What the British did for the world :) (inventions)

Visage said:
The Concentration Camp.
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Yes thats true, but the connection that so many people make between the Boer War and the concentration camps of the Nazis should not be made.

ElRazur said:
Colonialism of several african countries? Slavery? Brain drain?
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Colonalism was around far before Britain's imperial past. The Romans ? Their Empire stretched from the border with Scotland to the deserts of North Africa.

Britain just happened to do it better than anyone else at the height if Imperialism during the 1800s. 25% of the worlds land surface was under British Colonial rule. Large parts of Africa were under British rule including South Africa whereas other imperial powers had colonies there too including France and Germany, who had a small sausge factroy in Tanganiki. ;)

As for slavery, The Romans again had slaves and that was while Britain was under the rule of Rome. Also, although slavery is a terrible thing, the British government was one of the first to abolish slavery throughout the Empire in the early 1800s.
 
locutus12 said:
Ive never even heard of Tommy Flowers, but if he did something then great, stick his name down, the date he did it and a brief discription of the field he worked in and what he did, but please dont wast an entire post trying to discredit one person to favour another :( .
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He *and a small team* designed and built Colossus - the first computer.

All he got was £1000 *which just about covered his debts from building the thing in the first place....* and a MBE.

Colossus was secret until the 70's - caused the Yanks to think that they invented the computer. ENIAC iirc.

Simon/~Flibster
 
locutus12 said:
Grow up, it was 200 years ago and quite frankly we owe the african nation squat untill it can ellect governments that wont steel all the money we give the continent for its own private wars and own coffers, you had sticks, we had guns, we occupied africa for the natural resources, yes it wasnt fair or right by todays standards but thats life, get over it.

p.s. we didnt invent slavory, dont be a pillock.

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I didnt say they invented it (even though i came across like that in the first instance), like i said before, they left a mark.

As per you "get over it, it is 200 years ago excuse" erm...personally i am cool even though my fore-fathers paid the price but have in Mind that Millions of Africans and the rest of the world WONT period.

It is comment like the one you make that makes a scammer i know feels justified scaming people from here, but i guess that's another story. The slave trade thing wont go away period, it is history, it is here to stay and it will come up in conversation like this so you get over it.
 
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Von Smallhausen said:
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Bruv i see your point, i dont have any qualms with the romans as i dont remember reading in history books they try to enslave us but what i read was Britain was a major player and i have seen the mark they left.
 
locutus12 said:
didnt british people have something to do with the Atar 512 and a couple of amiga models ?
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I think so, I started computing with a Commodore 16, then a 64. I then went on to an Amiga 600 then an Amiga 1200. All British computers I think.

* pines for Manic Miner and Kung-Fu Master *
 
ElRazur said:
Bruv i see your point, i dont have any qualms with the romans as i dont remember reading in history books they try to enslave us but what i read was Britain was a major player and i have seen the mark they left.
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Fair enough El.

Britain was taken over forcibly by the Romans when they invaded in 43 AD, although resistance was infrequent.

Britain was indeed a major player in colonialism, but although questionable things happened, things like technology, rail links, engineering projects and medicine were introduced.
 
JohnnyG said:
Ok ok, but apart from the Internal Combustion Engine, Jet Engines, Electromagnet, Kelvin Scale, Metal Lathe, Penicillin, Periodic Table, Rubber Bands , Radar Locating of Aircraft, Submarine, Steam Engine, Television, Thermos, Toilet Paper, Vacuum Cleaner, Viagra, Waterproof Fabric and the
World Wide Web, what have the British actually done for us eh?
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I just had a Monty Python Moment then!... :D

Also What about Trevor Baylis :cool:
 
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Micheal Faraday isn't on that list and he is arguably more important than all of those people mentioned (electricity anyone??)
 
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