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  1. Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52
    …working electrical telegraph system was built by English inventor Francis Ronalds in **1816** at 26 Upper Mall in Hammersmith, [[London]] . He laid eight miles of wire insulated in glass tubing in his garden and connected both ends to two clocks…
  2. PIN — 2023-09-23 15:56:10
    …bank that would allow customers to get cash when it was shut. The task was taken up by Kelvin Hughes, a subsidiary of Smiths Industries Ltd. Goodfellow designed a software system that could accept a machine-readable encrypted card, identifyin…
  3. Digital Photography — 2023-09-23 12:04:21
    …as == Tompsett moved to Bell Laboratories USA in 1969 to develop solid-state cameras. Shortly after joining, Boyle and Smith, also at Bell Labs, came up with the Charge-Coupled Device, CCD, concept to digitally store serial memory. This concept…
    …raphy were recognised with the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. Michael Tompsett, Eric Fossum, George Smith (not pictured) and Nobukazu Teranishi. Michael Francis Tompsett filed the first CCD imaging [[http://www.google.com/pa…
  4. YMCA — 2022-05-17 05:19:39
    …200px" }}||{{ Image url="volleyball.jpg" width="180px" }}|| || Net Ball / Basket Ball || Volley Ball || Dr. James Naismith devised the indoor game of Basketball with 13 rules. Interestingly rule 3 states: ^^3. A player cannot run with the ba…
  5. Christmas Cracker — 2021-08-12 20:39:19
    …Christmas Cracker :: {{Databox caption="Inventor" Image="TomSmith.jpg" Who="Tom Smith" width="300" birth_date="18/10/1823" birth_place="London" death_date="13/3/1869" death_place="" }} === Tom Smith 1860 …
    …=== ~-[[Tradition]]:[[1800s]] Tom Smith was a hard working confectioner always looking for ideas to further his business. On a trip to Paris in 1846 Tom disco…
    …le that gave him the idea of making his bon-bon pop as it was pulled apart. == The cracker is born == {{Image url="TomSmithCrackerPoster.jpg" class="left" title="Tom Smith Cracker cover from 1906.\nSanta before Coca-Cola invented him!" width="…
  6. Horlicks — 2021-08-12 20:30:08
    …ilt in the Indian Punjab to make Horlicks from buffalo milk. Horlicks spread to many markets and is now owned by ""GlaxoSmithKline"". The largest markets for Horlicks today are the UK, India and Malaysia. It is ""GlaxoSmithKline's"" top selling …
  7. USA anthem — 2021-08-09 22:14:22
    …cted as a member of the select Anacreontic Society who's members included such persons as Samuel Johnson. In the 1770s, Smith composed music for the society's constitutional song entitled **To Anacreon in Heaven** (The Anacreontic Song). The wor…
    …e popular in Britain and America following the establishment of the Anacreontic Society there. {{Image url="JohnStaffordSmith01.jpg" class="left" title="John Stafford Smith memorial in Gloucester cathedral" width="400" }} == USA National Anthem…
  8. Underground Railway — 2019-10-23 19:35:16
    … from="10/1/1863"}} years ago on the 10th of January 1863. Known as the **'Tube'**, it is now part of the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan lines. The first trains had gas-lit wooden carriages and were hauled by steam locomotives. /* e…
  9. Cilla Black — 2016-03-03 14:46:01
    …l and her relationship with Bobby Willis. ITV aired it in September 2014, starring BAFTA award-winning actress Sheridan Smith

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