Discoveries and inventions of the uk

Chocolate bar: JS Fry & Sons, 1847

There is not much in the world that compares to the comfort of biting into a bar of chocolate. This is a universal guilty pleasure and it is hard to imagine life without this chocolatey goodness. Joseph Storrs Fry and his family owned business JS Fry & Sons produced the first modern day chocolate bar in 1847 after years of business name change and directional goals

The Thermos Flask - 1892

One of the lesser-known greatest British inventions is the Dewar Flask, vacuum flask or more commonly Thermos Flask.

Sir James Dewar invented the first vacuum flask in 1892 whilst carrying out experiments in the field of cryogenics.

His invention has become a great tool for chemical experiments and a common household item.

The World Wide Web, the First Website, and the First Web Browser - 1989  

If there is one thing that modern day society couldn’t live without, it is surely the internet. Whether for informative purposes, for educational research, or for watching entertaining cat videos on Youtube, we really have come to rely on the World Wide Web. before 1989, this was just a futurist idea belonging to crazy sci-fi movies. Engineer and scientist, Tim Berners-Lee made the proposal for the internet in 1989. After graduating from Oxford, he went on to be a software manager at CERN. Although met with intrigue and scoffing at the idea of this notion, Berners-Lee pursued and the internet was born. And aren’t we glad it was! If anyone deserves a high 5 for their work, it is this guy!

Photography: William Henry Fox Talbot, 1835

Capturing a moment in time is one of the greatest inventions that combines practicality and sentimentality. During a great summer of 1835, William Talbot took advantage of the incredible sunlight (rare for England, really!) and invented a process for using a calotype to create a photo. He was the inventor of the first negative imaging camera.

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