1. FAX — 2023-10-09 23:52:19

   …fice equipment by the 1980s. It is still widely used but it's future looks a short one with computers now the favoured device for sending images. {{tag ids="FAX image facsimile transmission "}}…

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

   …701 == {{Image url="Tullseed.gif" class="right" title="Tull's improved seed drill" }} Early seed drills were very crude devices and not much more effective than sewing seeds by simply throwing them about. Some would germinate and some would fail.…

3. Computer — 2023-10-09 23:40:16

   …ine - Difference Engine 2. He also worked on another invention, the more complex **Analytical Engine**, a revolutionary device on which made him the first **computer pioneer**. {{Image url="Babbage_Difference_Engine.jpg" class="left" title="Babb…

4. Cat Eyes — 2023-10-09 23:39:36

   …'d been using the polished strips of steel to navigate. The name '''cat's eye''' comes from Shaw's inspiration for the device: the light reflecting from the eyes of a cat. In 1934, he patented his invention (patent No. 436,290 and 457,536), and …
   … opposite directions, embedded within a flexible '''rubber moulding''' which was mounted on a '''cast iron base'''. The device was buried in the road and fixed in position with asphalt. When vehicles drove over the dome the rubber contracted and …

5. Steam Engine — 2023-10-08 00:19:36

   …Early Beginnings == {{Image url="Aeolipile.jpg" width="150" class="left" title="Aeolipile" }} The first recorded steam device, the aeolipile, was invented by Hero of Alexandria in the 1st century AD, but used only as a toy. ::c:: == Back in Brit…
   …s, i.e. he invented the world's first-ever pressure cooker. Later designs implemented a steam-release valve to keep the device from exploding. By watching the valve rhythmically move up and down Papin conceived of the idea of a piston and cylinde…
   …r engine. Papin wrote up the designs for such a device , however he never built an actual steam engine. The English engineer '''Thomas Savery''' later used Papin's designs to…

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

   …eat minds at **Bletchley Park** codebreaking establishment, were already busy decoding messages produced the **Enigma** device. Help was needed 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 complex cod…

7. Vacuum Tube — 2023-09-23 15:57:19

   … and Digital computers == War Needs == The outbreak of World War 2 was a key point in thermionic valve history. These devices came into their own as they were needed for electronic equipment of all sorts from radio receivers to transmitters, ra…

8. Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52

   … moving index or hand, with the alphabet engraved around the dial. >>{{amazon type="book" items="1145411770" }}>> The device was a modern wonder at the time. He attempted to interest the Admiralty in this device but after the Napoleonic wars t…

9. iPod — 2023-09-23 15:52:55

   …irth_place="" death_date="now" death_place="" }} Mr Kramer b.1956 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 chi…
   …ts and drawings to defend itself in the legal wrangle in 2007. A staggering 163 million iPods have been sold since the device was launched by Apple in 2001. At the height of popularity, 100 was snapped up worldwide every minute.…

10. Electric Motor — 2023-09-23 15:52:02

    …y]] had demonstrated his homopolar motor in 1821, physicists were excited to make the electric motor a useful, stronger device. Over the next few years several inventors made magnetic rotating devices including Rev. William Ritchie. In 1830, Stu…
    …ric acid was used to charge the battery. == Galvanometer == He also invented the first suspended coil galvanometer, a device for measuring current. Sturgeon died in poverty and is buried in an overlooked Prestwich grave, whose stone simply re…

11. Electric Generator — 2023-09-23 12:04:37

    …bserved the phenomenon of electromagnetism 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 fo…
    …a horseshoe magnet he obtained a continuous direct current. This was the **first generator**. From his experiments came devices that led to the modern electric motor, generator and transformer. */ ::c:: == First Generator == {{Image url="Faraday…

12. Digital Photography — 2023-09-23 12:04:21

    …develop solid-state cameras. Shortly after joining, Boyle and Smith, also at Bell Labs, came up with the Charge-Coupled Device, CCD, concept to digitally store serial memory. This concept was not pursued by Bell but Tompsett saw the potential of …
    …TompsettColourPicture.jpg" class="left" title="Dr. Margaret Tompsett first Colour Picture" width="" }} He exploited the device’s potential for digital imaging and, together with his team, developed a series of CCD cameras and produced the first…

13. ATM — 2023-09-23 12:02:41

    … suburb of Enfield on June 27 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…

14. Atomic Clock — 2021-08-20 10:45:05

    …t the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, [[Middlesex]]. == From Quartz == An Atomic clock, is a timekeeping device that is controlled by atomic or molecular oscillations. Essen joined NPL in 1929 to further his ambition to build highl…

15. Vibrator — 2021-08-14 19:48:28

    …ame increasingly popular as a way for doctors to provide "pelvic massage" Joseph tried to disassociate himself from the device's "mis-use". {{Image url="Vintage_vibrator.jpg" class="left" title="Vintage vibrator" width="200" }} == Media Links =…

16. Rubber — 2021-08-12 20:24:10

    …c works" to manufacture items using the 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 surpr…

17. Sewing Machine — 2021-08-11 11:41:32

    …{Image url="ThomasSaintSewingMachine.jpg" class="left" title="Thomas Saint Sewing Machine" width="450" }} **Saint’s** device had many features of today's sewing machines. It had an overhead arm to take the stitching awl and a tensioning system.…

18. Guillotine — 2021-08-09 22:22:29

    …etween that year and 1650 there were //only// 54 people sentenced to death, perhaps indicating the effectiveness of the device as a deterrent. == Civil War == The machine remained in use until **Oliver Cromwell** forbade capital punishment fo…

19. Light Bulb — 2021-08-09 21:56:27

    …ight bulb using carbonised paper filaments in an evacuated glass bulb. By **1860 **he was able to demonstrate a working device, and obtained a **UK patent** covering a partial vacuum, carbon filament incandescent lamp. However, the lack of a good…

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

    …nnected with a system of fuses which were ignited, exploding the gunpowder and scattering the solution. The idea of the device was to a limit the extent of the fire.…

21. Bearings — 2021-08-08 20:30:19

    …multitude of rotating machinery. Bearings improved and miniaturised in the coming years and now just about every moving device has bearings to reduce friction. == Bearing == - Transport - every car lorry bicycle - Home - Washing machine, food…

22. Refrigeration — 2021-08-08 18:50:45

    …land in 1818 and was granted the first patent for a '//vapor-compression refrigeration cycle//', on August 14, 1835 his device was the first that resembled a //fridge// and was titled: "Apparatus and means for producing ice, and in cooling fluids…

23. Electric Toaster — 2020-12-01 01:05:39

    …. went on to develop the first electric toaster 1893 in Leeds England. This was the forerunner of today's toasters. The device was quite simple and a person had to turn the bread over to toast both sides and turn the machine off by hand. ::c:: ==…

24. Meccano — 2017-05-14 01:23:25

    …ting. == Patent 1901 == On advice, he patented his invention in January 1901 as "**Improvements in Toy or Educational Devices for Children and Young People**", but not without first having to borrow five pounds from his employer, David Elliot, …

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