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  1. Airport — 2023-10-11 15:23:36
    …e Saunders Roe Princess" width="100%" }} ::c:: == Spitfire == The **Supermarine** factory near Southampton Airport was later used to assemble Spitfire fighters during World War II. == Links == [[https://www.solentsky.org/exhibitions| Solent S…
  2. Vacuum Flask — 2023-10-09 23:46:28
    …liquefaction of gases and the property of matter at extremely low temperatures. He was the first person to liquefy, and later solidify, hydrogen and show that metals had increased ability to conduct electricity at low temperatures. Using charc…
  3. Lever Brothers — 2023-10-09 23:43:45
    …="SunlightSoap.jpg" class="left" title="Sunlight Soap" width="300" }} They first called their product 'Honey Soap' then later named it "**Sunlight Soap**". The product sold quickly and production soon reached 450 tons per week by 1888, within a…
  4. Stainless Steel — 2023-10-09 23:42:45
    …ther was a steel worker at **Thomas Firth & Sons**. Brearley started working at the age of twelve and a couple of years later was working for Firth's as a bottle washer in the chemical laboratory. He studied metallurgy and learnt very quickly…
  5. Steam Engine — 2023-10-08 00:19:36
    …Gottfried Leibniz, built a steam digester for softening bones, 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…
    …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 build the world's first operational steam engine. '''Sir Samuel Morland''' also developed idea…
  6. Radar — 2023-10-08 00:18:51
    …inister, **Stanley Baldwin**, was kept quietly informed of radar's progress. == Increasing the Range == Only two weeks later Wilkins left the Radio Research Station with a small party, including Edward George Bowen (born Swansea, [[Wales]]) to …
    … British government for his contributions in the development of radar. He spent much of the post-war era in Canada, and later the USA where he received the //United States Medal for Merit// in 1946 , and he published //Three Steps to Victory// i…
    …n 1958. == After the war == He established a practice as a consulting engineer, in the 1950s moved to Canada, and later to the USA. He returned to Scotland in the 1960s. …
  7. Telephone — 2023-09-23 15:57:07
    …r moved the family to Canada looking for a better climate in which to live. Bell recovered from the disease. Two years later he went to Boston to open a school for teachers of the deaf and then became a professor at Boston University. It was at…
    …is 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 shares of the stock in the newly formed com…
    …ontinued to experiment. The next day he transmitted the famous words, "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you!" A few months later on Feb. 14, 1876, he applied for a patent on his telephone. ---- == Patent race == >>{{image url="Agbell.jpg" title="Be…
  8. Stereo — 2023-09-23 15:56:38
    …> ::c:: == Realisation == Blumlein's binaural experiments began in early 1933, and the first **stereo** discs were cut later the same year. His system for cinematic use was completed by 1935. Blumlein made short test films ( "Trains At Hayes …
  9. PIN — 2023-09-23 15:56:10
    …ivate the machine, and allow a withdrawal to be made. This concept is still in use some {{Datediff from="1966"}} years later all around the world though USA were slower to realise the benefits of this simple invention. There are now millions o…
  10. Electric Generator — 2023-09-23 12:04:37
    …e of his early reading and experiments with the idea of force, he was able to make important discoveries in electricity later in life. He eventually became a chemist and physicist. == Electromagnetic Rotation == {{Image url="WindTurbine.gif" c…
    …lectromagnetic rotation: that is a continuous circular motion from the 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 …
  11. ATM — 2023-09-23 12:02:41
    … 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 asked him for 90 seconds to pitch hi…
  12. Worcestershire Sauce — 2023-09-18 19:06:46
    …orts, they banished their brew to the cellar. There, the sauce lay forgotten until the pair stumbled upon it two years later. Before they discarded their concoction for good, they took one last taste. Much to their surprise, it had matured …
  13. Electric Car — 2023-08-27 16:16:21
    …ol. ::c:: == Modern features == The **Elwell-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 des…
  14. Winston Churchill — 2023-08-27 16:11:42
    …Chamberlain, he resigned and Winston Churchill was chosen to be his successor as Prime Minister on May 10, 1940. He was later to write: 'I felt...that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial'. Parallels with…
    later events in the EU? == Negotiator == From the opposition party Labour politician Hugh Dalton said Churchill was 'the on…
  15. Pay Toilet — 2022-09-27 07:23:49
    …euphemism to "**spend a penny**". Born in Cheltenham, [[Gloucestershire]], [[England]]. He trained as a watchmaker but later became interested in conjuring. Maskelyne became a member of **The Magic Circle** and, like **Harry Houdini**, used his…
  16. Custard — 2022-09-19 23:50:44
    …rl="BirdsCustard.jpg" class="right" title="Birds Custard" width="300" }} He formed **'Alfred Bird and Sons Ltd'** and later went on to create a formula for [[baking_powder | Baking powder]], blancmange powder, jelly powder, and egg substitute.…
  17. National Trust — 2022-07-02 09:18:26
    …est sister, Miranda, as a "Society for the Diffusion of Beauty". It was a template for the National Trust, **20** years later. {{Image url="CanonRawnsley.jpg" class="left" title="Canon Rawnsley" width="100" }} Hill was engaged in a campaign in *…
  18. Cambridge Cream — 2022-05-20 08:48:45
    …600s]] Chefs at the **Trinity College** in Cambridge, [[England]] first produced **'Cambridge Burnt Cream'** dessert no later than **1630**. ||{{{toc}}}||{{amazon type="book" items="1906507317" }}|| Several country's claim the origin of what…
  19. KitKat — 2022-05-03 17:00:51
    …er wafer crisp, launched in London in September 1935 as **'Rowntree’s Chocolate Crisp**'. It was re-named two years later as KitKat Chocolate Crisp then shortened to just KitKat after the Second World War. The origin of the name KitKat is un…
  20. Microphone — 2021-11-07 21:26:04
    …rld, a view that was contrary to Edison's. It is worth noting that in the U.S. an idea could be patented and developed later. {{Image url="Microphone-Blue-Plaque.jpg" class="left" title="Microphone Blue Plaque in Great Portland Street, London"…
  21. Workmate — 2021-08-20 11:10:56
    …ar == Ron moved to [[London]] and in 1954 started working for the Ford Motor Company at Dagenham as a clay modeller and later he helped to style the **105E Ford Anglia**. Ron was not your average amateur inventor: he was already an accomplished…
  22. James Bond — 2021-08-20 10:49:07
    …h and Geneva. He had briefly attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst which he did not enjoy. == Reuters == He later worked at Reuters. This was a very enjoyable and successful period and he particularly relished covering a notorious es…
  23. Antibiotics — 2021-08-20 10:41:08
    … plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the **world's first antibiotic**, or bacteria killer," Fleming would later say, "But I suppose that was exactly what I did." {{Image url="PenicillinMold.jpg" class="left" title="Penicillin Mold…
  24. Vitamins — 2021-08-16 09:52:16
    …Cashmir Funk named those special nutrients "vitamines" after "vita" meaning life and "amine" from the vitamin thiamine. Later on the word was shortened to "vitamin." <<{{amazonad}}<< ::c:: == Even Earlier in 1753 == {{image url="Lind_james.jpg" …
  25. Automatic Kettle — 2021-08-14 20:44:42
    …, and at worst could cause a fire. ::c:: == 1960 K2 == {{image url="K2_1960.jpg" class="right" title="K2" width="" }} Later on, manufacturers introduced a variety of fail-safe methods to prevent this from happening. some kettles had replaceabl…
  26. Bovril — 2021-08-14 20:09:04
    …ounts of food were problematic. This led to Johnston creating a product he called //'Johnston's Fluid Beef'//, that was later called **Bovril.** He returned to Britain in 1880 where he developed the brand further. He resided in his own '**Bovril…
  27. Procter Gamble — 2021-08-12 20:35:23
    … Meeting == {{Image url="ProcterGambleSoap.jpg" class="right" title="Procter Gamble Soap" width="400" }} They met and later married sisters, Elizabeth Ann Norris and Olivia Norris, who had emigrated from Belfast.…
  28. Rubber — 2021-08-12 20:24:10
    …id containing 30% sulphur. Hancock took out another patent on May 21st, 1845 to try to protect his methods. Three weeks later, on June 15, 1845, Goodyear took out a patent in the United States. Later in 1851 Charles Goodyear was awarded another…
    … patent for Improvement in the Manufacture of Indian Rubber. This was a reworking of the Hancock method. He later devised methods for 'producing moulded articles into any desired shape for the purposes of being used in the manufactur…
    … his hand and realized that if it was sliced up it could be used as garters, suspenders and waistbands. About 25 years later, another Englishman, '''Stephen Perry''', patented the '''rubber band'''. He made many improvements in the manufacture…
  29. Sewing Machine — 2021-08-11 11:41:32
    …t maker born in Greenhill Rents parish of St. Sepulchre [[London]], [[England]]. ::c:: == Working again == Many years later in 1874 a man named **William Newton Wilson** found the patent of Thomas’s machine. The original drawings were so com…
    …red at the hands of Singer's lawyers years earlier. It was too late for him to claim recompense on the grounds that the later patents were worthless but he got his revenge in a remarkable way. He built a replica of a Saint machine made from the …
  30. Light Bulb — 2021-08-09 21:56:27
    … was that electricity and its support infrastructure cost too much and, of course, had to be installed. Ten more years later, after electricity costs had come down, there were 3 million customers and all the basic light bulb patents had expired…
    …to photographic developing processes. He noticed that heat increased the sensitivity of the silver bromide emulsion. He later patented bromide paper, developments of which are still used for black and white photographic prints. Swan was knighte…
  31. Can — 2021-08-09 21:53:19
    …cans are sold every year throughout the world and best of all, it's **recyclable!** {{Datediff from="1/1/1810" }} years later, the food can is a life changing and life saving invention. {{Image url="Tincan.jpg" class="left" title="Soup can" w…
    …d the Durand patent and opened the first commercial canning factory in England. The firm of Donkin, Hall and Gamble was later merged into Crosse & Blackwells. The patent was re-sold in America some six years later in 1818. == Mass Production ==…
  32. Shire Horse — 2021-08-09 21:35:31
    …ing Beer" width="400" }} == The English Shire Horse Society == The English Cart Horse Society was founded in **1878**, later changing its name to the Shire Horse Society. The early years of the Society encouraged the export of Shires and in 188…
  33. Jigsaw Puzzle — 2021-08-09 21:24:39
    …ame a highly successful business venture. John Spilsbury died in 1769 but his widow Sarah continued with the business, later marrying Spilsbury’s former apprentice Harry Ashby. == Modern Twist == At this point the puzzles were all hand mad…
    …cheaper puzzles for children made from cardboard. Jigsaw puzzles are still very popular {{datediff from="1766"}} years later providing an educational challenge and pastime hobby for millions of people for a very small outlay. == Spilsbury Awar…
  34. Industrial Revolution — 2021-08-08 21:48:46
    …cked part of the line where the iron rails had to be renewed every six months, and occasionally every three." Six years later, in 1863, the rail seemed as perfect as ever, although some 700 trains had passed over it daily. {{Image url="Rail_Barr…
  35. Sandwich — 2021-08-08 20:40:14
    …rprise some to learn that Sandwich is actually a place. The 'wich' in Sandwich is from the Anglo-Saxon word for a port. Later old English 'wic' from Latin ''vicus'', which also gives us the word vicinity. >>{{amazon items="English Place-names" …
  36. Sparkling Wine — 2021-08-08 20:32:53
    …wn for wine, it has been produced here for at least 2000 years introduced by the Romans. But the sparkle was added much later. == Superior Bottles and Corks == Bottling wine was a hazardous method for storing wine as French glass was fragile,…
  37. Plywood — 2021-08-08 18:44:16
    …rs of veneer with glue to form a thicker piece – the first description of what we now call plywood. Over fifty years later machining equipment for the process was improved by Immanuel Nobel. == Naval career == When he was 14, Bentham was ap…
    …prenticed to a shipwright at Woolwich Dockyard, he later completed his 7-year training at the Naval Academy in Portsmouth. He developed a liking towards the constructional wor…
  38. Australia — 2021-08-08 18:36:08
    … Green, from the Greenwich Observatory. Cook sighted New Zealand on 6 October 1769, and landed at Poverty Bay two days later. He drew detailed and accurate maps of the whole coastline of both north and south islands. {{Image url="captain_coo…
  39. Salicylic acid — 2021-08-08 18:32:13
    … acid, the active ingredient in aspirin. In 1853 a compound of acetyl chloride and sodium salicylate was developed and later marketed by Bayer under the name Aspirin from Spiraea for the plant group. == Worldwide == Today it is probably the m…
  40. Powered Flight — 2021-04-05 22:36:49
    …rebuilt plane flew successfully for 1 minute 25 seconds, 26 seconds longer than the **Wright** brothers managed 4 years later in **1903**. [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22633d Watch a reconstruction of the Pilcher plane flying.]] == Rich…
  41. Marmite — 2021-04-03 10:38:16
    …ead made from yeast that can also be used to flavour stews etc. === Gilmour 1902 === In 1902 the Marmite Food Company (later Marmite Ltd) was set up by the Gilmour family in Burton on Trent, [[Staffordshire]]. It's mission to produce a concentr…
  42. Petroleum — 2020-12-03 01:07:44
    …to fight a fierce battle against the American product. In 1865 James Young bought out his business partners and a year later formed **Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Co.** {{Tag ids="Petrol Paraffin Oil refinery coal"}} …
  43. Pencil — 2020-11-30 16:27:31
    …ing the graphite into rods and wrapping it with string. This proved messy and the pencils would break easily, so it was later encased in wood. The modern pencil was born! {{Image url="PencilVan.jpg" class="left" title="Cumberland Pencil Van" wi…
  44. Suffolk Punch — 2020-11-30 16:25:44
    …77 to promote the Suffolk Punch and started to be exported all over the world. Canada in 1865 United States in 1880 and later to France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Africa, New Zealand, Australia, Argentina and many more. {{tag ids="Suffolk…
  45. Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
    …ine 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 == {{Image url="Curling.jpg" class="right" width="120"}} The game of curling …
  46. Vacuum cleaner — 2020-10-11 23:24:10
    …de and the hoses were fed through the windows. It was originally powered by an oil engine, the electric motor was added later. The first cleaner worked out rather expensive at around £350. The bright red horse-drawn machine measured 4' 6" x 4'…
  47. Sinoatrial Node — 2020-08-15 18:08:00
    … of the heart is believed to normally arise.” Arthur Keith and Martin Flack^^ == MARTIN WILLIAM FLACK CBE == Flack later became demonstrator of physiology at the London Hospital and later a lecturer. He served on the Medical Research Counci…
  48. Cyclonic Vacuum Cleaner — 2020-08-15 09:18:21
    …ropped rapidly. He thought he could improve this and set to work to solve this problem. Five years and 5,127 prototypes later, the world's first cyclonic bagless vacuum cleaner arrived. {{Image url="Dyson_DC01.jpg" class="left" title="Dyson DC01…
    …n 1986 start to sell the G-Force. It was only available on the Japanese market and not sold under the Dyson name. James later used the money he earned from the G-Force to start up the UK Dyson company {{Image url="Dyson_G-Force.jpg" class="lef…
  49. Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25
    … == {{Image src="Whittlequarterscalejet.jpg" class="right" title="Whittle inspects his engine "}} This rejection would later turn out to be a stroke of luck for Whittle, but because his idea was available to the public, other's overseas (who //…
    …onument in Gloucester" }} When war broke out a contract for full-scale development was immediately sent to Power Jets, later a number of tenders to various companies were asked to set up production lines for up to 3,000 engines a month in 1942,…
    … before Gloster's experimental airframe was ready. So manufacturing started at GAC Brockworth near Gloucester, but was later moved to Regent Motors in Regent Street Cheltenham because fear of possible bombing. {{Image url="Gloster_E28-39.jpg" c…
  50. Disc Brakes — 2020-08-09 19:54:18
    …r. Frederick with brothers George and Frank incorporated The Lanchester Engine Company Limited in December 1899. This later becomes the Lanchester Motor Company. {{Image url="DiscBrake.jpg" class="left" title="Disc Brake" width="" }} == Pat…
  51. Plastic Surgery — 2020-08-06 08:24:01
    …Gillies developed the techniques of modern plastic surgery. A New Zealander who studied medicine in Cambridge, England later he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and worked as a medical minder during the Great War where he experienced pioneer…
    …" }}::cl:: He returned from the battle fields to establish a facial injury ward at the Cambridge Military Hospital and later in Sidcup in 1917. There he and his colleagues performed around 11,000 operations on more than 5,000 soldiers. == Kni…
  52. Monty Python — 2020-08-06 07:48:50
    …could imagine that it would be an international winner, but slowly it did just that and {{Datediff from="1969" }} years later it is still as popular all around the world. == Nearly Lost == In 1971, Terry Jones was informed by the BBC that, due …
  53. Obstetrical Forceps — 2020-06-28 13:29:13
    … width="" born="1601" birth_place="" died="1683" death_place="" }} The evidence of the forceps existence is only found later from around 1634, but is known the brothers carried out the procedure before then. The secret was passed down through t…
  54. Underground Railway — 2019-10-23 19:35:16
    …s="right" title="Modern Tube Train" width="400" }} A second underground line, the District, began operating five years later. The two were eventually linked to create the Circle line. {{tag ids="Train Tube Underground Railway Metro Victorian "…
  55. Harrier Jump Jet — 2017-01-18 16:14:57
    …operate from improvised bases, such as car parks or forest clearings, without requiring large and vulnerable air bases. Later, the design was adapted for use from aircraft carriers. The RAF retired the Harrier in 2011 and sold the fleet to the …
    …US for £180 million. More than 50 years later and the jumpjet has a contender in the Lockheed Martin F-35B aircraft whose VTO engines are supplied by Rolls Royce. {…
  56. Beatrix Potter — 2016-07-23 14:22:52
    …languages and sold over **100 million** copies. One book is sold every 15 seconds. Born in Kensington, [[London]], she later moved to **Hill Top Farm** in [[Cumbria]] and on her death bequeathed it, along with 13 other farms and over 4000 acres…
  57. Billiards — 2016-06-23 11:09:55
    …rn Rules == The first governing body of the game, the **English Billiards Association**, was formed in the UK in 1885. Later to become the **Billiards and Snooker Control Council** There are a number of pocket billiard games directly descended…

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