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Split the Atom — 2023-10-10 00:05:57
… at Cambridge University, [[Cambridgeshire]], [[England]], Englishman Cockcroft and Irishman Walton used spare parts along with some wood and nails to build the world's first nuclear-particle accelerator in 1929. Rutherford had split the atom…
FAX — 2023-10-09 23:52:19
… concept with his "Image Telegraph" which he demonstrated at the 1851 World's Fair in London. Many improvements came along and eventually the FAX machine became standard office equipment by the 1980s. It is still widely used but it's future …
Stainless Steel — 2023-10-09 23:42:45
…ries. == Weapon Erosion == One of the major downsides was erosion in weaponry. Brearley was asked to find a way to prolong the life of gun barrels. Harry experimented with several variations of his alloys, adding a small percentage of chromiu…
Cat Eyes — 2023-10-09 23:39:36
…worked as a road mender. {{{toc}}} Shaw was inventive, even at a young age, and his catseye idea for lighting the way along roads in the dark was pure inspiration. == Inspiration == When the tram-lines were removed in the nearby town of **Bra…
Radar — 2023-10-08 00:18:51
… a committee to advance the state of the art of air defence in the UK. In World War I the Germans had used Zeppelins as long-range bombers over London and other cities, and attempts to attack them by aircraft had proven to be failures (although…
… anti-aircraft batteries did well). Even though the Zeppelins were over 700 feet long and moved at only 60 miles per hour, in the 20 raids where fighters were launched, they only saw the target three times…
…urpose. They tested their theories with a flight of LZ 130, the GRAF Zeppelin II, but concluded the stations were a new long-range naval communications system. == War years == In July 1938 Watson-Watt left Bawdsey Manor and took up the post of…
Air Traffic Control — 2023-10-07 10:51:35
…airway corridors that provide a safety zone for air traffic to operate in. Distances vary but aircraft that are flying along the airways under [[radar]] surveillance are kept five nautical miles apart horizontally or at least 1,000 feet vertica…
Marshall Amplification — 2023-10-07 09:45:58
…all stack" width="" }} In 1985, Marshall was invited to add his hand prints to the **Rock Hall of Fame **in Hollywood alongside the instrument pioneers Leo Fender, Robert Moog, Les Paul and Bill Ludwig. He was appointed an OBE for his services…
Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52
… url="RonaldsTelegraph.jpg" class="left" title="Ronalds Telegraph" width="300" }} Static electrical impulses were sent along the wire were used to transmit messages. To communicate messages Ronalds had made two identical clock-like machines, ea…
Stereo — 2023-09-23 15:56:38
…fax bomber carrying the only prototype H2S system crashed at Welsh Bicknor. Alan Blumlein and two colleagues from EMI, along with eight others were killed. …
Radio — 2023-09-23 15:56:24
…st public transmission of wireless signals in England 1896. {{Toc}} The invention of communication by radio waves had a long history with many scientists contributing. == 1864 == James Clerk Maxwell showed mathematically that electromagnetic…
Lithium-ion Battery — 2023-09-23 15:53:22
…on battery, patented in 1977. == Awards == He is known as the Founding Father of lithium-ion batteries. Whittingham, along with John B. Goodenough and Akira Yoshino, was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. {{Image url="LithiumEvBattery…
…ile phones a reality. A small compact rechargeable battery cell that can be reused many times over. Electric cars with long range now a reality. …
LCD — 2023-09-23 15:53:09
…ay LCD using cyanobiphenyl compounds" width="400" }} George’s defining achievement was to use his deep knowledge and long experience of liquid crystals to eliminate this linkage entirely and to synthesise a number of biphenyl molecules, with…
Electric Motor — 2023-09-23 15:52:02
…ie. In 1830, Sturgeon produced a vastly improved form of battery – known as the amalgamated zinc battery which had a longer battery life than that produced by Italian innovator Volta. Sturgeon could now power his strong electro-magnets and …
…se every time the wheel met the next magnet. That meant the wheel would keep rotating in the //same// direction for as long as the current keeps flowing. In 1832 he was appointed to the lecturing staff of the Adelaide Gallery of Practical Sci…
…ertain inherent weaknesses - any impurity in the zinc plates used caused erosion of the electrode. Sturgeon developed a long lasting battery that consisted of a single cell cylinder of cast iron into which a cylinder of amalgamated rolled zinc …
ATM — 2023-09-23 12:02:41
…tor" Image="John-Shepherd-Barron.jpg" Who="John Shepherd Barron" width="400" birth_date="23 June 1925" birth_place="Shillong, India" death_date="15 May 2010" death_place="Inverness, Scotland" }} === John Shepherd-Barron 1967 === ~-[[Technology…
Mousetrap — 2023-08-31 23:02:31
…tha Christie" width="300" }} === Agatha Christie 1952 === ~-[[Arts]]:[[Entertainment]]:[[1900s]] The Mousetrap is the longest running stage play in the world. The story was adapted from a radio play, Three Blind Mice, written by [[Agatha_Chr…
…m="6/10/1952" to="16/3/2020" }} years when COVID forced a suspension. It then resumed on 17 May 2021. It has by far the longest opening run of any play in history, with its 25,000th performance taking place on 18 November 2012. {{Image url="Mo…
…so the worlds **most translated** author and the second best fiction author after William [[Shakespeare]]. {{Tag ids="Longest running author play "}} …
Winston Churchill — 2023-08-27 16:11:42
…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 live watch…
Olivia Newton John — 2023-04-06 17:15:33
… You** in 1971. In 1974, Newton-John represented the United Kingdom in the //Eurovision Song Contest// with the song "**Long Live Love**". Newton-John's career hit new heights when she starred in the film musical **Grease** in 1978. She played…
Plastic — 2022-09-01 08:57:23
…ll in conservation. Parkes new plastic set into a hard horny material that he used to mimic ivory and tortoiseshell. No longer did animals need to be killed for this industry, protecting wildlife. ::c:: == World without Plastic == {{Image url=…
Police — 2022-05-20 08:52:50
…ointed three sergeants and six police constables. They oversaw. 68 unpaid citizen police officers or watchmen who wore long brown coats with their personal numbers painted on their backs. Each carried a lantern and long stave. == The world's…
…'Peelers' " }}>> They became known as ''''Peelers'''' and ''''Bobbies'''' after their founder, and wore a dark blue '''long coat''' and a '''tall hat''' which they could use to stand on to look over walls, a pair of '''handcuffs''' and a '''wo…
Rotating Boat Lift — 2022-05-03 17:19:08
… 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 hydraulic motors,…
Loch Ness Monster — 2022-05-03 17:06:34
…800 feet and a length of about 23 miles. Some 'authorities' speculate 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 ye…
… strange aquatic creature into standing stones near Loch Ness. {{Image url="Loch-Ness.jpg" title="Loch Ness: 23 miles long and 750 feet deep" width="100%" height="200" }} The earliest written reference to a monster in Loch Ness is a 7th-centu…
Loudspeaker — 2021-11-07 21:26:37
…cone loudspeaker drivers that we know today. == Power == What this invention needed was amplification and that came along with the [[Thermionic_valve|valve]]. With more power bigger magnets and cones could now be used. A model of his loud…
Television — 2021-11-06 16:35:18
… In 1932 he was the first to demonstrate ultra-short wave transmission. == Live Sport == In 1927 Baird transmitted a long-distance television signal over 438 miles of telephone line between London and Glasgow. He then set up the Baird Televi…
James Bond — 2021-08-20 10:49:07
… and Eve Fleming. Ian Fleming's first boarding school, Durnford School, was based near Swanage in the Isle of Purbeck. Along with his brothers, Ian Fleming attended Eton. He was not an industrious pupil but excelled at athletics. {{Image url="0…
…h of March. [[http://www.ianflemingcentre.com| Ian Fleming]] == James Bond 007 == The official 007 series is the '''longest running''' and '''most successful movie franchise''' in history. Spanning 26 films over a 50 year period. {{Image u…
Atomic Clock — 2021-08-20 10:45:05
…m 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 of caesium atoms on one end, a microwave cavity in the middle probing the atoms freq…
IVF — 2021-08-16 10:02:09
…July 1978" First baby conceived by IVF is born */ **Patrick Christopher Steptoe** and **Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards** along with their nurse-technician, **Jean Purdy** successfully carried out a pioneering conception which resulted in the birt…
…Steptoe had perfected a method for obtaining human eggs from the ovaries using his acquired skill with a laparoscope, a long, thin telescopic instrument. Combining these skills enabled them to produce mature eggs at the optimum time to improve…
Stan Laurel — 2021-08-14 21:08:01
…and music hall. Developing his skills in comedic sketches. Laurel was a member of "Fred Karno's Army," where he worked alongside [[Charlie_Chaplin|Charlie Chaplin]]. Chaplin and Laurel arrived in the United States on the same ship from Britain…
… with the Karno troupe in 1916. Laurel worked briefly alongside Oliver Hardy in a silent film short **The Lucky Dog** (1921). Around the same time he adopted the stage surname of …
Reflecting Telescope — 2021-08-14 20:51:21
… Birr Castle, at Parsonstown in County Offaly, Ireland. With a 72-inch metal mirror weighing 4 tons and a tube 54 feet long, it remained the largest telescope in the world until 1917, {{datediff from="1845" to="1917"}} years. {{tag ids="Grav…
Public Park — 2021-08-14 20:30:20
… 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 and 135 feet high**. Despite widespread cynicism amongst press and public, when the Great Exhibition…
Modern Olympics — 2021-08-14 20:26:14
…. ==Wenlock Prize== ---- Brookes sent a sum of £10 which the Greek committee decided to award to the winner of the '**long race**' under the name **Wenlock Prize.** This wasn't to be the last time Brookes would make contact with foreign phila…
Fish and chips — 2021-08-14 20:10:50
…Belgian invention called //frites//, not French as they fried //sliced// potatoes). /* en petites tranches */ With a long history of fishing as a staple diet and potatoes arriving with the expanding British Empire the two eventually combined…
Bovril — 2021-08-14 20:09:04
…rplus meat to make his own meat glaze or beef stock, by heating until it becomes dark brown and viscous, this gave it a long shelf-life. His glaze sold so well that he opened a second shop and a factory in Holyrood. In 1871, he emigrated to Ca…
Photography — 2021-08-14 19:57:18
…mages he captured and searched for a 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 b…
Steel — 2021-08-12 20:31:45
…ap steel wrought iron was used for construction. The furnaces heated molten iron, it was then stirred by puddlers using long oar-shaped tools, allowing oxygen to combine slowly remove carbon. {{Image url="EiffelTower.jpg" class="left" title="St…
Adjustable Spanner — 2021-08-10 08:22:45
…gineering work colleague [[Lawn_mower| Edwin Budding]]. Clyburn even produced a double ended adjustable spanner. == Longevity == {{Image url="BahcoClyburn.jpg" class="right" title="Bahco Clyburn" width="450" }} Clyburns adjustable spanner d…
Nature Reserve — 2021-08-09 22:30:53
…]. He was educated at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire. Waterton was an early opponent of '''pollution'''. He fought a long-running court case against the owners of a soapworks which had been set up near his estate in 1839 that leaked out pois…
Zoo — 2021-08-09 22:18:40
…y of London// ZSL established in **1826**. It was founded by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (6 July 1781 – 5 July 1826) along with the Marquess of Lansdowne, Lord Auckland, [[Aluminium|Sir Humphry Davy]], [[Police|Robert Peel]], Joseph Sabine, N…
Light Bulb — 2021-08-09 21:56:27
…ue.jpg" title="Joseph Swan Plaque" width="300" class="right" }} Later Joseph Swan was determined to devise a practical, long-lasting electric light. He found that a carbon paper filament worked well, but burned up quickly. In **1878**, he demon…
Pub — 2021-08-09 21:19:14
…innings == **Probably the 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…
Cowboy — 2021-08-09 21:03:46
… war of independence and again to refer to black or, as they became known, //buffalo soldiers//. == Links == [[http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2012/01/on-the-history-of-the-word-cowboy.html | Reference]] {{tag ids="Cowboy h…
Industrial Revolution — 2021-08-08 21:48:46
…edgley" death_date="08/3/1717" death_place="" }} In 1708 Abraham Darby came to **Coalbrookdale** to repair a furnace belonging to Sir Basil Brooke that was used to make iron. Darby thought a furnace could be improved by using a blast furnace f…
Sunday School — 2021-08-08 18:39:06
… the **Gloucester Journal**. == Sweatshops == Before the Sunday School movement children would work 12 hours a day or longer in the mills and sweatshops 5 or 6 days a week. Raikes knew that the future was grim for these children who had to wo…
…few years to see if **Sunday schools** were a success. He then printed a story about the new Sunday schools. Before too long, around 4,000 new Sunday schools were started in towns all over [[England]]. Robert even used his printing press to pub…
Salicylic acid — 2021-08-08 18:32:13
…hts in a moist or wet soil, where agues chiefly abound, the general maxim that many natural maladies carry their cures along with them or that their remedies lie not far from their causes was so very apposite to this particular case that I coul…
Vaccination — 2021-08-07 23:07:23
…he nest. It had been assumed that the adult bird did this, but the adult does not remain in the area for sufficiently long. His findings were published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in '''**1787**'''. == Ballooning …
Powered Flight — 2021-04-05 22:36:49
…1843 == {{Databox Image="WilliamSamuelHenson.jpg" title="William Samuel Henson" width="200" Born="1812" Died="1888" }} Long before the **Wright brothers** aviation engineer and inventor Henson, born in Nottingham England, Henson worked in Char…
…ng span of **150 feet**, which he named the **"Henson Aerial Steam Carriage"**. He received a **patent** on it in 1843 along with **John Stringfellow**. Stringfellow designed and built a model monoplane. It had a 10 feet wingspan with a wooden…
…as 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 managed 4 years later in **1903**. [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22633d Watch a r…
Toothbrush — 2021-01-28 15:14:07
…ldest son, also called William. Addis began exporting products abroad to the US in the 1880’s. By the time WWII came along Addis employed 650 people and the first injection moulding machines were purchased and the first nylon toothbrush was l…
Electric Toaster — 2020-12-01 01:05:39
…pton tells of a trip to London 's Great Exhibition of 1851. His schooling started at Sharow, near Ripon in Yorkshire, along with 19 other boys, aged between 7 and 15. One of his fellow pupils there was Charles Dodgson, better known as **Lewis …
…lling Swan's lamps and the generating equipment to go with them. == History == Toasting bread began as a method of prolonging the life of bread. The word comes from a Latin word tostum, meaning scorching or burning. == Links == [[http://www…
Suffolk Punch — 2020-11-30 16:25:44
…punch to describe its strength and solid build. The local farmers needed a draught horse with power, stamina, health, longevity, and docility for farm work. Genetics show that the Suffolk Punch is closely genetically grouped with the Fell a…
Railway — 2020-11-30 12:55:52
…4** the **world's first locomotive-hauled railway journey** took place as Trevithick's steam locomotive hauled a train along the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks, in Merthyr Tydfil, [[Wales]]. {{Image url="TrevithickCoin.jpg" class="left" t…
… be left out, Horatio Allen of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company ordered two British locomotives for a sixteen-mile-long line between coal mines and his canal: //The Stourbridge Lion// from Foster, Rastrick, and Co., and the //America// fro…
Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
…as invented in late medieval [[Scotland]], as evidenced by a curling stone inscribed with the date **1511**, uncovered along with another bearing the date **1551**, when an old pond was drained at **Dunblane**, Scotland. The first written refer…
Underwater Tunnel — 2020-10-11 23:44:16
…width="400" }} ::cr:: == 8th Wonder == The tunnel is 35 feet (11 m) wide by 20 feet (6 m) high, it is 434 yards (396 m) long, and 25 yards (23 m) below the river surface. When it was completed it was called the "**Eighth wonder of the world**".…
Vacuum cleaner — 2020-10-11 23:24:10
…mer, the salesmen demonstrated their wares by throwing street dirt onto people's carpets. The petrol motor started, and long hoses were strung in through the windows attached to a hollow container where the dirt was collected. The 'suction' was…
…their dustbag. == World Patent == In 1903 Booth was granted world patent rights for the vacuum cleaner. This started a long round of legal battles as would-be competitors attempted to cash in on his invention, and other inventors staked their …
Stem Cells — 2020-08-17 17:30:21
… death_date="now" death_place="" }} === Sir Martin Evans 1981 === ~-[[CategoryScience]]::[[Medical]]:[[1900s]] {{toc}} Along with **Matthew Kaufman** Martin Evans was the first to culture mice embryonic stem cells and cultivate them in a labora…
Safari Park — 2020-08-17 14:54:27
…ing game to roam the Longleat estate. The game being lions many came from the making of the film 'Born Free'. The concept of visitors “caged�…
…�� in their cars, while the lions roam free, eventually gained approval. {{Image url="LongleatLions.jpg" class="left" title="The drive-through at Longleat. Lions close-up" width="" }}…
Life Boat — 2020-08-17 09:00:19
… designed the world’s first unsinkable boat and patented it on 2 November 1785. {{TOC}} Lukin was a coach-builder in Long Acre, London and his experiments on a Norwegian yawl led him to create his **‘unimmergible’** boat. Lukin incorpo…
Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25
…in aviation since the Wright brothers flight in 1903. Imagine a world now without this invention. 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 t…
Greenwich Meridian — 2020-08-06 08:03:21
… meridian for latitude, was not a problem. Longitude, the position you are east or west, was still not possible to measure accurately. It was known in the 17th centur…
…cks and celestial objects for navigators but it wasn't until **John Harrison** invented his marine chronometer that the longitude at sea was fully mastered. Flamsteed had installed state-of-the-art pendulum clocks by the best clockmaker and …
…class="right" title="Prime Meridian Roof Open" width="" }} == GMT == All clocks around the world are determined by the longitude offset from Greenwich Mean Time. Because the earths crust is always moving so will the imaginary prime meridian…
Christmas Traditions — 2019-12-27 02:21:30
…pudding.jpg" title="Christmas Pud" width="200" }}||This pudding can be traced back to the 14th century but has changed along the way. Now it is a very rich steamed pudding crammed with fruit a hint of Brandy and served with cream after being fl…
Motor Racing Circuit — 2018-05-20 20:38:53
…te its car industry to help it compete and prosper in Europe. He used his own money in 1906 to build the nearly 3 mile long track that had two huge banked sections nearly 30 ft. high. It was 100 ft. wide hard-surfaced with two long straights. …
Stonehenge — 2018-01-26 21:52:34
…="600" }} {{toc}} The prehistoric megalith monument built in [[Wiltshire]], [[England]] dates from **3100 years B.C**. Along with Avebury, Stonehenge is one of the most famous groups of megaliths in the world. Stonehenge is older than the Egy…
… The tallest upright stone at Stonehenge is 22 feet high (6.7m), with another 8ft (2.4m) below ground = **30ft** (9.1m) long and has an estimated weight of 40-50 tons. That is higher than a 3 storey building and weighing more than a 6 African …
Emergency Telephone Number — 2017-07-06 10:16:06
… the day had a dial interface, it was decided to make the numbers difficult to dial accidentally by making them involve long sequences, but also easy find by the **blind**, in the **dark** or in **thick smoke**. It was suggested using the end n…
Theodolite — 2017-07-05 08:57:22
…y invented the reflecting telescope, or the refracting telescope as part of his theodolite to improve the accuracy over long distances of his surveying works. As referenced in his 1591 book //Pantometria//. …
Viagra — 2017-06-01 14:56:53
…rown** 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 angina. Nicholas Terrett was named …
Grand Theft Auto — 2017-05-11 15:45:29
…m Houser 2013 === {{toc}} Dan and Sam Houser , born in [[England]] Dan is video game producer as well the co-founder (along with his brother Sam) and vice president of creativity for **Rockstar Games**. === Rockstar North === **Grand Theft Au…
Beatrix Potter — 2016-07-23 14:22:52
…. 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 of land, to the [[National_Trust]]. === The Tale of Peter Rabbit 1902 === {{Im…
Tank — 2016-05-16 11:27:53
… Mark IV used en masse at the **Battle of Cambrai** in 20 November 1917. The rhomboidal shape was chosen to give as long a track run as possible to aid the crossing of the wide trenches on the Western Front battlefields. == The Inspiration…

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