1. Toilet — 2023-09-08 09:57:11

   …made of china. Other makers at this stage included Josiah Wedgwood, Thomas Crapper and John Shanks. === Thomas Crapper 1880 === >>{{image url="Crapper.jpg" title="Thomas Crapper" width="180" }}>> Born 1836 Waterside, Yorkshire, England. Durin…
   …g the 1880s Thomas Crapper invented the siphonic system for emptying the cistern. This avoided the problem of leaks common with th…

2. Police — 2022-05-20 08:52:50

   …ould use to stand on to look over walls, a pair of '''handcuffs''' and a '''wooden rattle''' to raise the alarm. By the 1880s this rattle was replaced by a '''whistle'''. {{Image url="PoliceBox.jpg" class="right" title="Police Box" width="200" …

3. Bovril — 2021-08-14 20:09:04

   …n creating a product he called //'Johnston's Fluid Beef'//, that was later called **Bovril.** He returned to Britain in 1880 where he developed the brand further. He resided in his own '**Bovril Castle**' – Kingswood House in Sydenham.…

4. Fingerprints — 2021-08-14 20:06:49

   …c:: == Henry Faulds in Japan == {{image url="Dr_henry_faulds.jpg" class="left" title="Dr. Henry Faulds" width="" }} In 1880, Dr. Henry Faulds, a Scottish surgeon in a Tokyo hospital, published his first paper on the usefulness of fingerprints …

5. Vibrator — 2021-08-14 19:48:28

   …Vibrator :: === Joseph Mortimer Granville 1880 === ~-[[CategoryInventions]]:[[Medical]]:[[1800s]] {{Image url="FemaleHysteria.jpg" class="right" title="Female Hysteri…
   …a" width="300" }} Granville patented an **Electro-mechanical Vibrator** 1880. Originally called a percusser or more colloquially "**Granville's hammer**", the machine was manufactured and sold to…

6. Light Bulb — 2021-08-09 21:56:27

   …le filament, he decided to use cotton to produce "parchmentised thread" and obtained British Patent 4933 on 27 November 1880. /* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is commented out for reference only Edison patent was 4 Novembe…
   …r 1879 granted Jan 1880. on October 8, 1883 the US Patent Office ruled that Edison’s US Patent was invalid due to prior art by William Sawye…
   …~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ */ His home was the **first house in the world** to be illuminated by electric light. In **1880** Mosley St. in Newcastle had electric lighting and **Lord Armstrong's mansion** had electric lighting in November 1880…

7. Toothbrush — 2021-01-28 15:14:07

   …in 1808 leaving business to his eldest son, also called William. Addis began exporting products abroad to the US in the 1880’s. By the time WWII came along Addis employed 650 people and the first injection moulding machines were purchased and…

8. Electric Toaster — 2020-12-01 01:05:39

   …{image url="Light_bulb.gif" title="Incandescent light bulb" width="200" }}<< Crompton's reputation was such that, in 1880, the chemist [[Light Bulb|Joseph Swan]] sought his opinion when he first developed incandescent lamps for indoor use. C…

9. Suffolk Punch — 2020-11-30 16:25:44

   …ain in 1877 to promote the Suffolk Punch and started to be exported all over the world. Canada in 1865 United States in 1880 and later to France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Argentina and many more. {{tag id…

10. Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47

    …s built in Bedford Street to the North of the town in 1846 and survives to this day as a private club. == Table Tennis 1880 == The earliest known form of the sport, called indoor tennis, was played in Victorian England among the upper-class …
    …as an after-dinner parlour game. In the early 1880s by British army officers in India and South Africa, using lids from cigar boxes as paddles and rounded corks from wine…

11. Hydroelectric Power — 2020-08-17 09:05:43

    …on.** The electricity was also used to power an arc lamp installed in the Gallery in 1878. The arc lamp was replaced in 1880 by [[Light_bulb| Joseph Swan's incandescent lamps]]. It was the first //'smart home'// with electric incandescent ligh…

12. Table Tennis — 2016-06-23 13:01:14

    …Table Tennis :: [[CategorySport]] === Victorians 1880 === == Table Tennis == {{redirect page="Sport"}}…

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