List of English inventors
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This is a list of English inventors.
A
- Joseph Aspdin (1788-1855), Portland cement.
B
- Roger Bacon (1214-1292), magnifying glass
- Tim Berners-Lee (1955- ), World Wide Web
- John Bentley (1940- ) [Internet on Television]
C
- George Cayley (1773-1854), [man-carrying glider], [tension spoke wheels], hot air engine, Continuous track [ "universal railway" vehicle propulsion system]
F
- Michael Faraday (1791-1867), electric transformer
- John Ambrose Fleming (1848-1945), vacuum diode
- Tommy Flowers (1905-1998) Colossus computer, an early electronic computer.
- William Friese-Greene (1855-1921), cinematography
H
- John Harrison (1693-1776), marine chronometer
- Rowland Hill (1795-1879) postage stamp
M
- George William Manby (1765-1854), Fire extinguisher
N
- Isaac Newton (1642-1727) reflecting telescope
P
- Alexander Parkes (1831-1890), celluloid
- Stephen Perry rubber band
- Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), soda water
S
- Henry Shrapnel (1761-1842), Shrapnel shell ammunition
T
- J.J. Thomson (1856-1940), mass spectrometer
- Jethro Tull (1674-1740), horse-drawn seed drill
W
- Barnes Wallis (1887-1979), bouncing bomb
- Edward Weston (1850-1936), Weston cell
- Frank Whittle (1907-1996), co-inventor of the jet engine
- Arthur Wynne (1862-1945), inventor of crossword puzzle
