1. Steam Engine — 2023-10-08 00:19:36

   …819) was born on 19th of January, 1736 in Greenock, [[Scotland]], a seaport on the Firth of Clyde. His father was a shipwright, ship owner and contractor. His mother, Agnes Muirhead, was from a distinguished family and was well-educated. But the…

2. Postage Stamp — 2021-11-06 16:32:56

   … 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 was educa…

3. Heroin — 2021-08-20 11:14:28

   …Heroin :: {{Databox caption="Inventor" Image="CharlesWright.jpg" Who="Charles Wright" width="400" birth_date="7/9/1844" birth_place="Southend" death_date="25/6/1894" death_place="" }} === Charles Romley …
   …Alder Wright 1874 === ~-[[Medical]]:[[1800s]] Charles Wright first synthesized Diamorphine in 1874 while working at St. Mary's hospital in [[London]]. {{TOC}} Wright was searching…
   …harles tested his new drug with colleague F. M. Pierce but observations showed it was not without its own side effects. Wright felt it was not right to pursue another drug with unwanted effects like the drug he wanted to replace, morphine. So he …

4. Roundabout — 2021-08-16 09:58:53

   …t' in Gloucester. == Links == Sollershott Circus was used in the **Simon Pegg** and **Nick Frost**, directed by Edgar Wright, **‘The World’s End’**.…

5. Plywood — 2021-08-08 18:44:16

   …t for the process was improved by Immanuel Nobel. == Naval career == When he was 14, Bentham was apprenticed to a shipwright at Woolwich Dockyard, he later completed his 7-year training at the Naval Academy in Portsmouth. He developed a liking…

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

   …rcyPilcher.jpg" title="Percy Pilcher" birth_date="16 January 1866" death_date="2 October 1899" }} Four years before the Wright brothers, Pilcher, born in Bath [[Somerset]] in 1866, had constructed his own tri-wing aeroplane. Pilcher had successf…
   … whether it would have flown. The rebuilt plane flew successfully for 1 minute 25 seconds, 26 seconds longer than the **Wright** brothers managed 4 years later in **1903**. [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22633d Watch a reconstruction of the…
   …the 31st March 1903. Many witnesses saw his plane stay airborne for many minutes and this was several months before the Wright brothers. Being so reserved he did not think his attempt would qualify as 'First powered flight' until the Wright bro…

7. Shakespeare — 2020-08-21 08:52:48

   …]:[[1500s]] {{toc}} Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in [[Warwickshire]], [[England]]. An English poet, playwright, and actor, regarded as the greatest writer and dramatist in the English language. His father, John Shakespeare, was a …
   …her, adding prefixes and suffixes, and devising new words and coining many now-common expressions. {{Tag ids="Poet Playwright Actor "}}…

8. Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25

   …**Whittle**. == Shrinking the World == ~& The jet engine remains the single greatest revolution in aviation since the Wright brothers flight in 1903. Imagine a world now without this invention. The jet engine made long haul cheap flight possi…

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