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| Designers |
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| London Underground map (1932) |
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Harry Beck | |
| Steamships Great Eastern, Great Western, Great Britain; Clifton Suspension Bridge, Royal Albert Bridge, Paddington station; Tamar Bridge, Saltash |
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Isambard Kingdom Brunel | |
| Hurricane (chief designer) |
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Sydney Camm | |
| Chupa Chups logo |
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Salvador Dali | |
| Mosquito (fighter–bomber) |
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Sir Geoffrey de Havilland | |
| Kodak camera |
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George Eastman | |
| Oscar Wilde's tombstone (Pere Lachaise Cemetery, Paris) – US–born British sculptor |
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Jacob Epstein | |
| London's Millennium Bridge |
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Lord (Sir Norman) Foster | |
| The geodesic dome (US engineer and architect); the discoverers of the allotrope of carbon informally known as 'buckyballs', named it after him because it has a similar structure |
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Richard Buckminster Fuller | |
| The first commercially successful steamboat (1807), and the first steam warship (1814) |
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Robert Fulton | |
| Mallard, Flying Scotsman (railway locomotives) |
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Sir Nigel Gresley | |
| B of the Bang (public art sculpture, Manchester 2002-9); London 2012 "Olympic cauldron"; New Routemaster bus (entered service 2012 – a.k.a. the Borisbus) |
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Thomas Heatherwick | |
| Mirror dinghy (69,744 registered before his death in 1995) |
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Jack Holt | |
| Morris Minor, and the Mini–Minor (the BMC/Leyland Mini) |
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Sir Alec Issigonis | |
| British–born designer (born 1967) of many Apple products, including Mac computers, iPods, iPhone, iPads, Apple Watch – knighted in 2012 |
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Jonathan Ive | |
| Coke bottle, Lucky Strike cigarette packet, Shell logo (French–born) |
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Raymond Loewy | |
| The Cenotaph (erected 1920); Memorial to the Missing of the Somme (Thiepval) |
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Sir Edwin Lutyens | |
| Bf–109 (won a competition in 1935 to design a fighter plane for the Luftwaffe) |
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Willy Messerschmitt | |
| Spitfire |
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Sir Reginald Mitchell | |
| VW Beetle |
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Ferdinand Porsche | |
| Nelson's Column |
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William Railton | |
| The original Ark Royal |
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Sir Walter Raleigh | |
| The first successful helicopter, and the first four–engined aircraft |
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Igor Sikorsky | |
| Inventor of the first pocket calculator (building on the first hand–held calculator, developed by Texas Instruments), the ZX Spectrum and QL personal computers, the C5 electric "vehicle", the Zike (an electric bicycle, 1992) and the A–bike (a folding bicycle for commuters) |
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Sir Clive Sinclair | |
| Britannia Bridge (Menai Straits); High Level Bridge (linking Gateshead and Newcastle upon Tyne by both road and rail) |
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Robert Stephenson |
| Menai Suspension Bridge, Conw(a)y Bridge |
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Thomas Telford | |
| The first steam locomotive (1804) |
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Richard Trevithick | |
| Swiss national icon, designed in 1944 by Hans Hilfiker: features in an art installation by Konstantin Grcic, which was installed outside Canary Wharf underground station in 1999 |
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Swiss railway clock |
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