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inventions
Date Invention Or Discovery Inventor Or Discoverer
1250 - Magnifying glass - Roger Bacon
1668 - Reflecting telescope - Isaac Newton
1698 - Steam pump - Thomas Savery
1701 - Seed drill - Jethro Tull
1712 - Steam engine - Thomas Newcomen
1717 - Diving bell - Edmund Halley
1725 - Stereotyping - William Ged
1758 - Achromatic lens - John Dollond
1759 - Marine chronometer - John Harrison
1764 - Spinning jenny - James Hargreaves
1769 - Spinning frame - R. Arkwright
1769 - Steam engine (with separate condenser) - James Watt
1780 - Steel pen - Samuel Harrison
1784 - Threshing machine - Andrew Meikle
1785 - Power loom - Edmund Cartwright
1788 - Flyball governor - James Watt
1791 - Gas turbine - John Barber
1792 - Illuminating gas - William Murdock
1795 - Hydraulic press - Joseph Bramah
1796 - Smallpox vaccination - Edward Jenner
1804 - Solid-fuel rocket - William Congreve
1804 - Steam locomotive - Richard Trevithick
1814 - Railroad locomotive - George Stephenson
1815 - Safety lamp - Sir Humphry Davy
1820's - Difference Engine (Computer) - Charles Babbage
1820 - Hygrometer - J.F. Daniell
1821 - Electric motor - Michael Faraday
1823 - Electromagnet - William Sturgeon
1824 - Portland cement - Joseph Aspdin
1827 - Friction match - John Walker
1831 - Dynamo - Michael Faraday
1837 - Telegraph - Sir Charles Wheatstone
1839 - Photography - William Henry Fox Talbot
1839 - Steam hammer - James Nasmyth
1839 - Bicycle (with pedals) - Kirkpatrick MacMillan
1850 - Mercerized cotton - John Mercer
1855 - Hypodermic syringe - Alexander Wood
1856 - Bessemer converter (steel) - Sir Henry Bessemer
1861 - Electric furnace - Wilhelm Siemens
1865 - Antiseptic surgery - Joseph Lister
1876 - Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell
1878 - Cathode ray tube - Sir William Crookes
1879 - Incandescent filament lamp - Sir Joseph Wilson Swan
1884 - Steam turbine - Sir Charles Algernon Parsons
1884 - Multiple-wheel steam turbine - Sir Charles Algernon Parsons
1887 - Air-inflated rubber tire - J.B. Dunlop
1891 - Motion picture camera (kinetograph) - William K. L. Dickson
1891 - Motion picture viewer (kinetoscope) - William K. L. Dickson
1891 - Synthetic rubber - Sir William Augustus Tilden
1892 - Rayon (viscose) - Charles Frederick Cross
1892 - Vacuum bottle (Dewar flask) - Sir James Dewar
1895 - Rayon (acetate) - Charles Frederick Cross
1905 - Diode rectifier tube (radio) - Sir John Ambrose Fleming
1908 - Two-color motion picture camera - C. Albert Smith
1919 - Mass spectrograph - Sir Francis William Aston
1926 - Television - John Logie Baird
1928 - Penicillin - Sir Alexander Fleming
1930 - Modern gas-turbine engine - Sir Frank Whittle
1935 - Radiolocator (radar) - Sir Robert Watson-Watt
1941 - Turbojet aircraft engine - Sir Frank Whittle
1947 - Holography - Dennis Gabon
1956 - Hovercraft - Christopher Cockerell
1975 - CAT (computerized axial tomography) scanner - Godfrey N. Hounsfield
1996 - Clockwork Radio - Trevor Baylis
Ejector Seat - Sir James Martin
Sports
Association Football
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Bobsleigh
Bowls
Boxing
Canoeing
Cricket
Croquet
Curling
Darts
Fives
Golf
Hockey
Hurling
Ice Skating
Mountaineering
Rackets
Rowing
Rugby
Skiing
Squash
Table Tennis
Tennis
Tenpin Bowling – 9 pin bowling was German
Trotting
Water Polo
Water Skiing
Weightlifting
Yachting
British Commonwealth
From Africa to Asia, from Pacific shores to the Caribbean, the British Commonwealth's 1.7 billion people make up 30% of the world's population.
currently includes
Antigua and Barbuda
Australia
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belize
Botswana
Brunei Darussalam
Cameroon
Canada
Cyprus
Dominica
Fiji Islands
Ghana
Grenada
Guyana
India
Jamaica
Kenya
Kiribati
Lesotho
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Malta
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Nauru
New Zealand
Nigeria
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Sri Lanka
St Kitts and Nevis
St Lucia
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Swaziland
The Bahamas
The Gambia
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tuvalu
Uganda
United Kingdom
United Republic of Tanzania
Vanuatu
Zambia
Zimbabwe
the English Language
spoken worldwide by a large and ever-increasing number - 800 million by a conservative estimate, 1.5 Billion by a liberal estimate.
Some 350 million use the language as a mother tongue
A further 400 million use it as a second language
It has official status in over 60 countries
Estimates also suggest that at least 150 million people use English fluently as a foreign language
English is also the language of
international air traffic control,
and the chief language of world publishing,
science and technology,
conferencing,
and computer storage
Countries that Speak English
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Cayman Islands, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Cook Islands, Dominica, Falkland Islands, Fiji, Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guyana, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Montserrat, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts & Nevis Anguilla, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent & Grenadines, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu, Virgin Islands (USA), Zambia, Zimbabwe