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Elevator — 2023-12-30 12:44:08
… 1829 where Elisha Otis lived. He died in penury (extreme poverty) in 1844. The Colosseum was demolished in 1874 after being visited by over 1 million people! == Teagle == {{Image url="TeagleLift.jpg" class="left" title="Teagle Lift" width="45…
Phototherapy — 2023-10-09 23:41:51
…A short while after this incident a tube of blood from an infant with severe jaundice was placed on a windowsill before being taken to the lab for analysis. After sitting in the sun, the sample measurements were below 14 mg/100 mL so a fresh b…
…ct of light on **bilirubin**. == Modern Treatment == {{Image url="phototherapy-baby.jpg" class="right" title="Babies being treated with phototherapy " width="450" }} It was found that the blue light (420-470 nm) converts bilirubin into a for…
Cinematography — 2023-10-09 23:41:17
…r a US patent and on 16th November 1888, he received a British patent for his invention. == Mysterious death == After being granted the patents Louis Le Prince mysteriously vanished. This meant Le Prince was never able to perform a planned pub…
Pedestrian Crossing — 2023-10-07 11:08:59
…ebra’. Charlesworth headed the team who pioneered the black-and-white markings pilot schemes that led to the markings being adopted universally throughout the world. …
Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52
…sing electromagnetism to turn five needles left or right to point to letters. This meant anyone could read the message being sent, no need for anyone to be trained in understanding codes, unlike the Morse system. === Morse === On learning of …
LCD — 2023-09-23 15:53:09
… turned the field of research on LCDs into an expanding international activity, with adequate supplies of the materials being available, under licence, from Merck Ltd (then BDH Ltd), due to the foresight of Ben Sturgeon, their Research Director.…
… Many companies exploited George’s materials in their LCDs, the most successful being large** Japanese** corporations. {{Image url="Early_seiko_watch.jpg" class="left" title="Early seiko watch" width="20…
Electric Car — 2023-08-27 16:16:21
…es, later vehicles had hydraulic brakes on all four wheels, as well as four-wheel steering. These features are even now being described as revolutionary. In 1888 Elwell-Parker Ltd. agreed to consolidate with other companies to form the Electric…
Police — 2022-05-20 08:52:50
…c that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in t…
Television — 2021-11-06 16:35:18
…"Helensburgh" Death_date="14 Jun 1946" Death_place="Bexhill-on-Sea" }} Baird was a Scottish engineer, most famous for being the first person to demonstrate a working television. John Logie Baird was born on 14 August 1888 in Helensburgh on th…
Charlie Chaplin — 2021-08-20 11:11:51
…right" title="A young Charlie" width="240" }} Chaplin spent his childhood going in and out of the workhouse as well as being educated by a range of charitable schools. In 1898, his mother was committed to a mental asylum due to a psychosis caus…
MRI Scan — 2021-08-20 11:04:59
…s="left" title="Modern MRI Scanner" width="" }} Sir Peter’s early work was in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), then being used to study the chemical structure of substances. He joined the Department of Physics, University of Nottingham, in 1…
Beatles — 2021-08-20 10:46:43
…by EMI),** refused **to issue the singles //Love Me Do, Please Please Me// and //From Me To You//, the reason they gave being that no **British** act had ever made any impact on an American audience! (maybe that's because the US refused to relea…
Antibiotics — 2021-08-20 10:41:08
…th="250" }} == Rapid Growth == Other researchers started recreating Fleming’s experiments. Soon enough penicillin was being made to begin testing it on animals and then humans. In **1941**, they found that even low levels of penicillin cured …
Modern Olympics — 2021-08-14 20:26:14
…re attending and by the end of the decade the event was a fixture on the local calendar. In 1859 Brookes heard of games being held in Greece, funded by a wealthy man named Evangelis Zappas. ==Wenlock Prize== ---- Brookes sent a sum of £10 whic…
Football — 2021-08-14 19:52:33
…l America a game called "Tlatchi" once flourished. == Set the Rules == In Britain too, there are records of Football being played for hundreds of years. But it was in England that the modern game of football really begin to take shape. In 186…
…itle="Freemasons pub. Great place for a meeting." width="400" }}It was realised that the game needed a set of rules, so being British there's no better place to do this than the 'Local' [[pub]] over a pint. In the **Freemasons' Tavern** in Grea…
Dinosaur — 2021-08-12 20:42:55
…rd Owen**. {{Image url="Megalosaurus.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. …
Steel — 2021-08-12 20:31:45
…le="Steel beams made Eiffel Tower possible" width="300" }} It was then worked with a forge hammer by the puddler before being rolled into sheets or rails. By 1860, there were over 3000 puddling furnaces in Britain, but the process was slow. == …
Rubber — 2021-08-12 20:24:10
… it durable. {{toc}} The process of vulcanising rubber is usually associated with Charles Goodyear, but the process was being used and was patented before Mr Goodyear made his 'discovery'. Thomas Hancock (1786-1865) was born at Marlborough in […
…the Hancock method. He later devised methods for 'producing moulded articles into any desired 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 18…
Zoo — 2021-08-09 22:18:40
…L_Logo.png" class="right" title="ZSL Logo" width="" }} [[Elevator | Decimus Burton]] (1800-1881 whose name derives from being the tenth of ten children) was asked to lay out the grounds and housing for the animals in London Zoo. == Bristol Zo…
Wellington Boot — 2021-08-09 21:58:54
…er or ‘gum’ boots. The boots were named ''Wellingtons'' and the name has stuck ever since. With the First World War being fought in the trenches the company was commissioned to produce millions of pairs as standard kit for ordinary soldiers,…
Pub — 2021-08-09 21:19:14
…ly serve ale, a **tavern** was the urban equivalent to a country Inn both providing rooms for travellers in addition to being able to serve **food and ale**. The difference between these three establishments has become blurred with the passage o…
Cowboy — 2021-08-09 21:03:46
…male cow herder. === England 1620 === The word cowboy never entered U.S. parlance until the great cattle drovers were being superceded by the [[Railway]]. Even as late as 1881 Chester A. Arthur, then a U.S. president, spoke sneeringly when he…
Sparkling Wine — 2021-08-08 20:32:53
…l in a bottle than wooden and cloth stoppers that were used in France. == Bland Imports == During this time still wine being brought to Britain from France seemed bland to the English palette as cider was well established with its much livelier…
…ristopher Merret''' presented a paper to the newly formed Royal Society in which he stated that sugar and molasses were being added to wines of all sorts to make them sparkling. Using this process the wine imported from France could be ''carbona…
Cider — 2021-08-01 19:30:49
…e but it was probably not called cyder at this point. ::c:: {{image url="Cider_Making.jpg" class="right" title="Cider being made the traditional way" width="" }} The love of turning apples into a summer tipple is very much a South & West Count…
Powered Flight — 2021-04-05 22:36:49
…3. 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 brothers flight of 1…
Patent Leather — 2021-01-31 22:10:03
…ent of leather used for shoes was patented in 1793 by a gentleman from Birmingham [[Warwickshire]], [[England]]. After being granted the patent, Hand’s method was discussed, in a British publication called "The Bee"in 1793. ^^A gentleman of …
Float Glass — 2020-12-08 00:24:27
…cially successful manufacture of high quality flat glass. {{Image url="FloatGlass.jpg" class="left" title="Float Glass being produced" width="390" }}Alistair joined the Pilkington Brothers (there was no family connection) as a technical officer…
Petroleum — 2020-12-03 01:07:44
…d coal reserves. In 1859, an oil well was drilled in Titusville Pennsylvania and within 2 years, American petroleum was being produced. {{Image url="YoungsParaffin.jpg" class="right" title="Youngs Paraffin" width="" }} Soon American petroleum, …
…that they called kerosene, was being imported to Britain even though Young had successfully sued for patent infringement in the USA. It was more crudely ref…
Mensa — 2020-12-03 00:59:15
…ed and they discussed the idea of forming a society for very intelligent people, the only qualification for membership being a high **IQ**. ::c:: {{Databox caption="Founder" Image="RolandBerrill.jpg" Who="Roland Berrill" width="300" born="1897…
Golf — 2020-11-30 16:29:33
…urgh on 6th March 1457, when King James II banned ‘ye golf’, in an attempt to encourage archery practice, which was being neglected. Golf in its early days in [[Scotland]] may well have had two distinct forms. One was a ‘short’ game sim…
Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
…lved. In 1886 the Teddington Cricket Club effectively lead a movement which resulted in the British Hockey Association being formed which included amongst its rules a striking circle for hitting goals. Changes in rules and play quickly develope…
…es also started playing field hockey in 1890, with the Field Hockey Association of America, which regulates men's play, being formed in 1930. Hockey, or "Field Hockey" as it is also known, is now played in every continent with many nations comp…
Underwater Tunnel — 2020-10-11 23:44:16
…t Vazie (b.1758) and Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) tried but water ingress and poor ground conditions led to the works being abandoned. == Advanced Tunnelling == {{Image url=" BrunelTunnellingShield.jpg" class="right" title=" Brunel Tunnelling…
Silicone — 2020-09-22 23:25:26
….jpg" title="Bakeware" width="180" }}|| Kipping died in North Wales n 1949, just as the value of silicone polymers was being realised. {{Tag ids="silicon silicone polymer sealant medical"}} …
Cricket — 2020-08-26 21:18:47
…ket 1787 == ~-[[CategorySport]]:[[1700s]] {{Image url="Cricketgame.jpg" class="right" title="A typical game of Cricket being played" width="450" }} {{toc}} == Origins == The origins of cricket are very vague, and many theories have been put for…
…ll that dates back to the 1400s, but it is without doubt, very English. == Beginnings == The first evidence of cricket being played was recorded in the year **1550**, by the pupils of Royal Grammar School, Guildford. The first //recorded// cric…
Slavery Abolition — 2020-08-17 15:00:36
…m, since enslavement of **Muslims** was prohibited. {{Image url="white-slaves.jpg" class="left" title="White slaves being sold to Muslim masters" width="" }}…
Safari Park — 2020-08-17 14:54:27
…hipperfield's Circus, suggested the idea to the 6th marquess of introducing game to roam the Longleat estate. The game being lions many came from the making of the film 'Born Free'. The concept of visitors “caged” in their cars, while the …
Reinforced Concrete — 2020-08-17 08:53:02
…ented with embedded strips of iron in concrete. {{Image url="Reinforcing-of-Concrete.jpg" class="left" title="Concrete being poured onto Reinforcing" width="500" }} He used iron bars and wire rope to reinforce the concrete based on broken coke,…
Stevenson Screen — 2020-08-17 08:38:43
…ass is recommended as other surfaces such as concrete can cause significant error leading to all time high temperatures being recorded inaccurately. {{Tag ids="weather climate temperature "}}…
Bicycle — 2020-08-15 09:22:15
…ategoryTransport ]], like the 'Penny Farthing', were fairly dangerous way to travel. So the need for a safer design was being sought. Starley was born 24th of December 1855 Walthamstow, [[London]], [[England]]. In 1877 he started a new busine…
Gravity — 2020-08-06 08:19:13
…in his publication '//Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica'//. The First Law states that an object that is not being pushed or pulled by some force will stay still. The Second Law explains how a force acts on an object. An object accel…
Greenwich Meridian — 2020-08-06 08:03:21
…imaginary point on the earth that the sun crosses each day at noon. It provides a fix for longitude, the most important being 0° longitude that is in Greenwich [[London]]. It is the home of world time and the point where east meets west. == …
Christmas Traditions — 2019-12-27 02:21:30
…ed along the way. Now it is a very rich steamed pudding crammed with fruit a hint of Brandy and served with cream after being flambe'd.|| === Christmas Cake === ||{{Image url="Christmas_cake.jpg" title="thumb" width="200" title="christmas cake…
Theodolite — 2017-07-05 08:57:22
…lished in 1556." width="350" }}Digges son Thomas brought his fathers achievements to the world's attention. As well as being a cartographer his father was an inventor. Digges also independently invented the reflecting telescope, or the refract…
Meccano — 2017-05-14 01:23:25
…g the construction of 12 models. In 1903, 1,500 sets were sold, although no profit was made. New parts were continually being introduced and in 1904, six sets, packed in tin boxes with instruction manuals in French and English, became available.…

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