1. British Empire — 2022-05-20 08:45:03

   …dth="" }} {{Image url="FlagPitcairnIslands.gif" class="left" title="Flag Pitcairn Islands" width="" }} {{Image url="FlagSaintHelena.gif" class="left" title="Flag Saint Helena" width="" }} {{Image url="FlagSGeorgiaSandwich.png" class="left" title…

2. Loch Ness Monster — 2022-05-03 17:06:34

   …ep" width="100%" height="200" }} The earliest written reference to a monster in Loch Ness is a 7th-century biography of Saint Columba, the Irish missionary who introduced Christianity to Scotland. In **565**, according to the biographer, Columba…

3. Sewing Machine — 2021-08-11 11:41:32

   …cking the stitch. /* By the time of this discovery others, like Singer, had become millionaires from patents which, if Saint's machine had been discovered earlier, would never have been approved. Newton Wilson was one who had suffered at the h…
   …n the grounds that the later patents were worthless but he got his revenge in a remarkable way. He built a replica of a Saint machine made from the drawings submitted with the patent. He proved it worked. He then booked space at the 1876 Centen…
   …" emblazoned across the façade. Next to it, on a smaller stand, was just one machine that replica and the words Thomas Saint, inventor of the sewing machine, 1790. */ == Links == [[http://ismacs.net/sewing_machine_articles/who_invented_the_se…

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