Military
- 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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