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Elevator — 2023-12-30 12:44:08
…levator he called the **“Ascending Room”**. Hornor opened his London Colosseum, designed by Decimus Burton, to the public on 10th January 1829 with it's lift to take tourists up to a platform to view the London skyline. /* event_date="10 Jan…
Cinematography — 2023-10-09 23:41:17
…ing granted the patents Louis Le Prince mysteriously vanished. This meant Le Prince was never able to perform a planned public demonstration in the US. Coincidentally Edison had by now instructed his Scottish engineer, William Kennedy Dickson, to…
Cat Eyes — 2023-10-09 23:39:36
…e founded the company with £500 of capital and opened a factory beside his home in Boothtown. In 1936 Shaw conducted a public experiment at his own expense by installing fifty Catseyes on a dangerous stretch of road outside Bradford. The number …
Pedestrian Crossing — 2023-10-07 11:08:59
… 31st October 1951. Authorities were looking for a way to make pedestrian crossings more visible to road users and the public. {{Image url="AbbeyRoadZebraCrossing.png" class="left" title="Abbey Road Zebra Crossing" width="400" }}The idea of pain…
Radio — 2023-09-23 15:56:24
…lielmo Marconi" Invented="Radio" Birth_date="25/4/1874" death_date="20/7/1937" }} **Guglielmo Marconi** gave the first public transmission of wireless signals in England 1896. {{Toc}} The invention of communication by radio waves had a long hist…
…l="Marconi_plaque_London_1896.jpg" title="First radio transmission" class="right" width="200" }} Marconi gave his first public transmission of wireless signals at the now BT Centre in 1896. On {{Datetext event_date="13 May 1897", text="Marconi s…
LCD — 2023-09-23 15:53:09
…at around room temperature and these were revealed to the world {{Datediff from="22/3/1973"}} years ago in a scientific publication on **22 March 1973**. Working in collaboration with scientists at the RRE, led by Peter Raynes, further compounds …
iPod — 2023-09-23 15:52:55
…droom split, he was unable to raise the £60,000 needed to renew patents across 120 countries and the technology became public property. == In Court == {{image url="IXI.jpg" width="300" class="right"}} Apple used Mr Kramer’s patents and drawin…
Toilet — 2023-09-08 09:57:11
…ing, England. In 1852, Jennings invented the wash-out design with a shallow pan emptying into an S-trap. He popularised public lavatories or 'Retiring Rooms' by installing the first flushing public toilets in the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhi…
…000 a year. Jennings was awarded a gold medal for this pioneering and essential work, when by the 1890s he had enriched public thoroughfares all over Britain. His firm's catalogue of 1895 listed 36 towns and 'many others' where these public conve…
Electric Car — 2023-08-27 16:16:21
…~- Not exceed 4 mph on the open road and 2 mph in towns. ~- Be preceded by a man on foot waving a red flag to warn the public. The speed limit stood until **1896** when it was raised to 14 mph! These draconian measures crippled Britain from le…
Winston Churchill — 2023-08-27 16:11:42
…n the historic vessel Havengore along the River Thames for his State Funeral on 30th January 1965. This iconic and very public event was televised live watched worldwide by an audience of **350 million people**.…
Plastic — 2022-09-01 08:57:23
…ft" width="300" title="Blue plaque on the old Birmingham Science Museum" }}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 T…
Police — 2022-05-20 08:52:50
…ion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient. ~1) Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police b…
…eing only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community w…
Television — 2021-11-06 16:35:18
… by transmitting moving silhouette images, such as his fingers wiggling, in his London laboratory. Baird gave the first public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London in a three-week series…
…ons beginning on March 25, 1925. On the 26th of January 1926 in his [[London]] attic laboratory, John Logie Baird first publicly demonstrated television. == In Colour == He demonstrated the world's first colour transmission on July 3, 1928, usi…
Postage Stamp — 2021-11-06 16:32:56
…munication]]:[[CategoryIndustry]]:[[1800s]] The **Penny Black** was the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system. It was the first pre-paid mail service, issued in Great Britain on 1 May **1840**, for official use from…
Public Park — 2021-08-14 20:30:20
…lic park 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…
…ch was more than **1848 feet long and 456 feet wide and 135 feet high**. Despite widespread cynicism amongst press and public, when the Great Exhibition opened in May 1851 it was an enormous success. In October, Paxton was knighted by Queen Vict…
Ice Cream Cone — 2021-08-14 20:22:38
…would soon go on to replace the unhygienic glass 'licks' that ice cream street vendors used at the time. She also gave public lectures on cooking, ran an agency for domestic staff and was granted a patent for an improved ice cream machine that c…
Colgate — 2021-08-11 11:43:11
…was an English farmer and politician. He was also a sympathiser with the American War of Independence. Because of his republican ideals he decided to leave their farm in Shoreham, Kent in March 1798 and emigrate to Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Colg…
Nature Reserve — 2021-08-09 22:30:53
… title="Walton Hall" }} == The Bird Box == He also invented the '''bird nesting box'''. Walton Hall is now open to the public as a nature trail. {{Image url="Nestbox.jpg" width="100" title="Waterton invented the nesting box" }} ||{{Image url…
Light Bulb — 2021-08-09 21:56:27
…ss current through a thin strips of platinum. - 1835, James Bowman Lindsay demonstrated a constant electric light at a public meeting in Dundee, Scotland. - 1840, Warren de la Rue used a platinum coil in an evacuated tube. - 1841 Frederick de …
Pub — 2021-08-09 21:19:14
…ass="right" }} ::c:: == Beginnings == **Probably the greatest British Invention of them all!** The 'Pub', short for **Public House**, has a very long history. The Brits have been drinking a beer like liquid since at least the Bronze Age, but …
Industrial Revolution — 2021-08-08 21:48:46
…at Western Railway''', a series of famous steamships, and numerous important bridges and tunnels, hence revolutionising public transport and modern day engineering. During his short career, Brunel achieved many engineering "firsts", including as…
Sunday School — 2021-08-08 18:39:06
…h state school system. {{Image url="Robert-raikes-house.jpg" class="left" title="Robert Raikes house Gloucester, now a Public House" width="400" }} == World wide == Within a decade children were attending schools on a Sunday all over England. S…
Patent Leather — 2021-01-31 22:10:03
… Birmingham [[Warwickshire]], [[England]]. After being granted the patent, Hand’s method was discussed, in a British publication called "The Bee"in 1793. ^^A gentleman of the name of Hand in Birmingham, as I am informed, has of late obtained …
Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25
…e "}} This rejection would later turn out to be a stroke of luck for Whittle, but because his idea was available to the public, other's overseas (who //were// preparing for war) were able to study his designs. ::cr::Son of Frank, Ian Whittle: // …
Gravity — 2020-08-06 08:19:13
…ridge. == Principia 1687 == >> {{adsense}}>> Isaac explained three basic laws that govern the way objects move in his publication '//Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica'//. The First Law states that an object that is not being pushed …
Christmas Traditions — 2019-12-27 02:21:30
…title="Christmas Card" }}||The custom of sending Christmas cards started in Britain in 1840 when the first 'Penny Post' public postal deliveries began. Over a billion Christmas cards are now sent every year in the United Kingdom, many of them sol…
Beatrix Potter — 2016-07-23 14:22:52
… of mice who help a tailor by sewing clothes for him at night has been a children's favourite for generations since its publication. It is based on the true story of a Gloucester tailor, **John Pritchard**, who came to work one morning to discov…

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