British Inventions - Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

• Oldest police force in continuous operation: Marine Police Force founded in 1798 and now part of the Metropolitan Police Service
• Oldest life insurance company in the world: Amicable Society for a Perpetual Assurance Office founded 1706
• First Glee Club, founded in Harrow School in 1787.
• Oldest arts festival - Norwich 1772
• Oldest music festival - The Three Choirs Festival
• Oldest literary festival - The Cheltenham Literature Festival
• Bayko - Charles Plimpton
• Linoleum - Frederick Walton
• Meccano - Frank Hornby
• Crossword puzzle - Arthur Wynne
• Gas mask - (disputed) John Tyndall and others
• Graphic telescope - Cornelius Varley
• Steel-ribbed Umbrella - Samuel Fox
• Plastic - Alexander Parkes
• Plasticine - William Harbutt
• Carbonated soft drink - Joseph Priestley
• Friction Match - John Walker
• Invented the rubber balloon - Michael Faraday
• Earliest concept of a Metric system - John Wilkins
• Edmondson railway ticket - Thomas Edmondson
• The world's first Nature Reserve - Charles Waterton *Public Park - Joseph Paxton
• Scouts - Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
• Spirograph - Denys Fisher
• The Young Men's Christian Association YMCA was founded in London - George Williams (YMCA)
• The Salvation Army, known for being one of the largest distributors of humanitarian aid - Methodist minister William Booth
• Prime meridian - George Biddell Airy
• Produced the first complete printed translation of the Bible into English - Myles Coverdale
• Founder of the Bank of Scotland - John Holland
• Venn diagram - John Venn
• vulcanisation of rubber - Thomas Hancock
• Silicone - Frederick Kipping
• Stamp collecting - John Edward Gray bought penny blacks on first day of issue in order to keep them
• lorgnette - George Adams (optician)
• Boys' Brigade
• Bank of England devised by William Paterson
• Bank of France devised by John Law
• Colour photography: the first known permanent colour photograph was taken by James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)