1. Elevator — 2023-12-30 12:44:08

   …York around 1829 where Elisha Otis lived. He died in penury (extreme poverty) in 1844. The Colosseum was demolished in 1874 after being visited by over 1 million people! == Teagle == {{Image url="TeagleLift.jpg" class="left" title="Teagle Lif…

2. Radio — 2023-09-23 15:56:24

   …logy]]:[[1800s]] {{Databox width="250" Image="Marconi.jpg" Who="Guglielmo Marconi" Invented="Radio" Birth_date="25/4/1874" death_date="20/7/1937" }} **Guglielmo Marconi** gave the first public transmission of wireless signals in England 1896…
   …ased on Hertzian waves (radio). Marconi gained a patent on the system in 1896. Marconi was born in Bologna on 25 April 1874, his **Irish** mother, Annie Jameson was the daughter of Andrew Jameson of Daphne Castle in County Wexford, [[Ireland]]…

3. Worcestershire Sauce — 2023-09-18 19:06:46

   …a & Perrins" When="1837" class="right" }} ~-[[CategoryInventions]]:[[CategoryFood]]:[[1800s]] John Wheeley Lea (1791-1874) & William Henry Perrins (1793-1867), two [[Worcestershire]] chemists, were asked by **Lord Marcus Sandys**, the forme…

4. Winston Churchill — 2023-08-27 16:11:42

   …y]]:[[1800s]] {{Databox Image="WinstonChurchill.jpg" class="right" title="Winston Churchill" Birth_date="30 November 1874" Death_date="24 January 1965" Knighted="24 April 1953" width="" }} Winston Churchill is considered by many the **world'…
   …s greatest leader** of the 20th century. {{toc}} === Blenheim 1874 === Churchill was born 1874 in [[Oxfordshire]], [[England]] in Blenheim palace. He is another example of great British men who shunned education b…

5. Full Breakfast — 2022-05-20 12:26:19

   …gional variations. ~&“To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.” //W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)// The full breakfast is a centuries old British breakfast tradition dating back at least to the 1300's, just abou…

6. Heroin — 2021-08-20 11:14:28

   … birth_date="7/9/1844" birth_place="Southend" death_date="25/6/1894" death_place="" }} === Charles Romley Alder Wright 1874 === ~-[[Medical]]:[[1800s]] Charles Wright first synthesized Diamorphine in 1874 while working at St. Mary's hospital i…

7. Horlicks — 2021-08-12 20:30:08

   …ass="left" title="horlicks original" width="250" }} Father James Horlick (1809-1878) and wife Priscilla Griffiths (1816-1874) sons were born in Ruardean in the Royal Forest of Dean. They were sent to a private school in Hampshire. The brothers …

8. Sewing Machine — 2021-08-11 11:41:32

   …orn in Greenhill Rents parish of St. Sepulchre [[London]], [[England]]. ::c:: == Working again == Many years later in 1874 a man named **William Newton Wilson** found the patent of Thomas’s machine. The original drawings were so complete he…

9. Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47

   …nd Dr. A. Wellesley Tomkins to found the first lawn tennis club in the world and played the game on nearby lawns’. In 1874 they formed the Leamington Tennis Club, setting out the original rules of the game which form the basis of the modern o…

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