English Inventions - Household Appliances

Household Appliances

• Ballbarrow – James Dyson
• Perambulator – William Kent designed a baby carriage in 1733
• Collapsible baby buggy – Owen Maclaren
• Domestic dishwasher – key modifications by William Howard Livens
• "Bagless" vacuum cleaner – James Dyson
• "Puffing Billy" – First powered vacuum cleaner – Hubert Cecil Booth
• Fire extinguisher – George William Manby
• Folding carton – Charles Henry Foyle
• Lawn mower – Edwin Beard Budding
• Rubber band – Stephen Perry
• Daniell cell – John Frederic Daniell
• First incandescent light bulb – Joseph Wilson Swan in 1878.
• Tin can – Peter Durand
• Light switch – Invented by John Holmes in 1884
• Corkscrew – Reverend Samuell Henshall
• Mouse trap – James Henry Atkinson
• Postage stamp – Rowland Hill
• Modern flushing toilet – John Harington
• The pay toilet – John Nevil Maskelyne, Maskelyne invented a lock for London toilets, which required a penny to operate, hence the euphemism "spend a penny".
• Electric toaster – Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton
• Teasmade – Albert E. Richardson
• Magnifying glass – Roger Bacon
• Thermosiphon, which forms the basis of most modern central heating systems – Thomas Fowler
• Automatic electric kettle – Russell Hobbs