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  1. Airport — 2023-10-11 15:23:36
    … these were mainly **'Flying Boats'**. These war planes became Britain’s first commercial flying boats, and the newspapers of the time reported that Southampton Water had become the world’s first **‘Air-Port’**. {{Image url="Supermari…
  2. Carbonated water — 2023-10-09 23:52:55
    …gars into low alcohol, as in [[Sparkling_Wine]]. This initial success led to further experimentation and a published paper entitled, **Impregnating Water with Fixed Air**. The paper described a means of chemical carbonation by dripping vitri…
    … work. == Mass Production == {{Image url="SodaDrink.jpg" class="right" title="Soda Drink" width="250" }} Priestley’s paper would however capture the eye of a young German watchmaker in Geneva, **Switzerland**, who would ultimately bring Pries…
  3. Steam Engine — 2023-10-08 00:19:36
    …ines. Boulton soon realised the potential of Watts engine. With the piston movement converted to rotary movement, soon paper, flour, cotton and iron mills are all powered by Watt’s engines, driving the **Industrial Revolution**. The term '**…
  4. Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35
    …ce ("Sandy"), two years Christopher's senior and also a bookbinder, was a celebrated and innovative designer of marbled papers. Despite an interest in the arts, Christopher read Engineering at Peterhouse, Cambridge. After Cambridge he worked for…
  5. Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52
    …ing codes, unlike the Morse system. === Morse === On learning of this first electrical telegraph success from the newspapers in New York, S F B Morse, a painter and electrical experimenter, sailed to Liverpool in May 1838 to see how the Cooke…
  6. Winston Churchill — 2023-08-27 16:11:42
    … Royal Navy. The current Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, wanted to appease Germany and Hitler and famously waved a paper that he said promised peace. Churchill knew this would not work and warned the government that they needed to help figh…
  7. Lasagne — 2022-05-20 08:38:58
    …oth and do in an erthen pot, take flour of payndemayn and make therof past with water. and make therof thynne foyles as paper with a roller, drye it harde and seeth it in broth take Chese ruayn grated and lay it in disshes with powdour douce. an…
  8. Loch Ness Monster — 2022-05-03 17:06:34
    …ars, the modern legend of the Loch Ness Monster was boosted when a sighting 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 plung…
  9. Pneumatic Tyre — 2022-05-03 16:45:33
    …n local cyclist, Willie Hume, won a race at Cherryvale using it, the novelty started to catch on. == Onlooker == The paper manufacturer, Harvey du Cros, who was in the crowd at the time, bought Dunlop's patents in 1896 for £3000. Dunlop had …
  10. Loudspeaker — 2021-11-07 21:26:37
    …ker" width="" }} ::c:: == Diaphragm == The concept was further refined in 1901 by John Stroh. He described the conical paper diaphragm that terminated at the rim of the speaker in a section that was flat except for corrugations. == Early Spea…
  11. MRI Scan — 2021-08-20 11:04:59
    …ossible their interpretation into useful images. He suggested gradients as a way to spatially localise NMR signals in a paper published in 1973. His method would speed up the process of producing images from an hour to a fraction of a second. A …
  12. Modern Olympics — 2021-08-14 20:26:14
    …hin the country led to the government of the day politely declining his overtures. He received support in the Greek newspaper **Clio**, in 1881 printed the following passage: ^^Dr. Brookes, this enthusiastic Philhellene is endeavouring to organi…
  13. Fingerprints — 2021-08-14 20:06:49
    …e="Dr. Henry Faulds" width="" }} In 1880, Dr. Henry Faulds, a Scottish surgeon in a Tokyo hospital, published his first paper on the usefulness of fingerprints for identification and proposed a method to record them with printing ink. He establi…
  14. Photography — 2021-08-14 19:57:18
    …r 1877) took the first **reproducible photograph** in 1835. He was born in Melbury, [[Dorset]] and invented the salted paper and calotype process that allowed images to be permanently fixed. **Thomas Wedgwood** had already made photograms - si…
    …lhouettes of leaves and other objects - but these faded quickly. Talbot process based the prints on paper that had been made light sensitive, rather than bitumen or copper-paper. He mastered the three primary elements of pho…
  15. Football — 2021-08-14 19:52:33
    … solicitor by profession and captain of **Barnes Football Club** that he formed in 1858. He wrote to 'Bell's Life Newspaper' proposing a governing body for the sport that led to the first meeting. He wanted a common set of rules so that clubs…
  16. Christmas Cracker — 2021-08-12 20:39:19
    …his business. On a trip to Paris in 1846 Tom discovered the “bon-bon” sugared almond, wrapped in a twist of tissue paper. He added a motto inside the sweet and had moderate success selling it in Britain. {{Image url="christmas-cracker.jpg"…
    … Coca-Cola invented him!" width="400" }} Eureka! Now it all came together. The tube to hold the toy, a corny joke and a paper hat all flew out of the product when two people pulled it apart with cracking sound. By 1900 the company were producing…
  17. Match — 2021-08-09 22:35:30
    … rocket invented in 1808. The price of a box of 50 matches was one shilling. Included with each box was a piece of sandpaper to **strike a light** with. == Improvements == In 1829, Scots inventor Sir Isaac Holden invented an improved version o…
  18. Light Bulb — 2021-08-09 21:56:27
    …h="" }} Much later, in 1850 the 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 pate…
    …="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 demonstrated his new electric lamps in **Newcastle**, Engl…
    …ing 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 knighted in 1904. …
  19. Sparkling Wine — 2021-08-08 20:32:53
    …s cider was well established with its much livelier quality. As early as 1662 when '''Christopher Merret''' presented a paper to the newly formed Royal Society in which he stated that sugar and molasses were being added to wines of all sorts to …
  20. Refrigeration — 2021-08-08 18:50:45
    …e heat from the container's surroundings, causing it to cool. This was recorded in his only published chemistry-related paper, "Of the Cold produced by Evaporating Fluids, and of some other Means of producing Cold". == Frozen in Time == The re…
  21. Salicylic acid — 2021-08-08 18:32:13
    … Royal Society on June 2, 1763, describing the use of dried willow bark as a remedy for fevers and agues. This landmark paper is the basis for the discovery and chemical structure of aspirin, and the development of non-steroidal anti-inflammator…
  22. Vaccination — 2021-08-07 23:07:23
    …wpox. Jenner subsequently proved that having been inoculated with cowpox Phipps was immune to smallpox. He submitted a paper to the **Royal Society** in 1797 describing his experiment but was told that his ideas were too revolutionary and that …
  23. Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
    … a series of meetings. Central to these meetings was '''Ebenezer Cobb Morley''' (1831-1924) he wrote to Bell's Life newspaper proposing a governing body for the sport that led to the first meeting. He wanted a common set of rules so that clubs f…
  24. Silicone — 2020-09-22 23:25:26
    …nic compounds of silicon and invented the term silicone. <<{{amazon type="book" items="B00B65Q1HY" }}<< He published 54 papers on the subject between 1899 and 1940. In 1901 he coined the term silicone. Two ensuing world wars put his ideas on hol…
  25. Eraser — 2020-08-18 10:06:20
    …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 by Mr. Nairne, Mathematical Instrument-Maker, opposite the Royal-Exchange…
  26. Christmas Traditions — 2019-12-27 02:21:30
    …Cracker" }}||On the dinner table on Christmas Day. Invented by a London baker in 1846, a cracker is a brightly coloured paper tube, twisted at both ends, which contains a party hat, riddle and toy or other trinket. When it is pulled by two peopl…

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