dock design: John Rennie (1761-1821)
d.. The patent slip for docking vessels: Thomas Morton (1781-1832)
e.. Crane design: James Bremner (1784-1856)
Lighthouses
a.. Lighthouse design: Robert Stevenson (1772-1850)
b.. The Drummond Light: Thomas Drummond (1797-1840)
Power Innovations
a.. Steam engine improvements: James Watt (1736-1819)
b.. Coal-gas lighting: William Murdock (1754-1839)
c.. The Stirling heat engine: Rev. Robert Stirling (1790-1878)
d.. Electro-magnetic innovations: James Clerk Maxwell (1831-79)
e.. Carbon brushes for dynamos: George Forbes (1849-1936)
f.. The Clark cycle gas engine: Sir Dugald Clark (1854-1932)
g.. Wireless transformer improvements: Sir James Swinburne (1858-1958)
h.. Cloud chamber recording of atoms: Charles T. R. Wilson (1869-1959)
i.. Wave-powered electricity generator: Stephen Salter in 1977
Shipbuilding Innovations
a.. The steamship paddle wheel: Patrick Miller (1731-1815)
b.. The steam boat: William Symington (1763-1831)
c.. Europe's first passenger steamboat: Henry Bell (1767-1830)
d.. The first iron-hulled steamship: Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874)
e.. The first practical screw propeller: Robert Wilson (1803-1882)
f.. Marine engine innovations: James Howden (1832-1913)
Other Scottish shipbuilding firsts:
a.. The first all-steel ship
b.. The first steel ship to cross the Atlantic
c.. The first paddle steamer to cross the Atlantic
d.. The first ship to cross the Atlantic in less than a week
e.. The first all-welded ship
f.. The first merchant ship to run on oil
g.. The first set of triple-expansion engines for a twin-screw steamer
h.. The first ship to be fitted with two engines
i.. The first steam whaler
Heavy Industry Innovations
a.. The carronade cannon: Robert Melville (1723-1809)
b.. Making cast steel from wrought iron: David Mushet (1772-1847)
c.. Wrought iron sash bars for glass houses: John C. Loudon (1783-1865)
d.. The hot blast oven: James Beaumont Neilson (1792-1865)
e.. The steam hammer: James Nasmyth (1808-1890)
f.. Wire rope: Robert Stirling Newall (1812-1889)
g.. Steam engine improvements: William Mcnaught (1831-1881)
h.. The Fairlie, a Narrow gauge, double-bogey railway engine: Robert
Francis Fairlie (1831-1885)
Agricultural Innovations
a.. Threshing machine improvements: James Meikle (c.1690-c.1780) & Andrew
Meikle (1719-1811)
b.. Hollow pipe drainage: Sir Hugh Dalrymple, Lord Drummore (1700-1753)
c.. The Scotch Plough: James Anderson of Hermiston (1739-1808)
d.. Deanstonisation soil-drainage system: James Smith (1789-1850)
e.. The mechanical reaping machine: Rev. Patrick Bell (1799-1869)
f.. The Fresno Scraper: James Porteous (1848-1922)
g.. The Tuley tree shelter: Graham Tuley in 1979
Communication Innovations
a.. Print stereotyping: William Ged (1690-1749)
b.. The balloon post: John Anderson (1726-1796)
c.. The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers
(1782-1853)
d.. The post office
e.. The mail-van service
f.. Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827-1915)
g.. Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb (1831-1899)
h.. The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)
i.. The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871-1957)
j.. The television: John Logie Baird (1888-1946)
k.. Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892-1973)
Some Scottish publishing firsts:
a.. The first book translated from English into a foreign language
b.. The first edition of the Encyclopędia Britannica (1768-81)
c.. The first English textbook on surgery (1597)
d.. The first modern pharmacopaedia, the Materia Medica Catalogue (1776)
e.. The first textbook on Newtonian science
f.. The first colour newspaper advertisement
g.. The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK
Scientific innovations
a.. Logarithms: John Napier (1550-1617)
b.. Popularising the decimal point: John Napier (1550-1617)
c.. The Gregorian telescope: James Gregory (1638-1675)
d.. The concept of latent heat: Joseph Black (1728-1799)
e.. The pyroscope, atmometer and aethrioscope scientific instruments: Sir
John Leslie (1766-1832)
f.. Identifying the nucleus in living cells: Robert Browen (1773-1858)
g.. Hypnosis: James Braid (1795-1860)
h.. Colloid chemistry: Thomas Graham (1805-1869)
i.. The kelvin SI unit of temperature: William Thompson, Lord Kelvin
(1824-1907)
j.. Devising the diagramatic system of representing chemical bonds:
Alexander Crum Brown (1838-1922)
k.. Criminal fingerprinting: Henry Faulds (1843-1930)
l.. The noble gases: Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916)
m.. Pioneering work on nutrition and poverty: John Boyd Orr (1880-1971)
n.. The ultrasound scanner: Ian Donald (1910-1987)
o.. Ferrocene synthetic substances: Peter Ludwig Pauson in 1955
p.. The MRI body scanner: John Mallard in 1980
q.. The first cloned mammal (Dolly the Sheep): The Roslin Institute
research centre in 1996
Medical Innovations
a.. Devising the cure for scurvy: James Lind (1716-1794)
b.. Discovering quinine as the cure for malaria: George Cleghorn
(1716-1794)
c.. Pioneering the use of surgical anaesthesia: Sir James Young Simpson
(1811-1870)
d.. The hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood (1817-1884)
e.. Pioneering the use of antiseptics: Joseph Lister (1827-1912)
f.. Identifying the mosquito as the carrier of malaria: Sir Ronald Ross
(1857-1932)
g.. Identifying the cause of brucellosis: Sir David Bruce (1855-1931)
h.. Discovering the vaccine for typhoid fever: Sir William B. Leishman
(1865-1926)
i.. Discovering insulin: John J R Macleod (1876-1935) with others
j.. Penicillin: Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)
k.. Discovering an effective tuberculosis treatment: Sir John Crofton in
the 1950s
l.. Developing the first beta-blocker drugs: Sir James W. Black in 1964
m.. Glasgow Coma Scale: Graham Teasdale and Bryan J. Jennett (1974)
Household Innovations
a.. The Dewar Flask: Sir James Dewar (1847-1932)
b.. The piano with footpedals: John Broadwood (1732-1812)
c.. The waterproof macintosh: Charles Macintosh (1766-1843)
d.. Marmalade: James Keiller (1775-1839)
e.. The kaleidoscope: Sir David Brewster (1781-1868)
f.. The modern lawnmower: Alexander Shanks (1801-1845)
g.. The Lucifer friction match: Sir Isaac Holden (1807-1897)
h.. Paraffin: James Young (1811-1883)
i.. The fountain pen: Robert Thomson (1822-1873)
j.. Cotton-reel thread: J & J Clark of Paisley
k.. Marmalade with peel: James Robertson in 1850
l.. Cornflour: John Polson in 1854
m.. Lime Cordial: Lachlan Rose in 1867
n.. Bovril beef extract: John Lawson Johnston in 1874
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