1. Elevator — 2023-12-30 12:44:08

   …heme 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="LondonColosseum.jpg" class="left" title="London Colosseum" width="500" }}::…

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

   …wery in Leeds. Fermentation vats naturally give off CO2 in the process of converting sugars into low alcohol, as in [[Sparkling_Wine]]. This initial success led to further experimentation and a published paper entitled, **Impregnating Water…

3. Internal Combustion Engine — 2023-10-09 23:51:33

   …. ~i)1884: British engineer Edward Butler constructed the first petrol internal combustion engine. Butler invented the spark plug, ignition magneto, coil ignition and spray jet carburetor. {{Image url="Hornsby-Akroyd-Engine.jpg" class="left" ti…

4. Cat Eyes — 2023-10-09 23:39:36

   …his death in '''1976'''. His home was void of carpets, curtains and other comforts, but a pair of Rolls-Royces would be parked outside and he stocked the cellar with crates of Worthington’s White Shield, his ''**'favourite beer**'''.…

5. Electronic Computer — 2023-10-07 10:38:05

   …998) was a British engineer. During World War II **Max Newman**, **Alan Turing**, and other great minds at **Bletchley Park** codebreaking establishment, were already busy decoding messages produced the **Enigma** device. Help was needed to s…

6. Radio — 2023-09-23 15:56:24

   …hematically that electromagnetic waves could propagate through free space. == 1886 == Heinrich Rudolf Hertz noticed a sparking phenomenon and with experiments (1887-1888) was able to demonstrate the existence of electromagnetic waves in an exp…

7. Electric Car — 2023-08-27 16:16:21

   …Blackpool electric Tram. {{Image url="ThomasParkerElectricCar.jpg" class="left" title="Thomas Parker in his Electric Car" width="400" }} In October 1882 Parker moved to **Wolverhampton** to go into business with **Paul…
   … Bedford Elwell**. Soon Elwell and Parker were manufacturing accumulators and dynamos for customers like Trafalgar Colliery in the Forest of Dean, for electric…
   … lighting in the mine and the tramway in Blackpool. ::c:: == Modern features == The **Elwell-Parker **car was fitted with Parkers high-capacity rechargeable batteries, later vehicles had hydraulic brakes on all four w…
   …heels, as well as four-wheel steering. These features are even now being described as revolutionary. In 1888 Elwell-Parker Ltd. agreed to consolidate with other companies to form the Electric Construction Corporation. == First mention == …

8. Plastic — 2022-09-01 08:57:23

   …dustry led to the invention of a new material which he called '''Parkesine'''. Parkesine was based on cellulose nitrate and was the first plastic. Parkes observed that the solid residue left after the ev…
   …�� In 1856, he patented the process of waterproofing woven fabrics by the use of such materials. {{Image url="Alexander_Parkes_Blue_Plaque.jpg" class="left" width="300" title="Blue plaque on the old Birmingham Science Museum" }}Parkes introduc…
   …rest 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 Conservation == Parkesine played an important roll in conservati…
   …on. Parkes new plastic set into a hard horny material that he used to mimic ivory and tortoiseshell. No longer did animals need …

9. Roundabout — 2021-08-16 09:58:53

   …ass="left" title="Sollershott Circus 1912" width="300" }}Plans of Letchworth Garden City were drawn up in 1904 by Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin. Three roads in the plans crossed each other, Sollershotts East and West, Broadway, and Spring Ro…
   …ad. At the point at where they all converged, Parker and Unwin drew up a detailed plan of a circular traffic island, ‘Sollershott Circus’, in July 1908. == Traffic …

10. Public Park — 2021-08-14 20:30:20

    …ark created by a local authority and using public funds. Birkenhead Park was the forerunner of the Parks Movement and its influence was far-reaching both in this country and abroad. New York's '''Central Park''' was directl…
    …ar as sinuous rivers with views across them to features such as the Boathouse and Swiss Bridge. {{Image url="BirkenheadPark.jpg" class="right" }} ::c:: == A man with Big Ideas == In **1851** Paxton designed the **Crystal Palace** for the '''…
    …Great Exhibition'''. 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 d…

11. Lawn Mower — 2021-08-10 08:19:36

    …mner_motorised_lawn_mower.jpg" 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 mach…

12. Nature Reserve — 2021-08-09 22:30:53

    …ich had been set up near his estate in 1839 that leaked out poisonous chemicals which severely damaged the trees in the park and polluted the lake. He was eventually successful in having the soapworks moved. {{Image url="WaltonHall.jpg" class="…

13. Sparkling Wine — 2021-08-08 20:32:53

    …ly formed Royal Society in which he stated that sugar and molasses were being added to wines of all sorts to make them sparkling. Using this process the wine imported from France could be ''carbonated'' and made palatable. {{ image url="Sparkl…
    …ing_wine.jpg" class="left" width="200" Putting the sparkle into wine}} == Natural Sparkle == Spontaneous secondary fermentation had occurred in still wines since antiquity; most glass bottles of the time we…
    …mpagne' == {{ 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 George Etherege''' who found 'The Elixir of Lif…
    …e'. This was decades before Dom Pérignon who is traditionally considered to have invented sparkling wine in Champagne around 1697 when he declared //“Come quickly, I am tasting the stars’’//. French made thei…

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

    …ce here, I must own, had some little weight with me". == A Letter == On April 25, 1763, Reverend Stone wrote to George Parker, second earl of Macclesfield, and president of the **Royal Society** in a letter read before the Royal Society on Jun…

15. Celluloid — 2020-11-30 22:25:26

    …Celluloid :: === Alexander Parkes 1856 === [[CategoryScience]]:[[CategoryIndustry]]:[[1800s]] == Celluloid == {{redirect page="Plastic"}}…

16. Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47

    …width="120"}} Other versions developed in England during the 1890s, known variously as "whiff whaff" and "gossima," and Parker Brothers began manufacturing an indoor tennis kit that included a portable net that could be set up on a table, a sma…
    …anufacturer of sporting goods, John Jacques, registered "Ping Pong" as a trade name in 1901 and sold American rights to Parker Brothers, who came out with a new kit under that name. Another Englishman, E. C. Goode, in 1902 covered his wooden p…

17. Vacuum cleaner — 2020-10-11 23:24:10

    …ine in 1901. It was made for Osborne House, a training college for naval officers on the Isle of Wight. The machine was parked outside and the hoses were fed through the windows. It was originally powered by an oil engine, the electric motor wa…
    … five horsepower piston engine. {{image url="BoothPlaque.jpg" class="left" title="Blue plaque to Hubert Cecil Booth on Park House in Montpellier, Gloucester" width="300" }}The machine toured the streets with a team of of men in white drill sui…

18. Safari Park — 2020-08-17 14:54:27

    …Safari Park :: {{Databox caption="Inventor" Image="HenryThynne.jpg" Who="Henry Thynne 6th Marquess of Bath" width="" birth_date="26…
    …e="" }} === Longleat - 1966 === ~-[[Livestock]]:[[1900s]] Longleat in [[Wiltshire]] was the first drive-through safari park outside Africa. Opening on the 5th April 1966 486,500 people visited the lions of Longleat, in an estimated 106,000 ca…
    …rs and 1,950 coaches in the first year. Just nine weeks after the park had opened, the first lion cubs were born at Longleat. == Wild Idea == Jimmy Chipperfield, of Chipperfield's Circus, …

19. Banksy — 2017-06-19 21:04:17

    …uildings. {{Image url="BanksyChelt.jpg" class="center" title="Banksy Chelt, GCHQ" width="500" }} ::c:: === Bemusement Park === {{Image url="dismaland1.jpg" class="right" title="Dismaland" width="500" }} In 2015 he created **Dismaland** at a d…
    …isused lido area in **Weston-Super-Mare**. It was a clever twist on modern theme parks with a bleak, Banksy-style alternative to a sugar coated 'Disney style' day out. The main attraction was a dismal-loo…

20. Harrier Jump Jet — 2017-01-18 16:14:57

    …hey are still in service. == Over 50 years Service == It was conceived to operate from improvised bases, such as car parks or forest clearings, without requiring large and vulnerable air bases. Later, the design was adapted for use from airc…

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