British inventions

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Lord Jagged

Woah!
We invented the Guillotine. eek

Quote:

Doctor Joseph Ignace Guillotin 1738 - 1814

British?  

[Moomba666]

Wow we rock! The Middle Ages has gotta be the best period, the Trebuchet, the intestine condoms, and the humble castle.  

[Lord Jagged]

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[Moomba666]

Another point to Britain. Take that France! blaugh  

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Lord Jagged

http://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/BestifBrits.htm

During the French Revolution M. Guillotin invented a machine for slicing off heads quickly and painlessly. It was pretty successful ? though not quite so clean-cut as some people imagine. It took a couple of chops to get through fat King Louis? neck. But the idea was 500 years after a British invention, ?The Halifax Gibbet? because.....

The Guillotine wasn?t a French invention. There was one in Halifax, West Yorkshire, from the 13th to the 17th century. The earliest recorded execution was in 1286. Convicted criminals did have one thing going for them. For hundreds of years the law stated that if a condemned person could withdraw his or her head after the blade was released and before it hit the bottom, then he or she was free. The good old British idea of a ?sporting chance?. The one condition: that person could never return.

eek Bloody hell!  

[Moomba666]

Ahhh beats electric chair  

[A Lost Iguana]

Best: Cat flaps (Newton)

Worst: Concentration camps (Boer War, although it can be debated).  

[Knightsedge]

'Sporting chance' biggrin  

[Sir F. Nietzsche]

Is there anything we didn't invent? Really! wink

Hmmm

I guess the computer would be high up on my list but the best would have to be........

Humour. No other country has come close, Monty Python, Douglas Adams and Terry Pratchett. Beat that!  

[Moomba666]

Yay Noodles! Too right on the computer front!

And yeah Terry Pratchett is great. I love Mort, very funny read!  

[illyrianth]

Richard Trevithick and the steam engine?  

[Invictus_88]

You guys, we invented the internet too. A minor point, I'm sure..

rolleyes  

[Moomba666]

Internet suckS! stare  

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Moomba666

Internet suckS! stare

Internet rocks...and how else would you get your porn. Luke.  

[Moomba666]

I was being slightly sarcastic there... xd