United Kingdom:Century to the present, revolutionizing the world
The United Kingdom, the full name of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, referred to as the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth, is located in northwestern Europe, with a total area of 243,610 square kilometers and a population of about 66.36 million.
The head of state of the United Kingdom is the British monarch under a constitutional monarchy, and the current monarch is Elizabeth II, who has been on the throne since the death of her father George VI in 1952.
On 6 February 2022, the Queen of England celebrated her Platinum Jubilee, becoming the first monarch in British history to celebrate the event.
Queen Elizabeth II passed away on September 8, 2022.
In the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II is a symbol of national unity and is loved by the people.
As one of the world's most common historical figures on stamps and currency, the Queen has always encouraged people to help each other and unite with each other, especially during her annual Christmas radio talk.
As a result, people around the world have long been familiar with her image and story.
Prince Charles, first in line to the British throne, has waited longer than Prince Franz I of Liechtenstein, becoming the longest-awaited monarch in European history to succeed to the throne, with 70 years and 3 months.
On September 8, 2022, Charles III succeeded his mother Elizabeth II on the throne as the new monarch of the United Kingdom.
In her letter to Burrell, Diana stated that Prince Charles had pushed her into the endless abyss. After a long time of suffering, she wrote: "The pain almost consumed me, but the strength within me kept telling me not to give up.
I was determined not to give in. Thank you, Charles, for pushing me into the abyss and giving me the opportunity to learn to be strong from this cruel environment. And my angels have been silently watching over me, and if it weren't for their lucky wings to shelter me from the wind and rain, how would I have survived the bleakest moments of my life......”
Although the Angel of Fortune sheltered her for a while, Diana's life did not prolong because of this, and she ended up in a car accident in Paris and left us forever after 10 months.
The UK is home to many global scientists, whose inventions and contributions have had a profound impact. Here are a few of them.
In 1803, Richard Trevisick, the British mechanical engineer and inventor, succeeded in creating the world's first wheel-rail steam locomotive, revolutionizing the field of modern transportation.
In 1876, the Englishman Alexander Graham Bell invented the world's first ** machine, which opened a new era of communication.
In 1926, Englishman John Roger Baird successfully used electrical signals to display images on screens, thus ushering in the era of television, a far-reaching mass communication medium.
In 1928, British bacteriologist Sir Alexander Fleming ushered in the era of antibiotics with a breakthrough discovery: penicillin.
In 1936, British physicist Sir Robert Watson Watt invented the first practical radar system, which made a great contribution to Britain's defense against German attacks in World War II.
Alan Matheson Turing was a British genius scientist known for his outstanding contributions to computer science, mathematics, logic, cryptanalysis, and theoretical biology.
He is known as the founder of the field of computer science and artificial intelligence.
The Turing machine model was proposed, which created a precedent for the way modern computer logic works. For this reason, NVIDIA named the core of its NVIDIA GeForce 16 series and NVIDIA GeForce 20 series graphics cards after Turing.
Charles Babbage, the British mathematician, is credited with being the founder of the programmable computer. His concept of a differential machine and an analytic machine, although only partially completed, opened up a new path for the development of computers.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, successfully implemented the first communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol client and a server on the World Wide Web on December 25, 1990.
He insisted that there should be no restrictions on the connectivity services provided by Internet service providers, and that user activity should not be monitored without the user's explicit consent.
Table tennis, a sport loved by the majority of Chinese, actually originated in the United Kingdom. Although it has now become China's "national sport", its roots are in the United Kingdom.
Originating in 19th-century England, the sport was once a recreation for aristocrats after dinner in the living room, and we called it "table tennis", or "indoor tennis".
The name of the table tennis ball comes from the sound of "ping pong" when it is struck, which can be traced back to the British manufacturer J. in 1901Jaques & Son Ltd registered it as a trademark.
Optical fiber, also known as optical fiber, is a communication tool that uses light to be transmitted by total internal reflection in glass or plastic fibers.
In 1880, Alexander Graham Bell invented **, which allowed people to talk over long distances. In 1887, British scientist Charles Vernon Boys successfully pulled the first optical fiber in the laboratory, paving the way for information transmission.
Englishman Percy Shaw created the cat's eye in 1933 and filed a patent application in the UK in May 1935.
The birth of stainless steel began when British scientist Henry Braerley was entrusted by the British military department arsenal to devote himself to the research of improvement. He had a dream to create an indestructible alloy steel.
In order to achieve this goal, together with his assistants, he searched for various types of steel at home and abroad, tried various formulas for smelting experiments, and finally gave birth to various alloy steels with different properties.
CT (computed tomography), also known as computed tomography or computed tomography. This technology was successfully developed by British physicist Hounsfield in 1971 and was first applied to the diagnosis of cranial diseases.
Later, in 1976, the technique was further extended to the whole body examination, marking a major revolution in the field of radiology.
Stephen Hawking was the first to combine general relativity and quantum mechanics to explain cosmology.
As Stephen Hawking said, even in the face of adversity, we should still hold on to life and respond positively. Giving up life is a wrong choice because no matter what our circumstances are, there is hope as long as we live. "
Since the 19th century, British inventions and innovations have been driving change in the world!
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