- Worcestershire Sauce — 2023-09-18 19:06:46
…e of Worcestershire Sauce. Because Lea and Perrins were originally chemists, Worcestershire sauce was bottled in round bottles rather than square ones as other sauces at the time were, these round bottles had originally been chemist’s medicine …
…bottles! {{image url="PlaqueLeaPerrins.jpg" class="right" title="Lea and Perrins Blue Plaque" width="300" }} == History == Le… - Plastic — 2022-09-01 08:57:23
…movie industry. Some of the thousands of items made from plastic: Toothbrushes, buckets, bowls, pens, plates, cutlery, bottles, boxes, bags, toys, pipes, tables, chairs, footballs, CDs etc. Mouldings for: Computers, smartphones, printers, scree…
… use items that are discarded and not reused blotting the oceans and countryside. Things made of Plastic ""<marquee> Bottles Buckets Boxes Cups Toothbrushes Pens Smartphones Computers Televisions Xbox Toys Dolls Chairs Electric plugs sockets Fo… - Lava Lamp — 2022-08-29 08:39:00
…" title="Lava Lamp Astro" width="" }} Setting up a laboratory in a small shed he mixed together various ingredients in bottles of different shapes and sizes. He discovered the best container for the job was a Lucozade bottle and it is that shape …
- Rubber — 2021-08-12 20:24:10
…fire hoses'''. {{Image url="Suspender.jpg" class="left" title="Suspender Belt" width="150" }} Thomas even made rubber bottles. One day Hancock held one of the bottles in his hand and realized that if it was sliced up it could be used as garters,…
- Sparkling Wine — 2021-08-08 20:32:53
…ne}} == Natural Sparkle == Spontaneous secondary fermentation had occurred in still wines since antiquity; most glass bottles of the time were not strong enough to contain the high pressures generated, and so exploding bottles were an occupation…
…y 17th century and industrialised the process; his coal-powered factories in Newcastle upon Tyne produced much stronger bottles than were available in France. As a result the English could deliberately induce a secondary fermentation in wine with… - Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
… by British army officers in India and South Africa, using lids from cigar boxes as paddles and rounded corks from wine bottles as balls, with a row of books set up across the middle of a table to form the net. {{Image url="PingPong.jpg" class="ri…
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