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The following is a list of inventions or discoveries generally believed to be British:

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Agriculture

Aviation innovations

Clock making

Clothing manufacturing

Communications

Computing

Criminology

Cryptography

Engineering

Food

Household appliances

Industrial processes

Medicine

Military

Mining

Musical instruments

Photography

Publishing firsts

  • Oldest publisher and printer in the world (having been operating continuously since 1584): Cambridge University Press
  • first book printed in English: "The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye" by Englishman William Caxton in 1475

Science

Astronomy

Chemistry

Sport

  • Football - The rules as we know them today were established in 1848 at Cambridge University, Sheffield F.C. is acknowledged by The Football Association and FIFA as the world's first and oldest football club.
  • Rugby - William Webb Ellis
  • Cricket - the world's second-most popular sport can be traced back to the 13th century
  • Tennis - widely known to have originated in England.
  • Boxing - England played a key role in the evolution of modern boxing. Boxing was first accepted as an Olympic sport in Ancient Greece in 688 BC
  • Darts - a traditional pub game, the numbering layout was devised by Brian Gamlin
  • Table-Tennis - was invented on the dinner tables of Britain as an indoor version of tennis
  • Snooker - Invented by the British Army in India
  • Ping pong - The game has its origins in England, in the 1880s
  • Bowls - has been traced to 13th century England
  • Field hockey - the modern game grew from English public schools in the early 19th century
  • Netball - the sport emerged from early versions of women's basketball, at Madame Österberg's College in England during the late 1890s.
  • Rounders - the game originates in England most likely from an older game known as stool ball
  • The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, the first race was in 1829 on the River Thames in London
  • Thoroughbred Horseracing - Was first developed in 17th and 18th century England
  • Polo - its roots began in Persia as a training game for cavalry units, the formal codification of the rules of modern Polo as a sport were established in 19th century England
  • The format of Modern Olympics - William Penny Brookes
  • Modern Rock Climbing - Walter Parry Haskett Smith (1859–1946) is considered the Father of Rock Climbing.
  • The first Paralympic games competition were held in England in 1948 - Ludwig Guttmann
  • oldest sporting competition in the world: The Antient Silver Arrow Archery competition known as the Scorton Arrow as it was originally held in Scorton, Yorkshire. It was first shot for in 1673.
  • oldest cricket festival (and probably oldest sporting festival) in the world: Canterbury Cricket Week founded in 1842
  • Lonsdale belt: oldest boxing belt in the world
  • oldest running race in the world - the Crick Run started in 1836 at rugby school

Transport

Aviation

Railways

Locomotives

Other railway developments

Roads

Sea

Publishing firsts

his ideas survive in the terms nervous energy and neuroses (a word that Cullen coined).

  • The first postcards and picture postcards in the UK

Scientific innovations

Sports innovations

Main article: Sport in Scotland

Scots have been instrumental in the invention and early development of several sports:

  • several modern athletics events, i.e. shot put and the hammer throw, derive from Highland Games and earlier 12th century Scotland
  • Curling
  • Gaelic handball The modern game of handball is first recorded in Scotland in 1427, when King James I an ardent handball player had his men block up a cellar window in his palace courtyard that was interfering with his game.
  • Cycling, invention of the pedal-cycle
  • Golf (see Golf in Scotland)
  • Shinty The history of Shinty as a non-standardised sport pre-dates Scotland the Nation. The rules were standardised in the 19th century by Archibald Chisholm
  • Rugby sevens: Ned Haig and David Sanderson (1883)

Medical innovations

Household innovations

Miscellaneous

See also

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