Famous Brit Thread

The Famous Brit thread has been eaten somehow during the night. I will try to retrieve it later today, but I seriously think it's dead, as the file does not appear to be there to retrieve at all. Apologies to everyone, seems to have been a hiccup somewhere, which occasionally happens with computers. :-/

Ah, so this is what "losing the thread" means!

Damn computers!  I always think that if the good Lord had wanted us to have computers, he wouldn't have given us fingers, thumbs and toes to count with!

That's too bad, I thought it was an interesting topic. And I believe worthy of rekindling

OK

Here we go with a few famous Brits...

Charles Babbage.arguably the first computer.
John Napier, mathematician and inventor of the slide rule.
James Watt, steam power
James Dunlop, rubber tyres (tires for the US contingent)
Isaac Newton, mathematician, calculus and the laws of motion
Alexander Graham Bell, telephone.
James Hargreaves, spinning machines for making fabrics (Spinning Jenny)
Thomas Newcomen - atmospheric steam engine
Alexander Flemming, penicillin
Joseph Lister, antiseptics
Bertrand Russell, mathematician

Not to mention William Shakespeare, John Milton, Charles Lamb, William Wordsworth, Robert Burns and Charlie Chaplin.

mmmmmmm well all brits are famous arent we???

I'm not famous, sadly. Perhaps we could have a "completely unknown Brit" thread

Mister Nibbles, you are so modest!  Of course you're famous!  

OK

Here we go with a few famous Brits...

Charles Babbage.arguably the first computer.
John Napier, mathematician and inventor of the slide rule.
James Watt, steam power
James Dunlop, rubber tyres (tires for the US contingent)
Isaac Newton, mathematician, calculus and the laws of motion
Alexander Graham Bell, telephone.
James Hargreaves, spinning machines for making fabrics (Spinning Jenny)
Thomas Newcomen - atmospheric steam engine
Alexander Flemming, penicillin
Joseph Lister, antiseptics
Bertrand Russell, mathematician

Not to mention William Shakespeare, John Milton, Charles Lamb, William Wordsworth, Robert Burns and Charlie Chaplin.

Funny how they're all men tho....isn't there room for the female of the species

Funny how they're all men tho....isn't there room for the female of the species

I should think so! Apart from myself there are many notable British women:

Florence Nightingale (1st modern style nurse)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (poet)
Emmeline Pankhurst (suffragette)
Amy Johnson (aviator, first woman to fly from UK to Australia)
Elizabeth Garratt Anderson (UK's 1st woman doctor)
Marie Stopes (scientist/eugenicist)
Jane Austen (author)
Emily Bronte (author)
Charlotte Bronte (author)
Nancy Astor (1st woman in Parliament)
Claire Francis (round the world yachting)