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Split the Atom — 2023-10-10 00:05:57
…niversity, [[Cambridgeshire]], [[England]], Englishman Cockcroft and Irishman Walton used spare parts along with some wood and nails to build the world's first nuclear-particle accelerator in 1929. Rutherford had split the atom in Manchester …
Marshall Amplification — 2023-10-07 09:45:58
… Marshall stack" width="" }} In 1985, Marshall was invited to add his hand prints to the **Rock Hall of Fame **in Hollywood alongside the instrument pioneers Leo Fender, Robert Moog, Les Paul and Bill Ludwig. He was appointed an OBE for his se…
Bob Hope — 2023-09-26 16:57:28
…nd his Welsh mother, 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 Ho…
Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52
…9 Oct 1875" death_place="Paris" Inventions="Concertina, Symphonium, Stereoscopy"}} Charles Wheatstone was born in Barnwood, [[Gloucestershire]], he was a curious fifteen-year old. His uncle from London took him to view the telegraph in Mr Ron…
Automatic watch — 2023-09-23 12:03:07
… were first shown at the Basel Fair in 1926. He set up the Harwood Self Winding Watch Company in 1928 to market the watches in the UK.…
Toilet — 2023-09-08 09:57:11
…ween the components leaked. Because the valve was unreliable, there had to be an overflow. Although the parts were in a wooden case, the toilet did smell. The 'U-bend', or the water-sealed trap, was invented in 1782. This could replace the outl…
…aped trap. In 1885, he created the first valveless toilet made of china. Other makers at this stage included Josiah Wedgwood, Thomas Crapper and John Shanks. === Thomas Crapper 1880 === >>{{image url="Crapper.jpg" title="Thomas Crapper" width=…
Lava Lamp — 2022-08-29 08:39:00
…Edward Craven Walker" width="400" birth_date="4/7/1918" birth_place="Singapore" death_date="15/8/2000" death_place="Ringwood" }} === Edward Craven-Walker 1963 === ~-[[Entertainment]]::[[Arts]]::[[1900s]] Edward Craven-Walker invented his psyche…
National Trust — 2022-07-02 09:18:26
…url="OctaviaHill.jpg" class="right" title="Octavia Hill" width="180" }} Octavia campaigned against building on suburban woodlands, and helped to save Hampstead Heath and Parliament Hill Fields from development. She coined the term "**Green Belt…
Police — 2022-05-20 08:52:50
…ng coat''' and a '''tall hat''' which they could use to stand on to look over walls, a pair of '''handcuffs''' and a '''wooden rattle''' to raise the alarm. By the 1880s this rattle was replaced by a '''whistle'''. {{Image url="PoliceBox.jpg" c…
Richard Burton — 2021-08-29 20:21:34
…homas), died on 31 October 1927 at age 44 after giving birth to her **13th** child. He went on to star in over 70 Hollywood movies and is another great actor who never received an Oscar. He is remembered for is multiple marriages including tw…
Charlie Chaplin — 2021-08-20 11:11:51
…ramp character, probably based on the experiences of his early life, eventually made him the highest paid actor in Hollywood. == Chaplin the Composer == Charlie also wrote some wonderful melodies. "**Smile**" is a song based on an instrumenta…
Cary Grant — 2021-08-20 10:57:47
…_place="" death_date="29/11/1986" death_place="" }} == Archibald Alexander Leach == ~-[[Entertainment]]:[[1900s]] Hollywood actor Cary Grant starred in over 70 films. === Bristol England 1904 === Actor Cary was born **'Archie Leach'** on Janu…
…" }} Grant took up with Bob Pender's group of traveling performers. In New York he left the troupe and headed for Hollywood. Known for his debonair demeanor, and "//dashing good looks//", Grant is one of Hollywood's definitive leading men. Ca…
Ray Milland — 2021-08-20 10:42:20
…les]] 1907, the son of Elizabeth Annie (née Truscott) and steel mill superintendent Alfred Jones He was a major Hollywood movie Oscar winning lead actor. He is remembered for his part in the Alfred Hitchcock film, Dial M for Murder (1954).…
Public Park — 2021-08-14 20:30:20
… and social success. Paxton's concept was to create an idealised countryside landscape of open meadows and naturalistic woodland belts. The lakes are shaped to appear as sinuous rivers with views across them to features such as the Boathouse an…
Bovril — 2021-08-14 20:09:04
…He returned to Britain in 1880 where he developed the brand further. He resided in his own '**Bovril Castle**' – Kingswood House in Sydenham.…
Photography — 2021-08-14 19:57:18
…[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 process based…
Antiseptic — 2021-08-12 20:38:14
… findings to develop "antiseptic" techniques. == The Antiseptic == Lister was aware that creosote was used to preserve wood and treating sewage. Lister tested the results of spraying instruments, the surgical incisions, and dressings with a so…
Hypodermic Syringe — 2021-08-12 20:33:54
…Hypodermic Syringe :: === Alexander Wood 1853 === ~-[[Medical]]:[[1800s]] {{Databox Caption="Hypodermic syringe" image="Alexander_Wood.jpg" Width="350" Who="Al…
…exander Wood" birth_date="10 December 1817" birth_place="Fife, Scotland" death_date="26 February 1884" }} In 1853, Wood (1817 – 1884) born in [[Scotland]] invented the first hypodermic needle that used a true syringe and hollow needle. …
…Alexander Wood was the first to develop a syringe with a needle fine enough to pierce the skin in 1853. Charles Gabriel Pravaz of Lyo…
Match — 2021-08-09 22:35:30
…ld ignite, but with a sudden explosion, it had not been possible to transmit the flame to a slow-burning substance like wood. He used wooden sticks coated with sulphur and tipped with a paste mixture of sulphide of antimony, chlorate of potash…
…, and gum, the sulphur serving to communicate the flame to the wood. He discovered that if he let them dry, he could start a fire by striking the stick anywhere. {{Image url="JohnWalkerL…
Guillotine — 2021-08-09 22:22:29
…e]] [[England]] with the **'Halifax Gibbet'** around 1280. == The Halifax Gibbet == The Halifax Gibbet was a menacing wooden structure made of two wooden uprights, with an horizontal beam and braces, standing 15ft tall. The cutting blade was …
…axe shaped weighing 7lb 12 oz, attached to the bottom of a massive wooden block that slid up and down in grooves in the uprights. This was held up by a rope. Once the condemned prisoner had b…
Jigsaw Puzzle — 2021-08-09 21:24:39
…tle="John Spilsbury map puzzle" width="" }} Spilsbury who was born in [[London]] mounted a map of the world onto a hardwood board and carved out the shapes of the countries to create what he called a ‘**dissection**’. These //educational …
…pilsbury’s former apprentice Harry Ashby. == Modern Twist == At this point the puzzles were all hand made on solid wood and were too expensive to be considered a toy. It took over 100 years after they were invented - that these ‘dissecti…
Sparkling Wine — 2021-08-08 20:32:53
…over 3 million bottles a year. Also, the English imported cork from Portugal which made a better seal in a bottle than wooden and cloth stoppers that were used in France. == Bland Imports == During this time still wine being brought to Britai…
Plywood — 2021-08-08 18:44:16
…s having their wood grain rotated up to 90 degrees to one another, it is an **engineered wood**. The grain of each veneer is alternated which is called cross-graining and has several benefits: it reduces the tend…
…ency of wood to split when nailed at the edges and it reduces expansion and shrinkage while improving strength. In 1797 Samuel Bent…
… laminating several layers of veneer with glue to form a thicker piece – the first description of what we now call plywood. Over fifty years later machining equipment for the process was improved by Immanuel Nobel. == Naval career == When …
…uilt and equipped a flotilla of ships. == Patents == In 1791 he returned to England and took out his first patent for wood-working machines for sawing, planing and block-making. In 1793 Bentham took out what has been called //"one of the mos…
Powered Flight — 2021-04-05 22:36:49
… along with **John Stringfellow**. Stringfellow designed and built a model monoplane. It had a 10 feet wingspan with a wooden frame covered in silk. Its wing was 2 feet wide at its widest part tapering to a point at the tip with a rigid leadin…
Pencil — 2020-11-30 16:27:31
…into rods and wrapping it with string. This proved messy and the pencils would break easily, so it was later encased in wood. The modern pencil was born! {{Image url="PencilVan.jpg" class="left" title="Cumberland Pencil Van" width="500" }} Via…
Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
… to Parker Brothers, who came out with a new kit under that name. Another Englishman, E. C. Goode, in 1902 covered his wooden ping pong paddle with pebbled rubber, which allowed him to put spin on the ball. A Ping Pong Association was founded …
Bungee Jumping — 2020-08-17 13:17:46
… BBC film crew brought back footage of the "land divers" of Pentecost Island in Vanuatu, young men who jumped from tall wooden platforms with vines tied to their ankles as a test of their courage and passage into manhood. == Links == [[https:/…
Underground Railway — 2019-10-23 19:35:16
…s 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. /* event_date="10 January 1863" The world's first underground railway…
Viagra — 2017-06-01 14:56:53
…t still showed promise in the area of hypertension. Instead, Pfizer decided to market the drug as an erectile enhancer. Wood and Dunn established the process to turn it into a pill and production was off. March 27th 1998, the FDA approved Viagr…
…les annual sales of Viagra were more than **one billion dollars** (~£670,000,000 pounds). **Peter Dunn** and **Albert Wood** both of Kent, England are named as the inventors of the process by which Viagra was created. Their names appeared on …
Whisky — 2016-05-26 10:22:03
… Drink == Whisky == {{toc}} Whisky, the distilled alcoholic beverage made from fermented malted grain mash and aged in wooden oak casks. Whisky is an anglicisation of the Gaelic word //uisce, uisge or uicge,// meaning "water". Then distilled …

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