A quiz with a difference

[John Arton]

With all the hoohah going on about Brexit over here, the question is often asked, "what has Europe done for us". My little quiz is to ask what has the U.K. given to the world?
So I will start off with,
Computing
DNA
Television
Radio
Penicillin
Telephone
Electricity
Jet engines
Commercial jet airliners
Modern ship construction methods, think Isherwood framing.
Radar
Solar cells, the first moon landing would not have been possible without solar power cells invented in the U.K.
The steam engine
The production line (look it up, production not assembly)
Skin graft ( wW2 pilots badly burnt were the first to get skin grafts)
That's just a few off the top of my head, your welcome to add any more.
The pnuematic tyre
Rgds
J.A.

[Captain Kong]

Hovercraft.

[Graham Payne]

And me.

[Ivan Cloherty]

The jump jet (Harrier)

and

Graham!

[Keith Tindell]

cats eyes in the road, tarmac adam ?, come to think of it we is the best !!!!, kt

[John F Collier]

The NHS, "Weii most of them seem to use it"

[Tony Taylor]

The steam turbine, Charles Parsons original demo craft "TURBINIA" still on view in Newcastle.

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on one occasion while in a lock on Panama canal, an American flag vessel was in the opposite lock, a shout from the American vessel crew "f in limeys, what good did you ever do", very swift reply from our chief steward, who was hanging around outside the galley, "invented penicillin for you poxy bar stewards".
Silence ensued, apart from the howls of laughter from our crew.

[Captain Kong]

The Spinning Jenny for the Cotton Spinning Industry.

[vic mcclymont]

Fuel Cell
Kelvin engine.
Mobile phones
Vic
Tarmacadam

[John F Collier]

The first flushing toilet 1596 Sir John Harrington. The floating ballcock as in the modern toilet
was invented by Thomas Crapper a London plumber, and his name lives on in a shorter version