One of the problems of including Alan Turing is that Generals and politicians made the history in the Second World War not scientists, otherwise Barnes Wallis, Werner von Braun, Alan Turing, Reginald Mitchell, Sidney Camm, Frank Whittle, Willi Messerschmidt and others would have been the real "stars" of conflict not Montgomery, Eisenhower, Rommel, Slim, Patton, Kesselring, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin and Hitler.
A side effect, and probably the longest lasting effect of Turing's work was the digital computer, the first example of which was built at Manchester University before the U.S. had one. An offshoot of research into radar was a form of the magnetron that gave us the microwave oven.
There have been many inventions made in this country, or at least those where we have been in the forefront of their development such as radar, the jet engine, sonar, steam engine, television and so on. The development of stationary steam engines allowed industrialisation on a grand scale with the building of the "dark satanic mills" and this trend brought us ships like the Great Western and Great Eastern, railways and allowed us to maintain an empire (like it or not) and post-empire meant we could keep pace with technology despite us being a fraction of the size and resources of rivals such as the U.S.
