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Oliver Heaviside (1850–1925), electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who developed the transmission line theory and vectorized Maxwell's equations, among many other things. [19] Christopher Hinton (1901–1983), chief engineer at ICI who worked on the first nuclear power plant, Calder Hall [20]
Engineers during World War Two test a model of a Halifax bomber in a wind tunnel, an invention that dates back to 1871.. The following is a list and timeline of innovations as well as inventions and discoveries that involved British people or the United Kingdom including the predecessor states before the Treaty of Union in 1707, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland.
Roger Bacon (1214–1292), magnifying glass; Edward Barber (1969– ), London 2012 Olympic Torch; Julia Barfield (1952– ), architect who contributed to the design of the London Eye and the i360 observation tower in Brighton, England
2016: Scientists at the British bio-tech company Oxitec, in an attempt to stop the spread of dengue fever genetically engineer a 'sudden death' mosquito which after mating successfully with a wild female, any offspring produced will not survive to adulthood and the lethal gene is passed on from the female to any male they mate with and the ...
The Airbus A380 has wings and engines manufactured in the United Kingdom.. The United Kingdom plays a leading part in the aerospace industry, with companies including Rolls-Royce playing a leading role in the aero-engine market; BAE Systems acting as Britain's largest and the Pentagon's sixth largest defence supplier, and large companies including GKN acting as major suppliers to the Airbus ...
List of British engineers; ... Lists of scientists; List of fictional scientists and engineers This page was last edited on 9 December 2022, at 16:17 (UTC). ...
Pages in category "British scientists" The following 112 pages are in this category, out of 112 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
This is a list of engineers and inventors from Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. John Arnold, watchmaker and pioneer of the marine chronometer [1] William Bickford, inventor of the safety fuse [2] Joseph Henry Collins, mining engineer, mineralogist and geologist [3] Sir John Coode, civil engineer [4]