The thoughts of the chairman - FloridaBrit's Blog!

I was having a coonversation with my US wife about something and it ended up she said to me -"what have the British ever done" !!
So here it is-what we have given the world -I probably dont have enough room but I'll give it a shot.
Democracy
Bill of rights
Churchill
Soccer (football-modern game)
Cricket
tennis
Rugby
poetry-Keats, Byron, Shelly
authors - Shakespeare, Dickens, Bronte, Christie, rowling, Greene,JM Barrie(Peter pan), AA Milne(pooh)
The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Queen, Bowie, Elton, rod, Sabbath, Deep Purple,kinks, Who,collins,etc
great actors like Cary Grant, Bob Hope, Charlie Chaplin, guilgud,Olivier,elliot.
and how about inventors and scientists
Isaac newton
Fleming-penecillin
rutherford (split the atom)
sir frank whittle (jet engine)
Sir Christopher cockerill (hovercraft)
James Watt-Steam engine
Isambard kingdom brunel-engineer, bridge builder
John Logie baird-Television
Frederick William Lanchester - Disk Brakes
Joseph Aspdin -Portland Cement
William Sturgeon-electromagnets
Samuel Brown-Internal combustion engine
John Newlands -periodic table
Alexander bain_ fax machine
Richard Trevithick - Locomotive
thats without all our explorers like Sir Francis Drake
and sir edmund Hillary-1st person to climb everest
and of course Tim Berners-Lee, the Brit who invented and then gave away the World Wide Web. and finally....

Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He moved to Canada when he was 23 and only then migrated to the USA. He was British so Brits can rightly claim the telephone is a British invention.

etc etc etc
Next time you see a brit- shake thier hand and say thank you !
:-)