1. Carbonated water — 2023-10-09 23:52:55

   …ass Production == {{Image url="SodaDrink.jpg" class="right" title="Soda Drink" width="250" }} Priestley’s paper would however capture the eye of a young German watchmaker in Geneva, **Switzerland**, who would ultimately bring Priestly’s sci…

2. Steam Engine — 2023-10-08 00:19:36

   …up and down Papin conceived of the idea of a piston 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 …
   …to automate the process.) '''Humphrey Gainsborough''' produced a model condensing steam engine in the 1760s, which he showed to '''Richard Lovell Edgeworth''', a member of the Lunar Society. In **1769** '''James Watt''', another member of the …
   …gh pressure steam. Trevithick built successful industrial high pressure single-acting engines known as Cornish engines. However with increased pressure came much danger as engines and boilers were now likely to fail mechanically by a violent ou…

3. Telephone — 2023-09-23 15:57:07

   …ter" width="400" }} His father, who taught deaf people how to speak, invented "Visible Speech". This was a code which showed how the tongue, lips, and throat were positioned to make speech sounds. Graham, or "Aleck", as his family called him, …
   … == Back in Britain == {{Image url="AlexBellTelephone.jpg" class="left" title="Early Bell Telephone" width="260" }} He showed the invention to Queen Victoria of England and she wanted lines to connect her castles. By 1917, nearly all of the Un…

4. Radio — 2023-09-23 15:56:24

   …f communication by radio waves had a long history with many scientists contributing. == 1864 == James Clerk Maxwell showed mathematically that electromagnetic waves could propagate through free space. == 1886 == Heinrich Rudolf Hertz notice…

5. iPod — 2023-09-23 15:52:55

   …believed its capacity would improve. ::c:: {{image url="Ipod.jpg" width="200" class="left" }} His sketches at the time showed a credit-card-sized player with a rectangular screen and a central menu button to scroll through a selection of music …

6. Toilet — 2023-09-08 09:57:11

   …n Elizabeth I of [[England]]. Harrington invented both a valve at the bottom of the water tank, and a wash-down system. However it was not widely adopted because there was no supply of running water to flush it. === JF Brondel 1738 === In 173…

7. Television — 2021-11-06 16:35:18

   …h on the west coast of [[Scotland]], the son of a clergyman. Dogged by ill health for most of his life, he nonetheless showed early signs of ingenuity, rigging up a telephone exchange to connect his bedroom to those of his friends across the st…

8. Heroin — 2021-08-20 11:14:28

   …loid 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 felt it was not right to pursue another drug with unwanted effects lik…

9. MRI Scan — 2021-08-20 11:04:59

   …in our bodies. This creates tiny changes that MRI computers process this to construct images. In 1973, Paul Lauterbur showed NMR could produce images from which he could slowly build a picture of the inside of a body. British scientist Peter M…
   …cation of NMR to imaging that led directly to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). == Faster processing == In 1973 Peter showed how the radio signals from MRI could be mathematically analysed, making possible their interpretation into useful imag…

10. Vitamins — 2021-08-16 09:52:16

    …e did not. William Fletcher believed that there were special nutrients contained in the husk of the rice. == Naming == However, it wasn't until 1912 that Polish scientist Cashmir Funk named those special nutrients "vitamines" after "vita" mean…

11. Modern Olympics — 2021-08-14 20:26:14

    …cs** was held in France and Brookes was invited to attend. Unfortunately he was unable to go due to ill health. In 1896 however the Shropshire doctor's dream was realised. The first revived Olympics were held in **Athens** during the month of A…

12. Dinosaur — 2021-08-12 20:42:55

    …od dinosaur and was the** first dinosaur skeleton ever discovered**. It was discovered by William Buckland in the 1824. However, **Richard Plot** had discovered this dinosaur's femur, which he called //"Scrotum humanum"//, in **1627**, nearly t…

13. Sewing Machine — 2021-08-11 11:41:32

    … patent. He proved it worked. He then booked space at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia right next to the Howe exhibit. Thus visitors to the celebration were confronted with a gigantic Howe display with the words "Elias Howe, inve…

14. Everest — 2021-08-11 11:40:16

    …t as ''Chomolungma''. === Sir George Everest 1865 === [[1800s]] Everest was born in Gwernvale Manor, just west of Crickhowell in Powys, [[Wales]], in 1790. In 1856, George Everest headed the //Great Trigonometrical Survey of India// establish…

15. Light Bulb — 2021-08-09 21:56:27

    …emonstrate a working device, and obtained a **UK patent** covering a partial vacuum, carbon filament incandescent lamp. However, the lack of a good vacuum and an adequate electric source resulted in an inefficient bulb with a small, uncontinued…
    …rmation from the judge. They cut out the October 7-21, 1879 section of a notebook that the judge might have determined showed that they were simply extending Sawyer’s (or Swan’s) work with carbon "burners" or "rods" in an evacuated glass bu…

16. Vaccination — 2021-08-07 23:07:23

    …ed it was repulsive and ungodly to inoculate someone with material from a diseased animal. A satirical cartoon of 1802 showed people who had been vaccinated sprouting cow's heads. However the obvious advantages of vaccination and the protection…

17. DNA Forensics — 2021-01-22 08:47:52

    … class="right" title="Alec Jeffreys Eureka moment" width="280" }} An X-ray film image of a DNA experiment unexpectedly showed both similarities and differences between the DNA of different members of his technician's family. He realized that i…

18. Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47

    …parently came 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 Am…

19. Sinoatrial Node — 2020-08-15 18:08:00

    …ere bicycling through the beautiful cherry orchards near their cottage in [[Kent]]. Upon their return, Flack excitedly showed Keith a wonderful structure he had discovered in the right auricle of the mole, just where the superior vena cava ente…

20. Viagra — 2017-06-01 14:56:53

    …o flow to the penis as a side effect. Actually, the pill didn't pan out as an effective treatment for angina but still showed promise in the area of hypertension. Instead, Pfizer decided to market the drug as an erectile enhancer. Wood and Dunn…

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