Military
- Dazzle camouflage - Norman Wilkinson
- The tank – Developed and first used in combat by the British during World War I as a means to break the deadlock of trench warfare.
- Fighter aircraft – The Vickers F.B.5 Gunbus of 1914 was the first of its kind.
- Congreve rocket – William Congreve
- High explosive squash head – Sir Charles Dennistoun Burney
- Shrapnel shell – Henry Shrapnel
- Harrier Jump Jet
- Bullpup firearm configuration – Thorneycroft carbine
- Puckle Gun – James Puckle
- The side by side Boxlock action, AKA The double barreled shotgun – Anson and Deeley
- Dreadnought Battleship
- Bailey Bridge – Donald Bailey
- Chobham armour
- Livens Projector – William Howard Livens
- H2S radar (airborne radar to aid the bomb targeting) – Alan Blumlein
- Bouncing bomb – Barnes Wallis
- Safety fuse – William Bickford
- Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife – William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric A. Sykes
- Armstrong Gun – Sir William Armstrong
- Depth charge
- Stun grenades – Invented by the SAS in the 60s.
- Smokeless propellant to replace gunpowder with the use of Cordite – Frederick Abel
- Torpedo – Robert Whitehead
- The Whitworth rifle, considered the first sniper rifle. During the American Civil War the Whitworth rifle had been known to kill at ranges of about 800 yards – Sir Joseph Whitworth
- The world's first practical underwater active sound detection apparatus, the ASDIC Active Sonar – Developed by Canadian physicist Robert William Boyle and English physicist Albert Beaumont Wood
- The first self-powered machine gun Maxim gun – Sir Hiram Maxim, Although the Inventor is American, the Maxim gun was financed by Albert Vickers of Vickers Limited company and produced in Hatton Garden London
- Steam catapult-Commander Colin C. Mitchell RNVR
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