1. Pedestrian Crossing — 2023-10-07 11:08:59

   …ffic signal constructed by the railway signal engineers Saxby & Farmer. It used gas lamps, and was manually operated. A police constable used a lever at the base of the light pole to switch between the red and green lamps. {{Image url="Plaque-1st…

2. Police — 2022-05-20 08:52:50

   …1800, John Stenhouse was appointed Master of Police. He set about organising and recruiting the force. He appointed three sergeants and six police constables. They oversa…
   …w. 68 unpaid citizen police officers or watchmen who wore long brown coats with their personal numbers painted on their backs. Each carried a lante…
   …rn and long stave. == The world's first modern police 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 constabl…
   …'' and a '''wooden rattle''' to raise the alarm. By the 1880s this rattle was replaced by a '''whistle'''. {{Image url="PoliceBox.jpg" class="right" title="Police Box" width="200" }} Blue was chosen because it was the colour of the popular Royal…

3. Fingerprints — 2021-08-14 20:06:49

   … them with 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="" …
   …ed in England and Wales when the first United Kingdom Fingerprint Bureau was founded in Scotland Yard, the Metropolitan Police headquarters, London, in 1901.…

4. Zoo — 2021-08-09 22:18:40

   …es (6 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) along with the Marquess of Lansdowne, Lord Auckland, [[Aluminium|Sir Humphry Davy]], [[Police|Robert Peel]], Joseph Sabine, Nicholas Aylward Vigors and other nobility. {{Image url="ZSL_Logo.png" class="right" tit…

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

   …next successful demonstration of the mobile cleaner was held at the '''Royal Mint'''. On the way back to headquarters a Police van stopped them and insisted on escorting them back to the mint. They had inadvertently sucked a fair amount of '''gol…

6. Emergency Telephone Number — 2017-07-06 10:16:06

   …gency Telephone Number :: == Emergency call service == ~-[[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…
   …switchboard found it jammed with calls and could not alert anyone of the fire. Prior to 999 people called their local police station to raise the alarm. Then dialling 0 and asking the operator for police, fire or ambulance was the recommended m…

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