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FAX — 2023-10-09 23:52:19
…s". {{TOC}} == Electric clocks 1841 == Bain had already invented the electric clock. Using this knowledge he felt he could improve [[Telegraph|telegraphy]] by transmitting copies of actual written documents. Bain used a clock to synchronize t…
Vacuum Flask — 2023-10-09 23:46:28
…he thermos or vacuum flask. His invention was brought to consumers in '''**1904**''' when it was realised the 'Thermos' could be used equally well to keep liquids for consumption hot as well as cold. It had double walls with a vacuum between an…
Phototherapy — 2023-10-09 23:41:51
…= ~-[[CategoryScience]]: [[Medical]]: [[1900s]] Dr Cremer , with the help of Sister J Ward, discovered that sunlight could cure **jaundice** at the Rochford General Hospital in [[Essex]]. {{toc}} == Sister Ward == Ward was an old school nur…
Computer — 2023-10-09 23:40:16
…er scientist who originated the idea of a programmable computer. Babbage wanted to find a method by which computations could be calculated mechanically, removing human sources of error. He first discussed the principles of a calculating engine …
…phry Davy in 1822. ===Difference Engine=== The 1820s saw Babbage work on his '**Difference Engine**', a machine which could perform mathematical calculations. A six-wheeled model was initially constructed and demonstrated to a number of audien…
Steam Engine — 2023-10-08 00:19:36
…att to describe the power produced. And he coined the term **horsepower** when describing his engines saying that they 'could do the work of six horses' which we still use to describe the power of a car for example. @@{{image url="WattSteamEngi…
Electronic Computer — 2023-10-07 10:38:05
…ons branch of General Post Office (GPO) in **1926** and felt that the mechanical system used for the telephone exchange could be converted to an all-electronic system. == Great minds == This gave him good experience and working the mathematicia…
…ll Newman** they proposed an electronic computer system using **1500** [[Thermionic_valve|Thermionic valves]]. Colossus could work at 5000 characters per second with an interval between sprocket holes of 200 microseconds. In this time Colossus p…
Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35
…orking 'glidable' craft but commercial backing held them back. Cockerell's design was the first to build a vehicle that could move over the ground and water, floating on a layer of air. This would reduce friction between the surface and the vehi…
…ned back to earlier ideas. He decided to use larger models on water. Initial experiments convinced Cockerell that boats could be made to float on a cushion of air, thus reducing the effect of the water drag. After many trials he successfully des…
Aluminium — 2023-10-04 16:04:17
…nturies. In 1808 Humphry Davy, an English chemist born in Penzance, [[Cornwall]] [[England]], discovered that aluminium could be isolated by electrolytic reduction from alumina (aluminium oxide). The name **Aluminium** was eventually given by Da…
English Bible — 2023-09-25 23:57:13
… Latin throughout the Christian world, and translation of the Latin Bible into the vernacular, or local language anyone could understand, was actively discouraged because this eroded control. {{Image url="Tyndale_Monument.jpg" class="left" titl…
Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52
…as beautifully simple using 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. === Mor…
…w the Cooke Wheatstone Telegraph worked. Morse was wanting to patent his own simple telegraphic apparatus in Europe. He could see that this system was more advanced than his own system but needed a 5 core cable which would prove too expensive f…
Stereo — 2023-09-23 15:56:38
…strated by Clement Ader. He used pairs of microphones in front of the Paris Opera stage in 1881, and the wealthy few could use two telephones to listen in live.// >> ::c:: == Realisation == Blumlein's binaural experiments began in early 19…
Radio — 2023-09-23 15:56:24
…y with many scientists contributing. == 1864 == James Clerk Maxwell showed mathematically that electromagnetic waves could propagate through free space. == 1886 == Heinrich Rudolf Hertz noticed a sparking phenomenon and with experiments (188…
PIN — 2023-09-23 15:56:10
… task was taken up by Kelvin Hughes, a subsidiary of Smiths Industries Ltd. Goodfellow designed a software system that could accept a machine-readable encrypted card, identifying the individual, and providing them with their money on demand. U…
LCD — 2023-09-23 15:53:09
…ern** [[Worcestershire]], to explore whether the discovery by US researchers that a thin layer of impure liquid crystal could be used to make a crude optoelectronic display but the DSM design worked poorly and proved to be too power hungry. /*…
…ounds had a low viscosity, proved extremely stable (as George had predicted) and, formulated as eutectic mixtures, they could remain liquid crystalline from -10ºC to +60ºC. These were **patented** and subsequently licensed by the MOD, throug…
Electric Motor — 2023-09-23 15:52:02
…s the amalgamated zinc battery which had a longer battery life than that produced by Italian innovator Volta. Sturgeon could now power his strong electro-magnets and making them horse-shoe shape increased the power even more. But the drawback o…
…utator** was ingenious. Keeping this force going in one direction was the clever bit. By flipping the current Sturgeon could make the current reverse every time the wheel met the next magnet. That meant the wheel would keep rotating in the //s…
ATM — 2023-09-23 12:02:41
… While taking a bath that evening with no spending cash he wondered if vending machines can dispense chocolate bars why couldn't banks have a machine to dispense money? Later that year, he met with the chief general manager of Barclays Bank. Sh…
Worcestershire Sauce — 2023-09-18 19:06:46
…iners** sailing to and from [[England]] carried Worcestershire Sauce They even paid the waiters to serve it. Customers could purchase a bottle of this tasty delight to take home with them! {{Image url="WilliamHenryPerrins.jpg" class="right" tit…
Toilet — 2023-09-08 09:57:11
…e parts were in a wooden case, the toilet did smell. The 'U-bend', or the water-sealed trap, was invented in 1782. This could replace the outlet valve. Because it could not jam, it did not need an overflow. === Josiah George Jennings 1852 === …
Electric Car — 2023-08-27 16:16:21
…3 minutes (about the same as fueling a car today), perhaps the manufacturers of //new// electric vehicles and Formula E could learn a lesson here? The **Horseless Car** got off to a slow start in Britain thanks to the “Red Flag Act” which …
Winston Churchill — 2023-08-27 16:11:42
… low from the **Great War**. So Churchill agreed to share Britain's technology with the USA in the hope that Roosevelt could be persuaded to join the war. The **Tizard Mission** as it was known, involved //giving// the USA **[[Jet_Engine|Jet]]*…
Lava Lamp — 2022-08-29 08:39:00
…mp in 1963. The idea came from an egg-timer he saw in a [[Dorset]] pub that was made by a regular. Edward envisaged he could illuminate and heat the immiscible oils to create a visual ornament. {{Image url="LavaLampAstro.jpg" class="left" ti…
Police — 2022-05-20 08:52:50
…elers'''' and ''''Bobbies'''' after their founder, and wore a dark blue '''long coat''' and a '''tall hat''' which they could use to stand on to look over walls, a pair of '''handcuffs''' and a '''wooden rattle''' to raise the alarm. By the 1880…
Loudspeaker — 2021-11-07 21:26:37
…ed was amplification and that came along with the [[Thermionic_valve|valve]]. With more power bigger magnets and cones could now be used. A model of his loudspeaker is in the British Science Museum. {{Image url="LodgeLoudspeaker.jpg" class="…
Microphone — 2021-11-07 21:26:04
…ad giving it as a gift to the world, a view that was contrary to Edison's. It is worth noting that in the U.S. an idea could be patented and developed later. {{Image url="Microphone-Blue-Plaque.jpg" class="left" title="Microphone Blue Plaque i…
Hip Replacement — 2021-08-20 11:18:03
…ng operations and clean trays to prevent cross-infection. == Key to Success == He wrote to all his patients asking //'could he have the hips back when they died?'// When a patient passed away, someone would be sent to go and collect the hips …
Concorde — 2021-08-20 11:08:12
…00" }}Brian Trubshaw test flew the first British Concorde at the Filton airfield in South [[Gloucestershire]]. Concorde could fly from New York to London in **2 hours 56 minutes**. Development for Concorde started in 1956 and it was still operat…
MRI Scan — 2021-08-20 11:04:59
…ies. This creates tiny changes that MRI computers process this to construct images. In 1973, Paul Lauterbur showed NMR could produce images from which he could slowly build a picture of the inside of a body. British scientist Peter Mansfield de…
…ectly to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). == Faster processing == In 1973 Peter showed how the radio signals from MRI could be mathematically analysed, making possible their interpretation into useful images. He suggested gradients as a way to…
Guinness Book of World Records — 2021-08-20 10:45:53
…& Ross McWhirter" width="500" }} After a fruitless search for a reference for such facts, he had the idea that Guiness could provide a 'record' book for settling arguments in [[Pub]]s. == The Twins == A colleague, Christopher Chataway, recom…
Antibiotics — 2021-08-20 10:41:08
…ratory at St. Mary’s Hospital in [[London]] when almost by accident, he discovered a naturally growing substance that could attack certain bacteria. Fleming observed colonies of the common** Staphylococcus aureus **bacteria that had been worn …
Intraocular Lens — 2021-08-20 10:40:24
…th John Pike, an optical scientist from Rayner, a lens company, in Hove, [[Sussex]]. He learned from Pike that **ICI** could produce a lens suitable for his purposes, and for less than £1 each. The two men agreed there and then that they would…
… an **artificial lens**. The operation was **televised**, another first, so that other ophthalmologists in the hospital could watch. == Resistance == In 1951, Harold Ridley announced the operation to an ophthalmological congress at Oxford. Th…
Vitamins — 2021-08-16 09:52:16
…. While at sea in May 1747 he conducted what is regarded as the first ever clinical trial, he proved that citrus fruits could cure **scurvy** but he could not conclude why, but on an unofficial level sailors knew consuming fruits kept them healt…
… before Fletcher. /* event_date="May 1747" James Lind conducted the first clinical trial to confirm that citrus fruits could cure scurvy. */ == Links == [[http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/1564 | Royal College of Physicians]] …
CT Scan — 2021-08-14 20:48:42
…f. Adrian Thomas in his biography. He states the project was run on a shoe-string.'}} He came up with the idea that one could determine what was inside a box by taking X-ray readings at all angles around the object. Godfrey thought he could use…
Automatic Kettle — 2021-08-14 20:44:42
…in spun copper and polished chrome. ==1955== Before this kettle was introduced in 1955, boiling water by electricity could be a hazardous affair. Not only did some early electric kettles boil the water by making it live, if the kettle was not…
… switched off in time, it could boil dry, which at best would wreck the kettle, and at worst could cause a fire. ::c:: == 1960 K2 == {{image url="K2_1960.jpg" class="right" title="K2" width="" }} Later on, manufacture…
Public Park — 2021-08-14 20:30:20
…red a design - a vastly magnified version of his lily house at Chatsworth. It was cheap, simple to erect and remove and could be ready quickly. Its novelty was its revolutionary modular, prefabricated design and use of glass. It took 2,000 men e…
Ice Cream Cone — 2021-08-14 20:22:38
…c lectures on cooking, ran an agency for domestic staff and was granted a patent for an improved ice cream machine that could freeze a pint of ice cream in five minutes. She also suggested using liquid nitrogen to make ice cream, now the //in-th…
Photography — 2021-08-14 19:57:18
…s with long exposures. But by accident, he discovered that there was an image after a very short exposure. Although it could not be seen, he found he could chemically speed up the process to develop a useful negative. The image on this negative…
…light-sensitive silver making it safe to view the picture in bright 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 18…
Football — 2021-08-14 19:52:33
…dy for the sport that led to the first meeting. He wanted a common set of rules so that clubs from all over the nation could compete with each other. Little did he know this would become the **biggest sport in the world!** == The Football Pit…
Vibrator — 2021-08-14 19:48:28
…n was to cause "**hysterical paroxysm**" (outburst from the womb) in the patient. It was not widely accepted that women could experience orgasm, that was a male reserve. But this treatment was very demanding on doctors who found themselves suff…
Saline Drip — 2021-08-12 20:46:29
…}} == Cholera Killer == Thomas Latta was born in Edinburgh [[Scotland]]. He correctly ascertained that a salt solution could substitute for blood. His experiments were undertaken on five patients in the Edinburgh Cholera Hospital basing his ex…
Hypodermic Syringe — 2021-08-12 20:33:54
…Up to that time, it had not been considered possible to administer drugs through the skin, and for the most part, drugs could only be administered orally. …
Steel — 2021-08-12 20:31:45
…ental in the production of armaments. Guns, cannons and warships became relatively inexpensive to produce. Steel frames could now be used to build towering skyscrapers. In America the introduction of the Bessemer Converter had an enormous impac…
…ails allowed pioneers to build over 30,000 miles of railroad and colonise the western part of the country. Sheet steel could now be used in consumer products like washing machines, electric ovens, refrigerators and the car. By 1914 car manufact…
Rubber — 2021-08-12 20:24:10
… 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, suspenders and waistbands. About 25 years later, another Englishman, '''Stephen Perry''', patented…
… many improvements in the manufacture of rubber and thought of a multitude of ways in which this remarkable new product could be used. Hancock died in 1865 at Stoke Newington, London. ||{{Image url="Tyre.jpg" width="90" title=" Road tyre" }}||…
Lawn Mower — 2021-08-10 08:19:36
…g Plaque" width="300" }}>> Budding realised that a similar concept would enable the cutting of grass if the mechanism could be mounted in a wheeled frame to make the blades rotate close to the lawn's surface. He went into partnership with a lo…
…al Gardens** in London [[Zoo]], in **1831**. It took another ten years and further innovations to create a machine that could be worked by donkey or horse power, and sixty years before a steam-powered lawnmower was built. == Links == [[https://…
Match — 2021-08-09 22:35:30
…f potash, and gum, the sulphur serving to communicate the flame to the wood. He discovered that if he let them dry, he could start a fire by striking the stick anywhere. {{Image url="JohnWalkerLights.jpg" class="left" title="John Walker Lights"…
Chocolate Bar — 2021-08-09 22:11:02
… Watts steam engine to help grind the cocoa beans to a much finer powder than had previously been achieved. The machine could not only grind more thoroughly but it could output greater amounts of ground cocoa. This gave the chocolateers more ti…
Can — 2021-08-09 21:53:19
…ood preservation with his sterilized and sealed tin food cannister. A Frenchman named Nicolas Appert had discovered he could preserve food by heating it and sealing it in glass containers which excluded air. Durand thought a metal container wou…
Pub — 2021-08-09 21:19:14
…At one time each establishment was named according to what services it was legally allowed to provide. An **ale house** could only serve ale, a **tavern** was the urban equivalent to a country Inn both providing rooms for travellers in addition …
Industrial Revolution — 2021-08-08 21:48:46
…**Coalbrookdale** to repair a furnace belonging to Sir Basil Brooke that was used to make iron. Darby thought a furnace could be improved by using a blast furnace fueled by coke rather than charcoal to produce high-grade iron. This was a major s…
Sparkling Wine — 2021-08-08 20:32:53
…olasses were 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 i…
…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 without the risk of blowing up the bottle that was a huge hazard i…
Salicylic acid — 2021-08-08 18:32:13
…suffering from "agues" from a fever. He was aware that **quinine** derived from the bark of the Peruvian cinchona tree could be used to treat malarial fevers. Stone wondered if the **willow tree** bark could have similar properties. He chewed a…
…long with them or that their remedies lie not far from their causes was so very apposite to this particular case that I could not help applying it; and that this might be the intention of Providence here, I must own, had some little weight with …
Powered Flight — 2021-04-05 22:36:49
…obbing him, and the world, of the first manned powered flight. Percy died days later on the 2nd October 1899 before he could display his powered triplane. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9nwSCKq_Do Video of Pilcher in flight]] [[http://www.…
Marmite — 2021-04-03 10:38:16
…t the end of the 19th century by Mr **FG Garton**, a [[Nottinghamshire Nottingham]] grocer. He was down on his luck and couldn't pay his bills, so when Edwin Samson Moore, owner of the Midland Vinegar Company, offered to cancel his debt with the…
Float Glass — 2020-12-08 00:24:27
… Pilkington Brothers (there was no family connection) as a technical officer in 1947. At this time quality plate glass could only be made by a costly and wasteful plate process that the Pilkington Brothers had also innovated. Because there was …
Petroleum — 2020-12-03 01:07:44
…m this thought that it might be produced artificially. After many experiments Young found that by slow distillation he could obtain a number of useful liquids from it, one of which he named paraffin. == First Oil Refinery == {{Image url="Shale…
Banoffi Pie — 2020-12-01 00:13:56
…f [[http://iandowding.co.uk/ Dowding]] and Mackenzie. This lead Nigel Mackenzie to offer a £10,000 prize to anyone who could disprove it was English with a pre-1972 recipe. When no one claimed the prize, Mackenzie proudly erected a plaque at th…
Railway — 2020-11-30 12:55:52
…to over '''8,000''' by 1855. This expansion of track also brought down the cost of travel so that all but the poorest could afford to travel by train. In the stagecoach days, a ticket from London to Manchester and back would have cost '''£3 1…
Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
…ody for the sport that led to the first meeting. He wanted a common set of rules so that clubs from all over the nation could compete with each other. Little did he know this would become the biggest sport in the world! [[Football | Main article…
…ff whaff" and "gossima," and Parker Brothers began manufacturing an indoor tennis kit that included a portable net that could be set up on a table, a small ball covered with netting, and miniature paddles. James Gibb, an Englishman who visited …
…was surprisingly invented by the English. A group of holidaymakers in Switzerland in 1890, wanted to create a sled that could carry people down the snow-covered road between St Moritz and Celerina. They joined two sleds together. Sport's name c…
Vacuum cleaner — 2020-10-11 23:24:10
…r''' why he did not use suction instead of blowing. The angry inventor said that sucking dust was impossible, but Booth could not let go of his idea. On returning home he decided to test his idea by placing a wet cloth over a cushioned chair and…
Hydraulics — 2020-08-17 13:24:35
…t a closed system is constant. This was known for some time but no one had realised how effective and compact a machine could be until the Bramah Press. The hydraulic press is still known as the Bramah Press after its inventor. {{amazon items=…
… well there was excess water pressure in the lower part of town. Armstrong convinced the authorities this excess power could be used to power a quayside hydraulic crane that he had been developing. {{Image url="ArmstrongCrane.jpg" class="left"…
Cyclonic Vacuum Cleaner — 2020-08-15 09:18:21
…He noticed how dust quickly clogged the dust bag blocking the airflow, so that suction dropped rapidly. He thought he could improve this and set to work to solve this problem. Five years and 5,127 prototypes later, the world's first cyclonic b…
…entrifugal force to separate the dust and debris, but it was only suitable in industrial settings. James wondered if he could apply this to a domestic vacuum cleaner. == Patents and Japan == James Dyson spent two years looking for someone to l…
Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25
…d patented his jet engine plans in 1936.)// ---- == Patent problem == Whittle's jet engine patent lapsed in 1935, he could not afford the renewal fee of '''£5'''. Soon after this he was approached by two ex-RAF men, Rolf Dudley-Williams and …
…companies were asked to set up production lines for up to 3,000 engines a month in 1942, all of a sudden the Government could find the money. Manufacturing of the engine was offered to BTH, Vauxhall and Rover. Eventually taken up by Rover only. …
Milk of Magnesia — 2020-08-09 19:55:03
…y-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="JamesMurrayPlaque.jpg" class="right" title="James Murray Plaque" widt…
Cloning — 2020-08-06 15:26:49
…was born 5th July 1996. On the choice the sheep's name Wilmut said ^^"Dolly is derived from a mammary gland cell and we couldn't think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton's".^^…
Gravity — 2020-08-06 08:19:13
… nudging the door open and letting the light in, spoiling his experiments, so he cut a hole in the door so that his cat could come and go as he pleased. …
Greenwich Meridian — 2020-08-06 08:03:21
…sed on Greenwich time. Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal 1765 to 1811, processed Flamsteeds charts into tables that could be used by navigators and cartographers to establish positions at sea or on land. {{Image url="PrimeMeridianRoofOpen.j…
Charles Darwin — 2020-08-06 07:52:58
…heir environment. Charles Darwin was not the first to propose a theory of evolution but his work was so compelling it could not be ignored. == Links == [[http://darwin-online.org.uk]]…
Monty Python — 2020-08-06 07:48:50
… == The show, which was commissioned by none other than David Attenborough, seemed so intrinsically British that no-one could imagine that it would be an international winner, but slowly it did just that and {{Datediff from="1969" }} years later…
Angus Cattle — 2019-08-31 10:40:52
…eillor in Angus in 1808. He gathered stock widely and produced cattle of outstanding quality and character. Hugh Watson could be considered the founder of the breed, and was instrumental in selecting the best black, polled animals for his herd. …
Emergency Telephone Number — 2017-07-06 10:16:06
…t Wimpole Street in London in 1935. Neighbours were unable 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…
…k smoke**. It was suggested using the end number 9, three times would be more sensible than using random numbers, so it could be found easily by touch. …
Meccano — 2017-05-14 01:23:25
…although the pieces they were made from were not interchangeable. The breakthrough came when Hornby realised that if he could make separate, interchangeable parts that could be bolted together, any model could be built from the same components. …
…idth="300" class="right" }} The key inventive step was when he used regular perforations in the structural pieces that could be used to join them together with nuts and bolts. By the end of 1900 Hornby had built a set of parts he considered wor…

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