1. Split the Atom — 2023-10-10 00:05:57

   …|{{Databox who="John Cockcroft" birth_date="27 May 1897" birth_place="Todmorden" death_date="18 Sep 1967" death_place="Cambridge" }}||{{Databox who="Ernest Walton" birth_date="06 Oct 1903" birth_place="Dungarvan, [[Ireland]]" death_date="25 Jun 19…
   …tle="Split Atom" width="200" }} == Prototype == Working in a vacant room at Ernest Rutherford's Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, [[Cambridgeshire]], [[England]], Englishman Cockcroft and Irishman Walton used spare parts along with som…

2. Vacuum Flask — 2023-10-09 23:46:28

   …20, 1842 and was educated at Edinburgh University. {{{toc}}} In 1875 he became professor of experimental philosophy at Cambridge and then at the Royal Institution in 1877. {{Image url="Flask.jpg" width="300" class="right" }} He researched the liqu…

3. Webcam — 2023-10-09 11:44:50

   …lace="" }} === Quentin Stafford-Fraser - 1991 === The first webcam was developed by the Computer Science Department at Cambridge University. In 1991 it broadcast images of their coffee machine from the Trojan Room. As the web gained popularity the…

4. Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35

   … caption="Inventor" Image="Cockerell.jpg" Who="Christopher Cockerell" width="300" birth_date="4 June 1910" birth_place="Cambridge" death_date="1 June 1999" death_place="Hythe" }} === Christopher Cockerell 1956 === ~-[[CategoryInventions]]: [[Catego…
   …my were plain not interested." ^^ //Quote from Cockerell.// == Family == The Cockerells were a talented family from [[Cambridgeshire]]. The sons of Sydney John Cockerell, a London coal merchant,and Alice nee Bennett, the daughter of a City watchma…
   …and innovative designer of marbled papers. Despite an interest in the arts, Christopher read Engineering at Peterhouse, Cambridge. After Cambridge he worked for the Radio Research company until 1935 and then for the Marconi Wireless Telegraph compan…

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

   …*Atomic Bomb** technology to the annoyance of the patent holders. P.S. Oppenheimer had been a student of Rutherford at Cambridge University. >>{{amazon type="book" items="1594161631" }}>> His British Bulldog virtues pulled the country behind him.…

6. Olivia Newton John — 2023-04-06 17:15:33

   …width="" Image="Olivia+Newton-John.jpg" Who="Olivia Newton John" width="" birth_date="September 26th 1948" birth_place="Cambridge" death_date="8/8/2022" death_place="California" }} [[Music]] == Olivia Newton-John == Olivia Newton-John is a singer, …
   …songwriter and actress. === Cambridge England 1948 === Olivia Newton-John was born in [[Cambridgeshire]], England on September 26th 1948. Her father, Brinley "Bryn" Newton-John was Welsh and her Jewish mother, Irene H…

7. Cambridge Cream — 2022-05-20 08:48:45

   …bourgeois' of 1691, but it is called **'crème à l'Angloise'**. The pudding had been on the menu at Trinity College, Cambridge, for at least 60 years by then. In the 1600's they called it **Cambridge cream**, **Trinity cream** or simply **Burn…
   …t cream**. === Trinity College ~1630 === The college in [[Cambridgeshire]] even has an iron with the official college crest which is used to burn the sugar topping. == Recipe == Ingred…

8. Vitamins — 2021-08-16 09:52:16

   …d, disease occurred. {{{toc}}} {{Image url="Vitamins.jpg" width="100" class="left"}} Fletcher entered Caius College, **Cambridge**, in 1890, obtained a scholarship to St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, from which he qualified in 1896. He held a res…

9. DNA — 2021-08-14 21:04:12

   …ne. {{Image url="DNA-Eagle-Pub-Cambridge.jpg" class="right" title="DNA plaque outside the Eagle Pub Cambridge" width="400" }} They proposed that the DNA molecule takes the shape of a double helix, an elegantly simple structure t…

10. Stem Cells — 2020-08-17 17:30:21

    …orn 1 January 1941, Stroud, [[Gloucestershire]]. In 1978, he moved to the Department of Genetics, at the University of Cambridge, and in 1980 began his collaboration with Matthew Kaufman. They explored the method of using blastocysts for the isolat…

11. Plastic Surgery — 2020-08-06 08:24:01

    …ical]]::[[1900s]] Gillies developed the techniques of modern plastic surgery. A New Zealander who studied medicine in Cambridge, England later he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and worked as a medical minder during the Great War where he expe…
    …Gillies Plastic Surgery" width="" }}::cl:: He returned from the battle fields to establish a facial injury ward at the Cambridge Military Hospital and later in Sidcup in 1917. There he and his colleagues performed around 11,000 operations on more …

12. Gravity — 2020-08-06 08:19:13

    … in 1642 in a manor house in [[Lincolnshire]], [[England]]. He was not interested in the family farm, so he was sent to Cambridge University to study. ||{{{toc}}}||{{adsense}}|| Isaac (1642 - 1727) was born just a short time after the death of Gali…
    …them. Isaac published his most famous book, Principia, in 1687 while he was a mathematics professor at Trinity College, Cambridge. == Principia 1687 == >> {{adsense}}>> Isaac explained three basic laws that govern the way objects move in his publi…

13. Crème Brulee — 2016-05-12 13:24:41

    …Crème Brulee :: [[CategoryFood]]== Crème Brulee == === Trinity College ~1630 === {{redirect page="Cambridge Cream"}}…

14. Cambridgeshire — 2016-01-17 16:53:21

    …Cambridgeshire :: [[England]] {{Category}} Inventions made up in Cambridgeshire…

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