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Elevator — 2023-12-30 12:44:08
… a steam driven lift, which was built by two architects in 1835. English architects Stutt and Frost built the Teagle to have a belt and a counterweight for safety. A control cable in the car operated a belt-shifter to change travel direction. …
Modern Farming — 2023-10-09 23:44:30
…arch. At the age of seventeen, Tull matriculated at **Oxford**, to St. John's College, on 7th July 1691, but appears to have taken no degree. {{{TOC}}} Jethro Tull is one of the first to propose a scientific approach to agriculture. His scien…
Lever Brothers — 2023-10-09 23:43:45
…Lever wanted to expand and in 1930 merged with the Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie and under the Unilever badge have further expanded to include: ~Lipton (1971) ~Brooke Bond (1984) ~Ben & Jerry's (2000) And many more [[https://en.wikip…
Steam Engine — 2023-10-08 00:19:36
…50" title="Edward Somerset" }} In 1663, '''Edward Somerset''', 2nd Marquess of Worcester published designs for, and may have installed, a steam-powered engine for pumping water at Vauxhall House. ::c:: == Over to France == {{Image url="Morland…
Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35
…aid it was a boat not a plane; and the Army were "plain not interested". The irony is that it has been the Marines who have taken the hovercraft most seriously, with over 100 giant craft now in use in America and 250 in the Soviet Union, many …
Aluminium — 2023-10-04 16:04:17
…ctricity. Aluminium was one of the newest metals to be discovered by humans. == Extracting from the Ore == Alum salts have been used for centuries. In 1808 Humphry Davy, an English chemist born in Penzance, [[Cornwall]] [[England]], discovere…
Telephone — 2023-09-23 15:57:07
…atent on his telephone. ---- == Patent race == >>{{image url="Agbell.jpg" title="Bell" width="200"}}>> He knew he would have to work quickly to get the patent * because other people were also trying to make an invention to transmit the human v…
iPod — 2023-09-23 15:52:55
… used Mr Kramer’s patents 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 …
ATM — 2023-09-23 12:02:41
… bath that evening with no spending cash he wondered if vending machines can dispense chocolate bars why couldn't banks have a machine to dispense money? Later that year, he met with the chief general manager of Barclays Bank. Shepherd-Barron …
Worcestershire Sauce — 2023-09-18 19:06:46
…70" }} **Lea and Perrins** decided to advertise. The product became so popular that they took the premises next door to have the room to manufacture the large quantities required. One of their promotional activities was to arrange that all res…
Toilet — 2023-09-08 09:57:11
…g the cistern. This avoided the problem of leaks common with the earlier floating valve system. Apparently the term to 'have a crap' existed before Mr Crapper's contribution to the Flush Toilet. {{image url="Highlevel.jpg" title="High level Toi…
Electric Car — 2023-08-27 16:16:21
…y Scotsman** Robert Anderson ** around 1835 but at this time electric motors were in their infancy and the power would have been poor. == Bersey Electric Taxi == {{Image url="BerseyHummingbirdTaxi.jpg" class="left" title="Bersey Hummingbird …
… got off to a slow start in Britain thanks to the “Red Flag Act” which stated that any vehicle not horse drawn must have two drivers and be preceded by a man waving a red flag as a warning to other road users. This draconian measure was int…
…s Act'**. Better known as the 'Red Flag Act'. The act stipulated that all mechanically powered road vehicles must: ~- Have a crew of three operators. ~- Not exceed 4 mph on the open road and 2 mph in towns. ~- Be preceded by a man on foot w…
Winston Churchill — 2023-08-27 16:11:42
… the EU? == Negotiator == From the opposition party Labour politician Hugh Dalton said Churchill was 'the only man we have for this hour'. This view was shared by the overwhelming majority of the British people. As Germany invaded Europe Chur…
…Britain to victory in Europe in 1945. == Death == Sir Winston Churchill took his final journey on the historic vessel Havengore along the River Thames for his State Funeral on 30th January 1965. This iconic and very public event was televised…
Cheesecake — 2022-05-20 12:28:32
…ke slice" width="400" }} === Sambocade 1390 === ~-[[CategoryFood]]:[[1300s]] The ancient Greeks ate something that may have resembled cheesecake, but the English medieval cookbook, **[[Lasagne | The Forme of Cury]]** from 1390, has the first r…
Full Breakfast — 2022-05-20 12:26:19
…a the ''Fry Up'', is very British and very popular and has regional variations. ~&“To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.” //W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)// The full breakfast is a centuries old British brea…
…l Welsh == Brecwast Cymreig llawn. May include a sea influence of **laverbread** or cockles. == Full Scottish == Will have **square sausage**, **tattie scone** and **clootie pudding** (yum!). == Full Irish == Fried potato **farl**, **boxty**…
Loch Ness Monster — 2022-05-03 17:06:34
…made the local news on May 2, 1933. The newspaper Inverness Courier related an account of a local couple who claimed to have seen: ^^an enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface.^^ /* event_date="May 2, 1933" First sighting of Nessie…
…late that “Nessie” was a solitary survivor of the long-extinct plesiosaurs. The aquatic plesiosaurs were thought to have died off with the rest of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. == In History == There are many references to “Nessie�…
Cheddar cheese — 2022-05-03 17:03:04
…heddar Gorge ~1170 === 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 Englan…
KitKat — 2022-05-03 17:00:51
…om 14 factories around the globe. The original factory in York alone produces over 4 million bars a day. So why not ‘Have a Break’ have a KitKat! {{Image src="Kitkat4finger.png" title="Modern look of top selling snack bar " }}…
Hip Replacement — 2021-08-20 11:18:03
…ions and clean trays to prevent cross-infection. == Key to Success == He wrote to all his patients asking //'could he have the hips back when they died?'// When a patient passed away, someone would be sent to go and collect the hips and the …
Titanic — 2021-08-20 11:12:19
…ommodate half her 2,200 passengers and crew. == The Splendour == The RMS Titanic was one of the most opulent liners to have ever been built and the largest steamship in the world. Titanic set sail from Southampton on her maiden voyage on Wedne…
Workmate — 2021-08-20 11:10:56
…d took on exclusive rights of the Workmate in 1973 and started production. To date more than '''60 Million''' Workmates have been sold. @@{{adsense}}@@ …
Paralympic Games — 2021-08-20 10:59:53
…ter Paralympics were held in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden in 1976. == Paralympic Games == Since 1988, the Summer Paralympics have been held in conjunction with the Olympic Games in the same host city. This practice was adopted in 1992 for the **Wint…
Atomic Clock — 2021-08-20 10:45:05
…Clock 1955" width="700" }} ::c:: == Atomic Clock == Essen based his clock on caesium because ~& 'An atom will always have the same transition frequency anywhere in the universe'. His clock was a 7 foot long horizontal apparatus with a source…
Intraocular Lens — 2021-08-20 10:40:24
…f Ophthalmologists. At the end of the 1980s he himself had the lenses in both his eyes replaced. "I am the only man to have invented his own operation," he reflected. {{tag ids="Eye Cataracts Intraocular Lens Surgery Ophthalmologist "}}…
IVF — 2021-08-16 10:02:09
…rld - me, my sister Natalie, her grandchildren - had all been due to science and IVF. Without the biologists, she would have been alone in the world.” {{image url="steptoe-and-edwards.jpg" class="left" title="Steptoe, Purdy and Edwards with …
Roundabout — 2021-08-16 09:58:53
…land, ‘Sollershott Circus’, in July 1908. == Traffic Circles == With a 'traffic circle' the vehicles approaching have priority. Traffic circles were not very popular with motorists and authorities have turned to traffic lights because of…
… == They're Green == {{Image url="RabbitRoundabout.jpg" class="right" title="Rabbit Roundabout" width="" }} Roundabouts have become havens for wildlife. Isolated by busy traffic, animals are protected from predators and people rarely venture on…
Agatha Christie — 2021-08-14 20:41:37
…ure]]:[[1800s]] The Guinness Book of World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly 2 billion. === Torquay England 1890 === Born **Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller** on the 15th September **189…
…ple** are Christie's most well-known detectives. Agatha was one of Britain's first stand-up surfers. Christie did not have a formal education and taught herself to read. She wrote more than 70 detective novels as well as a record breaking [[M…
Sewing Machine — 2021-08-11 11:41:32
…s, 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 earlier. It was too late …
Adjustable Spanner — 2021-08-10 08:22:45
…nnerNo3.jpg" class="right" title="Clyburn Spanner head" width="200" }} It also featured //rack and worm// that he would have discussed with engineering work colleague [[Lawn_mower| Edwin Budding]]. Clyburn even produced a double ended adjustab…
Guillotine — 2021-08-09 22:22:29
…he condemned prisoner had been securely fastened the executioner would pull the rope. Amazingly, the executioner might have been the crowd of onlookers, a horse, or even the victim them self! But they were always cheered on by the crowd. T…
…itness the execution and the hope was that the fearsome sight of the Gibbet would act as a deterrent to those who might have considered a life of crime. == Deterrent == The first recorded use of the Halifax Gibbet is in 1286 for the executio…
Light Bulb — 2021-08-09 21:56:27
… significant information from the judge. They cut out the October 7-21, 1879 section of a notebook that the judge might have determined showed that they were simply extending Sawyer’s (or Swan’s) work with carbon "burners" or "rods" in an e…
Jigsaw Puzzle — 2021-08-09 21:24:39
…== There is now a **Spilsbury Award** that is presented by the [[http://agpc.org | AGPI ]] to renowned individuals who have provided ongoing, lifetime contributions to the development, preservation, and research of jigsaw puzzles. …
Pub — 2021-08-09 21:19:14
… greatest British Invention of them all!** The 'Pub', short for **Public House**, has a very long history. The Brits have been drinking a beer like liquid since at least the Bronze Age, but it was the arrival of the Romans that the first **T…
… ale**. The difference between these three establishments has become blurred with the passage of time; Inns and taverns have evolved into hotels the ale house into what is the modern pub. == Very popular == By **1625** there were over thirtee…
Sandwich — 2021-08-08 20:40:14
…ween two slices of bread. The Earl was able to continue his gambling while eating his snack; and from that incident, we have inherited that quick-food product that we now know as the **sandwich**. He apparently had the meat put on slices of bre…
Sparkling Wine — 2021-08-08 20:32:53
…e Etherege''' who found 'The Elixir of Life'. This was decades before Dom Pérignon who is traditionally considered to have invented sparkling wine in Champagne around 1697 when he declared //“Come quickly, I am tasting the stars’’//. F…
Salicylic acid — 2021-08-08 18:32:13
… of the Peruvian cinchona tree could be used to treat malarial fevers. Stone wondered if the **willow tree** bark could have similar properties. He chewed at a small piece of bark from a willow tree (salix alba) and found that it did relieve hi…
Powered Flight — 2021-04-05 22:36:49
…w.pilcher-monument.co.uk Website dedicated to Pilcher]] In 2003 Pilchers triplane was rebuilt to test whether it would have flown. The rebuilt plane flew successfully for 1 minute 25 seconds, 26 seconds longer than the **Wright** brothers mana…
Toothbrush — 2021-01-28 15:14:07
…eth regularly became a widespread practice. == In history == Previous to the manufactured toothbrush indigenous people have used, and still use, things like miswak from the twigs/roots of the //Salvadora persica// tree or similar to clean t…
Golf — 2020-11-30 16:29:33
…n an attempt to encourage archery practice, which was being neglected. Golf in its early days in [[Scotland]] may well have had two distinct forms. One was a ‘short’ game similar to ‘kolf’ played in the Netherlands. From this developed…
Railway — 2020-11-30 12:55:52
… url="TrevithickPuffingDevil.jpg" class="right" title="Trevithick Puffing Devil" width="300" }}No one person is said to have invented railway transportation but there are several people that helped move the early wagonways, that were used to [[…
… the poorest could afford to travel by train. In the stagecoach days, a ticket from London to Manchester and back would have cost '''£3 10s''' but by 1851 the train fare for this same journey was only '''5s''' for a far quicker and more comfor…
Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
… played in Ireland and England. '''Baseball''' and '''Town-ball''', are both bat and ball games, played by teams, that have originated from Rounders. == Badminton 1887 == {{Image url="Badmington.jpg" class="right" width="100"}} Badminton came…
…vented by a Brit, '''Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain''' of the British Army garrisons of India. The game is believed to have came about as a mix of other billiard games, mainly English [[Billiards]], this new billiard sport of snooker surfaced …
Cricket — 2020-08-26 21:18:47
… of Cricket being played" width="450" }} {{toc}} == Origins == The origins of cricket are very vague, and many theories have been put forward suggesting its origins. The most likely fore runner is Stoolball that dates back to the 1400s, but it …
Eraser — 2020-08-18 10:06:20
…n inventions competition. The invention was described by [[Carbonated_water| Joseph Priestley]] on April 15, 1770: "I have seen a substance excellently adapted to the purpose of wiping from paper the mark of black-lead-pencil. ... It is sold …
… 1858 == It took another few years for Hymen Lipman (March 20, 1817 – November 4, 1893), born to English parents, to have the idea of putting the eraser on the other end of a pencil. He patented his invention on March 30, 1858. {{Tag ids="…
Stem Cells — 2020-08-17 17:30:21
…lls.png" class="left" title="Diagram showing how stem cells are used." width="550" }} Our body is made up of cells that have many different functions. Before a cell becomes an adult cell they begin as an embryonic cell. Embryo cells can reprod…
Slavery Abolition — 2020-08-17 15:00:36
…hips lost to **Barbary coast** pirates. Captives were forced to convert to **Islam**. Those who converted to Islam may have seen freedom, since enslavement of **Muslims** was prohibited. {{Image url="white-slaves.jpg" class="left" title="W…
Hydraulics — 2020-08-17 13:24:35
…ranes. They were exported all over the world. Armstrong invented the 'Hydraulic Accumulator' for places that didn't have existing water pressure. These were tall water towers 200 or 300 feet high to produce the necessary pressure. Where a t…
Life Boat — 2020-08-17 09:00:19
…who built a Life-boat, and was the original Inventor of that principle of safety, by which many lives and much property have been preserved from Shipwreck; and he obtained for it the King's patent in the year 1785.”@@ Such was the success o…
Cyclonic Vacuum Cleaner — 2020-08-15 09:18:21
…said on U.K. national TV, "I do regret that Hoover as a company did not take the product technology off Dyson; it would have lain on the shelf and not been used." …
Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25
…concept they did not declare it secret, which meant that Whittle was able to retain the rights to the idea, which would have otherwise been the property of the RAF. ::c:: == Foreign eyes == {{Image src="Whittlequarterscalejet.jpg" class="righ…
…ad passed the prototype stage and was building the first flyable design, the ""Heinkel HeS 3"". Whittle's efforts would have been far more advanced had the Air Ministry taken a greater interest in the design. {{Image url="Whittle_monument_wm.jp…
…. The jet engine made long haul cheap flight possible not just for the rich but for the masses. Many of us would never have had the opportunity to see many wonders around the world without Whittle's jet engine. ||{{Image url="Gloster_E28-39.j…
Charles Darwin — 2020-08-06 07:52:58
…nce]]::[[1800s]] Charles Darwin, born in Shrewsbury, [[Shropshire]], [[England]], established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors. === Origin of Species 1859 === Darwin ( 12 February 1809 –19 April 1882) …
Angus Cattle — 2019-08-31 10:40:52
…on for its quality meat and easy to care for cattle. === Aberdeen Scotland 1842 === Black hornless cattle are known to have existed in North Eastern [[Scotland]] since the mid 16th century. These local cattle were used by breeders. **Hugh Wats…
… popular - it is the primary beef breed in the USA and it is by far the most important beef breed in New Zealand. Herds have been established in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Germany, Brazil, Argentina and South Africa. {{Image url="AngusRed…
Harry Potter — 2018-10-10 17:06:49
…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 url="Rowling_home.jpg" …
Motor Racing Circuit — 2018-05-20 20:38:53
…07. === Hugh Locke King 1907 === Hugh Fortescue Locke King decided, while taking a European tour, that Britain should have its own motor testing track to promote its car industry to help it compete and prosper in Europe. He used his own mone…
English Language — 2018-01-26 21:45:55
…Germanic language and is closely related to '''Old Frisian'''. In fact parts of coastal Netherlands around Terschelling have word sounds that are very close to present day English. This period is [[Sandwich]]ed between the occupation of the Ro…
Grand Theft Auto — 2017-05-11 15:45:29
…Grand-Theft-Auto.jpg" class="left" title="Grand Theft Auto" width="300" }} >>{{amazonad}}>> Brothers Sam and Dan Houser have made gaming part of mainstream culture. …
Speedfit — 2017-05-11 00:37:50
…ck connect/disconnect fittings are used for oil and water even at mains pressure and high temperatures. These fittings have revolutionized tube connection especially for domestic plumbing. Now any novice with DIY experience can make 100% water…
Beatrix Potter — 2016-07-23 14:22:52
…ter is still one of the world's best-selling and best-loved children's authors. She wrote and illustrated 28 books that have been translated into more than 35 languages and sold over **100 million** copies. One book is sold every 15 seconds. B…

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