Science
- Modern atomic theory - Considered the father of modern chemistry, John Dalton's experiments with gases led to the development of what is called the modern atomic theory.
- Equals sign Robert Recorde, Welshman
- Cell biology - Credit for the discovery of the first cells is given to Robert Hooke who described the microscopic compartments of cork cells in 1665
- Compound microscope with 30x magnification - Robert Hooke
- Universal joint - Robert Hooke
- Coggeshall slide rule - Henry Coggeshall
- The Iris diaphragm - Robert Hooke
- Correct theory of combustion - Robert Hooke
- Partition chromatography - Richard Laurence Millington Synge and Archer J.P. Martin
- Arnold Frederic Wilkins - pioneer in the development of Radar
- Atwood machine used for illustrating the law of uniformly accelerated motion - George Atwood
- Marine Barometer - Robert Hooke
- Hooke's Law (equation describing elasticity) - Robert Hooke
- Electrical generator (dynamo) - Michael Faraday
- Faraday cage - Michael Faraday
- Magneto-optical effect - Michael Faraday
- Calculus - Sir Isaac Newton
- Infrared radiation - discovery commonly attributed to William Herschel.
- Holography - First developed by Dennis Gabor in Rugby, England. Improved by Nicholas J. Phillips who made it possible to record multi-colour reflection holograms
- Discovery of the pion (pi-meson) - Cecil Frank Powell
- Wheatstone bridge - Samuel Hunter Christie
- Triple achromatic lens - Peter Dollond
- Newtonian telescope - Sir Isaac Newton
- Hawking radiation - Stephen Hawking
- Demonstrated that electric circuits obey the law of the conservation of energy and that electricity is a form of energy First Law of Thermodynamics. Also the unit of energy, the Joule is named after him - James Prescott Joule
- Micrometer - Sir William Gascoigne
- the first bench micrometer that was capable of measuring to one ten thousandth of an inch - Henry Maudslay
- Sinclair Executive, the world's first small electronic pocket calculator - Sir Clive Sinclair
- Discovered the element argon - John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh with Scotsman William Ramsay
- Standard deviation - Francis Galton
- Slide rule - William Oughtred
- Synthesis of coumarin, one of the first synthetic perfumes, and cinnamic acid via the Perkin reaction- William Henry Perkin
- The Law of Gravity - Sir Isaac Newton
- Newton's laws of motion - Sir Isaac Newton
- Geological Timescale - Arthur Holmes
- Electromagnet - William Sturgeon in 1823.
- Helium - Norman Lockyer
- Weather map - Sir Francis Galton
- Introduced the symbol for "is less than" and "is greater than" - Thomas Harriot 1630
- Introduced the "×" symbol for multiplication as well as the abbreviations "sin" and "cos" for the sine and cosine functions - William Oughtred
- Dew Point Hygrometer - John Frederic Daniell
- Periodic Table - John Alexander Reina Newlands
- Splitting the atom - John Cockcroft and Irish physicist Ernest Walton
- Seismograph - John Milne
- Discovery of oxygen gas (O2) - Joseph Priestley
- Discovery of the Atom(nuclear model of) - Ernest Rutherford
- Discovery of the Proton - Ernest Rutherford
- Discovery of the Electron, isotopes and the inventor of the Mass spectrometer - J. J. Thomson
- Discovery of the Neutron - James Chadwick
- Discovery of Hydrogen - Henry Cavendish
- Nuclear transfer - Is a form of cloning first put into practice by Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell to clone Dolly the Sheep
- Theory of Evolution - Charles Darwin
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