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Elevator — 2023-12-30 12:44:08
…ing and engineering from his brother-in-law. He conjured up an elaborate scheme to create a 360 degree panorama view of London on the inside of a dome of his Colosseum specially built in Regents Park resembling the Roman Pantheon. {{Image url="Lo…
…ndonColosseum.jpg" class="left" title="London Colosseum" width="500" }}::cl:: Inside the Colosseum was a steam-powered **"Ascending Room"** capable of elevating up t…
… in evidence. This basic system remained the principle for lifts for over 50 years. == Links == [[http://www.victorianlondon.org/entertainment/colosseum.htm|Victorian London]]…
Carbonated water — 2023-10-09 23:52:55
… Switzerland, Schweppe moved his company to [[England]] in **1792** where he set up his first mas production factory in London at 141 Drury Lane.…
FAX — 2023-10-09 23:52:19
…ck Bakewell went on to improve the concept with his "Image Telegraph" which he demonstrated at the 1851 World's Fair in London. Many improvements came along and eventually the FAX machine became standard office equipment by the 1980s. It is st…
Vacuum Flask — 2023-10-09 23:46:28
…Who="James" width="300" birth_date="20 September 1842" birth_place="Kincardine" death_date="27 March 1923" death_place="London" }} [[CategoryInventions]]: [[Domestic]] === James Dewar 1904 === The vacuum flask was invented by the Scottish phys…
Computer — 2023-10-09 23:40:16
…ox 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="London" }} == Computer == ~-[[CategoryInventions]]: [[Technology]]: [[1800…
…s]] {{{toc}}} ===Charles Babbage 1825 === Charles Babbage (1791 – 1871) was born in [[London]], [[England]]. A mathematician, philosopher, mechanical engineer and computer scientist who originated the idea of a p…
…and many other fundamental components of today's computers. == Finally Built == Based on Babbage's original plans, the London Science Museum constructed a working Difference Engine No. 2 from 1989 to 1991, under Doron Swade, the then Curator of …
Mayday — 2023-10-08 00:53:45
…ly radio communication was easily lost in transmission. Frederick was the senior radio officer at Croydon Airport in [[London]] and was given the task of finding a suitable call. == French influence == {{Image url="MaydayHancock.jpg" class="ri…
Radar — 2023-10-08 00:18:51
…the state of the art of air defence in the UK. In World War I the Germans had used Zeppelins as long-range bombers over London and other cities, and attempts to attack them by aircraft had proven to be failures (although anti-aircraft batteries d…
…e was up to **60 miles**, at which point plans were made in December to set up five stations covering the approaches to London. One of these stations was to be located on the coast near Orfordness, and Bawdsey Research Station was set up there t…
Pedestrian Crossing — 2023-10-07 11:08:59
…g" Who="John Peake Knight" width="" birth_date="13/1/1828" birth_place="Nottingham" death_date="23/7/1886" death_place="London" }} == John Peake Knight - 1868 == The first pedestrian crossing was erected in Bridge Street, Westminster, London, in …
Air Traffic Control — 2023-10-07 10:51:35
…== ~-[[CategoryTransport]]: [[Communication]]: [[1900s]] The first ATC, Air Traffic Control was introduced in Croydon [[London]] in 1921. {{Image url="CroydonTower.jpg" class="right" title="World's first ATC, Croydon airport tower" width="450" }}…
… London Croydon Airport was Britain's first major international gateway airport. And it is the birthplace of Air Traffic Contr…
…} Croydon Airport grew out of Beddington Aerodrome. This opened in 1915 as a base from which planes attempted to defend London from German Zeppelins. After the war two aerodromes were combined to become Croydon Aerodrome and opened on 29 March 19…
Electronic Computer — 2023-10-07 10:38:05
…{Databox Image="Thomas_Flowers.jpg" width="280" Who="Thomas 'Tommy' Flowers" Birth_date="22 December 1905" Birthplace="London" Death_date="28 October 1998" }} === Tommy Flowers 1943 === ~-[[CategoryInventions]]: [[Technology]]: [[1900s]] Flower…
…mage url="Lorenz-sz40.jpg" class="left" title="Lorenz sz40" width="" }} == Humble Background == Flowers was born in [[London]], [[England]] the son of a **bricklayer**. He started his apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer but took evening cla…
Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35
…l.// == 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 watchmaker, Sir Sydney's elder brother, Theodore, was a bio…
Marshall Amplification — 2023-10-07 09:45:58
…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 formal education. Instead, Marshall became an established drummer…
… and teacher of drumming. In 1960, Marshall opened a music store in Hanwell, west London, selling drums and then branching out into guitars. {{Image url="Marshall_logo.svg" class="right" title="Marshall logo"…
Bob Hope — 2023-09-26 16:57:28
…Bob Hope :: {{Databox Image="BobHope.jpg" Who="Bob Hope" width="" birth_date="29 May 1903" birth_place="Eltham, London" death_date="July 27, 2003" death_place="California" }} [[Entertainment]]== Bob Hope 1903 == Comedian, actor, singer,…
… Hope appeared in over 70 films. **Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope** was born at 44 Craigton Road, Eltham, a suburb of South [[London]],** [[England]]**, on 29 May 1903. === London England 1903 === His father William Henry Hope was English and a ston…
…nger from Barry. They married in April 1891 and lived at 12 Greenwood Street, Barry Wales. Then moving to Bristol and London. {{Image url="BobHopeHome.jpg" class="left" title="Bob Hope Home" width="" }} == Emigrated == The Hope family emigrat…
WorldWideWeb — 2023-09-23 15:57:32
…box 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]]:[[1900s]] In 1990…
…te="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 ( the fam…
Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52
…th Century. He worked in his fathers music shop in Gloucester then in London developing musical instruments. His experiments with sound led him to coin the terms 'telephone' and 'microphone'. ==…
Stereo — 2023-09-23 15:56:38
…/6/1903" birth_place="Hampstead" death_date="7/6/1942" death_place="Welsh Bicknor" }} **Alan Dower Blumlein** born in [[London]], [[England]] invented //stereophonic sound// recording and transmission in 1931. {{toc}} == At the Talkies == Before…
Radio — 2023-09-23 15:56:24
…distance of approximately 1.5 miles. Finding little interest or appreciation for his work in Italy, Marconi traveled to London 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" }} Marconi gave his first public transmission of w…
Electric Motor — 2023-09-23 15:52:02
…current keeps flowing. In 1832 he was appointed to the lecturing staff of the Adelaide Gallery of Practical Science in London, where he first demonstrated the DC electric motor incorporating a commutator. == Improved Battery == The Volta cell …
Electric Generator — 2023-09-23 12:04:37
…on and of the laws of electrolysis and his **invention of the electric generator**. Born in 1791 to a poor family in [[London]], [[England]], Michael Faraday (1791-1867) was extremely curious, questioning everything. He felt an urgent need to kn…
…ow more. At age 13, he became an errand boy for a bookbinding shop in London. He read every book that he bound, and decided that one day he would write a book of his own. He became interested in t…
ATM — 2023-09-23 12:02:41
…~-[[Technology]] The first **Automated Teller Machine** was installed at a branch of Barclays Bank in Enfield, north [[London]], on 27 June 1967. /* event_date="27 June 1967" The first ATM is opened in London. */ == Necessity == Shepherd-Barr…
…Varney" width="300" }}Barclays asked for six cash dispensers, the first of which was installed at a branch in the north London suburb of Enfield on June 27 1967. The actor Reg Varney, star of the ITV sitcom On the Buses, was hired to promote the …
Mousetrap — 2023-08-31 23:02:31
…n by [[Agatha_Christie]] for the Royal family in 1947. It was renamed ''The Mousetrap'' and opened in the **West End of London** in **1952**. It has been at the St Martin's Theatre since 1974. The play ran continuously since then for {{Datediff …
Electric Car — 2023-08-27 16:16:21
…nventive genius == Parker was a very inventive pioneer in the electrical field. He was responsible for electrifying the London Underground and Blackpool electric Tram. {{Image url="ThomasParkerElectricCar.jpg" class="left" title="Thomas Parker in…
Pay Toilet — 2022-09-27 07:23:49
…skelyne.jpg" width="200" title="" birth_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 required the insertion of a penny coin to operate it, hence the euphemism to "**spend a penny**". Born in Chel…
…ter to be manufactured in Britain. It was produced by the Maskelyne British Typewriter and Manufacturing Company Ltd of London from 1889, two years before a patent was issued. == Writing == In 1894, Maskelyne wrote the book Sharps and Flats: A C…
Plastic — 2022-09-01 08:57:23
…" }}Parkes introduced his new material to great public interest at the '''1862''' **Great International Exhibition** in London and was awarded a prize medal. He established The **Parkesine Company** at Hackney Wick in London. == Wildlife Conserv…
National Trust — 2022-07-02 09:18:26
…Parliament Hill Fields from development. She coined the term "**Green Belt**" for the protected rural areas surrounding London. === Hill, Rawnsley and Hunter 1895 === In **1876** Hill became the treasurer of the **Kyrle Society**, founded in tha…
Police — 2022-05-20 08:52:50
…lice force 1829 == Robert Peel introduced the Metropolitan Police Act of 1829 and set up an organised police force for London, with 17 divisions, each with 4 inspectors and 144 constables. It was to be controlled from Scotland Yard, and answerab…
YMCA — 2022-05-17 05:19:39
…the railroads and centralization of commerce and industry brought many rural young men who needed jobs into cities like London. They worked __10 to 12 hours a day, six days a week__. George wanted to help these poor young men who often lived at…
KitKat — 2022-05-03 17:00:51
…ate bar in the world began life in [[Yorkshire]]. This product was developed as a four-finger wafer crisp, launched in London in September 1935 as **'Rowntree’s Chocolate Crisp**'. It was re-named two years later as KitKat Chocolate Crisp the…
Microphone — 2021-11-07 21:26:04
…jpg" Who="David Edward Hughes" width="" birth_date="16/5/1831" birth_place="Corwen" death_date="22/1/1900" death_place="London" }} === David Edward Hughes 1878 === ~-[[CategoryIndustry]]:[[Communication]]:[[Music]]:[[1800s]] Hughes invented the…
…s was probably born in Corwen [[Wales]] in 1831. His family emigrated to the United States in 1838 but he moved back to London in 1857. == Microphone == {{Image url="Microphone.png" class="left" title="Microphone" width="400" }} Hughes micropho…
…d later. {{Image url="Microphone-Blue-Plaque.jpg" class="left" title="Microphone Blue Plaque in Great Portland Street, London" width="" }}…
Television — 2021-11-06 16:35:18
…levision transmission, from '''London''' to '''New York''', and the first television programme for the '''BBC'''. He televised the first live transmission of…
…" }} == Big screen == He demonstrated a theatre television system, with a screen two feet by five feet, in 1930 at the London Coliseum, Berlin, Paris, and Stockholm. By 1939 he had improved his theatre projection system to televise a boxing matc…
Heroin — 2021-08-20 11:14:28
… ~-[[Medical]]:[[1800s]] Charles Wright first synthesized Diamorphine in 1874 while working at St. Mary's hospital in [[London]]. {{TOC}} Wright was searching for a nonaddictive alternative to the medicine morphine and soon discovered a more pot…
Charlie Chaplin — 2021-08-20 11:11:51
…[[1800s]] {{Databox image="CharlieChaplin.jpg" title="Charlie Chaplin" birth_date="16/4/1889" birth_place="Walworth [[London]]" death_date="25/12/1977" }} {{{toc}}} === Walworth London England 1889 === Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, (16 April …
…**1889** – 25 December **1977**) he was born at **East Street, Walworth, in South [[London]]** [[England]] {{footnote note='There is growing evidence that Chaplin was born in a gypsy caravan on a travellers sit…
Workmate — 2021-08-20 11:10:56
…e shows, building up a client base of tradesmen. Slowly the demand increased. ::c:: == Lotus Car == Ron moved to [[London]] and in 1954 started working for the Ford Motor Company at Dagenham as a clay modeller and later he helped to style th…
Concorde — 2021-08-20 11:08:12
…lew the first British Concorde at the Filton airfield in South [[Gloucestershire]]. Concorde could fly from New York to London in **2 hours 56 minutes**. Development for Concorde started in 1956 and it was still operational in 2003! Truly amazing…
MRI Scan — 2021-08-20 11:04:59
…tion="Inventor" Image="PeterMansfield.jpg" Who="Peter Mansfield" width="" birth_date="9/9/1933" birth_place="Lambeth, [[London]]" death_date="8/2/2017" death_place="" }} === Peter Mansfield 1973 === ~-[[Medical]]:[[1900s]] Mansfield and Lauterbu…
Paralympic Games — 2021-08-20 10:59:53
… Thompson" }} Paralympic games has grown from around 400 athletes in Rome to over 3,900 athletes from 164 countries in London in 2012. …
Four-minute Mile — 2021-08-20 10:55:12
… 1929, was a top mile-runner while a student at the University of Oxford and at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London. In 1951 and 1953, he won British championships in the mile run. Bannister researched the mechanics of running and tra…
Miss World — 2021-08-20 10:50:22
…box caption="Creator" Image="EricMorley.jpg" Who="Eric Morley" width="300" birth_date="26/9/1918" birth_place="Holborn, London" death_date="9/11/2000" death_place="London" }} === Eric Morley 1951 === ~-[[Entertainment]]:[[1900s]] Miss World, the…
…y pageant, was created in Britain by Eric Morley in **1951**. It was held on 29 July 1951 at the Lyceum Ballroom in [[London]], [[England]]. == Miss World == Morley had arranged the beauty event as a one-off for the **Festival of Britain.** A…
James Bond — 2021-08-20 10:49:07
…atabox caption="Creator" Image="Sirianfleming.jpg" Who="Ian Fleming" width="300" birth_date="28 May 1908" birth_place="London" death_date="12 Aug 1964" death_place="Canterbury" }} === Sir Ian Fleming 1952 === ~-[[Literature]]:[[Entertainment]]:…
…[[1900s]] {{Toc}} Ian Fleming was born on 28 May 1908 at 7 Green Street, [[London]] W1 [[England]]. He was the second son of Valentine and Eve Fleming. Ian Fleming's first boarding school, Durnford Sch…
Beatles — 2021-08-20 10:46:43
…Love Me Do". == Beatlemania == **Beatlemania** began in Britain on 13 October 1963 with a televised appearance at the London Palladium. In the United States **Capitol Records** (which was owned by EMI),** refused **to issue the singles //Love…
Guinness Book of World Records — 2021-08-20 10:45:53
…r" width="" birth_date="4 May 1890" birth_place="Johannesburg, South Africa" death_date="16 January 1967" death_place="London" }} === Hugh Beaver - 1954 === ~-[[Literature]]:[[1900s]] Sir Hugh Eyre Campbell Beaver together with brothers Norris…
…recommended he involve some university friends Norris and Ross McWhirter, who had been running a fact-finding agency in London. Norris was the timekeeper for Roger Bannister's sub [[four-minute_mile]] in 1954, while Ross helped locate the lost gr…
…n November 27, 1975, editor Ross ""McWhirter"" was assassinated by two members of the Provisional IRA outside his North London home. …
Antibiotics — 2021-08-20 10:41:08
… era. == Penicillin == British scientist Alexander Fleming was working in his laboratory at St. Mary’s Hospital in [[London]] when almost by accident, he discovered a naturally growing substance that could attack certain bacteria. Fleming obse…
Intraocular Lens — 2021-08-20 10:40:24
… == Overseas == As early as 1952 he would fly to New York or Washington at weekends, operate there, and return to his London practice by Monday morning. While Americans welcomed a new idea with such enthusiasm, it was so typical that the compan…
Vitamins — 2021-08-16 09:52:16
…onducted the first clinical trial to confirm that citrus fruits could cure scurvy. */ == Links == [[http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/1564 | Royal College of Physicians]] …
DNA — 2021-08-14 21:04:12
…etext text=" 'Rosalind Elsie Franklin' was born on " event_date="25th July, 1920" }} at 5 Pembridge Place, Kensington, London, [[England]] and died of cancer on the 16th April,1958. {{Datetext text=" 'Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins', was born …
… hunted in '''1951''' by John Randall, of the Medical Research Council Biophysics Research Unit at '''King’s college, London''', to work on an x-ray picture of DNA taken by a graduate student Raymond Gosling, Wilkins assistant. In the November …
…rick built their first model of DNA. This was slightly unethical as they had a gentleman’s agreement that the team in London would work on DNA. Watson and Crick invited Franklin and Wilkins to view a DNA model that they had built. Franklin was …
CT Scan — 2021-08-14 20:48:42
…August 1919" Death_date="12 August 2004" }} The first CT Scan was performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London, in **1975**. Godfrey Hounsfield was born in Sutton-on-Trent, [[Nottinghamshire]], [[England]]. He perfected the **C*…
Scouts — 2021-08-14 20:35:19
…on="Creator" Image="Badenpowell.jpg" Who="Lord Robert Baden-Powell" width="" birth_date="22 February 1857" birth_place="London" death_date="8 January 1941" death_place="Kenya" }} === Lord Robert Baden-Powell 1907 === ~-[[Society]]:[[1900s]] Ba…
…** movement in August 1907. He was born **Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell** at 9 Stanhope Street, Paddington in [[London]], was a decorated soldier, talented artist and actor. {{{toc}}} == War Hero == '''Baden-Powell''' (1857-1941) returne…
…ust 1907 on **Brownsea Island**, Poole Harbour, [[Dorset]], where B-P. tried out his ideas on four patrols of boys from London and Bournemouth. Scouting for Boys was initially printed in six fortnightly parts, and sold very quickly. {{Image url="…
Public Park — 2021-08-14 20:30:20
…'''. All of the 245 plans for the main Exhibition Hall in Hyde Park had been examined and rejected. Paxton was visiting London at the time and heard about the difficulties. Within a few days he delivered a design - a vastly magnified version of h…
…on was knighted by Queen Victoria. When the exhibition finished, the Crystal Palace was re-erected in Sydenham in south London, where it remained popular until it burned down in 1936. {{Image url="Greatexhib.jpg" class="right" title="The Great E…
Modern Olympics — 2021-08-14 20:26:14
…vouring to organise an International Olympian Festival, to be held in Athens.^^ == Wealthy Ally == ---- >>{{image url="London1948.jpg" title="London Olympics" width="200"}}>> In 1889 a wealthy young Frenchman named **Baron de Coubertain** visite…
Ice Cream Cone — 2021-08-14 20:22:38
…nesBerthaMarshall.jpg" Who="Agnes Bertha Marshall" width="300" birth_date="24 August 1855" birth_place=" Walthamstow [[London]]" death_date="29 July 1905" death_place="Pinner" }} === Agnes Marshall in 1888 === ~-[[CategoryFood]]:[[1800s]] The f…
Clouds — 2021-08-14 20:16:00
…]:[[1800s]] {{Databox Image="LukeHoward.jpg" class="right" title="Luke Howard" birth_date="28/11/1772" birth_place="[[London]], [[England]]" death_date="21/3/1864" width="" }} Luke Howard named the three principal categories of clouds – **cu…
…cirrus**. He has been called "**the father of meteorology**" because of his comprehensive recordings of weather in the London area from 1801 to 1841. In his late twenties, he wrote the //Essay on the Modification of Clouds,// which was publishe…
…nunciations" title="Howard cloud names" width="300" }} ::cr:: Howard (28 November 1772 – 21 March 1864) was born in [[London]], [[England]] <<""<br/>Source: <a href="http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/learning/clouds/cloud-spotting-guide" target="_bl…
Fish and chips — 2021-08-14 20:10:50
…e of the few foods in the United Kingdom not subject 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//, fi…
Fingerprints — 2021-08-14 20:06:49
… printing ink. He established their first classification. In 1886, he offered the concept to the Metropolitan Police in London, but it was dismissed at that time. {{image url="fingerprint.jpg" class="right" title="fingerprint" width="" }} Faulds…
…es when the first United Kingdom Fingerprint Bureau was founded in Scotland Yard, the Metropolitan Police headquarters, London, in 1901.…
Football — 2021-08-14 19:52:33
…y" width="250" birth_date="16 August 1831" birth_place="Kingston upon Hull" death_date="20 November 1924" death_place="London" }} === Ebenezer Morley 1863 === ~-[[CategorySport]]:[[Society]]:[[1800s]] The rules for the modern game of **football*…
…ation** (the English governing body, **FA**), were laid down on the 26th October **1863**. Representatives of several London clubs met //“for the purpose of forming an Association with the object of establishing a definite code of rules for …
…o better place to do this than the 'Local' [[pub]] over a pint. In the **Freemasons' Tavern** in Great Queen Street, [[London]] on 26 October 1863 rules for the modern game were laid down over a series of meetings. ::c:: == Biggest Sport == {{I…
Vibrator — 2021-08-14 19:48:28
…e machine was manufactured and sold to physicians to relieve muscle aches. Dr. Joseph Mortimer Granville was born in [[London]], [[England]] 1833. == Hysteria == The "**pelvic massage**" was a common treatment of female hysteria (//overwhelming…
Christmas Cracker — 2021-08-12 20:39:19
…r :: {{Databox caption="Inventor" Image="TomSmith.jpg" Who="Tom Smith" width="300" birth_date="18/10/1823" birth_place="London" death_date="13/3/1869" death_place="" }} === Tom Smith 1860 === ~-[[Tradition]]:[[1800s]] Tom Smith was a hard workin…
…year. Over the next few years his idea evolved and grew and he moved from his original premises in Clerkenwell, East [[London]], [[England]] to Finsbury Square in the City. Tom left his business to his three sons: Tom, Henry and Walter. In 19…
Procter Gamble — 2021-08-12 20:35:23
…entice candlemaker, learning to “dip candles”. Procter entered into business in the clothing industry in 1818 in [[London]]. Around 1832 his woolens shop was destroyed by fire and burglary leaving Procter £5,000 in debt – a huge sum in 1…
Steel — 2021-08-12 20:31:45
…er" width="" birth_date="19 Jan 1813" birth_place="Charlton, [[Hertfordshire]]" death_date="15 Mar 1898" death_place="London" }} == Henry Bessemer 1856 == ~-[[CategoryIndustry]]:[[1800s]] Sir Henry Bessemer invented the first industrial process…
Horlicks — 2021-08-12 20:30:08
…Ruardean in the Royal Forest of Dean. They were sent to a private school in Hampshire. The brothers found employment in London, where James joined a homeopathic chemist company that made dried baby food in Tichborne Street, near Piccadilly Circu…
…k home == {{Image url="HorlicksAdvert.jpg" class="right" title="Horlicks Advert" width="" }} In 1890 James went back to London to set up an office there to manage importing their product from the States. By 1906 the UK demand was large enough to …
Rubber — 2021-08-12 20:24:10
…"350" title="Thomas Hancock" birth_date="08 May 1786" birth_place="Marlborough" death_date="26 Mar 1865" death_place="London" }} === Thomas Hancock 1843 === ~-[[CategoryIndustry]]:[[1800s]] Not the invention of rubber but the **vulcanizing** or…
… a lumber merchant and cabinet maker. Around 1815 Hancock went into the stagecoach business with one of his brothers in London, England. The need for an effective waterproofing agent for coaches, drivers, and passengers drew Hancock's attention t…
…ght of a multitude of ways in which this remarkable new product could be used. Hancock died in 1865 at Stoke Newington, London. ||{{Image url="Tyre.jpg" width="90" title=" Road tyre" }}||{{Image url="Wetsuit.jpg" width="90" title="Wet suit" }}|…
Sewing Machine — 2021-08-11 11:41:32
…es, and other articles. . . .//" in 1790. Thomas was a cabinet maker born in Greenhill Rents parish of St. Sepulchre [[London]], [[England]]. ::c:: == Working again == Many years later in 1874 a man named **William Newton Wilson** found the pa…
Blood transfusion — 2021-08-10 08:28:02
… Blundell " width="350" birth_date="27 December 1790" birth_place="Holborn" death_date="15 January 1878" death_place="London" }} === James Blundell 1818 === ~-[[Medical]]:[[1800s]] Dr. James Blundell ( 1791 Holborn, [[London]], [[England]] �…
…ansfusion.jpg" class="left" title="Blood Transfusion" width="200" }} In 1840, at St George's Hospital Medical School in London, Samuel Armstrong Lane, aided by Dr. Blundell, performed the first successful whole blood transfusion to treat haemophi…
Lawn Mower — 2021-08-10 08:19:36
…" width="300" }}>>One of the first of Budding and Ferrabee machines was used in **Regent's Park Zoological Gardens** in London [[Zoo]], in **1831**. It took another ten years and further innovations to create a machine that could be worked by don…
Zoo — 2021-08-09 22:18:40
…hose name derives from being the tenth of ten children) was asked to lay out the grounds and housing for the animals in London Zoo. == Bristol Zoo == {{Image url="BristolZoo.jpg" class="left" title="Bristol Zoo" width="300" }} Bristol Zoo in C…
USA anthem — 2021-08-09 22:14:22
… Smith" width="300" birth_date="March 30, 1750" birth_place="Gloucester" death_date="September 21, 1836" death_place="London" }} === John Stafford Smith 1770 === ~-[[Music]]:[[Society]]:[[1700s]] The national anthem of the United States of Ame…
Chocolate Bar — 2021-08-09 22:11:02
…{Databox caption="Creator" Image="Josephfry.jpg" width="300" title="Joseph Fry" birth_date=" 21/4/1777" birth_place="[[London]], [[England]]" death_date="28/8/1861" death_place="" }} The process of turning cocao into a tablet or bar of chocola…
Wellington Boot — 2021-08-09 21:58:54
…the early 1800s Arthur Wellesley, then Viscount Wellington, asked his shoemaker, Mr George Hoby of St James's Street, [[London]], to make a boot which was easier to wear with the new trousers. {{Image url="DukeWellingtonBoots.jpg" class="left" …
Jigsaw Puzzle — 2021-08-09 21:24:39
…"John-Spilsbury-map-puzzle.jpg" class="left" title="John Spilsbury map puzzle" width="" }} Spilsbury who was born in [[London]] mounted a map of the world onto a hardwood board and carved out the shapes of the countries to create what he called …
Sandwich — 2021-08-08 20:40:14
…}} {{toc}} The sandwich, is the most popular world-wide fast food. The word 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 …
Plywood — 2021-08-08 18:44:16
…ption="Inventor" Image="samuelbentham.jpg" Who="Samuel Bentham" width="350" birth_date="11 January 1757" birth_place="[[London]] England" death_date="31 May 1831" death_place="London England" Education="Self educated" }} === Samuel Bentham 1797 …
Sunday School — 2021-08-08 18:39:06
… == {{Image url="Robert-raikes-glos-statue.jpg" class="right" title="Robert Raikes statue Gloucester. Another stands in London and Toronto" width="300" }} The movement began in **July 1780** in the home of a Mrs Meredith. Within a short time seve…
Vaccination — 2021-08-07 23:07:23
…on 17 May 1749, the son of the local vicar. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to a local surgeon and then trained in London. In 1772, he returned to Berkeley and spent most the rest of his career as a doctor in his native town. == Terrifying …
Powered Flight — 2021-04-05 22:36:49
…e at an exhibition arranged by the '''Aeronautical Society of Great Britain''' (founded in 1866) at the Crystal Palace, London, in 1868. The plane was flown indoors from a wire unmanned at twenty miles per hour in front of the Prince of Wales and…
Patent Leather — 2021-01-31 22:10:03
…eatherBag.jpg" class="left" title="Patent Leather Bag" width="" }} In November 1799, inventor Edmund Prior, of Holborn, London, England, patented a method of painting and colouring leather. {{Image url="PatentLeatherRedShoes.jpg" class="right" ti…
Toothbrush — 2021-01-28 15:14:07
…t were held in place by wire. Addis starting mass-producing his contraption after leaving prison in Whitechapel, east [[London]], [[England]]. == Production == His business boomed having to move premises. William died a wealthy man in 1808 leavi…
Float Glass — 2020-12-08 00:24:27
…Pilkington" width="300" birth_date="7 January 1920" birth_place="Calcutta, India" death_date="5 May 1995" death_place="London" }} === Alastair Pilkington 1953 === ~-[[CategoryIndustry]]:[[1900s]] {{toc}} Between 1953 and 1957, Sir Alastair Pilk…
…rld. Today, around 260 float plants use the Pilkington method. ::c:: == Sky's the Limit == {{Image url="Shard-tower-in-london.jpg" class="right" title="Shard tower, London dwarfing the beautiful St.Pauls Cathedral." width="400" }} Because of thi…
Electric Toaster — 2020-12-01 01:05:39
…ive children. His passion for engineering began early. In his autobiography, Reminiscences, Crompton tells of a trip to London 's Great Exhibition of 1851. His schooling started at Sharow, near Ripon in Yorkshire, along with 19 other boys, aged …
Railway — 2020-11-30 12:55:52
…n the cost of travel so that all but the poorest could afford to travel by train. In the stagecoach days, a ticket from London to Manchester and back would have cost '''£3 10s''' but by 1851 the train fare for this same journey was only '''5s'''…
Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
…e first Football Association (F.A.) was founded in [[England]]. In the '''Freemasons' Tavern''' in Great Queen Street, London on 26 October 1863 rules for the modern game were laid down over a series of meetings. Central to these meetings was ''…
…. The game was played on a field nearly 200 metres in length and all players chased the ball for the whole of the game. London's '''Wimbledon Hockey Club''' (organized 1883) standardized the game after the many centuries of informal play in Engla…
Underwater Tunnel — 2020-10-11 23:44:16
…rd Brunel" width="280" birth_date="25 Apr 1769" birth_place="Hacqueville, France" death_date="12 Dec 1849" death_place="London" }} === Thames Tunnel 1843 === ~- [[CategoryIndustry]]:[[1800s]] The Thames Tunnel was the first subaqueous tunnel cons…
Vacuum cleaner — 2020-10-11 23:24:10
… Cleaner Company Ltd'''. to manufacture and market it. The Head Office was in Parsons Green Lane, in Fulham, South West London. He built his first machine in 1901. It was made for Osborne House, a training college for naval officers on the Isle o…
Slavery Abolition — 2020-08-17 15:00:36
…rforce" width="400" birth_date="24 August 1759" birth_place="Kingston upon Hull" death_date="29 July 1833" death_place="London" }} === William Wilberforce 1833 === ~-[[Society]]:[[1800s]] Wilberforce was a pioneer in the campaign for the complet…
Hydraulics — 2020-08-17 13:24:35
…amah" width="300" birth_date="13 April 1748" birth_place="Barnsley Yorkshire" death_date="9 December 1814" death_place="London" }} === Joseph Bramah 1795 === ~-[[CategoryIndustry]]::[[1700s]] {{toc}} Joseph Bramah was granted a patent for his *…
TV Black and White Kiss — 2020-08-17 09:07:45
…y ambiguous'//. == Synopsis == The drama was called **"You in Your Small Corner"**. ~& Dave Jordan has just moved to London from Jamaica to be with his mother, who runs a social club in Brixton. Mrs Jordan has ambitions for her only son and is…
Life Boat — 2020-08-17 09:00:19
…he world’s first unsinkable boat and patented it on 2 November 1785. {{TOC}} Lukin was a coach-builder in Long Acre, London and his experiments on a Norwegian yawl led him to create his **‘unimmergible’** boat. Lukin incorporated pockets…
Sinoatrial Node — 2020-08-15 18:08:00
… Arthur Keith and Martin Flack^^ == MARTIN WILLIAM FLACK CBE == Flack later became demonstrator of physiology at the London Hospital and later a lecturer. He served on the Medical Research Council and became the director of medical research fo…
Bicycle — 2020-08-15 09:22:15
…way to travel. So the need for a safer design was being sought. Starley was born 24th of December 1855 Walthamstow, [[London]], [[England]]. In 1877 he started a new business //Starley & Sutton Co// with William Sutton a local cycling enthusia…
Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25
…/were// preparing for war) were able to study his designs. ::cr::Son of Frank, Ian Whittle: // ~&'The German embassy in London bought copies of my father's first turbojet patent and it was registered at the Berlin Patent Office in August 1931.' /…
Plastic Surgery — 2020-08-06 08:24:01
…" Who="Harold Gillies" width="360" birth_date="17/7/1882" birth_place="Dunedin, NZ" death_date="10/9/1960" death_place="London" }} === Harold Gillies - 1917 === ~-[[Medical]]::[[1900s]] Gillies developed the techniques of modern plastic surgery.…
Gravity — 2020-08-06 08:19:13
…o="Isaac Newton" width="300" birth_date="25/12/1642" birth_place="Woolsthorpe" death_date="20 MArch 1727" death_place="London" }} === Sir Isaac Newton 1687 === ~- [[CategoryScience]]::[[1600s]] Sir Isaac Newton created the **'''Universal Law o…
Potato Crisp — 2020-08-06 08:17:45
…: {{Databox caption="Creator" Image="WilliamKitchiner.jpg" Who="William Kitchiner" width="280" born="1775" birth_place="London" died="1827" death_place="London" }} === William Kitchiner 1822 === ~- [[CategoryFood]]::[[1800s]] William Kitchiner…
…ass="left" title="Apicius Redivivus: The Cooks Oracle" width="320" }} Dr. Kitchiner lived at 43 Warren Street, Camden [[London]] [[England]]. He was a man of eclectic interests, music, optics and spectacles and improving **telescopes**. He wrote …
Greenwich Meridian — 2020-08-06 08:03:21
…rosses each day at noon. It provides a fix for longitude, the most important being 0° longitude that is in Greenwich [[London]]. It is the home of world time and the point where east meets west. == Longitudinal Conundrum == For early navigat…
Obstetrical Forceps — 2020-06-28 13:29:13
…migrated to England in 1569 to escape the religious violence in France. From 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-midw…
Rubber Band — 2020-06-28 12:40:44
…hen Perry 1845 === ~-[[Domestic]]:[[CategoryIndustry]] Stephen Perry of Messers Perry and Co, Rubber Manufacturers of [[London]] patented the rubber band in England on March 17, 1845. Also known as an elastic band the idea was touted by Thomas Ha…
Christmas Traditions — 2019-12-27 02:21:30
…== ||{{Image url="Xmascracker.jpg" width="200" title="Cracker" }}||On the dinner table on Christmas Day. Invented by a London baker in 1846, a cracker is a brightly coloured paper tube, twisted at both ends, which contains a party hat, riddle an…
Underground Railway — 2019-10-23 19:35:16
…the world who all wanted their own **Metro**. In 1890 the first underground electric railway opened, the City and South London, which ran from near the Bank of England under the Thames to the South Bank. {{image url="TrainTube.jpg" class="right"…
Paternoster — 2018-09-18 13:06:34
… Dartford, England, the engineering firm of J & E Hall installed its first "Cyclic Elevator", using Hart's patent, in a London office block. The Paternoster became very popular in Europe where many still operate. Britain has a remaining paternos…
Emergency Telephone Number — 2017-07-06 10:16:06
…-[[Society]] {{Image url="999Operator.jpg" class="right" title="Policeman with 999 Operator" width="450" }} {{TOC}} === London 1937 === The first emergency number system in the world, **999**, was launched in [[London]] on **30 June 1937**. /* …
…event_date="30 June 1937" Emergency services call number 999 is launched in London. */ == Dial 999 == {{Image url="BakelitePhone.jpg" class="grow left" title="Old Bakelite dial up phone with emergenc…
… call system was introduced after a two year inquiry, following the deaths of five women in a fire at Wimpole Street in London in 1935. Neighbours were unable to dial 0 for the switchboard found it jammed with calls and could not alert anyone of …
Thriller — 2017-05-19 15:12:25
…pg" width="" title="Rod Temperton" birth_date="9 October 1949" birth_place="" death_date="1 October 2016" death_place="London" }} {{toc}} **Rodney Lynn Temperton** (born 15 October 1947) composer, producer and musician from Cleethorpes, [[Lincol…
Grand Theft Auto — 2017-05-11 15:45:29
…" Image="SamDanHouser.jpg" title="Sam & Dan Houser" Who="Sam Houser" width="300" birth_date=" 24 May 1971" birth_place="London" death_date="now" death_place="" Brother="Dan Houser" Born="1974" }} [[Entertainment ]] === Dan and Sam Houser 2013 =…
Beatrix Potter — 2016-07-23 14:22:52
… 1943 == {{Databox Image="Beatrix_Potter.jpg" Who="Beatrix Potter" width="350" birth_date="28 July 1866" birth_place="London" death_date="22 December 1943" death_place="Sawrey" }} {{toc}} Beatrix Potter is still one of the world's best-selling…
… more than 35 languages and sold over **100 million** copies. One book is sold every 15 seconds. Born in Kensington, [[London]], she later moved to **Hill Top Farm** in [[Cumbria]] and on her death bequeathed it, along with 13 other farms and ov…
Jimi Hendrix Experience — 2016-06-02 09:48:10
… class="right" title="Hendrix Experience" width="250" }} One of the world's most influential rock bands was formed in [[London ]] 1966. /* event_date="1966" Jimi Hendrix Experience was formed */ Jimi Marshall Hendrix, who was struggling for re…
…cognition in the USA, came to [[England ]] at the invitation of **Chas Chandler** in September 1966. === London 1966 === <<{{amazonad}}<< Chas became his manager and formed a backing band in the style of "**Cream**" with bassist **…
Mary Poppins — 2016-05-05 17:16:51
…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 household to care for their children. {{image url="mary_poppins.jpg" class="left" }} == Disney F…
Salvation Army — 2016-01-07 15:19:48
…inebooth.jpg" class="right" title="William and Catherine Booth" width="" }} {{toc}} The Salvation Army was founded in [[London]], [[England]] by Minister William Booth from Nottingham and wife Catherine. Originally called the 'East London Christi…
London — 2015-12-31 11:32:58
…London :: [[England]] {{Category}} Inventions made up in London…

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