Ask by : Why do Americans speak English? Were they secretly conquered and made to feel free by a British double agent?
Scientists in America like Tim Berners-Lee of the United States National Academy of Sciences, based in Washington, D.C. born in London Invented the Web.

NASA astronauts Michael Foale, Piers Sellers and Nicholas Patrick were British born. Michael Foale has joint nationality but Piers Sellers and Nicholas Patrick had to become American citizens to fly into space. Space tourist Richard Garriott is a US citizen though he was born in the UK.
During the 2008 ESA astronaut selection, over 800 applicants (10% and the 4th largest of the ESA total) were from the UK.

British Inventions:

Anemometer – Robert Hooke

Disc Brakes – Frederick William Lanchester

Tin Can – Peter Durand
Cat Eyes – Percy Shaw
Portland Cement – Joseph Aspdin Cordite – Sir James Dewar, Sir Frederick Abel
Corkscrews – H.S. Heeley
Crossword Puzzles – Arthur Wynne

DNA – Alec Jeffreys
Depth Charges
Diving Equipment/Scuba Gear – John Smeaton, William James, Henry Fleuss

EKG (Underlying Principles) – Various
Electric Motor – Michael Faraday
Electromagnet – William Sturgeon

Fax Machine – Alexander Bain

Gas Mask -John Tyndall and others

Dew-point Hygrometer – John Frederic Daniell
Holography – Dennis Gábor

Internal Combustion Engine – Samuel Brown
Jet Engines – Sir Frank Whittle
Kelvin Scale – Lord William Thomson Kelvin

Metal Lathe – Henry Maudslay invented the first in 1797.
Lawn Mower – Edwin Beard Budding
Lightbulbs – Humphry Davy, Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, James Bowman Lindsay Locomotive – Richard Trevithick
Power Loom – Edmund Cartwright

Little Nipper Mousetrap – James Henry Atkinson

Penicillin – Alexander Fleming
Penny Farthing – James Starley
Periodic Table – John Newlands
Periscope – Sir Howard Grubb
Polyester – John Rex Whinfield and James Tennant Dickson
Puckle Gun – John Puckle

Radar Locating of Aircraft – Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt
Radio (Underlying Principles) – James Clerk Maxwell
Rubber Bands – Stephen Perry
Rubber Masticator – Thomas Hancock

Seed Drill – Jethro Tull
Seismometer – James Forbes
Seismograph – John Milne, Sir James Alfred Ewing, Thomas Gray
Sewing Machines – Thomas Saint
Shrapnel – Henry Shrapnel
Steam Engine – Thomas Savery, Thomas Newcomen, James Watt
Steel Production – Sir Henry Bessemer
Submarine – William Bourne,
Spinning Jenny – James Hargreaves
Spinning Frame – Richard Arkwright
Spinning Mule – Samuel Crompton

Television – John Logie Baird
Thermos – Sir James Dewar
Toilet Paper – British Perforated Paper Company
Torpedo – Robert Whitehead 1866
Train – invented in 1822 by an English inventor named George Stephenson.

Umbrella (steel-ribbed) – Samuel Fox
Universal Joint – Robert Hooke (also Iris Diaphragm, Balance Spring)
Vacuum Cleaner – Hubert Cecil Booth
Viagra – Peter Dunn, Albert Wood, Dr Nicholas Terrett

Wacky Inventions – Arthur Paul Pedrick
Waterproof Fabric – Charles Macintosh
World Wide Web – Tim Berners-Lee

Come on Yanks, who’s the Daddy really?

Best answer:

Answer by Harry Ball
Hey Mr. Short Bus. American was settle by brits. That’s why we speak english.

Answer by Mantastic Voyage
It’s not the queen’s english, more of a slow and down syndromey half brother english.

Answer by heathers74
Why do English people have bad teeth? BTW_the US kicked your butt in the revolutonary war so shut up and go worship your queen

Albert Einstein, telephone, theory of relativity, amonst many others Ben Franklin, electricity where would you brits be without that?

Answer by Microterrors
You forgot one thing boy, we whooped your a-ss and are military today is far better than it was when we did it the first time.

Come on Limeys, who’s the Daddy really?

I am happy for the UK and world for these scientists and inventors from the UK. But such lists can be cobbled together by any nation. It is just that most of us do not have an inferiority complex and fell the need to do so.

We adopted the language from the original colonists whom settled here form Imperialist England. You do realize that the Anglo language is largely based on other European languages such as German. Do you?

Answer by misswrite1
Congratulations.

You win the prize for the most time on your hands on Y!A.

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