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  1. Carbonated water — 2023-10-09 23:52:55
    …ntation and a published paper entitled, **Impregnating Water with Fixed Air**. The paper described a means of chemical carbonation by dripping vitriol (sulphuric acid) into powdered chalk (calcium carbonate) producing **CO2 gas**. This gas was …
    …e to the masses. His name was **Johann Jacob Schweppe**. After further experimentation, Schweppe was able to simplify carbonation through the application of two common compounds – sodium bicarbonate and tartaric acid. == Back to Blighty == …
  2. Stainless Steel — 2023-10-09 23:42:45
    …. Harry experimented with several variations of his alloys, adding a small percentage of chromium and small measures of carbon. {{Image url="Stainless_Steel_1915.jpg" class="left" title="Stainless Steel New York 1915" width="300" }} On the 13th …
    …August 1913 Brearley created a steel with 12.8% chromium and 0.24% carbon. Every piece of steel he made he bombarded with various acids and stresses. Many failed the tests but the steel made …
  3. ATM — 2023-09-23 12:02:41
    … 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 machine detected and matched the cheque against a number code enter…
  4. Microphone — 2021-11-07 21:26:04
    …hes 1878 === ~-[[CategoryIndustry]]:[[Communication]]:[[Music]]:[[1800s]] Hughes invented the first practical working carbon microphone in 1878. David Edward Hughes was probably born in Corwen [[Wales]] in 1831. His family emigrated to the Uni…
    … width="400" }} Hughes microphone technology became the principle way microphones work even today. {{Image url="Hughes_carbon_microphone.png" class="right" title="Hughes carbon microphone" width="" }} He demonstrated his apparatus to the Royal S…
  5. Steel — 2021-08-12 20:31:45
    …ated molten iron, it was then stirred by puddlers using long oar-shaped tools, allowing oxygen to combine slowly remove carbon. {{Image url="EiffelTower.jpg" class="left" title="Steel beams made Eiffel Tower possible" width="300" }} It was then w…
  6. Baking Powder — 2021-08-12 20:27:52
    …acid, and is used for increasing the volume and lightening the texture of baked goods. Baking powder works by releasing carbon dioxide gas into a batter or dough through an acid-base reaction, causing bubbles in the wet mixture to expand and thus…
  7. Light Bulb — 2021-08-09 21:56:27
    …" class="right" }} Later Joseph Swan was determined to devise a practical, long-lasting electric light. He found that a carbon paper filament worked well, but burned up quickly. In **1878**, he demonstrated his new electric lamps in **Newcastle**…
    …by the US Patent Office, on October 6, 1889, a judge ruled that the electric light improvement claim for "a filament of carbon of high resistance" was valid. Unfortunately further research exposed in A Streak of Luck by Robert Conot (1979), also…
    …notebook that the judge might have determined showed that they were simply extending Sawyer’s (or Swan’s) work with carbon "burners" or "rods" in an evacuated glass bulb. (...) In fact, Edison and his team did not find a commercially workabl…
  8. Fire Extinguisher — 2021-08-09 21:05:28
    …floors of a house fire in Edinburgh. It consisted of a copper vessel of 3 gallons (13.6 litres) of pearl ash (potassium carbonate) solution contained within compressed air. == Earlier == The first fire extinguisher, of a sort, was patented in 1…
  9. Sparkling Wine — 2021-08-08 20:32:53
    …e being added to wines of all sorts to make them sparkling. Using this process the wine imported from France could be ''carbonated'' and made palatable. {{ image url="Sparkling_wine.jpg" class="left" width="200" Putting the sparkle into wine}} …
  10. Eraser — 2020-08-18 10:06:20
    … Nairne produced the first [[rubber]] writing eraser, for an inventions competition. The invention was described by [[Carbonated_water| Joseph Priestley]] on April 15, 1770: "I have seen a substance excellently adapted to the purpose of wiping …
  11. Milk of Magnesia — 2020-08-09 19:55:03
    …g up a factory in Belfast to produce the medicine commercially. By-products of the process included sodium, potassium bicarbonates and silicates, which when treated with sulphuric acid could be used as an artificial fertiliser. {{Image url="James…
  12. Oxygen — 2016-06-20 16:22:51
    …]] == Oxygen == === Joseph Priestley 1774 === In [[Yorkshire]] August 1774 he isolated a new "air". {{redirect page="Carbonated water"}}…
  13. Soda water — 2016-02-02 11:50:30
    …Soda water :: [[CategoryFood]]== Soda Water == {{redirect page="Carbonated water"}}…

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