List of English inventors and designers

This is a list of English inventors and designers.

Contents: 

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z
• See also

A

• Roma Agrawal, structural engineer who contributed to the design of The Shard building in London.
• Joseph Aspdin (1788–1855), Portland cement.

B

• Roger Bacon (1214–1292), magnifying glass.
• Edward Barber (1969– ), London 2012 Olympic Torch.
• Julia Barfield (1952– ), architect who contributed to the design of the London Eye and the i360 observation tower in Brighton, England.
• Trevor Baylis (1937–2018), wind-up radio.
• Tim Berners-Lee (1955– ), World Wide Web.
• John Bentley (1940– ), Internet on Television.[1]

C

• Margaret Calvert (1936– ), graphic designer who designed many of the road signs used throughout the United Kingdom.
• George Cayley (1773–1854), man-carrying glider, tension spoke wheels, hot air engine, continuous track "universal railway" vehicle propulsion system.
• Imran Chaudhri (1973– ) invented the user interface and interactions of the iPhone, also worked on the Mac, iPod, iPad, Apple TV and Apple Watch.
• Terence Conran (1931– ), designer.
• David Constantine, designer of wheelchairs for sports and rugged terrain in the developing world.[2]

D

• Rick Dickinson (c. 1957–2018), designer of early computers, the touch-sensitive keyboard, as well as the rubber keyboard of the ZX Spectrum.

F

• Michael Faraday (1791–1867), electric transformer.
• John Ambrose Fleming (1848–1945), vacuum diode.
• Tommy Flowers (1905–1998), Colossus computer, an early electronic computer.
• William Friese-Greene (1855–1921), cinematography.

G

• Kenneth Grange (1929– ), industrial design including the InterCity 125.

H

• John Harrison (1693–1776), marine chronometer.
• Rowland Hill (1795–1879), postage stamp.
• Frank Hornby (1863–1936), Meccano

I

• Jonathan Ive (1967– ), Chief Design Officer of Apple Inc. and designer of many of Apple's products, including the MacBook Pro, iMac, MacBook Air, Mac mini, iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad, iPad Mini, Apple Watch and iOS.

K

• Tom Karen (1926–), industrial designer who designed cars, bicycles, and radios in the 1970s.
• Jock Kinneir (1917–1994), graphic designer who designed many of the road signs used throughout the United Kingdom.

M

• George William Manby (1765–1854), fire extinguisher.
• David Marks, architect who contributed to the design of the London Eye and the i360 observation tower in Brighton, England.

N

• Isaac Newton (1642–1727), reflecting telescope.

O

• Jay Osgerby (1969– ), London 2012 Olympic Torch.

P

• Alexander Parkes (1831–1890), celluloid.
• Stephen Perry, rubber band.
• Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), soda water.
• Philip Thorpe Priestley (1936-2018), inventor in thermometric reaction instrumentation

R

• Andrew Ritchie (1947– ), Brompton bicycle.

S

• Henry Shrapnel (1761–1842), shrapnel shell ammunition.

T

• J.J. Thomson (1856–1940), mass spectrometer.
• Jethro Tull (1674–1740), horse-drawn seed drill.

W

• Barnes Wallis (1887–1979), bouncing bomb.
• Edward Weston (1850–1936), Weston cell.
• Frank Whittle (1907–1996), co-inventor of the jet engine.
• William Winlaw (d.1796), patented agricultural machinery.
• Arthur Wynne (1862–1945), inventor of crossword puzzle.

See also

• List of British innovations and discoveries
• List of Cornish engineers and inventors
• List of Cornish scientists
• List of English inventions and discoveries
• List of Welsh inventors

References

1. "Couch potatoes armed with Viewcall can surf the Web through the tube". InfoWorld. 18 December 1995. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
2. "Our story". Motivation. Retrieved 27 November 2016.

Further reading

• Smiles, Samuel (2015). Men of Invention and Industry - English Inventors. Read Books Ltd. ISBN 978-1473371194.

External links

• The Brits Who Designed the Modern World Artsnight - Series 4: 7, BBC Two