Scientific and Technological

Contributions from the United

Kingdom
 The history of science
and technology in the
United Kingdom It is one
of the most important,
given the position of
scientific and economic
leadership of that
country during the
scientific (17th century)
and industrial
revolutions (18th to 20th
centuries).
 Isaac Newton
•He was an English physicist,
theologian, inventor, alchemist
and mathematician. He is the
author of the Principia, where he
describes the law of universal
gravitation and established the
foundations of classical mechanics
through the laws that bear his
name.
Stephen
Hawking
•He was a theoretical physicist,
astrophysicist, cosmologist and
British scientific popularizer. His
most important works
consisted of contributing,
within the framework of
general relativity and the
theoretical prediction that black
holes would emit radiation,
what is known today as
Hawking radiation.
Charles Darwin

He was an English naturalist, recognized for being the

most influential scientist of those who raised the idea
of ​biological evolution through natural selection,
justifying it in his work The Origin of Species.
Alan Turing

He was a mathematician,
logician, computer scientist,
cryptographer, philosopher,
theoretical biologist,
marathoner and British
ultra-distance runner. He is
considered one of the
parents of computer science
1. The
Reflecting
Telescope
•By Isaac Newton in 1668
•First up on our list of some of the greatest
British inventions comes from one of the
greatest scientists of all time.

•Devised by Isaac Newton in 1668, the

reflecting telescope changed the field of
astronomy forever.

•It was designed as an alternative to the

refracting telescope which suffered from severe
chromatic aberration.
2. The
Steam
Engine 
•The first practical patent for an
atmospheric pressure steam engine
was filed by Thomas Savery in 1698.
•Over the next one hundred years or
so visionaries like Thomas
Newcomen, James Watt and finally
Richard Trevithick would refine the
design to produce steam engines
small enough for uses in things like
locomotives.
 3. The First
Mass-
produced
toothbrush 
•The toothbrush you are familiar with today was
invented sometime between 1770 and 1780 by
William Addis.
•The idea came to him whilst in jail for causing a
riot.
•He noted that using a rag with soot and salt to
clean teeth was ineffective and vowed to develop
an easier solution.
•He founded the manufacturing company Wisdom
 that still makes them to this day. 
 4.The First
Patented
Pneumatic
Tire
•The first patent for what we would
call a pneumatic tire was filed
in 1847 by Robert William Thomson.
•This was never produced, however.
•The very first practical tire was first
created by John Boyd Dunlop
in 1888.
DYNAMIC
1-Who invented the reflecting telescope? ( )
A. Wisdom
2-What is the name of the first toothbrush B. 1698
company? ( )
C. Principia
3-What is the name of the work of Charles D. Isaac Newton
Darwin? ( )
E. Alan Turing
4-Who is considered one of the parents of
F. The Origin of Species
computer science? ( )
5-Who is the author of the Principia? ( )
6-When was the first patent for the atmospheric
pressure steam engine filed? ( )