List of English inventors and designers

This is a list of English inventors and designers.

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  • Margaret Calvert (1936– ), graphic designer who designed many of the road signs used throughout the United Kingdom.
  • George Cayley (1773–1854), man-carrying glider, tension spoke wheels, hot air engine, continuous track "universal railway" vehicle propulsion system.
  • Imran Chaudhri (1973– ) invented the user interface and interactions of the iPhone, also worked on the Mac, iPod, iPad, Apple TV and Apple Watch.
  • Terence Conran (1931– ), designer.
  • David Constantine, designer of wheelchairs for sports and rugged terrain in the developing world.[2]

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  • Rick Dickinson (c. 1957–2018), designer of early computers, the touch-sensitive keyboard, as well as the rubber keyboard of the ZX Spectrum.

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  • Jonathan Ive (1967– ), Chief Design Officer of Apple Inc. and designer of many of Apple's products, including the MacBook Pro, iMac, MacBook Air, Mac mini, iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad, iPad Mini, Apple Watch and iOS.

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  • Tom Karen (1926–), industrial designer who designed cars, bicycles, and radios in the 1970s.
  • Jock Kinneir (1917–1994), graphic designer who designed many of the road signs used throughout the United Kingdom.

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See also

References

  1. "Couch potatoes armed with Viewcall can surf the Web through the tube". InfoWorld. 18 December 1995. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  2. "Our story". Motivation. Retrieved 27 November 2016.

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