List of English Inventions and Discoveries - Military

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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