1. Modern Farming — 2023-10-09 23:44:30

   …s Buckeridge. He was baptised in the parish church there on 30th March. At the age of seventeen, Tull matriculated at **Oxford**, to St. John's College, on 7th July 1691, but appears to have taken no degree. {{{TOC}}} Jethro Tull is one of the …

2. WorldWideWeb — 2023-09-23 15:57:32

   …nline */ ||{{{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 famous European Particle physics Laboratory…

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

   …by many the **world's greatest leader** of the 20th century. {{toc}} === Blenheim 1874 === Churchill was born 1874 in [[Oxfordshire]], [[England]] in Blenheim palace. He is another example of great British men who shunned education but had great…

4. Four-minute Mile — 2021-08-20 10:55:12

   …1954 === Roger Bannister, born in Harrow, England, in 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. …
   …nics of running and trained using new scientific methods he had developed. On May 6, 1954, at the Iffley Road track in Oxford [[Oxfordshire]], the annual match between the Amateur Athletic Association and Oxford University was the setting for Ba…

5. Intraocular Lens — 2021-08-20 10:40:24

   …pital could watch. == Resistance == In 1951, Harold Ridley announced the operation to an ophthalmological congress at Oxford. The news provoked **intense opposition**, especially from **Sir Stewart Duke-Elder**, who was surgeon-oculist to the …

6. IVF — 2021-08-16 10:02:09

   … pioneers Steptoe and Edwards" }}|| ||{{Databox who="Patrick Christopher Steptoe" birth_date="9 June 1913" birth_place="Oxford" width="200" death_date="21 March 1988" death_place="Canterbury" }}||{{Databox who="Robert Geoffrey Edwards" birth_date…

7. Tarmac — 2021-08-09 21:38:37

   …itle="Edgar Purnell Hooley" birth_date="5/6/1860" birth_place="Swansea [[Wales]]" death_date="26/1/1942" death_place="Oxford England" Invented="Tarmac" }} {{Toc}} === Edgar Purnell Hooley 1902 === ~-[[1900s]] /* event_date="1902" Hooley paten…

8. Salicylic acid — 2021-08-08 18:32:13

   …ve ingredient in **Aspirin**, in **1753**. {{toc}} In 1745 Stone became chaplain at Bruern Abbey in Chipping Norton, [[Oxfordshire]]. In 1758 Edward had been suffering from "agues" from a fever. He was aware that **quinine** derived from the b…

9. Marmite — 2021-04-03 10:38:16

   …ex? Press reader Contrary to numerous tales of a Continental origin, the product was created by brewer's clerk Alfred Oxford, employed not far from where the Marmite company was founded in Burton-on-Trent. Alfred Oxford had taken out several p…
   …tiful, he devoted much of his time to his family and failed to renew the Zalo patent. https://worldwide.espacenet.com OXFORD ALFRED JAMES GB190105936 (A) ― 1902-02-20 HERON JOHN GB190106937 (A) ― 1902-02-06 */ {{{toc}}} == The Process …
   …m the spent yeast, but it has emerged it was created and patented in the late 1800s by a brewer's clerk called **Alfred Oxford** employed in Burton-on-Trent. The patent had lapsed so the Gilmours sought to turn the process into a business. == F…

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

    …ox caption="Discoverer" Image="alec-jeffreys.jpg" width="300" title="Alec Jeffreys" birth_date="9/1/1950" birth_place="Oxford" death_date="now" }} === Alec Jeffreys 1984 === ~-[[CategoryScience]]:[[1900s]] {{{toc}}} Professor Sir Alec John Jef…
    …freys born (9 January 1950) in Oxford, [[Oxfordshire]], [[England]] is a geneticist at the University of Leicester. In **1984** through his investigations Jeffreys di…

11. Bungee Jumping — 2020-08-17 13:17:46

    …tol**, Simon Keeling, Tim Hunt** (brother of F1 champion racing driver James) and **Alan Weston** were members of the **Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club** who were dedicated to formal dress, abundant champagne, and imaginative stunts. {…

12. Oxfordshire — 2016-03-03 13:11:32

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

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