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  1. Cat Eyes — 2023-10-09 23:39:36
    …eclean.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 moulding''' which w…
  2. Telephone — 2023-09-23 15:57:07
    …me that he met Mabel Hubbard, one of his students who was 10 years younger than he. Mabel had become deaf at the age of four due to scarlet fever. Five years later they were married. At the wedding ceremony he gave her a gift of all but 10 shar…
  3. Digital Photography — 2023-09-23 12:04:21
    …:cl:: == Recognition == {{Image url="TompsettSelfie.jpg" class="right" title="Tompsett Selfie" width="" }} In 2017 the four pioneers of digital photography were recognised with the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. Michael Tom…
  4. Worcestershire Sauce — 2023-09-18 19:06:46
    …rrins as his apprentice. They decided to go into partnership in 1823. By the mid-1800s, with other partners, they owned four pharmacies including one at Kidderminster and another at Cheltenham. == Spin Offs == The **Bloody Mary**, one of the…
  5. Electric Car — 2023-08-27 16:16:21
    …l-Parker **car was fitted with Parkers high-capacity rechargeable batteries, later vehicles had hydraulic brakes on all four wheels, as well as four-wheel steering. These features are even now being described as revolutionary. In 1888 Elwell-P…
  6. Rotating Boat Lift — 2022-05-03 17:19:08
    …g arms taking the shape of a Celtic-inspired, double-headed axe. The two gondolas are 21 feet wide, and can hold up to four 66 feet long canal boats. The boatlift is so finely balanced it takes just 22.5 kilowatts (30.2 hp) to power ten hydr…
  7. Cheddar cheese — 2022-05-03 17:03:04
    …*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** "West Country Farmhouse Cheddar".** {{Image url="CheddarCaveCheese.jp…
  8. KitKat — 2022-05-03 17:00:51
    …Kat#% in 1937. The best selling chocolate bar in the world began life in [[Yorkshire]]. This product was developed as a four-finger wafer crisp, launched in London in September 1935 as **'Rowntree’s Chocolate Crisp**'. It was re-named two y…
  9. Four-minute Mile — 2021-08-20 10:55:12
    Four-minute Mile :: {{Databox width="" Image="Bannister-Sir-Roger.jpg" Who="Sir Roger Bannister " birth_date="March 23, 192…
    …9" birth_place="Harrow" death_date="3 March 2018" death_place="" }} == Four-minute Mile == ~-[[CategorySport]]:[[1900s]] The first person to run the mile in under four minutes was first achieved…
    …" Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute mile. */ For many years, athletes had tried and failed to run a mile in less than four minutes that people thought it to be a //physical impossibility//. It became known as the the "four-minute barrier". T…
  10. Guinness Book of World Records — 2021-08-20 10:45:53
    … McWhirter, who had been running a fact-finding agency in London. Norris was the timekeeper for Roger Bannister's sub [[four-minute_mile]] in 1954, while Ross helped locate the lost grave of rugby pioneer William Webb Ellis on the French Rivier…
  11. DNA — 2021-08-14 21:04:12
    …she had achieved so far. In it she presented the A and B form data. In the audience was James Watson. {{image url="Dnafour.jpg" }} After the seminar Watson caught the train back to '''Cambridge University''' and, based on what he had heard a…
  12. Scouts — 2021-08-14 20:35:19
    …r a trial camp 1 to 8 August 1907 on **Brownsea Island**, Poole Harbour, [[Dorset]], where B-P. tried out his ideas on four patrols of boys from London and Bournemouth. Scouting for Boys was initially printed in six fortnightly parts, and sold…
    …with over 5 million in the **USA** alone, truly amazing. == Top Seller == The book '''Scouting for Boys''' is now in fourth place in the all time best sellers list, behind the Bible, the Koran and Mao-Tse-Tung's Little Red Book selling aroun…
  13. Blood transfusion — 2021-08-10 08:28:02
    …ful transfusion of human blood to treat postpartum haemorrhage. The donor was the patient's husband, Blundell extracted four ounces of blood from his arm to transfuse into his wife. Between 1825 and 1830, Blundell performed 10 transfusions, fi…
  14. Pub — 2021-08-09 21:19:14
    …ulation of just **five million**. As the number grew so did the number of breweries and by **1800** there were **twenty four thousand**. == Pub names == {{Image url="Pubsign1.jpg" title="Typical Pub sign" class="left" width="280" }} The nami…
  15. Sandwich — 2021-08-08 20:40:14
    … [[England]] during the very late hours one night in **1762** when an English nobleman, John Montagu (1718-1792), the **Fourth Earl of Sandwich**, was too busy gambling to stop for a meal even though he was hungry. <<{{amazon type="book" items…
  16. Powered Flight — 2021-04-05 22:36:49
    …oil" width="200" }}He experiments led him to develop an efficient cambered airfoil and the first person to identify the four vector forces that influence an aircraft: thrust, lift, drag, and gravity. He successfully flew a gliding aircraft in…
    …== {{Databox Image="PercyPilcher.jpg" title="Percy Pilcher" birth_date="16 January 1866" death_date="2 October 1899" }} Four years before the Wright brothers, Pilcher, born in Bath [[Somerset]] in 1866, had constructed his own tri-wing aeroplan…
  17. Jet airliner — 2020-11-30 22:29:36
    …field 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 fuselage,…
  18. Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
    …n bungee jump was made on '''1 April 1979''' from the 250ft Clifton Suspension Bridge in '''Bristol''', and was made by four members of the Dangerous Sports Club. The jumpers, led by David Kirke, were arrested shortly after, but continued with…
    …the rich young daredevils of Europe who gathered for fun on the alpine slopes. It was added to the Winter Olympics as a four-man event at the Winter Olympics in Chamonix 1924 and two-man later at Lake Placid in 1932. == Curling 1541 == {{Imag…
  19. Harry Potter — 2018-10-10 17:06:49
    …t the best-selling book series of all time. Harry Potter is a global brand worth around** £10 billion**, and the last four Harry Potter books have consecutively set records as the fastest-selling books in history. == Family Home == {{Image…
  20. Motor Racing Circuit — 2018-05-20 20:38:53
    …ty-Chitty-Bang-Bang**. {{Image url="Chitty1.jpg" class="left" title="Chitty 1 at Brooklands" width="500" }} There were four Chitty's in all and Louis Zborowski died aged just 29 on the 19th October 1924 when his vehicle hit a tree.…

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