Off Topic Britain's Greatest Invention

Show just started on BBC Two. There's a vote on it as well.

Has to be the Steam Engine for me.

Don't know why the mobile phone is there - it isn't solely British. Either the ordinary telephone or the World Wide Web are much better choices.

 

Where's sky+??

 

Gin?

 

I'm an engineer so I'm going steam engine out of loyalty to my kind.

But antibiotics are pretty **** hot lil' dudes too.

The jet engine is awesome anarl.

 

How the buggery is Concrete there?

The Pantheon built by the Romans is concrete and they used it extensivly. As did the Egyptians before then.

In fact I think I read that the first concrete was used around 6000 BC in the Middle East.

 

Eli Whitney's cotton producing whatnot?


Good call, but he was a Yank.

 

I'd have gone for the internet.

 

Aye up...an excuse for an old joke. .


After having dug to a depth of 1,000 meters last year, French scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 1,000 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors had a telephone network all those centuries ago.

Not to be outdone by the French, American scientists dug to a depth of 2,000 meters and shortly after headlines in the U.S. newspapers read: "American archeologists have found traces of 2,000-year-old fiber-optic cable and have concluded that their ancestors had an advanced high-tech digital communications network a thousand years earlier than the French."

One week later, British newspapers reported the following: "After digging as deep as 5,000 meters in a Yorkshire marketplace, scientists had found absolutely nothing. They, therefore, concluded that 5,000 years ago the original British were already using wireless technology."

 

thought gim was dutch i.e.jenever

 

also is the t bag a british invention?

 

Some proper ****e on that list.

Where's tin foil and sudocrem ?

 

Sudocreme is amazing, I'm pretty sure it can cure cancer, rabies, typhoid, jealousy - the lot.

 

Teabagging is apparently.


Although I think it's bollocks myself.

 

Didn't we invent/codify most decent sports: football, boxing, rugby, cricket, tennis etc

 

It cures my ring sting after 9 pints of the black stuff and a chicken tikka madras.

For that reason alone it should be on the number one spot.

 

Most of the winter sports.

 

The tin foil hat.

The greatest, most importantist invention ever.


If you don't believe that, you're not wearing one. FACT.

 

I realize he was on holiday at the time, but I reckon Hadrian's Wall should be on the list.
So should goal nets.

 

Wasn't concrete around when Rome was dominant?

Edit: and much earlier ...

 

Sandwiches. That wins it hands down. Greatest invention ever.

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