25 inventions that changed the world economy
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While inventions, change and discovery have been part of human race since time immemorial, not all inventions have been game changers.
Let's take a look at 25 British inventions that have had a lasting impact on our lifestyle, according to Radio Times.
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Image: Pedestrians walk along Oxford Street in central London.
Photographs: Paul Hackett/Reuters
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ATM
Inventor: John Shepherd-Barron
Year: 1967
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Image: An ATM machine at Spain's lender bank Bankia in Madrid.
Photographs: Juan Medina/Reuters
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Electric motor
Inventor: Michael Faraday
Year: 1821
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Image: Lamborghini Murcielago in Milan, Italy.
Photographs: Paolo Bona/Reuters
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Chocolate bar
Inventor: JS Fry & Sons
Year: 1847
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Image: Giant gold-wrapped Easter bunnies in front of Switzerland's chocolate producer Lindt & Spruengli plant in Kilchberg near Zurich.
Photographs: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters
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Telephone
Inventor: Alexander Graham Bell
Year: 1876
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Image: A Sprint store in New York.
Photographs: Keith Bedford/Reuters
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Jet engine
Inventor: Frank Whittle
Year: 1937
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Image: An Alitalia plane passes an Air France plane on the tarmac of Charles de Gaulles International Airport in Roissy near Paris.
Photographs: Charles Platiau/Reuters
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World Wide Web
Inventor: Tim Berners-Lee
Year: 1989
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Image: Tourists use an iPad tablet in front of Rome's ancient Colosseum.
Photographs: Tony Gentile/Reuters
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Electronic programmable computer
Inventor: Tommy Flowers
Year: 1943
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Image: Apple CEO Tim Cook describes models of the iMac desktop computers during an event in San Jose, California.
Photographs: Robert Galbraith/Reuters
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Carbon fibre
Inventor: Royal Aircraft Establishment engineers
Year: 1963
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Image: An operator cuts through a sheet of carbon fiber at Strata, a composite aerostructures manufacturing plant, in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Photographs: Jumana El-Heloueh/Reuters
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Hovercraft
Inventor: Christopher Cockerell
Year: 1953
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Image: A South Korea coast guard hovercraft patrols on Han River in Seoul.
Photographs: Jo Yong hak/Reuters
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Television
Inventor: John Logie Baird
Year: 1925
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Image: Models pose next to a LG Electronics' OLED television in Seoul.
Photographs: Lee Jae Won/Reuters
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Pneumatic tyre
Inventor: John Boyd Dunlop
Year: 1887
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Image: A tyre factory in Hefei, Anhui province, China.
Photographs: Jianan Yu/Reuters
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Electric vacuum cleaner
Inventor: Hubert Cecil Booth
Year: 1901
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Image: Lacie Baldwin removes a vacuum cleaner from Chevrolet Suburban in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, United States.
Photographs: Andrea Hopkins/Reuters
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Photography
Inventor: William Henry Fox Talbot
Year: 1835
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Image: A photographer takes pictures at the Glen Canyon Dam in Page, Arizona, United States.
Photographs: Bob Strong/Reuters
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Passenger railway
Inventor: George Stephenson
Year: 1825
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Image: A high-speed train travelling to Guangzhou runs on Yongdinghe Bridge in Beijing.
Photographs: China Daily/Reuters
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Steam engine
Inventor: Richard Trevithick
Year: 1801
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Image: Driver of Tornado 60163 steam train stokes the engine before it moves for the first time at the Darlington Locomotive Works in Darlington, northern England.
Photographs: Nigel Roddis/Reuters
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Glider
Inventor: George Cayley
Year: 1804
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Image: Antares DLR-H2 motor glider rolls on the tarmac at the airport in Hamburg, Germany.
Photographs: Christian Charisius/Reuters
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Cement
Inventor: Joseph Aspdin
Year: 1824
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Image: A cement truck driver works in front of a construction site in Tomares, southern Spain.
Photographs: Marcelo del Pozo/Reuters
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Lawnmower
Inventor: Edwin Beard Budding
Year: 1827
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Image: Workers cut the grass around the Donbass Arena stadium in Donetsk, Ukraine.
Photographs: Charles Platiau/Reuters
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Sewage system
Inventor: Joseph Bazalgette
Year: 1865
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Image: Yorkshire Water project manager Steve Tindall drives a BMW mini cooper through a sewer system under the streets of Hull, United Kingdom.
Photographs: Darren Staples/Reuters
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Light bulb
Inventor: Joseph Swan
Year: 1880
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Image: An employee works inside a bulb-manufacturing factory in Kolkata.
Photographs: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters
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Stainless steel
Inventor: Harry Brearley
Year: 1913
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Image: Headquarters of Germany's top steelmaker ThyssenKrupp in Essen.
Photographs: Ina Fassbender/Reuters
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Safety bicycle
Inventor: John Kemp Stanley
Year: 1885
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Image: Google gym in Toronto.
Photographs: Mark Blinch/Reuters
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Collapsible baby buggy
Inventor: Owen Maclaren
Year: 1965
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Image: A Marylin Monroe lookalike blows a kiss to a boy in a baby buggy in Osaka, Japan.
Photographs: Eriko Sugita/Reuters
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Automatic kettle
Inventor: Peter Hobbs
Year: 1955
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Image: An employee tests electric kettles in Zhongshan, southern Chinese province of Guangdong.
Photographs: Siu Chiu/Reuters
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