1. Phototherapy — 2023-10-09 23:41:51

   …== Richard Cremer 1956 === ~-[[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 w…

2. Anaesthetic — 2023-10-04 16:27:18

   …date="6/5/1870" death_place="Edinburgh" }} Chloroform was first synthesized around 1830. In 1842 Robert Mortimer Glover discovered its anaesthetic properties on animals. Simpson was the first to demonstrate the safe anaesthetic effect of chloroform a…

3. Aluminium — 2023-10-04 16:04:17

   …808 === ~-[[CategoryIndustry]] :[[1800s]] {{{toc}}} Aluminium does not occur naturally in its purest form so it was not discovered until the 19th century with developments in chemistry and the advent of electricity. Aluminium was one of the newest m…
   …etals to be discovered by humans. == Extracting from the Ore == Alum salts have been used for centuries. In 1808 Humphry Davy, an English che…
   …mist born in Penzance, [[Cornwall]] [[England]], discovered that aluminium could be isolated by electrolytic reduction from alumina (aluminium oxide). The name **Aluminium** was e…

4. English Bible — 2023-09-25 23:57:13

   …h_date="6/10/1536" death_place="Netherlands" }} Tyndale’s New Testament was the first to be printed in English. Those discovered owning them were punished. At first only the books were destroyed, but soon heretics would be burned. Although the Old…

5. Lithium-ion Battery — 2023-09-23 15:53:22

   …echnology]]:[[1900s]] British chemist M. Stanley Whittingham started researching lithium battery in the early 1970s. He discovered how to store lithium ions using titanium(IV) sulphide and lithium metal as the electrodes. He discovered the intercal…

6. LCD — 2023-09-23 15:53:09

   …plays were not usable. cyanobiphenyl is the key in modern LCD */ Concurrently, in 1971, researchers in Switzerland had discovered a new display mechanism, the Twisted Nematic effect. This was a pure field-effect and did not require the presence of i…

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

   …e circular magnetic force around a wire. Ten years later, in 1831, he began his great series of experiments in which he discovered electromagnetic induction. These experiments form the basis of modern electromagnetic technology. == Induction == {{i…
   … wire. The induction ring was the **first electric transformer**. /* In a second series of experiments in September he discovered magneto-electric induction: the production of a steady electric current. To do this, Faraday attached two wires through…
   …{{Image url="FaradayDiskGenerator.jpg" class="left" title="Faraday Disk Generator" width="" }} In 1831 Michael Faraday discovered the operating principle of electromagnetic generators. The horseshoe-shaped magnet (A) created a magnetic field throug…

8. Lava Lamp — 2022-08-29 08:39:00

   …ting up a laboratory in a small shed he mixed together various ingredients in bottles of different shapes and sizes. He discovered the best container for the job was a Lucozade bottle and it is that shape that has defined the shape of Astro Lamps up …

9. Heroin — 2021-08-20 11:14:28

   … hospital in [[London]]. {{TOC}} Wright was searching for a nonaddictive alternative to the medicine morphine and soon discovered a more potent version of morphine by boiling anhydrous morphine alkaloid with acetic anhydride. == Effective == Charl…

10. Antibiotics — 2021-08-20 10:41:08

    …e="" }} === Alexander Fleming 1928 === ~-[[CategoryScience]]:[[Medical]]:[[1900s]] On the 3 September **1928** Fleming discovered an antibiotic substance and named it Penicillin, from the mould **Penicillium notatum**. /* event_date="3 September 192…
    …tist Alexander Fleming was working in his laboratory 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** Staphylococ…

11. Vitamins — 2021-08-16 09:52:16

    …= ~-[[CategoryScience]]::[[Medical]]:[[1900s]] {{Databox width="260" Image="WilliamFletcher.jpg" Who="William Fletcher" Discovered="Vitamins" birth_date=" 11 October 1872" death_date="18 September 1938" class="right" }} **William Fletcher** was born …
    …="1907 report on Berberi" width="400" }} Doctor Fletcher was researching the causes of the disease **Beriberi** when he discovered that eating unpolished rice prevented Beriberi and eating polished rice did not. William Fletcher believed that there w…

12. DNA — 2021-08-14 21:04:12

    …ub]] in Cambridge, **Francis Crick** interrupted the patrons' lunchtime to announce that he and **James Watson** had **"discovered the secret of life"**. /* event_date="28 February 1953" The discovery of DNA */ {{{toc}}} === Crick Watson Franklin W…

13. Scouts — 2021-08-14 20:35:19

    …hs from the besieging Boer troops, the first real British triumph in the **Boer War**. When he returned to England, he discovered that many boys and young men were avidly reading his book '**Aids to Scouting**'. This book was intended as a military …

14. Photography — 2021-08-14 19:57:18

    … method to achieve this. Using various chemicals he was able to capture images 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…

15. Dinosaur — 2021-08-12 20:42:55

    …n**. {{Image url="Megalosaurus.jpg" class="left" title="Megalosaurus" width="" }} Although dinosaur fossils were being discovered in Britain, and around the world, these prehistoric reptiles did not receive their famous name until 1842. == Dinosau…
    …ifically named dinosaur is **Megalosaurus** it was a large Theropod dinosaur and was the** first dinosaur skeleton ever discovered**. It was discovered by William Buckland in the 1824. However, **Richard Plot** had discovered this dinosaur's femur, w…

16. Christmas Cracker — 2021-08-12 20:39:19

    …Smith was a hard working confectioner always looking for ideas to further his business. On a trip to Paris in 1846 Tom discovered the “bon-bon” sugared almond, wrapped in a twist of tissue paper. He added a motto inside the sweet and had modera…

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

    …the time of this discovery others, like Singer, had become millionaires from patents which, if Saint's machine had been discovered earlier, would never have been approved. Newton Wilson was one who had suffered at the hands of Singer's lawyers years…

18. Match — 2021-08-09 22:35:30

    …ure of sulphide of antimony, chlorate of 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…

19. Can — 2021-08-09 21:53:19

    …x]], changed food 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 cont…

20. Australia — 2021-08-08 18:36:08

    …Yorkshire]]" death_date="14 February 1779" }} Captain James Cook was a remarkable navigator born in [[Yorkshire]]. He discovered the East coast of Australia in **1770**. == HMS Endeavour == On 26th August 1768, the Endeavour set sail from Plymout…

21. Salicylic acid — 2021-08-08 18:32:13

    … found to be a //‘powerful astringent and very efficacious in curing agues and intermitting disorders’.// Stone had discovered salicylic acid, the active ingredient in aspirin. In 1853 a compound of acetyl chloride and sodium salicylate was deve…
    … pain reliever because it blocks an enzyme that's required for the process of inflammatory response. Salicylic acid was discovered by the Greek physician Hippocrates in the 5th century BC. Although this was known as a folk remedy Stone had wakened th…

22. Marmite — 2021-04-03 10:38:16

    …rn the process into a business. == Feeding the Troops == The popularity of Marmite was boosted when [[Vitamins]] were discovered by [[Vitamins|William Fletcher]]. Yeast was discovered to be a great source of five important 'B' vitamins. As a result…

23. Patent Leather — 2021-01-31 22:10:03

    … Hand in Birmingham, as I am informed, has of late obtained a patent for preparing leather in a certain way that he has discovered, by means of which, leather is said to be rendered perfectly impervious to water, and when soiled, requires only to be …

24. DNA Forensics — 2021-01-22 08:47:52

    …rdshire]], [[England]] is a geneticist at the University of Leicester. In **1984** through his investigations Jeffreys discovered a method of showing variations between individuals' **DNA** (deoxyribonucleic acid), inventing and developing genetic f…

25. Pencil — 2020-11-30 16:27:31

    … graphite pencil was first produced in Cumberland now [[Cumbria]], [[England]]. == Discovery == The pure graphite was discovered in the 1500s near Keswick after a violent storm that had up rooted several trees. Shepherds checking their livestock fo…
    …r hands and so they used it for marking their sheep. They called it //plaumbago// (lead ore). == Eureka == Soon it was discovered this graphite made an excellent replacement for lead that was used for writing. A cottage industry grew up sawing and s…

26. Sinoatrial Node — 2020-08-15 18:08:00

    …6/8/1931" }} ===Arthur Keith & Martin Flack 1907 === ~- [[Medical]]:[[1900s]] **Martin Flack**, British physiologist, discovered the bodys' natural pacemaker that is responsible for the initiation of the heartbeat in **1907** with his mentor, Scott…
    …y orchards near their cottage in [[Kent]]. Upon their return, Flack excitedly showed Keith a wonderful structure he had discovered in the right auricle of the mole, just where the superior vena cava enters that chamber. == The Answer == {{Image url…

27. Viagra — 2017-06-01 14:56:53

    …ventors **Andrew Bell**, **Dr David Brown** and **Dr Nicholas Terrett** (also Pfizer employees at [[Kent]] [[England]]) discovered that chemical compounds belonging to the pyrazolopyrimidinone class were useful in treating heart problems such as angi…
    …Viagra pills" class="left" width="200" }} Terrett was conducting a study on Sildenafil as a heart medicine when it was discovered that it caused increased blood to flow to the penis as a side effect. Actually, the pill didn't pan out as an effective…

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