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  1. Computer — 2023-10-09 23:40:16
    …Computer :: {{Databox caption="Inventor" Image="Babbage.jpg" Who="Charles Babbage" width="300" birth_date="26 December 1791" birth_place="London" death_date="18 October 1871" death_place="Lon…
    …don" }} == Computer == ~-[[CategoryInventions]]: [[Technology]]: [[1800s]] {{{toc}}} ===Charles Babbage 1825 === Charles Babbage (1791 – 1871) was born in [[London]], [[England]]. A mathematician, philosopher, mechanical engineer and comp…
  2. Pedestrian Crossing — 2023-10-07 11:08:59
    …approved. MP James Callaghan commented that the design resembled zebra markings and the terminology stuck. === George Charlesworth 1951 === Traffic engineer George Charlesworth had worked on the Barnes Wallis-designed [[Bouncing_bomb]] was dubbe…
    …d ‘Dr Zebra’. Charlesworth headed the team who pioneered the black-and-white markings pilot schemes that led to the markings being adopted un…
  3. Marshall Amplification — 2023-10-07 09:45:58
    …JimMarshall.jpg" class="right" title="Jim Marshall" width="300" birth_date="29/7/1923" death_date="5/4/2012" }} James Charles Marshall, OBE (1923 – 2012) was born in Acton, West [[London]], [[England]]. By the age of 14, he had given up on fo…
  4. Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52
    …trical telegraph, the **Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph**, was co-developed and patented by William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone. It was beautifully simple using electromagnetism to turn five needles left or right to point to letters. T…
  5. Crufts — 2022-05-03 17:14:00
    …Crufts :: {{Databox caption="Creator" Image="CharlesCruft.jpg" " title="Charles Cruft" width="390" birth_date="28 Jun 1852" birth_place="" death_date="10 Sep 1938" death_place="Highbury" }} [[Livest…
    … largest dog show in the world. {{Image url="CruftsWinner.jpg" class="left" title="Crufts Winner" width="" }} ::c:: === Charles Cruft 1886 === Crufts was named after its founder, Charles Alfred Cruft, who worked as general manager for a dog biscu…
    …it manufacturer. Charles was born in 1852 Bloomsbury [[Sussex]], [[England]]. {{Image url="CruftsAgility.jpg" class="right" title="Crufts Agili…
  6. Heroin — 2021-08-20 11:14:28
    …Heroin :: {{Databox caption="Inventor" Image="CharlesWright.jpg" Who="Charles Wright" width="400" 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 in [[London]]. {{TOC}} Wright was se…
    …vered a more potent version of morphine by boiling anhydrous morphine alkaloid with acetic anhydride. == Effective == Charles tested his new drug with colleague F. M. Pierce but observations showed it was not without its own side effects. Wright…
  7. Charlie Chaplin — 2021-08-20 11:11:51
    …ther provided no support for his children causing Chaplin to be sent to the workhouse at the age of seven. {{image url="Charles_Chaplin_young.jpg" class="right" title="A young Charlie" width="240" }} Chaplin spent his childhood going in and out o…
  8. Fish and chips — 2021-08-14 20:10:50
    …to rationing. === Tommyfield 1860 === The dish grew popular in [[London]] and South East England in the 19th century. Charles Dickens mentions a "fried fish warehouse" in //Oliver Twist//, first published in 1838, while in the north of [[England…
  9. Fingerprints — 2021-08-14 20:06:49
    … dismissed at that time. {{image url="fingerprint.jpg" class="right" title="fingerprint" width="" }} Faulds wrote to [[Charles_Darwin|Charles Darwin]] with his method but, too old and ill to work on it, Darwin gave the information to his cousin,…
  10. Hypodermic Syringe — 2021-08-12 20:33:54
    …ollow needle. Alexander Wood was the first to develop a syringe with a needle fine enough to pierce the skin in 1853. Charles Gabriel Pravaz of Lyon was making a similar syringe which quickly came into use in many surgeries under the name of 'Th…
  11. Rubber — 2021-08-12 20:24:10
    …ber but the **vulcanizing** or, making it durable. {{toc}} The process of vulcanising rubber is usually associated with Charles Goodyear, but the process was being used and was patented before Mr Goodyear made his 'discovery'. Thomas Hancock (178…
    …he masticating process a secret for 10 years. The advantages of the Hancock rubber masticator caught the interest of **Charles Macintosh** (1766-1843), who in 1823 had patented a process for waterproofing fabrics with naphtha-treated rubber. Hanc…
    …otect his methods. Three weeks later, on June 15, 1845, Goodyear took out a patent in the United States. Later in 1851 Charles Goodyear was awarded another patent for Improvement in the Manufacture of Indian Rubber. This was a reworking of the Ha…
  12. Nature Reserve — 2021-08-09 22:30:53
    …Nature Reserve :: {{Databox caption="Creator" Image="Waterton.jpg" Who="Charles Waterton" width="280" birth_date="3 June 1782" birth_place="Walton Hall, Wakefield" death_date="27 May 1865" death_pl…
    …ace="" }} === Charles Waterton 1820 === ~- [[Society]]:[[1800s]] {{toc}} In the 1820s Waterton, an English naturalist and explorer, built a n…
  13. Pub — 2021-08-09 21:19:14
    … as ‘The Kings Arms’ ‘Royal Oak’ or ‘Queens Head’. The Royal Oak is the English oak tree within which King Charles II of England hid to escape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester in 1651. In fact pub signs commemorate ma…
  14. Australia — 2021-08-08 18:36:08
    …supplies, and with 94 men aboard. Accompanying Cook were Joseph Banks, the botanist, Daniel Solander, a naturalist, and Charles Green, from the Greenwich Observatory. Cook sighted New Zealand on 6 October 1769, and landed at Poverty Bay two days …
  15. Electric Toaster — 2020-12-01 01:05:39
    …at Sharow, near Ripon in Yorkshire, along with 19 other boys, aged between 7 and 15. One of his fellow pupils there was Charles Dodgson, better known as **Lewis Carroll**, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Cromptons many inventions enab…
  16. Milk of Magnesia — 2020-08-09 19:55:03
    …sician to Anglesey and knighted. {{Image url="MilkofMagnesia.jpg" class="left" title="Milk of Magnesia" width="" }} == Charles Henry Phillips == Phillips an English pharmacist received a patent in 1873 for hydrate of magnesia mixed with water wh…
  17. Greenwich Meridian — 2020-08-06 08:03:21
    … August 1646" birth_place="Denby, [[Derbyshire]]" death_date="31 December 1719" death_place="Surrey" }} In 1675 **King Charles II** appointed **John Flamsteed** as the first Astronomer Royal of the new Royal Observatory in Greenwich. The [[Briti…
  18. Charles Darwin — 2020-08-06 07:52:58
    Charles Darwin :: {{Databox caption="Naturalist" Image="Charles-Darwin.jpg" Who="Charles Darwin" width="" birth_date="12 Feb 1809" birth_place="Shrewsbury" death_date="19 April 1882" death_place="" }} ==Cha…
    …rles Robert Darwin== ~-[[CategoryScience]]::[[1800s]] Charles Darwin, born in Shrewsbury, [[Shropshire]], [[England]], established that all species of life have descended over time …
    … were similar to those he found in South America, suggesting that species adapted over time and to their environment. Charles Darwin was not the first to propose a theory of evolution but his work was so compelling it could not be ignored. == L…
  19. Obstetrical Forceps — 2020-06-28 13:29:13
    …rom his roots as a barber-surgeon working in London, he became the Royal obstetrician-surgeon during the reign of King Charles I. With his brother they pioneered man-midwifery or the accoucheur. Midwifery was very much a female domain and it wa…
  20. Underground Railway — 2019-10-23 19:35:16
    …lution that was holding back business. The idea of an underground system was thought up by the London City solicitor, **Charles Pearson**. {{Image url="CharlesPearson.jpg" class="right" title="Charles Pearson " width="300" }}He persuaded the City…
  21. Pool — 2016-06-23 11:10:24
    …Pool :: [[CategorySport]] == Pocket Billiards == === Charles Cotton 1647 === {{redirect page="Billiards"}}…
  22. Billiards — 2016-06-23 11:09:55
    … forms from the 15th century in Europe. But what is known is that the first book of billiard rules was in English by **Charles Cotton** in **1647**. === Charles Cotton 1647 === The game was already very popular in England with commoners and w…

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