Tassie not to rubbish ur reply but none of the things you mentioned were inventions.
ie you cant invent Mozart , he was a person and the role he took was to write and play music. Mozart did not invent music.
Nicholas August invented the internal combustion engine ,, so with BMW you were partially correct.
ok brit inventions
LIGHTBULBS,TARMAC. TELEVISION, PENICILIN, ANAESTHETICS, PNEUMATIC TYRES, TELEGRAPH, COMPUTERS, TELEPHONES,MICROWAVE OVENS , RADAR, FAX MACHINES,ELECTRIC MOTOR,SUBMARINE,VACCUM CLEANER, STEAM ENGINE, NOT TO MENTION THE SINCLAIR C5