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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.
1714: Patent for an apparatus regarded as the first typewriter granted to Henry Mill (c. 1683–1771). [25] 18th century: The Valentine's card first popularised. [26] 1822: The mechanical pencil patented by Sampson Mordan (1790–1843) and John Isaac Hawkins (1772–1855). [27] 1831: Electromagnetic induction & Faraday's law of induction.
Between 1891 and 1916, 53 volumes of calendars were published, under the title Calendar of the Patent Rolls, covering the years 1232 to 1509. References to these volumes may be abbreviated as CPR or Cal. patent R. 1509–1547. The rolls for the reign of Henry VIII (1509–47) have not been published in a stand-alone form.
There is some evidence that some form of patent rights was recognized in Ancient Greece.In 500 BCE, in the Greek city of Sybaris (located in what is now southern Italy), "encouragement was held out to all who should discover any new refinement in luxury, the profits arising from which were secured to the inventor by patent for the space of a year."
This is a timeline of British history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of England, History of Wales, History of Scotland, History of Ireland, Formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and History of the United Kingdom
Timeline of British history (before 1000) Timeline of British history (1000–1499) Timeline of British history (1500–1599) Timeline of British history (1600–1699) Timeline of British history (1700–1799) Timeline of British history (1800–1899) Timeline of British history (1900–1929) Timeline of British history (1930–1949)
1876: Alexander Graham Bell has a patent granted for the telephone. However, other inventors before Bell had worked on the development of the telephone and the invention had several pioneers. [429] 1877: Thomas Edison invents the first working phonograph. [430] 1878: Henry Fleuss is granted a patent for the first practical rebreather. [431]
The Statute of Monopolies [1] (21 Jas. 1.c. 3) was an act of the Parliament of England notable as the first statutory expression of English patent law. Patents evolved from letters patent, issued by the monarch to grant monopolies over particular industries to skilled individuals with new techniques.