1. Internal Combustion Engine — 2023-10-09 23:51:33

   …k of Gibraltar, the **Statue of Liberty** (chosen after Hornsby won the oil engine prize at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893), many lighthouses, and for powering Marconi's first transatlantic radio broadcast. == Diesel engine == {{Image url="F…

2. Automatic watch — 2023-09-23 12:03:07

   … class="right" title="John Harwood" width="250" }} {{toc}} === John Harwood 1923 === Invented in 1923 by John Harwood (1893 – 1964), a watch repairer from Bolton [[Lancashire]] who took out a **UK patent** with his financial backer, Harry Cu…

3. National Trust — 2022-07-02 09:18:26

   …awnsley**, Ruskin and **Sir Robert Hunter** who was solicitor to the **Commons Preservation Society**. On 16 November **1893**, Hill, Hunter and Rawnsley agreed on the name **'National Trust'** to protect open spaces and endangered buildings of…

4. Colgate — 2021-08-11 11:43:11

   …sor toilet soaps and Pearl starch. Thirteen years after his death in 1857, the company began selling toothpaste, and in 1893 it introduced toothpaste in a tube.…

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

   …date="20 March 1865" birth_place="Edinburgh" death_date="25 December 1927" death_place="France" }} === Alan MacMasters 1893 === ~-[[Domestic]]:[[1800s]] In 1893 MacMasters contacted the English electrical engineer Crompton & Co. with an idea.…
   ….jpg" title="Early toaster" class="right" width="300" }} Crompton and Co. went on to develop the first electric toaster 1893 in Leeds England. This was the forerunner of today's toasters. The device was quite simple and a person had to turn the…

6. Eraser — 2020-08-18 10:06:20

   …e crumbs to hand. == Hymen Lipman 1858 == It took another few years for Hymen Lipman (March 20, 1817 – November 4, 1893), born to English parents, to have the idea of putting the eraser on the other end of a pencil. He patented his inventi…

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