If you look at all the things you take for granted in everyday life most of them were invented by a British person examples include
web browser Tim Berners-Lee was born in London, England and graduated in Physics
from Oxford University in 1976. He is currently the Director of the WorldWide Web Consortium, the group that sets technical standards for the Web.
Locomotive (train) The first locomotive in the world
was built by Richard Trevithick in 1804.Richard Trevithick, was born in
Illogan, Cornwall UK, in 1771
Light bulb 1878 a year before Edison- Sir
JosephWilson Swan
(1828-1914), an English physicist, was the first
person to invent a practical and longer-lasting eclectic lightbulb (13.5
hours). Swan used a carbon fiber filament derived from cotton.
Lawn mower The first patent for a mechanical
lawn mower described as a "Machine for mowing lawns, etc." was granted
on August 31, 1830 to engineer, Edwin Beard Budding (1795-1846) from Stroud,
Gloucestershire, England
Periodic table British
chemist, John Newlands had the idea of arranging chemical elements in order
of their relative atomic masses and he arranged his elements in columns
Food can British merchant Peter Durand made an impact on food preservation with
his 1810 patenting of the tin can. In 1813, John Hall and Bryan Dorkin
opened the first commercial canning factory in England
electric motor Michael
Faraday (1791-1867)
British physicist and chemist, best
known for his discoveries of electromagnetic induction and of the laws
of electrolysis. His biggest breakthrough in
electricity was his invention of the electric motor.
jet engine Frank
Whittle was the first to register a patent for the turbojet engine in 1930
plastics chemists, John Rex Whinfield
and James Tennant Dickson, employees of the Calico Printer's Association
of Manchester, patented "polyethylene terephthalate" (also called PET or
PETE) in 1941
As for the bra Mary Jacobs did not invent the first bra. Her design
was simply the first one to be widely used.
It seems that a man named Hoag Levins had too much time on his
hands
and did an in depth study of all the sexual devices ever patented by
the
United States Patent Office. In the book American
Sex Machines, Levins presents quite a few patents on
bra-type
creations.
Levins' conclusion is that a woman named Marie Tucek patented
the first
brassiere in 1893. This "breastsupporter", as
she
called it, looked very similar to the modern brassiere. The device
included
separate pockets for the breasts, straps that went over the shoulder
which
were fastened by hook-and-eye closures.
In comparison, Mary Phelps Jacobs device was patented on
November 3,
1914 and was called a "brassiere".She may have
had the name correct, but she didn't have the design. Her patent was
for
a device that was lightweight and flattened the breasts. Her bra did
not
have cups to support the breasts.
and not to mention all the other things like TV etc id say the modern world and its technology cant be defined by one country but by many
