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Vacuum Flask — 2023-10-09 23:46:28
…at Edinburgh University. {{{toc}}} In 1875 he became professor of experimental philosophy at Cambridge and then at the Royal Institution in 1877. {{Image url="Flask.jpg" width="300" class="right" }} He researched the liquefaction of gases and …
Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35
…his would reduce friction between the surface and the vehicle. ^^"The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested." ^^ //Quote from Cockerell.// == Fam…
LCD — 2023-09-23 15:53:09
…=== **George William Gray** was born in Denny, [[Scotland]] 4 September 1926. In 1972 a team led by George Gray at the Royal Radar Establishment developed a new type of **cyanobiphenyl**. This resulting liquid crystal was less viscous, thereby …
… challenge to find an alternative to the shadow mask colour TV tube. This challenge was taken up by Cyril Hilsum at the Royal Radar Establishment (RRE) in **Malvern** [[Worcestershire]], to explore whether the discovery by US researchers that a …
…or Advanced Technology, often referred to as the Japanese Nobel Prize. == Links == http://www.merck.co.uk/ https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows/obits_alpha/gray_gw.pdf…
Bouncing bomb — 2023-09-23 12:03:28
…ng bomb" width="500" }} == Operation Chastise == The attack on the German dams was carried out on 16–17 May 1943 by Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron. The Möhne and Edersee Dams were breached, causing catastrophic flooding of the Ruhr and E…
Mousetrap — 2023-08-31 23:02:31
…e play in the world. The story was adapted from a radio play, Three Blind Mice, written by [[Agatha_Christie]] for the Royal family in 1947. It was renamed ''The Mousetrap'' and opened in the **West End of London** in **1952**. It has been at …
Winston Churchill — 2023-08-27 16:11:42
…or. == World War 2 == At the outbreak of World War II, Churchill became First Lord of the Admiralty in command of the Royal Navy. The current Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, wanted to appease Germany and Hitler and famously waved a paper …
Police — 2022-05-20 08:52:50
… to be controlled from Scotland Yard, and answerable to the Home Secretary. Sir Robert Peel had already established the Royal Irish Constabulary in 1812, and it had proved to be a great success. >>{{Image url="Constables.JPG" width="200" title…
…oliceBox.jpg" class="right" title="Police Box" width="200" }} Blue was chosen because it was the colour of the popular Royal Navy rather than red which was the army's colour and struck fear into the people because of the way soldiers had been u…
Cambridge Cream — 2022-05-20 08:48:45
…thought to be a French invention, the first written reference to it in France is in François Massialot's 'Le cuisinier royal et bourgeois' of 1691, but it is called **'crème à l'Angloise'**. The pudding had been on the menu at Trinity Colle…
Microphone — 2021-11-07 21:26:04
…_carbon_microphone.png" class="right" title="Hughes carbon microphone" width="" }} He demonstrated his apparatus to the Royal Society by magnifying the sound of insects scratching through a sound box and there were many other witnesses to his mi…
Postage Stamp — 2021-11-06 16:32:56
…would not pay. {{Image url="PennyBlack.jpg" class="right" caption="Penny Black" width="250" }} /* event_date="1516" The Royal Mail is created */ The Royal Mail had existed in Britain since **'1516'** but there were concerns it had become old an…
James Bond — 2021-08-20 10:49:07
…nt some time in the Austrian Tyrol at Kitzbühel and went on to study in Munich and Geneva. He had briefly attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst which he did not enjoy. == Reuters == He later worked at Reuters. This was a very enjoya…
…irst biographer, John Pearson, has identified 15 January 1952 as the "birth date" of James Bond and reports that CASINO ROYALE was finished on the 18th of March. [[http://www.ianflemingcentre.com| Ian Fleming]] == James Bond 007 == The offic…
Intraocular Lens — 2021-08-20 10:40:24
…ld **for free**. Ridley continued in private practice in Harley Street until he was 85. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1986, and **knighted in 2000**. Among the many medical honours he received were the **Gullstrand Medal** of…
Vitamins — 2021-08-16 09:52:16
…"James Lind" width="" }} **James Lind** (1716 in Edinburgh – 1794 in Gosport) was the pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy. The number of sailors that died from mal-nutrition was a serious problem. While at sea in May 1747 he conducted w…
…onfirm that citrus fruits could cure scurvy. */ == Links == [[http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/1564 | Royal College of Physicians]] …
Agatha Christie — 2021-08-14 20:41:37
…other, who encouraged her daughter to write. == Christie by Marriage == In 1914, she wed Colonel Archibald Christie, a Royal Flying Corps pilot, and took up nursing during World War I. She published her first book, //The Mysterious Affair at St…
Dinosaur — 2021-08-12 20:42:55
…ashire]] to become what we might call a celebrity scientist today. He was labelled "impudent" by teachers at Lancaster Royal Grammar School. == Megalosaurus == The first scientifically named dinosaur is **Megalosaurus** it was a large Theropo…
Procter Gamble — 2021-08-12 20:35:23
… Gamble was born in Ireland */ Gamble was born 3rd April 1803 in Enniskillen, [[Ireland]]. He was educated at Portora Royal School. His family emigrated to Canada in 1819. Eventually settling in Cincinnati, Ohio. There he apprenticed to a soap…
Horlicks — 2021-08-12 20:30:08
…th="250" }} Father James Horlick (1809-1878) and wife Priscilla Griffiths (1816-1874) sons were born in Ruardean in the Royal Forest of Dean. They were sent to a private school in Hampshire. The brothers found employment in London, where James j…
Everest — 2021-08-11 11:40:16
…ath_date="1 December 1866" }} Mount Everest was named in honour of **George Everest** in the English language by the //Royal Geographical Society.// Known in Nepal as ''Sagarmāthā'' and in Tibet as ''Chomolungma''. === Sir George Everest 186…
Blood transfusion — 2021-08-10 08:28:02
…chard Lower gave a demonstration of blood transfusion between animals in front of his distinguished colleagues from the Royal Society.…
Can — 2021-08-09 21:53:19
…ich excluded air. Durand thought a metal container would be more robust. Very soon he was supplying canned food to the Royal Navy and the [[British_Empire|Empire]] in large quantities. {{Image url="Tin_can.gif" class="right" title="Tin can" wi…
Jigsaw Puzzle — 2021-08-09 21:24:39
…39 – 3 April 1769) was a cartographer and engraver by profession. He served as an apprentice to Thomas Jefferys, the Royal Geographer to King George III. == Educational Toy == {{Image url="John-Spilsbury-map-puzzle.jpg" class="left" title="J…
Pub — 2021-08-09 21:19:14
…Innkeepers to show their loyalty it is perhaps no surprise that so many pubs bear names such as ‘The Kings Arms’ ‘Royal Oak’ or ‘Queens Head’. The Royal Oak is the English oak tree within which King Charles II of England hid to esca…
Sparkling Wine — 2021-08-08 20:32:53
…ed with its much livelier quality. As early as 1662 when '''Christopher Merret''' presented a paper to the newly formed Royal Society in which he stated that sugar and molasses were being added to wines of all sorts to make them sparkling. Using…
Salicylic acid — 2021-08-08 18:32:13
…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 June 2, 1763, describing the use of dried willow bark as a remed…
Vaccination — 2021-08-07 23:07:23
…ubsequently proved that having been inoculated with cowpox Phipps was immune to smallpox. He submitted a paper to the **Royal Society** in 1797 describing his experiment but was told that his ideas were too revolutionary and that he needed more …
…es. {{Image url="Jennerstatue.jpg" class="right" width="200" }} == Other Interests == He was elected '''Fellow of the Royal Society''' in 1788, following a careful study combining observation, experiment and dissection into a description of th…
…does not remain in the area for sufficiently long. His findings were published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in '''**1787**'''. == Ballooning == During his lifetime 'Hot Air Ballooning' become popular and Jenner held …
Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
…e jumpers, led by David Kirke, were arrested shortly after, but continued with jumps in the US from the Golden Gate and Royal Gorge bridges. == Bobsleigh 1890 == {{Image url="Bobsleigh.jpg" class="right" width="120" }} Bobsleigh, was surprising…
Vacuum cleaner — 2020-10-11 23:24:10
…ntially similar to the 'suction' of an air compressor. Little more than surface dirt and dust were removed. == 1903 by Royal Appointment == {{Image url="BoothVacuumCleaner.jpg" class="right" width="350" }} In 1903 Booth was invited to clean the…
…re installed in both '''Buckingham Palace''' and '''Windsor Castle''' and the British Vacuum Cleaner Company earned the Royal Warrant of Appointment to His Majesty. Booth's 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. The…
Cricket — 2020-08-26 21:18:47
…glish. == Beginnings == The first evidence of cricket being played was recorded in the year **1550**, by the pupils of Royal Grammar School, Guildford. The first //recorded// cricket match took place at Coxheath in [[Kent]], [[England]] in **16…
Eraser — 2020-08-18 10:06:20
…ing from paper the mark of black-lead-pencil. ... It is sold by Mr. Nairne, Mathematical Instrument-Maker, opposite the Royal-Exchange." {{Image url="eraser.jpg" class="left" title="eraser" width="300" }} == Needed invention == Before the rubb…
Pop Rivet — 2020-08-17 14:41:51
… production. This was particularly useful in Aircraft manufacture. == Naval and Aircraft == Wylie was an engineer and Royal Navy reservist, he was granted a British patent for "an improved means of closing tubular rivets." in 1917. He then jo…
Bungee Jumping — 2020-08-17 13:17:46
…e jumpers, led by David Kirke, were arrested shortly after, but continued with jumps in the US from the Golden Gate and Royal Gorge bridges. {{Image url="BristolBungee.jpg" class="left" title="First Bungee jump 1979" width="250" }} ::cr:: == Tri…
Sinoatrial Node — 2020-08-15 18:08:00
…tal and later a lecturer. He served on the Medical Research Council and became the director of medical research for the Royal Air Force . He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1919 New Year Honours . {{Tag ids="…
Plastic Surgery — 2020-08-06 08:24:01
…e techniques of modern plastic surgery. A New Zealander who studied medicine in Cambridge, England later he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and worked as a medical minder during the Great War where he experienced pioneering skin grafts on w…
Greenwich Meridian — 2020-08-06 08:03:21
…ecember 1719" death_place="Surrey" }} In 1675 **King Charles II** appointed **John Flamsteed** as the first Astronomer Royal of the new Royal Observatory in Greenwich. The [[British_Empire| Empire]] needed a method for navigators to find their…
…become the standard reference work for plotting star positions based on Greenwich time. Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal 1765 to 1811, processed Flamsteeds charts into tables that could be used by navigators and cartographers to establish p…
Obstetrical Forceps — 2020-06-28 13:29:13
… 1569 to escape the religious violence in France. From his roots as a barber-surgeon working in London, he became the Royal obstetrician-surgeon during the reign of King Charles I. With his brother they pioneered man-midwifery or the accouche…
Christmas Traditions — 2019-12-27 02:21:30
…r c="green" Christmas tree}} == Was popularised by Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who introduced one to the Royal Household in 1840 from Germany. == Fairy Lights == ||{{Image url="fairylights-iolanthe.jpg" class="left" title="fairyl…
Billiards — 2016-06-23 11:09:55
…in **1647**. === Charles Cotton 1647 === The game was already very popular in England with commoners and within the Royal houses of [[England]]. Even Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, in 1609 in Act II, Scene 5, Cleopatra says: "Let's to …

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