Category: Inventions

Dr. Edmund Halley (1656-1742), of comet fame, lived in the era of seafaring buccaneers who sometimes sank to a watery grave with […]

Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was once the UK’s largest manufacturing company and from the 1930s to the 1960s its Plastics Division was […]

Dr. Brian Mercer (1927-98) was born in Blackburn towards the end of the British textile industry’s golden age. Fortunately, he was inspired […]

The motivation behind the first plastic was to conserve natural resources, such as rubber and timber, and reduce the exploitation of animal […]

When the British Museum asked their local building contractor, Rawlings Brothers, to attach electrical fittings to the walls with minimal damage to […]

Edwin Beard Budding (1796-1846) from Gloucestershire was a mechanical engineer with a knack for devising improvements, repairs and solutions to various types […]

Northumberland-born Bryan Donkin (1768-1855) was an extraordinarily creative engineer whose inventions included the world’s first commercial canning process. This was operated in […]

The London Underground, or ‘the Tube’, was the world’s first subterranean railway network and without it and its 270 stations, London would […]

William Addis (1734-1808) from London is the protagonist of a story about the invention of the toothbrush which seems to merge two […]

Londoner Sir Peter Mansfield (1933-2017) was among several developers of the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) technique and one of two physicists who […]

The ten Colossus machines built at Bletchley Park during WW2 were the first electronic programming computers, albeit for one specific purpose ~ […]

Jethro Tull (1674-1741) was born into a wealthy farming family in Berkshire. He began a career in law but must have always […]