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  1. LCD — 2023-09-23 15:53:09
    …uid crystal was less viscous, thereby providing faster response times and more transparent, which produced a pure-white colour display for the first time. == Re-invent the Display == {{Image url="LCDweather.jpg" class="left" title="LCD Calendar…
    …" }} John Stonehouse, who was the Minister of Technology, put out a challenge to find an alternative to the shadow mask colour TV tube. This challenge was taken up by Cyril Hilsum at the Royal Radar Establishment (RRE) in **Malvern** [[Worcesters…
  2. Digital Photography — 2023-09-23 12:04:21
    …rst CCD imaging [[http://www.google.com/patents/US4085456 | patent in 1971]] {{Tag ids="Digital photography imaging CCD colour camera"}} …
  3. Police — 2022-05-20 08:52:50
    …tle'''. {{Image url="PoliceBox.jpg" class="right" title="Police Box" width="200" }} Blue was chosen because it was the colour of the popular Royal Navy rather than red which was the army's colour and struck fear into the people because of the wa…
  4. Television — 2021-11-06 16:35:18
    …6th of January 1926 in his [[London]] attic laboratory, John Logie Baird first publicly demonstrated television. == In Colour == He demonstrated the world's first colour transmission on July 3, 1928, using scanning discs at the transmitting and…
    … receiving ends with three spirals of apertures, each spiral with a filter of a different primary colour; and three light sources at the receiving end, with a commutator to alternate their illumination. That same year he als…
  5. Reflecting Telescope — 2021-08-14 20:51:21
    …y Galileo, consisted of glass lenses mounted in a tube. When the light from a star passed through a lens, the different colours were refracted. This meant that the components of white light were brought to a focus at different places and the ima…
    …ge 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="Newto…
  6. Sparkling Wine — 2021-08-08 20:32:53
    … 'vere anglais' English glass. A retired British Admiral, '''Sir Robert Mansell''', while searching for a way to make coloured glass, he had invented a manufacturing process incorporating the use of iron and manganese this also resulted in muc…
  7. Patent Leather — 2021-01-31 22:10:03
    …o water, and when soiled, requires only to be wiped with a sponge to restore it to its original lustre.^^ == Then came colour == {{Image url="PatentLeatherBag.jpg" class="left" title="Patent Leather Bag" width="" }} In November 1799, inventor Ed…
    …mund Prior, of Holborn, London, England, patented a method of painting and colouring leather. {{Image url="PatentLeatherRedShoes.jpg" class="right" title="Patent Leather Red Shoes" width="300" }}…
  8. Christmas Traditions — 2019-12-27 02:21:30
    …" title="Cracker" }}||On the dinner table on Christmas Day. Invented by a London baker in 1846, a cracker is a brightly coloured paper tube, twisted at both ends, which contains a party hat, riddle and toy or other trinket. When it is pulled by t…

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