1. Elevator — 2023-12-30 12:44:08

   …mas 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 January 1829 with it's lift to take tourists up to a platform to view the L…

2. Internal Combustion Engine — 2023-10-09 23:51:33

   … death_date="19 February 1927" death_place="Halifax" }} {{Toc}} The Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine was the first successful design of internal combustion engine using "heavy oil" as a fuel. ~i)1794:The earliest mention of an oil engine was by Robert…
   …d air was compressed motor cylinder before ignition by an 'ignition cock' to explode the mixture. ~i)1878: Dugald Clerk designed the first two-stroke engine with in-cylinder compression patented in England in 1881. ~i)1884: British engineer Edwar…
   … a patent infringement against Diesel. But the secret of Diesel's engine was superior compression and torque and it was designed to run on arachis, **peanut or vegetable oil** not heavy fossil fuel-oil (Diesel) as a small stationary engine for f…

3. Modern Farming — 2023-10-09 23:44:30

   …nd them thoroughly broken down to allow the roots to take in nutrients and improve rapid growth. == Hoe == Jethro Tull designed several horse drawn hoes to clear between the rows. His designs are the father to the modern day hoe and many other t…
   …="right" }} Jethro Tull’s inventive influence in the plough (plow in old English) can still be seen today. His genius design allowed for grass and weeds to be pulled from the ground and left on the surface to die. <<{{amazon type="book" items="…

4. Computer — 2023-10-09 23:40:16

   …omputing. This was to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Babbage's birth. In 2000, the printer which Babbage originally designed for the difference engine was also completed. Both functioned perfectly. ===Electronic Age - Tommy Flowers 1940=== […

5. Cat Eyes — 2023-10-09 23:39:36

   … {{Image url="Catseyeclean.jpg" title="thumb" width="100" class="right" title="Self clean action" }} Shaw’s eventual design consisted of four glass beads placed in two pairs facing in opposite directions, embedded within a flexible '''rubber m…

6. Steam Engine — 2023-10-08 00:19:36

   … Papin's designs to build the world's first operational steam engine. '''Sir Samuel Morland''' also developed ideas for a steam engine…
   …ngine pumps for King Louis XIV of France in the 1680s. ::c:: == Back in Britain == Early industrial steam engines were designed by '''Thomas Savery''' (the "fire-engine", 1698) but it was '''Thomas Newcomen''' and his "atmospheric-engine" of 171…

7. Pedestrian Crossing — 2023-10-07 11:08:59

   …t forward by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory and eventually approved. MP James Callaghan commented that the design resembled zebra markings and the terminology stuck. === George Charlesworth 1951 === Traffic engineer George Charleswo…
   …rth had worked on the Barnes Wallis-designed [[Bouncing_bomb]] was dubbed ‘Dr Zebra’. Charlesworth headed the team who pioneered the black-and-white markings…

8. Electronic Computer — 2023-10-07 10:38:05

   …gorithm he had devised meant manual decoding would take months, they had to find a way to speed up the process. Flowers designed **Colossus**, the first true functioning **electronic** computer. {{Image url="Lorenz-sz40.jpg" class="left" title="…

9. Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35

   …gly agitated. Eventually, in 1958, after declassification, the National Research Development Council (NRDC) funded the design and construction of SRN1 - the world's first man-carrying amphibious hovercraft. Saunders Roe, the flying boat firm at …

10. WorldWideWeb — 2023-09-23 15:57:32

    …Transfer Protocol''' (HTTP)—the language computers would use to communicate hypertext documents over the Internet and designed a scheme to give documents addresses on the Internet. Berners-Lee called this address a '''Universal Resource Identif…

11. PIN — 2023-09-23 15:56:10

    …get cash when it was shut. The 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…
    …he first cash dispenser to use a plastic card in conjunction with a PIN. The competitor, the BARCLAYCASH machine, was designed by De La Rue.…

12. LCD — 2023-09-23 15:53:09

    …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. /* RCA pioneered LCD but the displays were not usable. cyanobiphenyl…

13. Toilet — 2023-09-08 09:57:11

    …== Josiah George Jennings 1852 === Born on 10 November 1810 in Eling, England. In 1852, Jennings invented the wash-out design with a shallow pan emptying into an S-trap. He popularised public lavatories or 'Retiring Rooms' by installing the firs…

14. Electric Car — 2023-08-27 16:16:21

    …ving a red flag as a warning to other road users. This draconian measure was introduced as a //safety measure// but was designed to protect horse carriage operators afraid of losing their business. {{Image url="HummingbirdTaxi.jpg" class="right" …

15. Hose clamp — 2023-04-06 17:55:49

    …900s]] [[CategoryIndustry]] The Jubilee Clip was invented by Commander Lumley Robinson in 1921. It is a hose band clamp designed to make a watertight connection of a soft hose to a metal pipe.…

16. Rotating Boat Lift — 2022-05-03 17:19:08

    … difference in height, it required 3,500 tonnes of water per run and took most of a day to pass through the flight. == Design == {{Image url="FalkirkWheelAnim.gif" class="right" title="Falkirk Wheel Animation" width="" }} The wheel, designed by …

17. Cheddar cheese — 2022-05-03 17:03:04

    …0 === Cheddar Cheese has been produced in the gorge since at least the **12th century**. It does not have //Protected Designation of Origin// but only Cheddar produced from local milk within four counties of south west England may use the name*…

18. Loudspeaker — 2021-11-07 21:26:37

    …ritish physicist Oliver Lodge in 1898. {{Image url="Speaker.jpg" class="left" title="Speaker" width="300" }} ::c:: == Design == His patent 9712 on Apr 27, 1898 described an improved loudspeaker using a coil connected to a diaphragm, suspended …

19. Workmate — 2021-08-20 11:10:56

    …d to style the **105E Ford Anglia**. Ron was not your average amateur inventor: he was already an accomplished product designer, and went on to design the famous **Lotus Elan**, as chief engineer for the car company. But this still did not impr…
    …ently rejected his DIY help mate idea. {{Image url="Lotus-elan.jpg" width="400" class="right" title="Classic Lotus Elan designed by Ron Hickman" }} But after he began manufacturing the Workmate® workbench. It was an instant hit. Black & Decker…

20. Roundabout — 2021-08-16 09:58:53

    …lision on a roundabout they tend to be sideswipes as opposed to a head on crash. You can always shoot a red light, well designed roundabouts slow the traffic reducing impact. == They're Green == {{Image url="RabbitRoundabout.jpg" class="right" t…

21. CT Scan — 2021-08-14 20:48:42

    …**omography scanner, CAT scan for short. He worked for **EMI** and became interested in computers. In 1958, he helped design the first commercially available all-transistor computer made in Great Britain, the **EMIDEC 1100.** With the success …

22. Automatic Kettle — 2021-08-14 20:44:42

    …g" class="left" title="Bill Russell and Peter Hobbs" width="300" }} Hobbs had gone into business with Russell in 1952, designing and manufacturing a coffee percolator that - for the first time - kept coffee hot, and also producing an automatic t…
    …ric kettle, the vapour-controlled K1, appeared in 1955 and was superseded by the more elegant K2, a modestly curvaceous design originally produced in spun copper and polished chrome. ==1955== Before this kettle was introduced in 1955, boiling …
    …. Even today examples of the K1 and K2 can be found in regular domestic use, proving it not only to be a highly popular design, but a most durable one as well. == Working combination == {{Databox caption="Inventor" Image="Peter_Hobbs.jpg" Who="…

23. Public Park — 2021-08-14 20:30:20

    … Swiss Bridge. {{Image url="BirkenheadPark.jpg" class="right" }} ::c:: == A man with Big Ideas == In **1851** Paxton designed the **Crystal Palace** for the '''Great Exhibition'''. All of the 245 plans for the main Exhibition Hall in Hyde Park…
    …and rejected. Paxton was visiting London at the time and heard about the difficulties. Within a few days he delivered a design - a vastly magnified version of his lily house at Chatsworth. It was cheap, simple to erect and remove and could be rea…
    …dy quickly. Its novelty was its revolutionary modular, prefabricated design and use of glass. It took 2,000 men eight months to build the 'Crystal Palace', which was more than **1848 feet long an…
    …" class="right" title="The Great Exhibition 1851 " width="300" }} {{Image url="Crystal_Palace.jpg" alt="Crystal Palace designed by Paxton" width="320" }} …

24. Rubber — 2021-08-12 20:24:10

    …rubber springs. == Mastication == In 1820 Hancock invented his most important device: the '''rubber masticator'''. He designed a machine with revolving teeth that tore up rubber scraps. To Hancock's surprise, the shredded bits adhered into a so…

25. Adjustable Spanner — 2021-08-10 08:22:45

    …n Spanner 1843 10½ʺ" width="500" }}{{TOC}} Richard Clyburn invented the adjustable spanner in 1842. He registered the design in September 1843. This versatile tool can be adjusted to fit a variety of nuts and bolts and allows a single adjustabl…
    …r and partner in the Uley in [[Gloucestershire]] Iron Works with George Lister, also from Yorkshire. Clyburn's spanner design with open end jaws was pioneering.{{Image url="ClyburnSpannerNo3.jpg" class="right" title="Clyburn Spanner head" width=…
    …gevity == {{Image url="BahcoClyburn.jpg" class="right" title="Bahco Clyburn" width="450" }} Clyburns adjustable spanner design remained in production in Birmingham factories and worldwide, and appeared in tool catalogues up until about **1964**. …

26. Lawn Mower — 2021-08-10 08:19:36

    …ower is patented */ {{image url="Buddingmower.jpg" title="Budding Mower" width="300" class="left" }}Budding's mower was designed primarily to cut the lawn on sports grounds and expansive gardens as a superior alternative to the scythe. His patent…

27. Fire Extinguisher — 2021-08-09 21:05:28

    …]]. In **1813** Manby invented and patented the "**Extincteur**", the first portable pressurised fire extinguisher. == Design == {{Image url="AntiqueFireExtinguisher.jpg" class="left" title="Antique Fire Extinguisher" width="100" }} Manby witne…

28. Powered Flight — 2021-04-05 22:36:49

    …ince of Wales and the Duke of Sunderland. The exhibition gave world-wide exposure to gains in flight and the Tri-wing design influenced by Chanute. {{Image url="Strngflw2.jpg" class="right" width="300" title="Rear view of his plane" }} ::cl::…

29. Jet airliner — 2020-11-30 22:29:36

    … its Hatfield Aerodrome, [[Hertfordshire]], [[England]]. The plane was beautifully shaped with an aerodynamically clean design. Four de Havilland Ghost [[Jet_Engine| turbojet]] engines were sleekly contained in the wings. It had a pressurised fus…

30. Underwater Tunnel — 2020-10-11 23:44:16

    …unnel was the first subaqueous tunnel constructed underneath a navigable river. It was built between 1825 and 1843 and designed by **Marc Isambard Brunel**. {{Image url="ThamesTunnelPlaque" class="left" title="Thames Tunnel Plaque" width="400"…

31. Life Boat — 2020-08-17 09:00:19

    …4" death_place="Hythe, Kent" }} === Lionel Lukin 1785 === ~-[[CategoryTransport]]::[[Society]]::[[1700s]] Lionel Lukin designed the world’s first unsinkable boat and patented it on 2 November 1785. {{TOC}} Lukin was a coach-builder in Long Ac…

32. Bicycle — 2020-08-15 09:22:15

    …orms of [[CategoryTransport ]], like the 'Penny Farthing', were fairly dangerous way to travel. So the need for a safer design was being sought. Starley was born 24th of December 1855 Walthamstow, [[London]], [[England]]. In 1877 he started a …

33. Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25

    …st in the design. {{Image url="Whittle_monument_wm.jpg" class="right" width="120" title="Sir Frank Whittle monument in Gloucester" }} W…
    …r of possible bombing. {{Image url="Gloster_E28-39.jpg" class="left" title="Gloster Meteor E.28/39" }} Gloster's chief designer, George Carter, worked closely with Whittle to design a plane. The engine was built from various test parts and they…

34. Paternoster — 2018-09-18 13:06:34

    …Europe where many still operate. Britain has a remaining paternoster in Sheffield University. Oriel Chambers building, designed by Peter Ellis, remains one of finest and most influential architectural design of its age. One of the first office b…
    …uildings to use an iron framework structure, its innovative design had a considerable influence on office buildings across the world, inspiring John Root's early Chicago skyscrapers and …

35. Stonehenge — 2018-01-26 21:52:34

    …in the world on account of the sheer size of its megaliths, the sophistication of its concentric plan and architectural design, the shaping of the stones - uniquely using both Wiltshire Sarsen sandstone and Pembroke Bluestone - and the precision …

36. Harrier Jump Jet — 2017-01-18 16:14:57

    …. Many other aircraft manufacturers of the time tried in vain to make a similar vehicle. The US invested millions into designing their own VTOL aircraft but eventually bought Harriers and they are still in service. == Over 50 years Service ==…
    …m improvised bases, such as car parks or forest clearings, without requiring large and vulnerable air bases. Later, the design was adapted for use from aircraft carriers. The RAF retired the Harrier in 2011 and sold the fleet to the US for £180…

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