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
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