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  1. Elevator — 2023-12-30 12:44:08
    …Teagle Lift" width="450" }} Next came the “Teagle”, a steam driven lift, which was built by two architects in 1835. English architects Stutt and Frost built the Teagle to have a belt and a counterweight for safety. A control cable in the car …
  2. Split the Atom — 2023-10-10 00:05:57
    …n a vacant room at Ernest Rutherford's Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, [[Cambridgeshire]], [[England]], Englishman Cockcroft and Irishman Walton used spare parts along with some wood and nails to build the world's first nuclear-par…
  3. Carbonated water — 2023-10-09 23:52:55
    …re]] was the first to artificially **carbonate water** 1767. Often called **Soda water**. == Oxygen 1774 == In 1767, English chemist Joseph Priestly (who went on to isolate oxygen) was the first to artificially carbonate water by hanging a fill…
  4. Internal Combustion Engine — 2023-10-09 23:51:33
    …bustion engine using "heavy oil" as a fuel. ~i)1794:The earliest mention of an oil engine was by Robert Street, in his English patent no. 1983. ~i)1823: Samuel Brown patented the first internal combustion engine to be applied industrially. ~i) 18…
  5. Modern Farming — 2023-10-09 23:44:30
    … Plough == {{Image url="Seed_drill.jpg" class="right" }} Jethro Tull’s inventive influence in the plough (plow in old English) can still be seen today. His genius design allowed for grass and weeds to be pulled from the ground and left on the su…
  6. Mayday — 2023-10-08 00:53:45
    …the term ‘M’aidez’, literally //help me//. It sounded like "Mayday" and because it had a stronger sound that both English and French pilots were familiar with Mockford suggested **Mayday**. In 1924, the **Book of Wireless Telegraphy** ide…
  7. Steam Engine — 2023-10-08 00:19:36
    … and cylinder engine. Papin wrote up the designs for such a device , however he never built an actual steam engine. The English engineer '''Thomas Savery''' later used Papin's designs to build the world's first operational steam engine. '''Sir Sa…
  8. Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35
    … [[CategoryIndustry]]: [[CategoryTransport]]: [[1900s]] The first working hovercraft was invented and patented by the English inventor Christopher Cockerell (1910 - 1999) in **1956.** {{{toc}}} One of the most successful inventions of the 20th c…
  9. Aluminium — 2023-10-04 16:04:17
    … discovered by humans. == Extracting from the Ore == Alum salts have been used for centuries. In 1808 Humphry Davy, an English chemist born in Penzance, [[Cornwall]] [[England]], discovered that aluminium could be isolated by electrolytic reducti…
  10. Bob Hope — 2023-09-26 16:57:28
    … of South [[London]],** [[England]]**, on 29 May 1903. === London England 1903 === His father William Henry Hope was English and a stonemason from Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and his Welsh mother, Avis Townes, was a light opera singer from Bar…
  11. English Bible — 2023-09-25 23:57:13
    …! Open the King of England's eyes". Born in [[Gloucestershire]] William Tyndale is remembered as an “Architect of the English Language”. == Links == [[http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/william-tyndales-new-testament| British Library]]…
  12. Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52
    …ate="1816" The first working electrical telegraph system. */ The first working electrical telegraph system was built by English inventor Francis Ronalds in **1816** at 26 Upper Mall in Hammersmith, [[London]] . He laid eight miles of wire insulate…
  13. Radio — 2023-09-23 15:56:24
    …r of whiskey distillers **Jameson & Sons**. Between the ages of two and six Marconi was brought up by his mother in the English town of Bedford. In Italy he was able to transmit signals over a hill, a distance of approximately 1.5 miles. Finding …
    … in early **1896** at the age of 21, accompanied by his mother, to seek support for his work. Marconi also spoke fluent English. == 1896 == {{Image url="Marconi_plaque_London_1896.jpg" title="First radio transmission" class="right" width="200" }}…
    … Flat Holm Island to Lavernock Point in Penarth, a distance of **3.7 miles**. The message read "**Are you ready**". The English channel was crossed on 27 March **1899**, from Wimereux, France to South Foreland Lighthouse, [[England]]. ==1897 == {…
  14. Digital Photography — 2023-09-23 12:04:21
    … Magazine//, was taken by physicist and inventor Michael Francis Tompsett in **1972.** Tompsett was a researcher at **English Electric Valve Company** (EEV now E2V) in Chelmsford. In 1968 Dr Tompsett invented the un-cooled Pyro-electric thermal-…
  15. Worcestershire Sauce — 2023-09-18 19:06:46
    …of New York, opened a processing plant, imported the ingredients from England and manufactured exactly according to the English formula. == Round Bottle == **Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce** soon became popular all over the world and as the…
  16. Pay Toilet — 2022-09-27 07:23:49
    …rth_date=" 22/12/1839" birth_place="Cheltenham" death_date="18/5/1917" death_place="London" }} {{toc}} Maskelyne was an English stage magician. He invented the first modern pay toilet in the late 19th century. His door lock for London toilets requ…
  17. Thoroughbred Horse — 2022-08-29 09:12:34
    …ey are commonly used in horse racing but, Thoroughbreds are also popular for show jumping, dressage, hunting, polo. The English Thoroughbred has since been introduced to most countries, where it is bred for racing or used to improve local breeds. …
  18. National Trust — 2022-07-02 09:18:26
    …="Canon Rawnsley" width="100" }} Hill was engaged in a campaign in **1883** to stop the construction of railways in the English Lake District. Here she met and gained support from **Canon Rawnsley**, Ruskin and **Sir Robert Hunter** who was solic…
  19. Cheesecake — 2022-05-20 12:28:32
    …ade 1390 === ~-[[CategoryFood]]:[[1300s]] The ancient Greeks ate something that may have resembled cheesecake, but the English medieval cookbook, **[[Lasagne | The Forme of Cury]]** from 1390, has the first recipe that most resembles the modern c…
  20. Full Breakfast — 2022-05-20 12:26:19
    … dating back at least to the 1300's, just about when the British said goodbye to the French, //'Au Revoir'//. === Full English Breakfast === {{Image url="Full_English_Breakfast.jpg" class="right" title="Full English Breakfast" width="300" }} A t…
    …raditional full English breakfast includes: ** ~Bacon ~Egg ~Sausages ~Mushrooms ~Black pudding ~Fried Bread or toast with butter ~Tomatoes ~A…
    …nd **clootie pudding** (yum!). == Full Irish == Fried potato **farl**, **boxty** or soda bread. == Links == [[http://englishbreakfastsociety.com/full-english-breakfast.html English Breakfast Society EBS]]…
  21. Lasagne — 2022-05-20 08:38:58
    … === [[CategoryFood]]:[[1300s]] {{Image url="King_Richard_II.jpg" class="right" title="King Richard II" width="" }} The English medieval cookbook, **The Forme of Cury**, in the British Museum has the first recipe for **Lasagne.** This cookbook, b…
    …ooks of King Richard II’s household, is the first recorded recipe for a lasagna-based dish. **‘Cury’** is an Old English word for cuisine meaning: to cook, boil, or grill. == Recipe == Loseyns. XX II. IX. //Take gode broth and do in an e…
  22. Stan Laurel — 2021-08-14 21:08:01
    …="300" title="Stan Laurel" birth_date="16/6/1890" birth_place="" death_date="23/2/1965" death_place="" }} Stan was the English half of the comedy duo **Laurel and Hardy**. === Ulverston England 1890 === Laurel was born **Arthur Stanley Jefferso…
  23. Ice Cream Cone — 2021-08-14 20:22:38
    … an edible cone used to serve ice cream was in //Mrs Marshall's Cookery Book// printed in 1888. {{TOC}} Marshall was an English culinary entrepreneur and pioneer. She became a leading cookery writer in the Victorian period, and was dubbed the **"Q…
  24. Football — 2021-08-14 19:52:33
    …Society]]:[[1800s]] The rules for the modern game of **football** and the creation of the **Football Association** (the English governing body, **FA**), were laid down on the 26th October **1863**. Representatives of several London clubs met //…
  25. Rubber — 2021-08-12 20:24:10
    …ealized that if it was sliced up it could be used as garters, suspenders and waistbands. About 25 years later, another Englishman, '''Stephen Perry''', patented the '''rubber band'''. He made many improvements in the manufacture of rubber and th…
  26. Colgate — 2021-08-11 11:43:11
    …alCream.jpg" class="left" title="Colgate Dental Cream" width="" }} Williams father Robert Colgate (1758–1826) was an English farmer and politician. He was also a sympathiser with the American War of Independence. Because of his republican ideal…
  27. Everest — 2021-08-11 11:40:16
    …irth_date="4 July 1790" death_date="1 December 1866" }} Mount Everest was named in honour of **George Everest** in the English language by the //Royal Geographical Society.// Known in Nepal as ''Sagarmāthā'' and in Tibet as ''Chomolungma''. ==…
  28. Adjustable Spanner — 2021-08-10 08:22:45
    … the adjustable crescent shaped spanner is used worldwide and throughout Europe where it is often referred to as the **'English key'** (Clé anglaise - French.) or simply a //'Clyburn Spanner'//. It was made under license in several countries. T…
    …he spanner, //from Germanic spannen (tighten)//, in a modern sense is a different tool to the wrench, //olde English to twist//. …
  29. Match — 2021-08-09 22:35:30
    … === John Walker 1826 === ~-[[Domestic]]:[[CategoryScience]]:[[1800s]] The **friction match** was invented in 1826 by English chemist John Walker from Stockton-on-Tees [[Durham]], [[England]]. == The Friction Match == {{Image url="matchstrike.…
  30. Nature Reserve — 2021-08-09 22:30:53
    …7 May 1865" death_place="" }} === Charles Waterton 1820 === ~- [[Society]]:[[1800s]] {{toc}} In the 1820s Waterton, an English naturalist and explorer, built a nine-foot-high wall around three miles of his estate at '''Walton Hall''', turning it …
  31. Light Bulb — 2021-08-09 21:56:27
    …e of the first to produce electric light was made in the 18th century by E.Kinnersley and later by **Humphry Davy**, an English scientist. He experimented with electricity using an immense electric battery. When he connected wires to his battery a…
    …ht === {{Image url="SwansEarlyBulb.jpg" class="left" title="Swans Early Light Bulb" width="" }} Much later, in 1850 the English physicist Sir Joseph Wilson Swan began working on a light bulb using carbonised paper filaments in an evacuated glass b…
  32. Shire Horse — 2021-08-09 21:35:31
    … horse first mentioned in around 1066 probably brought into England after the Norman Conquest. From this developed the "English Great Horse". The **Packington Blind Horse Stallion** is recognised as the father of the Shire Breed. He came from Pack…
    …d from him. {{Image url="ShireBeer.jpg" class="right" title="Shire Horse & cart delivering Beer" width="400" }} == The English Shire Horse Society == The English Cart Horse Society was founded in **1878**, later changing its name to the Shire Hor…
  33. Pub — 2021-08-09 21:19:14
    …Pub :: ===British Pub === ~-[[Society]]:[[CategoryFood]] {{Image url="Pub1.jpg" title="A typical English country pub" class="right" }} ::c:: == Beginnings == **Probably the greatest British Invention of them all!** The 'Pu…
    …pub today is **‘The Red Lion’**. The name originates from the time of **James VI** of Scotland when he ascended the English throne in 1603. He ordered that the heraldic red lion of Scotland be displayed on all buildings of importance including…
    …e that so many pubs bear names such 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…
  34. Industrial Revolution — 2021-08-08 21:48:46
    …ial Revolution" }} == Abraham Darby II (1711 – 1763) == Was the second Abraham Darby in three generations of an English Quaker family that played a role in the Industrial Revolution. He followed in his father's footsteps at the Darby found…
    …rt Forester Mushet (1811 - 1891) == {{Image url="Robert_Forester_Mushet.jpg" class="right" width="200" }} Mushet was an English metallurgist, born April 8, 1811, in Coleford, [[Gloucestershire]]. He was the youngest son of Agnes Wilson and David M…
  35. Sandwich — 2021-08-08 20:40:14
    … sandwich that we use today was born in [[London]] [[England]] during the very late hours one night in **1762** when an English nobleman, John Montagu (1718-1792), the **Fourth Earl of Sandwich**, was too busy gambling to stop for a meal even thou…
    …e to learn that Sandwich is actually a place. The 'wich' in Sandwich is from the Anglo-Saxon word for a port. Later old English 'wic' from Latin ''vicus'', which also gives us the word vicinity. >>{{amazon items="English Place-names" }}>> The wor…
  36. Sparkling Wine — 2021-08-08 20:32:53
    …e. == Bland Imports == During this time still wine being brought to Britain from France seemed bland to the English palette as cider was well established with its much livelier quality. As early as 1662 when '''Christopher Merret''' pr…
    …powered factories in Newcastle upon Tyne produced much stronger bottles than were available in France. As a result the English could deliberately induce a secondary fermentation in wine without the risk of blowing up the bottle that was a huge ha…
    …rd in French wine production. == Anglais 'Champagne' == {{ image url="Vineyard.jpg" class="right" tilte="Three Choirs English vineyard"}} The first mention of '''Sparkling Champagne''' was in English, not French. This was in '''1676 by Sir Geor…
  37. Marmalade — 2021-08-08 18:49:30
    …title="Marmalade Keiller" width="300" }} The Scots moved marmalade to the breakfast table, and in the 19th century the English followed. James Boswell remarks that he and Samuel Johnson were offered it at breakfast in Scotland in 1773. When Am…
    …lcott visited Britain in the 1800s, she described "a choice pot of marmalade and a slice of cold ham" as "essentials of English table comfort". == History == The recipe book of Madam Eliza Cholmondeley, dated around **1677** and held at the Chest…
  38. Sunday School — 2021-08-08 18:39:06
    …25 million children** every week, approximately 25 percent of the population. They were the forerunners of the current English state school system. {{Image url="Robert-raikes-house.jpg" class="left" title="Robert Raikes house Gloucester, now a P…
  39. Vaccination — 2021-08-07 23:07:23
    …birth_date="17 May 1749" birth_place="Berkeley" death_date="26 January 1823" death_place="Berkeley" }} Jenner was an **English doctor**, the pioneer of smallpox vaccination and is the **father of immunology**. {{{toc}}} **Edward Jenner** was bor…
  40. Powered Flight — 2021-04-05 22:36:49
    …ater there are reports that he transported his butler across his land on his glider. ::cl:: ^^ "About 100 years ago, an Englishman, Sir George Cayley, carried the science of flight to a point which it had never reached before and which it scarcely…
  41. Electric Toaster — 2020-12-01 01:05:39
    … 1927" death_place="France" }} === Alan MacMasters 1893 === ~-[[Domestic]]:[[1800s]] In 1893 MacMasters contacted the English electrical engineer Crompton & Co. with an idea. Alan Alexander MacMasters was a scientist and inventor from [[Scotlan…
  42. Banoffi Pie — 2020-12-01 00:13:56
    …Banoffi Pie" width="" }} {{Image url="IanDowding.jpg" class="left" title="Ian Dowding" width="200" }} Banoffi pie is an English dessert pie made from bananas, cream and toffee from boiled condensed milk. It was invented at the [[http://www.hungrym…
    …co.uk/ Dowding]] and Mackenzie. This lead Nigel Mackenzie to offer a £10,000 prize to anyone who could disprove it was English with a pre-1972 recipe. When no one claimed the prize, Mackenzie proudly erected a plaque at the restaurant's entrance …
  43. Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
    …e up with the name "ping pong," representing the sounds of the ball hitting the paddle and then the table. However, an English manufacturer of sporting goods, John Jacques, registered "Ping Pong" as a trade name in 1901 and sold American rights t…
    …o Parker Brothers, who came out with a new kit under that name. Another Englishman, E. C. Goode, in 1902 covered his wooden ping pong paddle with pebbled rubber, which allowed him to put spin on the …
    …f the British Army garrisons of India. The game is believed to have came about as a mix of other billiard games, mainly English [[Billiards]], this new billiard sport of snooker surfaced around 1875. The term snooker was used as a derogatory term…
    … Bobsleigh 1890 == {{Image url="Bobsleigh.jpg" class="right" width="120" }} Bobsleigh, was surprisingly invented by the English. A group of holidaymakers in Switzerland in 1890, wanted to create a sled that could carry people down the snow-covered…
  44. Silicone — 2020-09-22 23:25:26
    …_date="1/5/1949" width="300" class="right" }} {{{toc}}} Professor **Frederick Stanley Kipping** FRS (1863-1949) was an English chemist who was born near Manchester, [[Lancashire]], [[England]]. he pioneered the study of the organic compounds of …
  45. Cricket — 2020-08-26 21:18:47
    …sting its origins. The most likely fore runner is Stoolball that dates back to the 1400s, but it is without doubt, very English. == Beginnings == The first evidence of cricket being played was recorded in the year **1550**, by the pupils of Royal…
    …match was held between Canada and United States in the year 1844. == Cricket Today == Cricket has moved from a quaint English village green on a Sunday afternoon to big glitzy stadiums commanding huge monies in the likes of the Indian Premier Le…
  46. Shakespeare — 2020-08-21 08:52:48
    …ts]]:[[Literature]]:[[1500s]] {{toc}} Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in [[Warwickshire]], [[England]]. An English poet, playwright, and actor, regarded as the greatest writer and dramatist in the English language. His father, John Sh…
    …r>"" {{Image url="shakespeare_birthplace.jpg" class="right" title="shakespeare birthplace" width="400" }} === Pushing English === Shakespeare **invented** over 1700 of our common English words by changing nouns into verbs, changing verbs into a…
  47. Eraser — 2020-08-18 10:06:20
    …d. == 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 invention on March 30, 18…
  48. Milk of Magnesia — 2020-08-09 19:55:03
    …e 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 which he called **Milk of Magnesia**. In…
  49. Potato Crisp — 2020-08-06 08:17:45
    …s, music, optics and spectacles and improving **telescopes**. He wrote books on all his interests in plain enthusiastic English. But it was in cooking he made his name giving him a TV chef appeal of his day. **The Cooks Oracle** covered all aspe…
  50. Christmas Traditions — 2019-12-27 02:21:30
    … and spices. Origins can be traced back to Medieval times where the explanation for the word ''meat'' is found, in Old English meat or mete, referred to any food, not just animal.|| == Christmas crackers == ||{{Image url="Xmascracker.jpg" width…
    …well-known fairy tales like '''Jack and the Beanstalk''', '''Cinderella''' etc, which encourage audience participation. English pantomime is modeled with certain modifications upon the masque of the Elizabethan and the Stuart days, influenced by t…
  51. Motor Racing Circuit — 2018-05-20 20:38:53
    …l="BrooklandsNapier.jpg" class="right" title="Brooklands Napier" width="" }} ::cr:: == Home of Chitty Bang Bang == The English racing driver and automobile engineer **Count Louis Zborowski** raced at Brooklands in cars that became known as '//Chi…
  52. English Language — 2018-01-26 21:45:55
    …risian'''. In fact parts of coastal Netherlands around Terschelling have word sounds that are very close to present day English. This period is [[Sandwich]]ed between the occupation of the Romans up to around 400 AD and the French invasion of 106…
    …6. == Amazing Recovery == {{image url="Language.jpg" class="right" title="" width="" }} It is truly amazing that English as a language survived '''300 years''' of French rule. But survive it did and even bloomed into a whole new vocabulary.…
    … Because of the influence of many invaders English has built itself on a basis of the early Brits and incorporating many other languages. From Latin, Germanic, French, C…
    …eltic and many more. == And Onward == English has official or special status in at least '''75 countries''' around the world. English is the primary international la…
  53. Meccano — 2017-05-14 01:23:25
    …rts were continually being introduced and in 1904, six sets, packed in tin boxes with instruction manuals in French and English, became available. In 1905 two new sets were introduced and in 1906, for the first time, a small profit was made. == M…
  54. Billiards — 2016-06-23 11:09:55
    … has various 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 co…
    …ys: "Let's to billiards. Come, Charmian." == Beginings of Modern Rules == The first governing body of the game, the **English Billiards Association**, was formed in the UK in 1885. Later to become the **Billiards and Snooker Control Council** T…
    …here are a number of pocket billiard games directly descended from English billiards:** - Snooker - Pool (pocket billiards) - Nine-Ball - Cowboy Pool**…
  55. Pound Sterling — 2016-05-31 15:19:41
    …Offa 780 === The King of Mercia [[England]], in the latter half of the 8th Century, began the minting of the earliest English silver pennies. The pound was divided into 20 shillings and 240 silver pennies. == Story behind Sterling == {{Image ur…
  56. Tank — 2016-05-16 11:27:53
    …actor.jpg" class="right" title="Hornsby Chain Track Tractor built:1896" width="400" }} **Bramah Joseph Diplock** was an English inventor who invented and manufactured the pedrail wheel in 1903 and the pedrail chaintrack, a type of caterpillar trac…
  57. Mary Poppins — 2016-05-05 17:16:51
    …* used to say, "Spit spot, into bed", was the inspiration for the character. == Plot == The books centre on a magical English nanny, Mary Poppins. She is blown by the East wind to Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane, London, and into the Banks's househol…

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