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  1. Elevator — 2023-12-30 12:44:08
    …ive that his backer, Rowland Stephenson MP, had to flee to America in 1828, Hornor fled soon after settling in New York around 1829 where Elisha Otis lived. He died in penury (extreme poverty) in 1844. The Colosseum was demolished in 1874 after …
  2. Airport — 2023-10-11 15:23:36
    …e major problems of flying to a destination was finding somewhere for the aircraft to land. The flying boats were a way around this because all they needed to **land** was a stretch of water. And sea ports were already established around the worl…
  3. Split the Atom — 2023-10-10 00:05:57
    …-Walton Generator == The Cockcroft-Walton generator, a system of capacitors and thermionic rectifiers produced voltages around 600,000 volts. It wasn't a million volts, but it proved sufficient. The splitting of the atom was now a reality. /* eve…
  4. Internal Combustion Engine — 2023-10-09 23:51:33
    …esel_motor.jpg" class="left" title="First Rudolph 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…
  5. Vacuum Flask — 2023-10-09 23:46:28
    …3 British, Mark I and II, standard rifle cartridge between 1891 and 1915. Cordite has been used since World War I till around the end of the 20th century, with the closure of the last World War II Cordite factory, ROF Bishopton. …
  6. Modern Farming — 2023-10-09 23:44:30
    …invention improved germination fivefold. Tull correctly theorized that plants should be more widely spaced and the soil around them thoroughly broken down to allow the roots to take in nutrients and improve rapid growth. == Hoe == Jethro Tull de…
  7. Radar — 2023-10-08 00:18:51
    …st antennas at **Daventry**. Signals travelling directly from the station were filtered out, and a Heyford bomber flown around the site (passive radar). {{Image url="Radar-Plaque.jpg" class="left" title="Radar Plaque" width="" }}::c:: Such was…
  8. Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35
    …re correct. He was not surprised. The modified punt he used had a special pump to blow high pressure air down under and around the rim of the craft. == Military == A strong rubber curtain regained most of the air, hence creating lift. Cockerell …
  9. Anaesthetic — 2023-10-04 16:27:18
    … birth_place="Bathgate, [[Scotland]]" death_date="6/5/1870" death_place="Edinburgh" }} Chloroform was first synthesized around 1830. In 1842 Robert Mortimer Glover discovered its anaesthetic properties on animals. Simpson was the first to demonst…
  10. WorldWideWeb — 2023-09-23 15:57:32
    …net and posted notices to several newsgroups including alt.hypertext. The Web began to take off as computer enthusiasts around the world began setting up their own web servers. Often the owners of the new sites would email Berners-Lee and he woul…
  11. Vacuum Tube — 2023-09-23 15:57:19
    …Image url="Valvediode.png" class="right" title="Valve diode" width="200" }} Vacuum tubes or thermionic valves are based around the concept of //thermionic emission//. Using two electrodes enables diodes to be made that can rectify signals. ::c::…
  12. Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52
    …ssages Ronalds had made two identical clock-like machines, each with a moving index or hand, with the alphabet engraved around the dial. >>{{amazon type="book" items="1145411770" }}>> The device was a modern wonder at the time. He attempted to…
  13. PIN — 2023-09-23 15:56:10
    …machine, and allow a withdrawal to be made. This concept is still in use some {{Datediff from="1966"}} years later all around the world though USA were slower to realise the benefits of this simple invention. There are now millions of ATMs arou…
  14. LCD — 2023-09-23 15:53:09
    … == Cyanobiphenyl Compounds == Three of these cyanobiphenyl compounds were liquid crystalline over a narrow interval at around room temperature and these were revealed to the world {{Datediff from="22/3/1973"}} years ago in a scientific publicati…
  15. Electric Generator — 2023-09-23 12:04:37
    … produce what he called electromagnetic rotation: that is a continuous circular motion from the circular magnetic force around a wire. Ten years later, in 1831, he began his great series of experiments in which he discovered electromagnetic induc…
    …wo experiments for the demonstration of electromagnetic rotation. A vertically suspended wire moves in a circular orbit around a magnet. The Homopolar motor. In 1831, using his "induction ring", Michael Faraday made one of his greatest discoveri…
    … on the capacitor. It's hard to imagine how we would cope today without Faraday's discoveries. Thousands of motors all around us make everyday chores so much easier. ||{{image url="Modern_Electric_Motor.jpg" class="right" width="150" }}||{{imag…
  16. Electric Car — 2023-08-27 16:16:21
    … Corporation. == First mention == Even earlier the very first electric car was made by Scotsman** Robert Anderson ** around 1835 but at this time electric motors were in their infancy and the power would have been poor. == Bersey Electric Ta…
    … top speed of 9-12 mph, Walter Bersey’s taxis were the first self-propelled vehicles for hire. Although the range was around 38 miles it did not need to recharged, instead the batteries were swapped out in around 3 minutes (about the same as fu…
  17. YMCA — 2022-05-17 05:19:39
    …re 24 YMCAs in Great Britain, with a combined membership of 2,700. Today there are more than 14,000 local YMCAs with around 45,000,000 members all around the world. == Honour == {{Image url="GeorgeWilliamsPlaque.jpg" class="right" title="Geor…
  18. Loch Ness Monster — 2022-05-03 17:06:34
    …s 65 million years ago. == In History == There are many references to “Nessie” in Scottish history, dating back to around** A.D. 500**. When local Picts carved a strange aquatic creature into standing stones near Loch Ness. {{Image url="Loc…
  19. KitKat — 2022-05-03 17:00:51
    …when it was sold in 72 countries. Today more than 17 billion #% KitKat #% fingers are eaten each year from 14 factories around the globe. The original factory in York alone produces over 4 million bars a day. So why not ‘Have a Break’ have a…
  20. Loudspeaker — 2021-11-07 21:26:37
    …'// for his telephone in 1877 that was improved by Siemens. It used a permanent bar magnet with a coil of wire wrapped around it, and an iron diaphragm using harmonic vibrations. …
  21. Paralympic Games — 2021-08-20 10:59:53
    …h to Strength == {{Image url="Tanni.jpg" class="left" title="Tanni Grey Thompson" }} Paralympic games has grown from around 400 athletes in Rome to over 3,900 athletes from 164 countries in London in 2012. …
  22. Miss World — 2021-08-20 10:50:22
    …ote the //new// swimsuit of the time. The press saw it as an international event because some of the entrants came from around the world. == First Winner == The winner was Kerstin 'Kiki' Håkansson from Stockholm, Sweden. {{Image url="MissWorld…
  23. Beatles — 2021-08-20 10:46:43
    …]]. === Liverpool England 1961 === Band members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Forming around 1958 'The Beatles' first sessions in September 1962 produced a minor UK hit, "Love Me Do". == Beatlemania == **Beatle…
  24. Antibiotics — 2021-08-20 10:41:08
    … doctors can choose from dozens of antibiotics. Every day millions of antibiotics are saving human and animal lives all around the world. Together with **Jenner's** invention of [[Vaccination]] and [[Antiseptic]] millions of us can enjoy a healt…
  25. Roundabout — 2021-08-16 09:58:53
    … entering traffic gives way to circulating traffic. - Officially adopted in 1966. Modern roundabouts start to spread around the world. Sweden – 1967 Norway, Denmark – 1970s France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland – 1980s Aust…
  26. Stan Laurel — 2021-08-14 21:08:01
    …he Karno troupe in 1916. Laurel worked briefly alongside Oliver Hardy in a silent film short **The Lucky Dog** (1921). Around the same time he adopted the stage surname of Laurel. Laurel was offered $75 per week to star in two-reel comedies. Aft…
  27. CT Scan — 2021-08-14 20:48:42
    …ring.'}} He came up with the idea that one could determine what was inside a box by taking X-ray readings at all angles around the object. Godfrey thought he could use a computer to take images from X-rays at various angles and create a 3d image…
  28. Scouts — 2021-08-14 20:35:19
    … fourth place in the all time best sellers list, behind the Bible, the Koran and Mao-Tse-Tung's Little Red Book selling around **150 million** copies since 1908. == Links == [[http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/ Scout base]] [[http://www.scout.org/ Sc…
  29. Public Park — 2021-08-14 20:30:20
    …d Park** is famous as the first public park in the world and has inspired the design of many other parks in Britain and around the world. It was the first public park created by a local authority and using public funds. Birkenhead Park was the fo…
  30. Dinosaur — 2021-08-12 20:42:55
    …rus.jpg" class="left" title="Megalosaurus" width="" }} Although dinosaur fossils were being discovered in Britain, and around the world, these prehistoric reptiles did not receive their famous name until 1842. == Dinosaur is born == As a young…
  31. Procter Gamble — 2021-08-12 20:35:23
    …dlemaker, learning to “dip candles”. Procter entered into business in the clothing industry in 1818 in [[London]]. Around 1832 his woolens shop was destroyed by fire and burglary leaving Procter £5,000 in debt – a huge sum in 1832. promp…
  32. Rubber — 2021-08-12 20:24:10
    …born at Marlborough in [[Wiltshire]], [[England]], the third of twelve children of a lumber merchant and cabinet maker. Around 1815 Hancock went into the stagecoach business with one of his brothers in London, England. The need for an effective w…
  33. Lawn Mower — 2021-08-10 08:19:36
    …ss="right" title="Budding screw wrench" width="500" }}Budding also invented an **adjustable spanner** or 'screw wrench' around **1842**, registered in 1843. An alternative //crest headed// adjustable spanner was developed by a work colleague **[[…
  34. Nature Reserve — 2021-08-09 22:30:53
    …~- [[Society]]:[[1800s]] {{toc}} In the 1820s Waterton, an English naturalist and explorer, built a nine-foot-high wall around three miles of his estate at '''Walton Hall''', turning it into the world's first '''nature reserve'''. == Walton Ha…
  35. Guillotine — 2021-08-09 22:22:29
    … first use of a guillotine for execution by decapitation was in [[Yorkshire]] [[England]] with the **'Halifax Gibbet'** around 1280. == The Halifax Gibbet == The Halifax Gibbet was a menacing wooden structure made of two wooden uprights, with a…
  36. Shire Horse — 2021-08-09 21:35:31
    …kington 1760 === ~-[[1700s]] The origin of the Shire Horse dates back to a cold blooded heavy horse first mentioned in around 1066 probably brought into England after the Norman Conquest. From this developed the "English Great Horse". The **Pack…
  37. Chicken Tikka Masala — 2021-08-09 21:27:48
    …h="" }} Ali Ahmed Aslam first concocted the curry dish Tikka Masala in 1970 in Scotland. A British gentleman sometime around 1970 in the **Shish Mahal** restaurant in Glasgow [[Scotland]], found his Chicken Tikka was too dry and requested some …
  38. Pub — 2021-08-09 21:19:14
    … also well established helping the illiterate population (or were they just drunk?) to identify drinking establishments around the country. == Moving on == [[1200s]] {{Image url="Beerpint.jpg" class="right" title="A pint of British beer" width="…
    … house into what is the modern pub. == Very popular == By **1625** there were over thirteen thousand Inns and Taverns around the country for a population of just **five million**. As the number grew so did the number of breweries and by **1800*…
  39. Cowboy — 2021-08-09 21:03:46
    … //cowboys//. {{Image url="Cowboy_England.jpg" class="left" title="Cowboy in Britain" width="" }} References go back to around 1620 but written proof starts to appear in late 17th century. For example Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels,…
  40. Sparkling Wine — 2021-08-08 20:32:53
    …e'. This was decades before Dom Pérignon who is traditionally considered to have invented sparkling wine in Champagne around 1697 when he declared //“Come quickly, I am tasting the stars’’//. French made their first sparkling Champagne, …
  41. Refrigeration — 2021-08-08 18:50:45
    … Ice-harvesting companies would remove ice from frozen lakes and store it in ice-houses. Ice companies would ship ice around the country and throughout the world. The industry was a big employer and Britain was a cold country anyway. == [[Dome…
    …st that resembled a //fridge// and was titled: "Apparatus and means for producing ice, and in cooling fluids." It took around 150 years, 1000's of patents and ice that was contaminated from industrial pollution, before people began using refrig…
  42. Marmalade — 2021-08-08 18:49:30
    …f cold ham" as "essentials of English table comfort". == History == The recipe book of Madam Eliza Cholmondeley, dated around **1677** and held at the Chester Record Office 4, has one of the earliest recipes for a //Marmelet of Oranges// that co…
  43. Sunday School — 2021-08-08 18:39:06
    …ars to see if **Sunday schools** were a success. He then printed a story about the new Sunday schools. Before too long, around 4,000 new Sunday schools were started in towns all over [[England]]. Robert even used his printing press to publish rea…
  44. Cider — 2021-08-01 19:30:49
    …width="" }} The love of turning apples into a summer tipple is very much a South & West Country industry. Many orchards around [[Gloucestershire]], [[Herefordshire]] and [[Somerset]] are used to convert selected apples into this beautiful drink. …
  45. Marmite — 2021-04-03 10:38:16
    …any and pay him £150 for the recipe, plus the use of the name HP, Garton jumped at the chance. Moore had been looking around for some time for a sauce to manufacture and market. He liked both the taste and the name of Garton's HP Sauce, which h…
  46. Float Glass — 2020-12-08 00:24:27
    …== The first foreign licence went to the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in 1962, then the the rest of the world. Today, around 260 float plants use the Pilkington method. ::c:: == Sky's the Limit == {{Image url="Shard-tower-in-london.jpg" class=…
  47. Mensa — 2020-12-03 00:59:15
    …d score on the Culture Fair test of at least 132, or 148 on the Cattell test. == Worldwide == Mensa International has around 130,000 members in 100 countries. {{Tag ids="IQ society intelligence MENSA "}}…
  48. Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
    …ifully ornate set by Anne Boleyn. The game remained popular throughout the British Empire but it wasn't until somewhere around 1900 that the rules and darts began to look like the game we play today.…
  49. Vacuum cleaner — 2020-10-11 23:24:10
    …ginally powered by an oil engine, the electric motor was added later. The first cleaner worked out rather expensive at around £350. The bright red horse-drawn machine measured 4' 6" x 4' 10" x 3' 6" and the large suction pump was driven by a fi…
  50. Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25
    …possible not just for the rich but for the masses. Many of us would never have had the opportunity to see many wonders around the world without Whittle's jet engine. ||{{Image url="Gloster_E28-39.jpg" width="200"From the Gloster E.28/39 }}||{{I…
  51. Plastic Surgery — 2020-08-06 08:24:01
    …cial injury ward at the Cambridge Military Hospital and later in Sidcup in 1917. There he and his colleagues performed around 11,000 operations on more than 5,000 soldiers. == Knighthood == Gillies was knighted in the Birthday Honours list of …
  52. Gravity — 2020-08-06 08:19:13
    …ime after the death of Galileo, one of the greatest scientists of all time. Galileo had proved that the planets revolve around the sun, not the earth as people thought at the time. This led Newton to improve [[Reflecting_Telescope| Telescopes]]. …
  53. Potato Crisp — 2020-08-06 08:17:45
    …isps every day from 800 tons of potatoes. It requires more than 350,000 tonnes of potatoes a year. Crisps account for around a **third** of the total world snack industry. The world annual turnover of crisps is around** £12 Billion**. …
  54. Greenwich Meridian — 2020-08-06 08:03:21
    …{Image url="PrimeMeridianRoofOpen.jpg" class="right" title="Prime Meridian Roof Open" width="" }} == GMT == All clocks around the world are determined by the longitude offset from Greenwich Mean Time. Because the earths crust is always moving…
  55. Monty Python — 2020-08-06 07:48:50
    … international winner, but slowly it did just that and {{Datediff from="1969" }} years later it is still as popular all around the world. == Nearly Lost == In 1971, Terry Jones was informed by the BBC that, due it's cost-cutting procedure at the…
  56. Obstetrical Forceps — 2020-06-28 13:29:13
    … Chamberlen 1600 === ~-[[Medical]] The forceps to aid birth were invented by Peter the elder Chamberlen (c.1560–1631) around 1600. The Chamberlens had migrated to England in 1569 to escape the religious violence in France. From his roots as…
    …orn="1601" birth_place="" died="1683" death_place="" }} The evidence of the forceps existence is only found later from around 1634, but is known the brothers carried out the procedure before then. The secret was passed down through the family. …
  57. Christmas Traditions — 2019-12-27 02:21:30
    …||{{Image url="Christmas_cake.jpg" title="thumb" width="200" title="christmas cake" }}||A rich baked fruit cake started around 1870 in Victorian England. Sometimes with marzipan, icing and sugar frosting.|| == Mincemeat Pie == ||{{Image url="Mi…
  58. Underground Railway — 2019-10-23 19:35:16
    …ding railway engineer of the day. He did not come cheap and his Metropolitan Railway salary of £137,700 would be worth around £10 million today. In its first year it carried more than nine million passengers! It was an outstanding success and …
    …soon it would be the envy of other capital cities around the world who all wanted their own **Metro**. In 1890 the first underground electric railway opened, the City and South…
  59. Harry Potter — 2018-10-10 17:06:49
    …rry_Potter_and_the_Philosophers_Stone.jpg" class="right" title="Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone" width="150" }} Around **450 million** Harry Potter books had been sold in 73 different languages as of mid-2013, making it the best-selling b…
    …ook series of all time. Harry Potter is a global brand worth around** £10 billion**, and the last four Harry Potter books have consecutively set records as the fastest-selling books in h…
  60. Stonehenge — 2018-01-26 21:52:34
    …their associated landscapes, they demonstrate Neolithic and Bronze Age ceremonial and mortuary practices resulting from around 2000 years of continuous use'//. {{Image url="HengeStone.jpg" class="left" title="Henge Stone size comparison" width="…
    …280" }} === Wessex 3100 BC === Stonehenge was built over several construction phases spanning around 1,500 years. Construction on and around the monument puts the age of the site at **6,500 years**. This pre-dates the …
  61. English Language — 2018-01-26 21:45:55
    … French, Celtic and many more. == And Onward == English has official or special status in at least '''75 countries''' around the world. English is the primary international language in many fields including communications, science, business, av…
  62. Emergency Telephone Number — 2017-07-06 10:16:06
    …cy call. == Instant success == During the first week there were 1,336 calls made to **999**. That number has grown to around 560,000 calls a week and more than 30 million calls a year, call handlers still manage to answer 97% of calls within fi…
  63. Theodolite — 2017-07-05 08:57:22
    …eying instrument was invented by Leonard Digges in the 16th century. Digges was a cartographer born in Barham, [[Kent]] around 1515 and died in 1559. == Theodolite == A theodolite is a surveying instrument usually mounted on a tripod with adjus…
  64. Tank — 2016-05-16 11:27:53
    …ng action on the morning of 15 September **1916** during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette. The first full scale use of around **460 tanks** was the Mark IV used en masse at the **Battle of Cambrai** in 20 November 1917. The rhomboidal shape …
  65. Salvation Army — 2016-01-07 15:19:48
    …active and 9,190 retired officers, 1,122,326 soldiers, 189,176 Adherents, 39,071 Corps Cadets, 378,009 Junior Soldiers, around 104,977 other employees and more than **4.5 million** volunteers!…

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