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  1. Radar — 2023-10-08 00:18:51
    …== Only two weeks later Wilkins left the Radio Research Station with a small party, including Edward George Bowen (born Swansea, [[Wales]]) to start further research at Orfordness. On** April 2, 1935** Watson-Watt was granted a patent for radar…
  2. James Bond — 2021-08-20 10:49:07
    …e was the second son of Valentine and Eve Fleming. Ian Fleming's first boarding school, Durnford School, was based near Swanage in the Isle of Purbeck. Along with his brothers, Ian Fleming attended Eton. He was not an industrious pupil but exce…
  3. Light Bulb — 2021-08-09 21:56:27
    …the English physicist Sir Joseph Wilson Swan began working on a light bulb using carbonised paper filaments in an evacuated glass bulb. By **1860 **he was able to d…
    …cuum and an adequate electric source resulted in an inefficient bulb with a small, uncontinued lifetime. {{Image url="JSwanPlaque.jpg" title="Joseph Swan Plaque" width="300" class="right" }} Later Joseph Swan was determined to devise a practic…
    …ent worked well, but burned up quickly. In **1878**, he demonstrated his new electric lamps in **Newcastle**, England. Swan pursued his search for a more durable filament, he decided to use cotton to produce "parchmentised thread" and obtained…
    …, 1879 section of a notebook that the judge might have determined showed that they were simply extending Sawyer’s (or Swan’s) work with carbon "burners" or "rods" in an evacuated glass bulb. (...) In fact, Edison and his team did not find …
  4. Tarmac — 2021-08-09 21:38:37
    …{{Databox Image="EdgarPurnellHooley.jpg" width="300" title="Edgar Purnell Hooley" birth_date="5/6/1860" birth_place="Swansea [[Wales]]" death_date="26/1/1942" death_place="Oxford England" Invented="Tarmac" }} {{Toc}} === Edgar Purnell Hool…
  5. Electric Toaster — 2020-12-01 01:05:39
    …andescent light bulb" width="200" }}<< Crompton's reputation was such that, in 1880, the chemist [[Light Bulb|Joseph Swan]] sought his opinion when he first developed incandescent lamps for indoor use. Crompton immediately saw the potential …
    …and, within a couple of years, his firm was selling Swan's lamps and the generating equipment to go with them. == History == Toasting bread began as a method of prolonging th…
  6. Hydroelectric Power — 2020-08-17 09:05:43
    …o used to power an arc lamp installed in the Gallery in 1878. The arc lamp was replaced in 1880 by [[Light_bulb| Joseph Swan's incandescent lamps]]. It was the first //'smart home'// with electric incandescent lighting, a dish washer, a vacuum…
  7. Christmas Traditions — 2019-12-27 02:21:30
    …lass="left" title="fairylights iolanthe" width="250" }}||The Savoy theatre presented Iolanthe with fairies adorned with Swan electric lights 25th November 1882.|| == Christmas Eve == ||{{Image url="ForSanta.jpg" width="200" title="Mince Pie" …
  8. English Language — 2018-01-26 21:45:55
    …rong> </li><li><strong>Barbados</strong> </li><li><strong>Belize</strong> </li><li><strong>Bermuda</strong> </li><li>Botswana </li><li>Brunei (with Malay) </li><li>Cameroon (with French) </li><li><strong>Canada</strong> (with French) </li><li>…

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