1. Radar — 2023-10-08 00:18:51

   … 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. By June th…

2. Bob Hope — 2023-09-26 16:57:28

   …, Avis Townes, was a light opera singer from Barry. They married in April 1891 and lived at 12 Greenwood Street, Barry Wales. Then moving to Bristol and London. {{Image url="BobHopeHome.jpg" class="left" title="Bob Hope Home" width="" }} == …

3. Microphone — 2021-11-07 21:26:04

   …hes invented the first practical working carbon microphone in 1878. David Edward Hughes was probably born in Corwen [[Wales]] in 1831. His family emigrated to the United States in 1838 but he moved back to London in 1857. == Microphone == {{…

4. Richard Burton — 2021-08-29 20:21:34

   …tor" Image="richard-burton.jpg" Who="Richard Burton" width="" birth_date="10 November 1925" birth_place="Pontrhydyfen, Wales" death_date="5 August 1984" death_place="Céligny, Switzerland" }} == Richard Burton 1925 == ~-[[Entertainment]]:[[190…
   …d cinema actor. Richard Burton was born **Richard Walter Jenkins **in the village of Pontrhydyfen, Neath Port Talbot, [[Wales]]. === Pontrhydyfen Wales 1925 === His father was also named Richard Walter Jenkins. His mother, Edith Maude (née Tho…

5. Hip Replacement — 2021-08-20 11:18:03

   … one of the most performed elective surgical procedures in the world. Each year 35,000 hips are replaced in England and Wales on the NHS, and close to 300,000 THAs performed per year in the United States.…

6. Ray Milland — 2021-08-20 10:42:20

   …}} === Ray Milland 1907 === ~-[[Entertainment]]:[[1900s]] Ray Milland was born **Alfred Reginald Jones** in Glamorgan [[Wales]] 1907, the son of Elizabeth Annie (née Truscott) and steel mill superintendent Alfred Jones He was a major Hollywoo…

7. Fingerprints — 2021-08-14 20:06:49

   …, co-devised by Haque and Bose ( working under their supervisor, Sir Edward Richard Henry), was accepted in England and Wales when the first United Kingdom Fingerprint Bureau was founded in Scotland Yard, the Metropolitan Police headquarters, Lo…

8. Everest — 2021-08-11 11:40:16

   …'. === Sir George Everest 1865 === [[1800s]] Everest was born in Gwernvale Manor, just west of Crickhowell in Powys, [[Wales]], in 1790. In 1856, George Everest headed the //Great Trigonometrical Survey of India// established mount Everest as …

9. Tarmac — 2021-08-09 21:38:37

   …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 Hooley 1902 ===…

10. Jigsaw Puzzle — 2021-08-09 21:24:39

    …section**’. These //educational tools// became highly popular and he went on to create dissected maps of England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. It became a highly successful business venture. John Spils…

11. Bearings — 2021-08-08 20:30:19

    …{draft}} === Philip Vaughan 1794 === ~-[[CategoryTransport]]:[[1700s]] Philip Vaughan, an iron master from Carmarthen [[Wales]], patented the first ball bearing mechanism. He described how iron balls running in a groove between the wheel and ax…

12. Powered Flight — 2021-04-05 22:36:49

    …e, London, in 1868. The plane was flown indoors from a wire unmanned at twenty miles per hour in front of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sunderland. The exhibition gave world-wide exposure to gains in flight and the Tri-wing design influe…

13. Railway — 2020-11-30 12:55:52

    …ace as Trevithick's steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks, in Merthyr Tydfil, [[Wales]]. {{Image url="TrevithickCoin.jpg" class="left" title="Trevithick 200 years Coin" width="200" }} His locomotive, **P…

14. Silicone — 2020-09-22 23:25:26

    …east implant" width="180" }}|| {{Image url="Silicone_Bake.jpg" title="Bakeware" width="180" }}|| Kipping died in North Wales n 1949, just as the value of silicone polymers was being realised. {{Tag ids="silicon silicone polymer sealant medical…

15. Stem Cells — 2020-08-17 17:30:21

    …s was the first to culture mice embryonic stem cells and cultivate them in a laboratory in 1981. Martin Evans who is [[Wales Welsh]] was born 1 January 1941, Stroud, [[Gloucestershire]]. In 1978, he moved to the Department of Genetics, at the …

16. Wales — 2015-12-22 13:19:49

    …Wales :: [[CategoryInventions]] made up in Wales. {{category}}…

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