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Elevator — 2023-12-30 12:44:08
…ingRoom.jpg" class="right" title="Ascending Room" width="" }} In 1823 Thomas Hornor built the first powered elevator he called the **“Ascending Room”**. Hornor opened his London Colosseum, designed by Decimus Burton, to the public on 10th Ja…
Split the Atom — 2023-10-10 00:05:57
…ontrol over the particles used to penetrate nuclei. He directed Cockcroft and Walton to build a high voltage machine he called for "a million volts in a soapbox". == Cockcroft-Walton Generator == The Cockcroft-Walton generator, a system of capac…
Carbonated water — 2023-10-09 23:52:55
…– 1804) born in Birstall, near Batley in [[Yorkshire]] was the first to artificially **carbonate water** 1767. Often called **Soda water**. == Oxygen 1774 == In 1767, English chemist Joseph Priestly (who went on to isolate oxygen) was the fi…
Lever Brothers — 2023-10-09 23:43:45
…tson a partner. == Soap == {{Image url="SunlightSoap.jpg" class="left" title="Sunlight Soap" width="300" }} They first called their product 'Honey Soap' then later named it "**Sunlight Soap**". The product sold quickly and production soon reach…
Stainless Steel — 2023-10-09 23:42:45
…process for knives. Brearley wanted to call his invention ‘Rustless Steel’, but Stuart, persauded him it should be called **‘Stainless Steel’** . {{Tag ids="Metal steel rust "}} …
Cinematography — 2023-10-09 23:41:17
…-film was shot in Leeds [[England]] on the 14 October 1888. Louis Le Prince filmed moving motion picture sequences he called **Roundhay Garden**, **Leeds Bridge**, and his son playing the accordion, using his single-lens camera. All this seve…
Portland Cement — 2023-10-08 00:16:46
…{Image url="Aspdinblueplaque.jpg" class="right" title="Aspdin Blue Plaque" width="300" }} == A Classic Title == Aspdin called the product Portland cement because when set, it resembled '**Portland stone**', a limestone that is quarried on the Is…
Electronic Computer — 2023-10-07 10:38:05
…eeded to solve the far more complicated encrypted German coded messages made by **Lorenz** cipher devices. Bletchley called the devices **TUNNY**, a machine with 1.6 million billion combinations! Bill Tutte was given the task of cracking the …
…amazonad}}>> [[Computer]] == Enigma == The Colossus was not used to decipher the Enigma. That was done with a machine called **Bombe** that was developed for Alan Turing by **Harold 'Doc' Keen** at the **British Tabulating Machine Company** (B…
…TM) based on the work by the Polish version called the //Bomba//.…
Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35
… museum director and manuscript collector, friend of Bernard Shaw and T.E. Lawrence, literary executor of Thomas Hardy, called him simply "**grandfather of the hovercraft**".) == War Years == During the war years Cockerell worked with an elite …
WorldWideWeb — 2023-09-23 15:57:32
… job as a software consultant at CERN ( the famous European Particle physics Laboratory in Geneva). He wrote a program, called Enquire, which he called a "memory substitute," for his personal use to help him remember connections between various p…
…te hypertext documents over the Internet and designed a scheme to give documents addresses on the Internet. Berners-Lee called this address a '''Universal Resource Identifier''' (URI). (This is now usually known as a URL—Uniform Resource Locato…
… == By the end of the year he had also written a client program (browser) to retrieve and view hypertext documents. He called this client ""WorldWideWeb"" browser. Hypertext pages were formatted using the '''Hypertext Markup Language''' (HTML) t…
Telephone — 2023-09-23 15:57:07
… which showed how the tongue, lips, and throat were positioned to make speech sounds. Graham, or "Aleck", as his family called him, was interested in working with the deaf throughout his life. He only attended school for five years; from the tim…
… were married. At the wedding ceremony he gave her a gift of all but 10 shares of the stock in the newly formed company called Bell Telephone Company. They had three sons. == Into Business == {{Image url="BellTransmitterReceiver.jpg" class="righ…
Stereo — 2023-09-23 15:56:38
…ystems".// The application was dated 14 December 1931, and was accepted on 14 June 1933 as UK patent number 394,325. He called his technique ''Binaural Sound.'' ::c:: His concepts included: - The use of a coincident pair of velocity microphones…
iPod — 2023-09-23 15:52:55
…of Hitchin, [[Hertfordshire]], invented and built the device in 1979 – when he was just 23. {{{toc}}} His invention, called the IXI, stored only 3.5 minutes of music on to a chip – but Mr Kramer rightly believed its capacity would improve. :…
Electric Generator — 2023-09-23 12:04:37
…lectromagnetism when an electrical wire was placed near a compass. Michael Faraday built two devices to produce what he called electromagnetic rotation: that is a continuous circular motion from the circular magnetic force around a wire. Ten year…
…pring contact (m), to the external circuit, and back into the centre of the disk through the axle. This break through, called a **Farday Disk**, lead the way for the modern electrical era we live in now. == Today == Because of his work the uni…
ATM — 2023-09-23 12:02:41
… 1967. The actor Reg Varney, star of the ITV sitcom On the Buses, was hired to promote the device. They were officially called DACS (De La Rue Automatic Cash System). In 1969 he described the system to the conference of the American Banking Asso…
…Plastic bank cards with magnetic strips had still to be invented, Shepherd-Barron's early machines used special cheques called "Barclaycash" that were chemically coded with impregnated carbon-14. Customers placed the cheque into a drawer, the ma…
Toilet — 2023-09-08 09:57:11
…ford's improved version of the Bramah contained no metal parts, and in 1885 he created the one-piece 'wash-out' toilet, called the 'Unitas'. This used a 'P'-shaped trap. In 1885, he created the first valveless toilet made of china. Other makers a…
Plastic — 2022-09-01 08:57:23
… and materials and for having invented the first plastic that Parkes patented in **1856** ||{{{toc}}}|||| == Celluloid called Parkesine == His interest in the newly formed [[rubber]] industry led to the invention of a new material which he calle…
Cambridge Cream — 2022-05-20 08:48:45
…irst written reference to it in France is in François Massialot's 'Le cuisinier royal et bourgeois' of 1691, but it is called **'crème à l'Angloise'**. The pudding had been on the menu at Trinity College, Cambridge, for at least 60 years by …
…then. In the 1600's they called it **Cambridge cream**, **Trinity cream** or simply **Burnt cream**. === Trinity College ~1630 === The college in […
Titanic — 2021-08-20 11:12:19
…he White Star Line shipping company of Liverpool England. Work on Titanic started on 31 March 1909, one of three ships called the 'Olympic class'. These magnificent vessels were the industrial marvels of their age and Titanic was to be the bigge…
MRI Scan — 2021-08-20 11:04:59
…on of a second. A medical diagnostic application was further progressed by the development of a rapid imaging technique called echo-planar imaging making 3D imaging feasible. == First MRI Image == The first MRI scan of a human body part was made…
….com/node/2246166 */ American doctor and scientist Raymond Damadian built a partial body MRI scanner in 1977, which he called the ‘Indomitable’. {{Tag ids="nuclear magnet scan radio image body"}} …
Paralympic Games — 2021-08-20 10:59:53
…nt. == To Rome == The first Olympic-style games for athletes with a disability were held in Rome in 1960; officially called the// 9th Annual International Stoke Mandeville Games//, these are considered to be the first Paralympic Games. The …
Cary Grant — 2021-08-20 10:57:47
…k** films, including the 1959 hit North by Northwest. Archie Leach is honoured by **John Cleese** in the movie '**Fish called Wanda**'.…
Miss World — 2021-08-20 10:50:22
…ty event as a one-off for the **Festival of Britain.** A total of 26 contestants competed for the title. The event was called a Bikini Contest to promote the //new// swimsuit of the time. The press saw it as an international event because some o…
Roundabout — 2021-08-16 09:58:53
…"Sollershott Circus" width="400" }} The first modern 'Roundabout' was built in Letchworth [[Hertfordshire]] in 1905 and called Sollershott Circus. {{Toc}} == Letchworth Garden City == {{Image url="SollershottCircus1912.jpg" class="left" title="S…
Reflecting Telescope — 2021-08-14 20:51:21
…at different places and the image of a star would then appear to be surrounded by a spectrum of colours. This effect is called **chromatic aberration**. {{Image url="NewtonsOriginalReflector.jpg" class="left" title="Newtons Original Reflector" w…
Clouds — 2021-08-14 20:16:00
…dth="" }} Luke Howard named the three principal categories of clouds – **cumulus, stratus, and cirrus**. He has been called "**the father of meteorology**" because of his comprehensive recordings of weather in the London area from 1801 to 1841…
Fish and chips — 2021-08-14 20:10:50
… }} The Great British Invention consisting of battered white fish, usually Cod, and potato chips (the Belgian invention called //frites//, not French as they fried //sliced// potatoes). /* en petites tranches */ With a long history of fishing …
Bovril — 2021-08-14 20:09:04
…e transportation and storage of such vast amounts of food were problematic. This led to Johnston creating a product he called //'Johnston's Fluid Beef'//, that was later called **Bovril.** He returned to Britain in 1880 where he developed the br…
Photography — 2021-08-14 19:57:18
…ght light. With the negative image, Fox Talbot found he could then repeat the process of printing from the negative. He called this the **'calotype'** and patented the process in 1841. This was the basis for all photography for {{Datediff from="1…
Football — 2021-08-14 19:52:33
…prepare warriors for battle. {{Image url="Football.jpg" class="left" width="100"}} In south and Central America a game called "Tlatchi" once flourished. == Set the Rules == In Britain too, there are records of Football being played for hundre…
Vibrator — 2021-08-14 19:48:28
…"right" title="Female Hysteria" width="300" }} Granville patented an **Electro-mechanical Vibrator** 1880. Originally called a percusser or more colloquially "**Granville's hammer**", the machine was manufactured and sold to physicians to relie…
Dinosaur — 2021-08-12 20:42:55
…as discovered by William Buckland in the 1824. However, **Richard Plot** had discovered this dinosaur's femur, which he called //"Scrotum humanum"//, in **1627**, nearly two centuries before.…
Horlicks — 2021-08-12 20:30:08
…ed to join him in 1873. That same year, they started their own company (J&W Horlicks) to make a malted milk drink. They called their product 'Diastoid' and their advertising slogan read: 'Horlick's Infant and Invalids Food' under a US patent in 1…
Rubber — 2021-08-12 20:24:10
…h was perfected in 1821, made rubber manufacture commercially practical and gave birth to the rubber industry. Hancock called his machine a "pickle" and kept the masticating process a secret for 10 years. The advantages of the Hancock rubber ma…
Match — 2021-08-09 22:35:30
…rove it. == To Market == {{Image url="Congreve_matchbox.jpg" class="right" title="Congreve matchbox" width="" }} He called his matches “**Congreves**” after the Congreve’s rocket invented in 1808. The price of a box of 50 matches was …
Zoo — 2021-08-09 22:18:40
…d Raffles 1826 === /* event_date="April 27 1826" First zoo opens in London */ Opened April 27 **1826**, was initially called "Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society of London." It is managed under the //Zoological Society of London// Z…
Tarmac — 2021-08-09 21:38:37
…[[1900s]] /* event_date="1902" Hooley patents Tarmac */ Hooley patented **Tarmac** in Britain, in 1902 (GB 7796). He called his company// Tar Macadam (Purnell Hooley's Patent) Syndicate Limited// registered in 1903, Tarmacadam in honour of J L…
Jigsaw Puzzle — 2021-08-09 21:24:39
…[London]] mounted a map of the world onto a hardwood board and carved out the shapes of the countries to create what he called a ‘**dissection**’. These //educational tools// became highly popular and he went on to create dissected maps of E…
Cowboy — 2021-08-09 21:03:46
…rs printed use in the U.S. at about the same time the great cattle drives were ending ~1870. N.American cattle herders called themselves **vacquero** a Spanish word that was Anglicised to become **Buckaroo**. In fact, cowboy was used in a negat…
Industrial Revolution — 2021-08-08 21:48:46
…the **largest cast iron structure** ever seen. This **world first iron bridge** is over the river Severn at a place now called Ironbridge. This bridge is still standing and can be visited to this day. Abraham Darby III took over the family busin…
Sparkling Wine — 2021-08-08 20:32:53
… ratio of sand to potash and lime. His bottles were so superior they were eventually exported to France where they were called 'vere anglais' English glass. A retired British Admiral, '''Sir Robert Mansell''', while searching for a way to make …
Refrigeration — 2021-08-08 18:50:45
…ld. The industry was a big employer and Britain was a cold country anyway. == [[Domestic]] Refrigerator == A inventor called Jacob Perkins came to England in 1818 and was granted the first patent for a '//vapor-compression refrigeration cycle//…
Plywood — 2021-08-08 18:44:16
…rotated up to 90 degrees to one another, it is an **engineered wood**. The grain of each veneer is alternated which is called cross-graining and has several benefits: it reduces the tendency of wood to split when nailed at the edges and it reduc…
…is first patent for wood-working machines for sawing, planing and block-making. In 1793 Bentham took out what has been called //"one of the most remarkable patents ever issued by the British Patents Office"//, because it automated the whole proc…
Vaccination — 2021-08-07 23:07:23
…xperiment on eight-year-old** James Phipps**. Sarah Nelmes, a dairymaid, confirmed that one of her **Gloucester cows** called **Blossom**, had recently had cowpox Jenner inserted pus taken from a cowpox pustule and inserted it into an incision …
Cider — 2021-08-01 19:30:49
…he Romans //visited// Britain in 55BC they found Celts in Kent already enjoying fermented apple 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" …
Marmite — 2021-04-03 10:38:16
…atable paste from the spent yeast, but it has emerged it was created and patented in the late 1800s by a brewer's clerk called **Alfred Oxford** employed in Burton-on-Trent. The patent had lapsed so the Gilmours sought to turn the process into a…
…00" }} == The Name == Marmite originally came in a small earthenware pot, similar to the kind of French casserole dish called a 'Marmite', (pronounced MAR-MEET). This may be where Marmite gets its name from. ==Love it or Hate it == Because of t…
Patent Leather — 2021-01-31 22:10:03
…[[Warwickshire]], [[England]]. After being granted the patent, Hand’s method was discussed, in a British publication called "The Bee"in 1793. ^^A gentleman of the name of Hand in Birmingham, as I am informed, has of late obtained a patent for…
Toothbrush — 2021-01-28 15:14:07
…is business boomed having to move premises. William died a wealthy man in 1808 leaving business to his eldest son, also called William. Addis began exporting products abroad to the US in the 1880’s. By the time WWII came along Addis employed 65…
DNA Forensics — 2021-01-22 08:47:52
…e url="DNA_finger_print.jpg" class="left" title="DNA fingerprint" width="250" }}ITV created a drama based on this story called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zd1HzWl96Y ‘Code Of A Killer’ - Trailer]]. The drama, featuring **John Simms** a…
Petroleum — 2020-12-03 01:07:44
… {{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 …
Banoffi Pie — 2020-12-01 00:13:56
…sed milk. It was invented at the [[http://www.hungrymonk.co.uk/ Hungry Monk Restaurant]] [[Sussex]] in 1972, originally called Banoffee Pie. ::c:: == Very Popular == The pie was so popular it soon went global. Some supermarkets began selling it…
Pencil — 2020-11-30 16:27:31
… using it for fuel, but it did not burn. But it did mark their hands and so they used it for marking their sheep. They called it //plaumbago// (lead ore). == Eureka == Soon it was discovered this graphite made an excellent replacement for lead …
Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
… was called "POONA" in India during the 18th Century, and British Army Officers stationed there brought the game back to England in…
…own in 1846 and survives to this day as a private club. == Table Tennis 1880 == The earliest known form of the sport, called indoor tennis, was played in Victorian England among the upper-class as an after-dinner parlour game. In the early 18…
Underwater Tunnel — 2020-10-11 23:44:16
…eet (6 m) high, it is 434 yards (396 m) long, and 25 yards (23 m) below the river surface. When it was completed it was called the "**Eighth wonder of the world**". ::c:: Brunel was the third attempt to build a tunnel under the Thames. - 1799,…
Vacuum cleaner — 2020-10-11 23:24:10
…out among soldiers stationed at **Crystal Palace**, all conventional attempts to control the epidemic failed. Booth was called in, and '''23 tons''' of dust were removed and buried. The health of the men improved immediately. @@{{Image url="Boot…
Stem Cells — 2020-08-17 17:30:21
… an embryonic cell. Embryo cells can reproduce themselves or become adult cells. ::c:: ~&In December 1981 Gail Martin called the cells embryonic stem cells. {{Tag ids="Stem cells genetics embryo"}} …
Pop Rivet — 2020-08-17 14:41:51
… width="350" }} British engineer Hamilton Neil Wylie invented the "Pop rivet" and patented his brainchild in 1916. Also called a blind rivet it allowed one person to fit a rivet with access only needed from one side. {{Image url="Pop-Rivet-diag…
TV Black and White Kiss — 2020-08-17 09:07:45
…nd a white person was easily guised and light-skinned as to be //'racially ambiguous'//. == Synopsis == The drama was called **"You in Your Small Corner"**. ~& Dave Jordan has just moved to London from Jamaica to be with his mother, who runs a…
Linoleum — 2020-08-17 08:43:03
…width="" birth_date="13 March 1834" caption="Halifax, Yorkshire" death_date="16 May 1928" }} {{toc}} **Linoleum**, also called Lino, is a versatile hard wearing floor covering. Despite many new types of flooring on the market, lino is still popul…
Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25
…r, George Carter, worked closely with Whittle to design a plane. The engine was built from various test parts and they called it the W.1X, which ran for the first time on '''December 14, 1940'''. This engine powered the Gloster E.28/39 for taxi …
…a monument to Sir Frank Whittle in the town of Gloucester. Not much of a likeness to the great man, I guess it would be called artistic. He is standing on a his invention looking skyward. {{Image url="WhittleArches.jpg" width="320" class="left" …
…t of the Airfield where the first test took place near Brockworth has been named the 'Whittle Centre' it includes a pub called the **Whittle**. == Shrinking the World == ~& The jet engine remains the single greatest revolution in aviation since…
Milk of Magnesia — 2020-08-09 19:55:03
…Phillips == Phillips an English pharmacist received a patent in 1873 for hydrate of magnesia mixed with water which he called **Milk of Magnesia**. In 2013 the European Union insisted Milk of Magnesia was reformulated with less Sulphate. …
Christmas Traditions — 2019-12-27 02:21:30
… money or food inside a box - to the staff of servants, maids, grooms, cooks, butlers, deliverymen and tradespeople who called regularly during the year. This tradition survives in the custom of tipping the milkman, postman, dustmen and other cal…
Harry Potter — 2018-10-10 17:06:49
…n Tutshill, [[Gloucestershire]] **Joanne Rowling** was born in Chipping Sodbury cottage Maternity Hospital, near a town called **Dursley** (the Muggle family).{{Image url="Harry_Potter.jpg" class="left" title="Harry Potter film promotion" width="…
Emergency Telephone Number — 2017-07-06 10:16:06
… to dial 0 for the switchboard found it jammed with calls and could not alert anyone of the fire. Prior to 999 people called their local police station to raise the alarm. Then dialling 0 and asking the operator for police, fire or ambulance wa…
Beatrix Potter — 2016-07-23 14:22:52
…r Rabbit" width="" }} >>{{amazon type="book" items="1414506414" }}>> The 'real' Peter Rabbit was a Belgian buck rabbit called Peter Piper that was //'bought at a very tender age, in the Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush, for the exorbitant sum of 4…
Salvation Army — 2016-01-07 15:19:48
…on Army was founded in [[London]], [[England]] by Minister William Booth from Nottingham and wife Catherine. Originally called the 'East London Christian Mission'. In 1878 The Christian Mission was renamed The Salvation Army. William promoted hi…

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