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What the British Invented - From the Great to the Downright Bonkers (Hardcover)
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What the British Invented - From the Great to the Downright Bonkers (Hardcover)
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Invent verb; to produce or contrive something previously unknown by
the use of ingenuity or imagination. The world would be a much
poorer place without our great British inventions - from catseyes
to crossword puzzles, tarmac to telephones, steam engines to
shorthand, British inventors have led the world with their
ingenious (and sometimes slightly insane) ideas. The Brits are a
creative lot: entrepreneur Hubert Cecil Booth invented the 'Puffing
Billy', the first powered vacuum cleaner; John Walker was the
bright spark who developed matches in 1827, coating the end of a
piece of stick with chemicals which, when rubbed against a rough
surface, burst into flames; and where would we be without flush
loos? We have Sir John Harrington to thank for those, not Thomas
Crapper as many maintain - although Crapper was in fact a
nineteenth-century plumber who patented a few bathroom fittings of
his own. These are called eureka moments, when chance and
inspiration combine to create something wonderful. So, without
further ado, let us take a closer look at those brilliant,
sometimes slightly bonkers Brits who have done so much to not only
improve our daily lives, but also change the world around us.
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