Answers.com: James Starley
Sussex born inventor and manufacturer of the bicycle and known for his improvements to the sewing machine. Unclaimed: Claim this business
Baird Television
Scotsman and inventor of the television. Read the story of his 1926 demonstration and his life from 1888 to 1946. Unclaimed: Claim this business
BBC Historic Figures: Edmund Cartwright (1743-1823)
Nottinghamshire born and Oxford University educated inventor of the power loom for the textile industry. Unclaimed: Claim this business
BBC Historic Figures: Frank Whittle
Royal Air Force officer born in 1907 who made a major contribution to the invention of the jet engine. Unclaimed: Claim this business
BBC Historic Figures: Jethro Tull
Inventor of the seed drill used for distributing seed into furrows. Unclaimed: Claim this business
British Inventions A-Z
A comprehensive list of British inventors and their inventions from the anemometer weather instrument of Robert Hooke to the World Wide Web by HTML creator Tim Berners-Lee. Unclaimed: Claim this business
Charles Macintosh
Tells the fascinating story of the Glasgow born inventor of the waterproof coat later known as the Macintosh or Mac for short. Unclaimed: Claim this business
Historic Figures: Michael Faraday
A BBC site highlighting the life and times of the south London born inventor of the electric motor. Unclaimed: Claim this business
History of Firearms: James Puckle
1718 London inventor of the tripod-mounted, single-barreled flintlock Puckle gun. Unclaimed: Claim this business
History of the Fax Machine & Alexander Bain
About.com page highlighting the life of the Scottish born inventor of the fax machine. Unclaimed: Claim this business
Inventor of the Week: Arthur Wynne
Invented the crossword in 1913. An immigrant from England who first had his puzzle published in the New York World. Unclaimed: Claim this business
Kelvin, Lord William Thomson (1824-1907)
Scottish mathematician and physicist and inventor of the The Kelvin Scale that measures the ultimate extremes of hot and cold. Unclaimed: Claim this business
Newlands' Periodic Table
English scientist that invented the periodic table that arranges chemical elements in order of their relative atomic masses. Unclaimed: Claim this business
Richard Trevithick 1771 - 1833
Son of a Cornish miner and inventor of the worlds first locomotive in 1804, running a decade before George Stephenson's. Unclaimed: Claim this business
Sir Alexander Fleming
The biography of the Scottish Nobel Prize winner and inventor of Penicillin. Unclaimed: Claim this business
Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, FRS (1892-1973)
Brief history of Robert Alexander Watson-Watt, inventor of the range and direction finder later known as RADAR. Unclaimed: Claim this business
The Sunday Times: Sir James Dyson
Tells the story of this British inventor of products such as the contra-rotator washing machine and the dual cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner. Unclaimed: Claim this business
Tim Berners-Lee
Oxford University graduate and inventor of HTML, HTTP and ultimately the World Wide Web. Unclaimed: Claim this business
Trivia Library: Thomas Hancock
A brief description of the London born inventor of the rubber band in 1820. Unclaimed: Claim this business
William Sturgeon
An About.com page highlighting the invention of the electromagnet in 1825 by this British electrician. Unclaimed: Claim this business
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