1. Internal Combustion Engine — 2023-10-09 23:51:33

   …h Diesel motor" width="200" }} Rudolph Diesel engine was developed from around 1897. Akroyd filed a patent infringement against Diesel. But the secret of Diesel's engine was superior compression and torque and it was designed to run on arachis, …

2. Modern Farming — 2023-10-09 23:44:30

   …il and evenly deposited it over the seeds. The machine, horse or ox drawn would then move to the next position and seed again. {{Image url="SeedInDrills.jpg" class="left" title="Seed In Drills" width="300" }} Jethro Tull is given the distinction…

3. Stainless Steel — 2023-10-09 23:42:45

   …tallurgy and learnt very quickly. He was aware that the world of metal manufacturing was fighting a never ending battle against rust. In 1908 Brearley was appointed lead researcher at Firth Laboratories. == Weapon Erosion == One of the major d…

4. Phototherapy — 2023-10-09 23:41:51

   …o a fresh blood sample was taken and analysed which read 24 mg/100 mL. The blood sitting on the windowsill was measured again, and read even lower, at 9 mg/100 mL. This was able to be reproduced again and again and caused researchers to invest…

5. Cinematography — 2023-10-09 23:41:17

   …e's widow and son, Adolphe, felt aggrieved and wanted Louis recognised as the inventor of cinematography. Edison, once again, used the American courts to establish himself as the sole inventor of cinematography. Adolphe Le Prince stood as a wi…
   …tness but was //not allowed to present his father's two cameras as evidence! // Once again the US courts eventually found in favour of Edison. He has since been posthumously rewarded his **rightful **status a…

6. ATM — 2023-09-23 12:02:41

   …d gone into town to take some money out of his bank, but he had arrived one minute late and found the bank doors locked against him. While taking a bath that evening with no spending cash he wondered if vending machines can dispense chocolate b…
   …ded with impregnated carbon-14. Customers placed the cheque into a drawer, the machine detected and matched the cheque against a number code entered before paying out a maximum of £10. == Recognition == Shepherd-Barron's machine trail-blazed…

7. Winston Churchill — 2023-08-27 16:11:42

   …behind him. Of the Battle of Britain he said //**"Never was so much owed by so many to so few"**// a pivotal air battle against the German Luftwaffe. == VE Day == Britain faced its supreme test. It is for his leadership through these fraught y…

8. National Trust — 2022-07-02 09:18:26

   …Sir Robert Hunter == {{Image 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 c…

9. Antibiotics — 2021-08-20 10:41:08

   …on 6 August 1881 at Lochfield farm near Darvel, in [[Ayrshire]], [[Scotland]]. The term antibiotics literally means “against life” but the life in this case is harmful microbes. Although some advances in antibiotics had occurred a few year…

10. Rubber — 2021-08-12 20:24:10

    …ired shape for the purposes of being used in the manufacture of such articles, as the same may be applicable to'. But again Hancock got there first, in 1846 he had already patented his suggestion that his hardened rubber could be used for maki…

11. Sewing Machine — 2021-08-11 11:41:32

    … Thomas was a cabinet maker born in Greenhill Rents parish of St. Sepulchre [[London]], [[England]]. ::c:: == Working again == Many years later in 1874 a man named **William Newton Wilson** found the patent of Thomas’s machine. The original…

12. Nature Reserve — 2021-08-09 22:30:53

    …onyhurst College in Lancashire. Waterton was an early opponent of '''pollution'''. He fought a long-running court case against the owners of a soapworks which had been set up near his estate in 1839 that leaked out poisonous chemicals which sev…

13. Wellington Boot — 2021-08-09 21:58:54

    …ch foot’. == Leader == The Duke was twice British prime minister as leader of the Tory party from 1828 to 1830, and again in 1834.…

14. Cowboy — 2021-08-09 21:03:46

    …fact, cowboy was used in a negative way to refer to Brits/Tories who stole US cattle during the war of independence and again to refer to black or, as they became known, //buffalo soldiers//. == Links == [[http://longstreet.typepad.com/thescie…

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

    …George Cayley, carried the science of flight to a point which it had never reached before and which it scarcely reached again during the last century." Wilbur Wright.^^ ::cl:: == William Samuel Henson 1843 == {{Databox Image="WilliamSamuelHenso…

16. Petroleum — 2020-12-03 01:07:44

    … had a reputation for causing explosions and house fires. The Scottish oil industry continued to fight a fierce battle against the American product. In 1865 James Young bought out his business partners and a year later formed **Young's Paraffi…

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