Welcome to the catalogue of UK inventions and innovations that have shaped the modern world.

The citeria for inclusion is anything created or developed in the UK by a UK citizen or not, or outside the UK by a UK citizen.

That would include the invention of the World Wide Web itself by Sir Tim Berners-Lee when he was working at CERN, in Switzerland.

Our timeframe for inclusion runs from the end of World War 2, to the present day.

The earliest entry is Arthur C Clark’s proposal for communication satellites which he published in October 1945. The most recent entry is the world-wide phenomenon that is Wordle, invented by Josh Wardle in October 2021.