1. Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35

   … celebrated and innovative designer of marbled papers. Despite an interest in the arts, Christopher read Engineering at Peterhouse, Cambridge. After Cambridge he worked for the Radio Research company until 1935 and then for the Marconi Wireless …

2. LCD — 2023-09-23 15:53:09

   …years ago in a scientific publication on **22 March 1973**. Working in collaboration with scientists at the RRE, led by Peter Raynes, further compounds were synthesised and evaluated. /* event_date="22 March 1973" The first stable LCD is announ…

3. Trouser Press — 2021-08-26 11:11:31

   …Trouser Press :: {{draft}} {{Databox caption="Inventor" Image="PeterCorby.jpg" Who="Peter Corby" width="" birth_date="July 8 1924" birth_place="Leamington Spa" death_date="5/8/2021" death_place="" }} === Peter…
   …]] The Corby trouser press, an electrical appliance used to smooth the creases from a pair of trousers, was invented by Peter Corby in 1930. Peter began producing the press in Windsor with the help of his father. His first customer was Austin Re…

4. MRI Scan — 2021-08-20 11:04:59

   …Scanner.jpg" class="left" title="Modern MRI Scanner" width="" }} Sir Peter’s early work was in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), then being used to study the chemical structure of substances. …
   …e application 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 usefu…
   …anar imaging making 3D imaging feasible. == First MRI Image == The first MRI scan of a human body part was made by Sir Peter Mansfield, of a cross-section of the finger of his research student Dr Andrew Maudsley, complete with bone, bone-marrow…

5. Automatic Kettle — 2021-08-14 20:44:42

   … }} Peter Wallace Hobbs was born on May 3 1916 at Langton Green, near Tunbridge Wells [[Kent]], [[England]], and educated at the …

6. Can — 2021-08-09 21:53:19

   …Can :: {{databox width="320" Image="PeterDurand.jpg" Who="Peter Durand" Invented="Food Can" birth_date="21 October 1766" death_date="23 July 1822" }} == Food Tin Can == ~-[[CategoryIn…
   …od of preserving food by storing it in containers that are hermetically sealed and then sterilized by heat. {{toc}} === Peter Durand 1810 === ~-[[1800s]] {{Image url="DurandTinCan.jpg" class="left" title="Durand Tin Can" width="" }} In 1810 Dura…
   …) was granted on August 25, 1810 by King George III. /* event_date="25 August 1810" The tin food can is invented */ **Peter Durand** a merchant of Hoxton Square, [[Middlesex]], changed food preservation with his sterilized and sealed tin food …

7. Obstetrical Forceps — 2020-06-28 13:29:13

   …Obstetrical Forceps :: {{Image url="obstetrical-forceps" class="right" title="obstetrical forceps" width="400" }} === Peter Chamberlen 1600 === ~-[[Medical]] The forceps to aid birth were invented by Peter the elder Chamberlen (c.1560–1631) …
   …ir lucrative trade. The forceps were only taken out of it's carved box during a birth. {{Databox caption="Eldest son of Peter the younger" Image="PeterChamberlen.png" Who="Peter Chamberlen the third" width="" born="1601" birth_place="" died="168…

8. Paternoster — 2018-09-18 13:06:34

   … many still operate. Britain has a remaining paternoster in Sheffield University. Oriel Chambers building, designed by Peter Ellis, remains one of finest and most influential architectural design of its age. One of the first office buildings to…

9. Viagra — 2017-06-01 14:56:53

   …. Between 1999 and 2001 sales annual sales of Viagra were more than **one billion dollars** (~£670,000,000 pounds). **Peter Dunn** and **Albert Wood** both of Kent, England are named as the inventors of the process by which Viagra was created.…

10. Beatrix Potter — 2016-07-23 14:22:52

    …death bequeathed it, along with 13 other farms and over 4000 acres of land, to the [[National_Trust]]. === The Tale of Peter Rabbit 1902 === {{Image url="PeterRabbit.jpg" class="left" title="Peter Rabbit" width="" }} >>{{amazon type="book" ite…
    …ms="1414506414" }}>> The 'real' Peter Rabbit was a Belgian buck rabbit called Peter Piper that was //'bought at a very tender age, in the Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush, for the exorbitant sum of 4/6'//.…
    … He was to prove a sound investment. Peter lent his first name to one of the world's best-loved fictional characters and earned Beatrix Potter enduring internatio…

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