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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.
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 ]
1879: British physicist-chemist Joseph Swan independently developed an incandescent light bulb at the same time as American inventor Thomas Edison was independently working on his incandescent light bulb. [44] Swan's first successful electric light bulb and Edison's electric light bulb were both patented in 1879. [45]
The United Kingdom led the Industrial Revolution from the 18th century, [3] and has continued to produce scientists and engineers credited with important advances. [4] Some of the major theories, discoveries and applications advanced by people from the United Kingdom are given below.
Developed the first high-level programming language and compiler for microcomputers and the first mainstream operating system for microcomputers . Invented the concept of a hardware abstraction layer called the BIOS, with both conceptually laying the foundation to all DOS-based operating systems on personal computers.
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 British engineer and inventor Alan Dower Blumlein (1903–1942) invents "Binaural Sound", today called "Stereo". He developed the stereo record and the first three-way speaker. He makes experimental films with stereo sound. Then he becomes leader of the development team for the EMI-405-line television system.
Francis Heylighen (born 1960) Belgian cybernetician working on self-organization and the evolution of complex systems; Derek Hitchins (born 1935) British systems engineer and was professor in engineering management, in command & control and in systems science at the Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, England.