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  1. Cat Eyes — 2023-10-09 23:39:36
    …n.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 was mou…
    … buried in the road and fixed in position with asphalt. When vehicles drove over the dome the rubber contracted and the glass beads dropped safely beneath the road surface. {{image url="cats-eyes-night.jpg" class="right" title="night road" widt…
    …on base collected rain water and whenever the top of the dome was depressed, the rubber would wash rainwater across the glass beads to clear away any dust or grime that had gathered there, just as the human eye can be cleansed by tears, simple a…
  2. Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52
    …ntor Francis Ronalds in **1816** at 26 Upper Mall in Hammersmith, [[London]] . He laid eight miles of wire insulated in glass tubing in his garden and connected both ends to two clocks marked with the letters of the alphabet. {{Image url="Ronald…
  3. Plastic — 2022-09-01 08:57:23
    …s Chairs Electric plugs sockets Footballs Artificial Grass Flowers Car parts Tools Conservatories Windows Doors Acrylic glass Perspex Knives Forks Plates Spoons Ornaments Lights Toilet seats Pipes </marquee>"" …
  4. YMCA — 2022-05-17 05:19:39
    …was buried in 1905 under the floor of St. Paul's Cathedral among other national heroes and statesmen. A large stained glass window in Westminster Abbey, complete with a red triangle, is dedicated to Sir George and the YMCA work during the firs…
  5. Intraocular Lens — 2021-08-20 10:40:24
    …ing the lens and wearing heavy spectacles. Attempts made in the 19th century to replace the lens within the eye with a glass lens failed disastrously. As glass, which is very inert, caused reactions it was decided that such an operation was imp…
  6. Reflecting Telescope — 2021-08-14 20:51:21
    …ng James Gregory but had not manufactured a working version. Early telescopes, like those used by Galileo, consisted of glass lenses mounted in a tube. When the light from a star passed through a lens, the different colours were refracted. This…
  7. Public Park — 2021-08-14 20:30:20
    …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 eight months to build the 'Crystal Palace', which was more than **1848 feet long and 456 feet wide a…
  8. Ice Cream Cone — 2021-08-14 20:22:38
    …Time == Agnes began to selling her hand-held, edible ice cream cone and they would soon go on to replace the unhygienic glass 'licks' that ice cream street vendors used at the time. She also gave public lectures on cooking, ran an agency for do…
  9. Light Bulb — 2021-08-09 21:56:27
    …English physicist Sir Joseph Wilson Swan began working on a light 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, …
    …ed showed that they were simply extending Sawyer’s (or Swan’s) work with carbon "burners" or "rods" in an evacuated glass bulb. (...) In fact, Edison and his team did not find a commercially workable filament (bamboo) until more than 6 mont…
  10. Can — 2021-08-09 21:53:19
    …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 would be more robust. Very soon he was supplying canne…
  11. Chicken Tikka Masala — 2021-08-09 21:27:48
    …with their meal. The first documented recipe for Currey (Curry) was published in ‘//Art of Cookery//’ by **Hannah Glasse**, 1747 in England.…
  12. Sparkling Wine — 2021-08-08 20:32:53
    …ted a manufacturing process incorporating the use of iron and manganese this also resulted in much stronger glass bottles. These bottles proved so successful that by the end of the 17th century Britain was producing over 3 million b…
    …nto wine}} == Natural Sparkle == Spontaneous secondary fermentation had occurred in still wines since antiquity; most glass bottles of the time were not strong enough to contain the high pressures generated, and so exploding bottles were an oc…
    …cupational hazard of winemaking. Sir Robert Mansell obtained a monopoly on glass production in England in the early 17th century and industrialised the process; his coal-powered factories in Newcastle…
  13. Float Glass — 2020-12-08 00:24:27
    …e was glass-to-roller contact, surfaces were marked. The glass then had to be ground and polished to produce the parallel surfaces of optical perfection to the finished product. == …
    …Pilkingtons process == Pilkingtons new process works by floating a piece of glass that has been rolled flat onto a bath of molten tin. The molten glass then flows unhindered under the influence of grav…
    …ity maintained at a high temperature so the glass is flexible and settles into perfect flat glass. == Old glass == Ribbon glass from a furnace - was cheaper than polished plate glass because it was not ground or polished, but it wa…
    …s unacceptable for high-quality applications. It was known as horticultural glass. == Foreign Licence == The first foreign licence went to the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in 1962, then the the rest…
  14. Silicone — 2020-09-22 23:25:26
    …his ideas on hold and he did not foresee the full potential commercial value of his work. This was taken up by Corning Glass who, with Dow Chemicals set up Dow-Corning Corporation to manufacture silicone polymers in 1943. == Many uses == Sili…
  15. Whisky — 2016-05-26 10:22:03
    …r uicge,// meaning "water". Then distilled alcohol was known in as //aqua vitae// ("water of life"). {{Image url="WhiskyGlass.jpg" class="left" type="icon" title="Whisky Glass" width="" }} === Celts 900 === Distillation in Ireland and Scotland…

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