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Elevator — 2023-12-30 12:44:08
…Elevator :: === Thomas Hornor 1829 === ~-[[CategoryIndustry]]::[[CategoryTransport]]:[[1800s]] {{Image url="AscendingRoom.jpg" class="right" …
…title="Ascending Room" width="" }} In 1823 Thomas Hornor built the first powered elevator he called the **“Ascending Room”**. Hornor opened his London Colosseum, des…
Modern Farming — 2023-10-09 23:44:30
…in early 1674, the son of Jethro Tull Senior, a gentleman farmer of that parish, and his wife, Dorothy, the daughter of Thomas Buckeridge. He was baptised in the parish church there on 30th March. At the age of seventeen, Tull matriculated at **O…
Stainless Steel — 2023-10-09 23:42:45
… 13th August 1913. {{TOC}} == Determination == Harry was born into a poor family. His father was a steel worker at **Thomas Firth & Sons**. Brearley started working at the age of twelve and a couple of years later was working for Firth's as a …
Steam Engine — 2023-10-08 00:19:36
…. Papin wrote up the designs for such a device , however he never built an actual steam engine. The English engineer '''Thomas Savery''' later used Papin's designs to build the world's first operational steam engine. '''Sir Samuel Morland''' als…
… King Louis XIV of France in the 1680s. ::c:: == Back in Britain == Early industrial steam engines were designed by '''Thomas Savery''' (the "fire-engine", 1698) but it was '''Thomas Newcomen''' and his "atmospheric-engine" of 1712 that demonstr…
Electronic Computer — 2023-10-07 10:38:05
…Electronic Computer :: {{Databox Image="Thomas_Flowers.jpg" width="280" Who="Thomas 'Tommy' Flowers" Birth_date="22 December 1905" Birthplace="London" Death_date="28 October 1998" }} === Tommy Flowers 1…
…r 'Colossus' is tested. */ /* event_date="5 February 1944" First electronic computer 'Colossus' did its first job. */ Thomas (Tommy) Harold Flowers, MBE (22 December 1905 – 28 October 1998) was a British engineer. During World War II **Max N…
Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35
… of this great museum director and manuscript collector, friend of Bernard Shaw and T.E. Lawrence, literary executor of Thomas Hardy, called him simply "**grandfather of the hovercraft**".) == War Years == During the war years Cockerell worked …
Telephone — 2023-09-23 15:57:07
…to Business == {{Image url="BellTransmitterReceiver.jpg" class="right" title="Bell Transmitter Receiver" width="600" }} Thomas Watson became an associate of Bell. He made parts and built models of Bell's inventions. One day while they were workin…
Toilet — 2023-09-08 09:57:11
…>> Born 1836 Waterside, Yorkshire, England. During the 1880s Thomas Crapper invented the siphonic system for emptying the cistern. This avoided the problem of leaks common with the earlie…
Electric Car — 2023-08-27 16:16:21
…ponsible for electrifying the London Underground and Blackpool electric Tram. {{Image url="ThomasParkerElectricCar.jpg" class="left" title="Thomas Parker in his Electric Car" width="400" }} In October 1882 Parker move…
Postage Stamp — 2021-11-06 16:32:56
…ife == Born in Kidderminster in [[Worcestershire]], [[England]] on the 3rd December 1795, Rowland was the third son of Thomas Wright Hill. At the age of seven his father took charge of a boarding school in Birmingham and this is where Rowland wa…
Richard Burton — 2021-08-29 20:21:34
…les]]. === Pontrhydyfen Wales 1925 === His father was also named Richard Walter Jenkins. His mother, Edith Maude (née Thomas), died on 31 October 1927 at age 44 after giving birth to her **13th** child. He went on to star in over 70 Hollywood …
Intraocular Lens — 2021-08-20 10:40:24
…aocular-lens.jpg" class="left" title="Intraocular lens" width="250" }} From 1946, Ridley was a consultant surgeon at St Thomas's, and on February 8th 1950, he became the first person to successfully implant an **artificial lens**. The operation w…
CT Scan — 2021-08-14 20:48:42
…tral Research Laboratories, to come up with a new area of research. {{footnote note='This is challenged by Prof. Adrian Thomas in his biography. He states the project was run on a shoe-string.'}} He came up with the idea that one could determine …
Photography — 2021-08-14 19:57:18
… Melbury, [[Dorset]] and invented the salted paper and calotype process that allowed images to be permanently fixed. **Thomas Wedgwood** had already made photograms - silhouettes of leaves and other objects - but these faded quickly. Talbot proc…
Saline Drip — 2021-08-12 20:46:29
…Saline Drip :: {{Databox caption="Inventor" Image="ThomasLatta.jpg" Who="Thomas Latta" width="330" born="1796" birth_place="Edinburgh" death_date="19/10/1833" death_place="" }} === Thomas Latta 1832 …
…=== [[Medical]]:[[1800s]] Thomas Aitchison Latta (1796 – 19 October 1833) invented the intravenous saline infusion in 1832. {{TOC}} Intravenous thera…
…e url="SalineDrip.jpg" class="left" title="Saline drip elevated above the patient" width="300" }} == Cholera Killer == Thomas Latta was born in Edinburgh [[Scotland]]. He correctly ascertained that a salt solution could substitute for blood. Hi…
Rubber — 2021-08-12 20:24:10
… rather than leather '''fire hoses'''. {{Image url="Suspender.jpg" class="left" title="Suspender Belt" width="150" }} Thomas even made rubber bottles. One day Hancock held one of the bottles in his hand and realized that if it was sliced up it …
Sewing Machine — 2021-08-11 11:41:32
…g machine, proving it did work. His replica is now exhibited in the Science Museum. == Modern Features == {{Image url="ThomasSaintSewingMachine.jpg" class="left" title="Thomas Saint Sewing Machine" width="450" }} **Saint’s** device had many fe…
…ne 1846" 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_…
Zoo — 2021-08-09 22:18:40
…Zoo :: {{Databox width="" Image="ThomasStamfordRaffles.jpg" Who="Thomas Stamford Raffles" width="300" birth_date="6 July 1781" birth_place="Ship Ann, Jamaica" death_date="5 July 1826" death…
…d animals. {{Image url="London_zoo_entrance.jpg" class="left" title="London zoo entrance" width="350" }} ::cl:: === Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles 1826 === /* event_date="April 27 1826" First zoo opens in London */ Opened April 27 **1826**, was in…
…of London." It is managed under the //Zoological Society of London// ZSL established in **1826**. It was founded by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (6 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) along with the Marquess of Lansdowne, Lord Auckland, [[Aluminium|Sir Hum…
Tarmac — 2021-08-09 21:38:37
… when it rained, many roads became impassable due to ruts and mud. The process was an improvement on methods used by **Thomas Telford** and Trésaguet. == Hooley is inspired == In 1901 Hooley was walking in Denby in [[Derbyshire]] when he noti…
Jigsaw Puzzle — 2021-08-09 21:24:39
… John Spilsbury (1739 – 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" c…
Industrial Revolution — 2021-08-08 21:48:46
…s for producing wrought iron from pig iron and producing the iron to replace the more expensive brass cylinders used in Thomas Newcomen's steam engines. == Abraham Darby III (1750 – 1791) == {{Image url="Abraham_darby_IV.jpg" class="right" wid…
Sunday School — 2021-08-08 18:39:06
…ursley. Raikes saw an oppurtunity to change the outcome for these children which he shared with his friend, **Reverend Thomas Stock** who had a Sunday school at Ashbury, Berkshire. ::c:: == Sunday Schools Reduces Crime == {{Image url="Robert-ra…
… Mrs Meredith. Within a short time several more schools opened in [[Gloucestershire]]. Soon Robert Raikes and Reverend Thomas Stock had 100 children ages 6 to 14 attending their Sunday schools. Even though the children were taught only one day a…
Suffolk Punch — 2020-11-30 16:25:44
…es and the European Haflinger. == Bottleneck == The breed nearly died out but was saved in 1768 by a horse owned by //Thomas Crisp of Ufford// and was simply known as ‘Crisp’s horse’. The Suffolk Horse Society, was formed in Britain in 1…
Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
…= Lawn Tennis 1859 == {{Image url="Tennis_grass.jpg" class="right" width="120"}} The game was invented in 1859 by Major Thomas Harry Gem, a solicitor, and his friend Batista Pereira, a Spanish merchant, who both lived in Birmingham. They played i…
Stevenson Screen — 2020-08-17 08:38:43
…Stevenson Screen :: {{Databox caption="Inventor" Image="ThomasStevenson.jpg" Who="Sir Thomas Stevenson" width="300" birth_date="22 July 1818" birth_place="Edinburgh" death_date="8 May 1887" death_place="Edinburgh…
…" }} === Sir Thomas Stevenson 1864 === ~-[[CategoryScience]]:[[1800s]] The international weather station was invented by the British engine…
…er and meteorologist Sir Thomas Stevenson (1818-1887), the father of Robert Louis Stevenson. The Stevenson Screen is the standard used by the World Me…
Bicycle — 2020-08-15 09:22:15
… title="Shergold Safety Bicycle" width="200" }} **1878**. Built to a safety pattern, //Shergold Safety// , and made by Thomas Shergold of Gloucester. **1879** – Henry J. Lawson //Bicyclette//…
Rubber Band — 2020-06-28 12:40:44
… [[London]] patented the rubber band in England on March 17, 1845. Also known as an elastic band the idea was touted by Thomas Hancock after he patented vulcanized [[Rubber]]. {{Image url="RubberBands.jpg" class="left" title="Rubber Bands" width…
Theodolite — 2017-07-05 08:57:22
…nicon.jpg" class="left" title="Digges Tectonicon a 1634 edition originally published in 1556." width="350" }}Digges son Thomas brought his fathers achievements to the world's attention. As well as being a cartographer his father was an inventor.…
Tennis — 2016-06-23 12:50:18
…Tennis :: [[CategorySport]] === Major Thomas Harry Gem 1859 === == Tennis == {{redirect page="Sport"}}…
Passenger Lift — 2016-06-21 13:31:46
…Passenger Lift :: [[CategoryIndustry]] === Thomas Hornor 1829 === {{redirect page="Elevator"}}…

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