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  1. Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35
    …1956.** {{{toc}}} One of the most successful inventions of the 20th century, the Hovercraft, was originally tested in **1955** using an empty ""KiteKat"" cat food tin inside a coffee tin, a vacuum cleaner and a pair of kitchen scales. This led …
    … most of the air, hence creating lift. Cockerell had set up a company, Ripplecraft, to develop his ideas further and in 1955 he eventually convinced the Ministry of Supply to back his project. He had a hard time trying to convince the military:…
  2. WorldWideWeb — 2023-09-23 15:57:32
    …ldWideWeb :: {{Databox caption="Inventor" Image="Bernerslee.jpg" width="280" title="Tim Berners-Lee" birth_date="8 Jun 1955" birth_place="London" death_date="now" death_place="" }} === Tim Berners-Lee 1990 === ~-[[Communication]]:[[Technology…
    …vent_date="6 August 1991" First web page goes online */ ||{{{toc}}}||{{adsense}}|| == World Wide Web == Born 8th June 1955 [[London]] [[England]]. He graduated from Oxford, and landed a temporary contract job as a software consultant at CERN …
  3. Atomic Clock — 2021-08-20 10:45:05
    … September 1908" birth_place="Nottingham" death_date="24 August 1997" death_place="" }} === Louis Essen and Jack Parry 1955 === ~-[[CategoryScience]]:[[1900s]] In 1955, Louis Essen and Jack Parry built the world's first caesium atomic clock at…
    …hout the world. {{Image url="AtomicClock.jpg" class="left" title="Jack Parry & Louis Essen with the first Atomic Clock 1955" width="700" }} ::c:: == Atomic Clock == Essen based his clock on caesium because ~& 'An atom will always have the s…
  4. Antibiotics — 2021-08-20 10:41:08
    …age="Alexander_Fleming.jpg" Who="Alexander Fleming" width="" birth_date="06 Aug 1881" birth_place="" death_date="11 Mar 1955" death_place="" }} === Alexander Fleming 1928 === ~-[[CategoryScience]]:[[Medical]]:[[1900s]] On the 3 September **192…
  5. Automatic Kettle — 2021-08-14 20:44:42
    1955 and was superseded by the more elegant K2, a modestly curvaceous design originally produced in spun copper and polished…
    … chrome. ==1955== Before this kettle was introduced in 1955, boiling water by electricity could be a hazardous affair. Not only did some early electric kettles boil the water by m…
  6. Salicylic acid — 2021-08-08 18:32:13
    …st widely used drug. ^^"There are no countries in which it is unknown, unappreciated, or unavailable" Berton Roueché 1955^^ The drug works as a pain reliever because it blocks an enzyme that's required for the process of inflammatory respon…
  7. Vacuum cleaner — 2020-10-11 23:24:10
    …e="HubertCecilBooth.jpg" Who="Hubert Cecil Booth" birth_date="4 July 1871" birth_place="Gloucester" death_date="14 Jan 1955" death_place="Croydon" width="300" }} === Hubert Cecil Booth 1901 === ~-[[CategoryInventions]]::[[Domestic]]::[[1900…
  8. Sinoatrial Node — 2020-08-15 18:08:00
    … enters that chamber. == The Answer == {{Image url="Sir_Arthur_Keith.jpg" class="left" title="Sir Arthur Keith 1866–1955" width="" }} Keith quickly realised that this structure closely resembled the atrioventricular node as described by Su…

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