Bringing Italy to America

[David P]

Ok, so Lucas are not a shining example of British Engineering. But you have to admit that for such a curious little island they have come up with one or two good ideas over the years.....

pneumatic tyres
television
telephone
tarmacadam
penecillin

although thinking about it most of those were invented by Scots, and Lucas is (was) English. Ahh now I see a trend!

Marshall amps
Vox amps
Altoids mints

earl grey tea?

ok Im blank now

 

[BMCG]

The Lucas/Triumph examples - whilst true of the 70's - don't do justice to current British engineering, herewith but 2 examples

1. Formula 1 Racing - dominated by Brits and British engineering: a sport that represents the leading edge intersection of computational fluid dynamics and real time solid dynamics (aka chassis engineering).

2. Thrust SSC - land speed world record holder, first vehicle to go faster than speed of sound on land.

3. WWW - founder Tim Berner's Lee was a British computer scientist at CERN.

And as an Aussie I love seeing the Poms get there comeuppance...but i also prefer a factual fight

 

[Couv]

Bond, James Bond.

 

[runway1]

The Lucas/Triumph examples - whilst true of the 70's - don't do justice to current British engineering, herewith but 2 examples

1. Formula 1 Racing - dominated by Brits and British engineering: a sport that represents the leading edge intersection of computational fluid dynamics and real time solid dynamics (aka chassis engineering).

2. Thrust SSC - land speed world record holder, first vehicle to go faster than speed of sound on land.

3. WWW - founder Tim Berner's Lee was a British computer scientist at CERN.

And as an Aussie I love seeing the Poms get there comeuppance...but i also prefer a factual fight

F1 racing? Ever heard of that little group....Ferrari? Been kicking brit butt for 50 years on every track in Europe. Sure Jean Todt (Frenchman, God forbid) is the President, but all the engineers, engineering tunnel work and fabrication is in Italy. Brits can't touch 'em.

 

[tridacna]

F1 racing? Ever heard of that little group....Ferrari? Been kicking brit butt for 50 years on every track in Europe. Sure Jean Todt (Frenchman, God forbid) is the President, but all the engineers, engineering tunnel work and fabrication is in Italy. Brits can't touch 'em.

fftopic: fftopic: fftopic: fftopic:

The poms gave us Monty Python. Nuff said. Who cares about the rest? :monkeydan

 

[BMCG]

Ahh yes Ferrari - might I point out that during their halcyon years (no pun) 2000-2004 with Schumi, it was the engineering team Schumi brought with him from Benetton in 1997 that led the turn around...and it took them nigh on 3 yrs to resurrect Ferrari.

Otherwise there was a slight drought from 1979 (Jody Schekter) to 2000...when Schumi won for the Scuderia again...during this 21 year drought its fair to say that British teams - Mclaren with 9 [1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998, 1999], and Williams with 7 [1980, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997] rather dominated the driver's championships.


For further on the British influence at Ferrari, c.f.:

Tech Director Ross Brawn - English....Ross Brawn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chief Designer Rory Byrne - South African who relocated to England in 1972...Rory Byrne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Other prominent British/British-developed tech directors/designers of note in F1:

Patrick Head, Adrian Newey,John Barnard, Gordon Murray, Neil Oatley, Harvey Postlethwaite, Mike Gascoyne, Pat Symonds....

Point made me thinks.

 

[Couv]

OK, I think we have answered the OP's question.....next!

 

[Geoff_H]

Hope this was being sarchastic. I'm a pro-Brit fellow but honestly, I certainly wouldn't tout their engineering prowess

Ouch.

I don't think you would be getting much diving done without getting bent (Haldane), nor flying to many diving places without jet engines (Whittle).

You wouldn't have seen any dive sites on TV either (Logie Baird)

You also wouldn't be booking many resorts without the telephone (Bell) or the world wide web (Berners Lee).

I guess the Brits didn't contribute much of any use to modern society with their invention or engineering of the above items!

 

[Packhorse]

- Mclaren with 9 [1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1998, 1999], ....

Mclaren was started by a Kiwi call Bruce.

 

[offthewall1]

This has been a hijacked thread if I ever saw one... LOL... but entertaining none-the-less.