1. PIN — 2023-09-23 15:56:10

   …Paisley, [[Scotland]] in 1937. During the 1960’s saw the trend of employers to pay wages directly into the employees bank. Weekend closures of banks limited a working person’s access to their own accounts, and money. The banks needed a c…
   …ash dispenser or ATM, to provide a weekend service. Martins bank had asked Chubb to produce a machine to be placed outside the bank that would allow customers to get cash when it was s…
   … day. {{Image url="ChubbATM.jpg" class="left" title="Making a cash withdraw at a Chubb ATM" width="320" }} The Martins Bank Auto Cashier was the first cash dispenser to use a plastic card in conjunction with a PIN. The competitor, the BARCLA…

2. ATM — 2023-09-23 12:02:41

   … no spending cash he wondered if vending machines can dispense chocolate bars why couldn't banks have a machine to dispense money? Later that year, he met with the chief general manager of Barclays Bank. Shepherd-B…
   …ially called DACS (De La Rue Automatic Cash System). In 1969 he described the system to the conference of the American Banking Association, but received a lukewarm response and only one sale. ::c:: == The Process == Plastic bank cards with m…
   …chine trail-blazed the industry to improve the technology and De La Rue's machine was soon surpassed with the advent of bank cards with magnetic strips and [[PIN]] codes. In 2004 for his services to the industry, and his work on ATMs in partic…
   …ular, he was appointed **OBE.** == Of Note == Previous 'cash machines' like the 'Bankograph' were primarily deposit points. …

3. Australia — 2021-08-08 18:36:08

   …ndeavour set sail from Plymouth, stocked with 18 months supplies, and with 94 men aboard. Accompanying Cook were Joseph Banks, the botanist, Daniel Solander, a naturalist, and Charles Green, from the Greenwich Observatory. Cook sighted New Zea…

4. Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47

   …bobbed their heads to try and gain more speed. The new sport immediately caught on and a special track, complete with banked curves, made of ice, was constructed next to the road in 1902. The sport started as a leisure activity for the rich …

5. Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25

   …. Tinling, who wanted to expand the development of his engine. The three incorporated as Power Jets Ltd. in 1936 with a bank loan of £2,000. == Power Jets == Work was progressing on the experimental engine at a factory in Rugby, Warwickshi…

6. Underground Railway — 2019-10-23 19:35:16

   …wn **Metro**. In 1890 the first underground electric railway opened, the City and South London, which ran from near the Bank of England under the Thames to the South Bank. {{image url="TrainTube.jpg" class="right" title="Modern Tube Train" wid…

7. Motor Racing Circuit — 2018-05-20 20:38:53

   …t compete and prosper in Europe. He used his own money in 1906 to build the nearly 3 mile long track that had two huge banked sections nearly 30 ft. high. It was 100 ft. wide hard-surfaced with two long straights. It became the home of Britis…

8. Banksy — 2017-06-19 21:04:17

   …Causing squabbles over who owns the images when they mysteriously appear on buildings. {{Image url="BanksyChelt.jpg" class="center" title="Banksy Chelt, GCHQ" width="500" }} ::c:: === Bemusement Park === {{Image url="dismal…
   …*Dismaland** at a disused lido area in **Weston-Super-Mare**. It was a clever twist on modern theme parks with a bleak, Banksy-style alternative to a sugar coated 'Disney style' day out. The main attraction was a dismal-looking castle surround…

9. Mary Poppins — 2016-05-05 17:16:51

   … magical English nanny, Mary Poppins. She is blown by the East wind to Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane, London, and into the Banks's household to care for their children. {{image url="mary_poppins.jpg" class="left" }} == Disney Film == The books we…

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