1. Stockings — 2023-12-30 23:58:55

   …s refused a patent by Queen Elizabeth I as it was not superior to the hand made stockings and she wanted to protect the people making a living from hand knitting. {{Image url="KnittingMachine.jpg" class="right" title="Knitting Machine" width="" …

2. Elevator — 2023-12-30 12:44:08

   …e died in penury (extreme poverty) in 1844. The Colosseum was demolished in 1874 after being visited by over 1 million people! == Teagle == {{Image url="TeagleLift.jpg" class="left" title="Teagle Lift" width="450" }} Next came the “Teagle”,…

3. Airport — 2023-10-11 15:23:36

   …. == Links == [[https://www.solentsky.org/exhibitions| Solent Sky Museum]] [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/hampshire/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8711000/8711292.stm|BBC Southampton]]…

4. Cat Eyes — 2023-10-09 23:39:36

   …erated its expansion after the the war and eventually occupied a 20 acre site in Boothtown. At its peak it employed 130 people to manufacture over** a million Catseyes** a year for export all over the world. ---- == Simple and Effective == {{Imag…
   …heir use spread all over the world. == Life Saver == Shaw’s invention is credited with having saved many millions of people from death or injury in accidents. He and his company remained in Boothtown, where Shaw lived until his death in '''19…

5. Radar — 2023-10-08 00:18:51

   …{{Image url="Radar-Plaque.jpg" class="left" title="Radar Plaque" width="" }}::c:: Such was the secrecy that only three people witnessed the test, Watson-Watt, his assistant Arnold Wilkins, and a single member of the committee, A.P. Rowe. The dem…

6. WorldWideWeb — 2023-09-23 15:57:32

   …d Enquire, which he called a "memory substitute," for his personal use to help him remember connections between various people and projects at the lab. {{Image url="world-wide-web.png" class="left" title="world wide web" width="500" }} He envisio…

7. Telephone — 2023-09-23 15:57:07

   …CentennialTransmitter.jpg" class="left" title="Bell Centennial Transmitter" width="400" }} His father, who taught deaf people how to speak, invented "Visible Speech". This was a code which showed how the tongue, lips, and throat were positioned …
   … 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 voice. Elisha Gray claims he too invented the telephone, b…

8. Toilet — 2023-09-08 09:57:11

   …s' by installing the first flushing public toilets in the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851; over 827,000 people paid attendants one penny to use the 'Wash-rooms'. His installation went on to produce a revenue of £1000 a year. Jenn…

9. Winston Churchill — 2023-08-27 16:11:42

   …id 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 Churchill used his negotiating skills to forge an alliance of Allied Powers with the Soviet …
   …th January 1965. This iconic and very public event was televised live watched worldwide by an audience of **350 million people**.…

10. Police — 2022-05-20 08:52:50

    …ecause it was the colour of the popular Royal Navy rather than red which was the army's colour and struck fear into the people because of the way soldiers had been used to smash protests. The only weapon was a '''truncheon'''. ::c:: == Sir Rober…

11. British Empire — 2022-05-20 08:45:03

    …33.7Km2), which is approximately a **quarter** of the Earth’s total land area, and controlled more than **530 million people** – almost a **quarter** of the world’s population at the time. With colonies in every continent. {{image url="B…

12. YMCA — 2022-05-17 05:19:39

    …verton, [[Somerset]], [[England]]. George came to London in 1841 to work as a sales assistant in a draper's shop. Many people lived in unhealthy social conditions in the big cities at the end of the Industrial Revolution (roughly 1750 to 1850). …

13. Loch Ness Monster — 2022-05-03 17:06:34

    …it the king of the northern Picts near Inverness when he stopped at Loch Ness to confront a beast that had been killing people in the lake. Seeing a large beast about to attack another man, Columba intervened, invoking the name of God and command…

14. HomePage — 2022-05-03 16:49:56

    …=@@ {{Picturegrid grid="5"}} ::c:: @@Many of the wonders of modern living are thanks to great British Inventors. These people had a dream and fulfilled it.@@ **This is a salute to the British Inventors and their Inventions, Creations and Creato…

15. Four-minute Mile — 2021-08-20 10:55:12

    …broke the 4 minute mile. */ For many years, athletes had tried and failed to run a mile in less than four minutes that people thought it to be a //physical impossibility//. It became known as the the "four-minute barrier". The world record for …

16. Beatles — 2021-08-20 10:46:43

    … television appearances by the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show on 9, 16 23 February 1964. A record setting 73 million people tuned in that evening making it one of the seminal moments in television history. The 'real' people of the US had their…

17. Roundabout — 2021-08-16 09:58:53

    …h="" }} Roundabouts have become havens for wildlife. Isolated by busy traffic, animals are protected from predators and people rarely venture onto them. Wild life can thrive as in the 'Rabbit Roundabout' in Gloucester. == Links == Sollershott C…

18. Scouts — 2021-08-14 20:35:19

    …="Badenpowell2.jpg" title="Baden Powell " class="right" width="300"}} B-P, as he is known, met with various influential people in youth movements across the country, and was persuaded to write a version of Aids to Scouting aimed at teenage boys, …

19. Saline Drip — 2021-08-12 20:46:29

    …sh Dr William Brooke O'Shaughnessy. The cholera epidemic, which led to severe dehydration, was killing huge numbers of people. After administering the saline rectally had not improved the patients, on 23 May 1832 he wrote to the Central Board o…

20. Christmas Cracker — 2021-08-12 20:39:19

    …! 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 13 million crackers a year. Over the next few …

21. Guillotine — 2021-08-09 22:22:29

    …eed at which it fell would decapitate the condemned. The Halifax Gibbet was used on market days. This would ensure many people were in the town to witness the execution and the hope was that the fearsome sight of the Gibbet would act as a deterre…
    …icial register of Gibbet executions was not commenced until 1541; but between that year and 1650 there were //only// 54 people sentenced to death, perhaps indicating the effectiveness of the device as a deterrent. == Civil War == The machine …

22. Wellington Boot — 2021-08-09 21:58:54

    … over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in **1815**, Wellington became a British hero and a somewhat fashion icon with people from all quarters wanting to be seen in //Wellies//. == Wellingtons march on == {{Image url="Welly.jpg" class="right" …

23. Jigsaw Puzzle — 2021-08-09 21:24:39

    … very popular {{datediff from="1766"}} years later providing an educational challenge and pastime hobby for millions of people for a very small outlay. == Spilsbury Award == There is now a **Spilsbury Award** that is presented by the [[http://a…

24. Pub — 2021-08-09 21:19:14

    …cape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester in 1651. In fact pub signs commemorate many important events and people throughout British history for example ‘The Duke of Wellington’ ‘The Shakespeare Inn’ and ‘The Battle of Brit…

25. Refrigeration — 2021-08-08 18:50:45

    … fluids." It took around 150 years, 1000's of patents and ice that was contaminated from industrial pollution, before people began using refrigerators.…

26. Salicylic acid — 2021-08-08 18:32:13

    …and drying a pound of willow bark and creating a powder. Stone gave powdered willow bark over several years to about 50 people complaining of agues or fevers; it was successful and found to be a //‘powerful astringent and very efficacious in cu…

27. Vaccination — 2021-08-07 23:07:23

    …was repulsive and ungodly to inoculate someone with material from a diseased animal. A satirical cartoon of 1802 showed people who had been vaccinated sprouting cow's heads. However the obvious advantages of vaccination and the protection it prov…
    …hildren. **In 1980, as a result of Jenner's discovery, the World Health Assembly officially declared "the world and its peoples" free from endemic smallpox**. In 1977 Ali Maow Maalim, a hospital worker was the last person on Earth to catch small…

28. Marmite — 2021-04-03 10:38:16

    …ET). This may be where Marmite gets its name from. ==Love it or Hate it == Because of the strong taste of Marmite many people think it is a meat extract, Marmite is '100% meat and fat free' so it is suitable for **vegetarians**. If you know a …
    …fussy person who says 'Oh no, I can't stand Marmite' offer them a '**Twiglet**', most people quite happily eat a Twiglet even though they are coated in a yeast extract. There are now many imitators but Marmite i…

29. Toothbrush — 2021-01-28 15:14:07

    …illiam. 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 launched (under the Wisdom …
    …’s teeth 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 cl…

30. Mensa — 2020-12-03 00:59:15

    …t on a train in Surrey just after WWII had ended and they discussed the idea of forming a society for very intelligent people, the only qualification for membership being a high **IQ**. ::c:: {{Databox caption="Founder" Image="RolandBerrill.jpg…
    … born="1897" birth_place="Sydney" died="1962" death_place="Eastbourne" }} == MENSA == Mensa is the oldest society for people with a high IQ (Intelligence quotient). They used 'Mensa' from Latin for ‘table’ to symbolise that the group was li…

31. Railway — 2020-11-30 12:55:52

    …ithick 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 [[CategoryTransport]] coal out of the mines, into the national …

32. Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47

    …ngly invented by the English. A group of holidaymakers in Switzerland in 1890, wanted to create a sled that could carry people down the snow-covered road between St Moritz and Celerina. They joined two sleds together. Sport's name comes from the…

33. Vacuum cleaner — 2020-10-11 23:24:10

    … white drill suits. On finding a potential customer, 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 w…

34. Safari Park — 2020-08-17 14:54:27

    …ngleat in [[Wiltshire]] was the first drive-through safari park outside Africa. Opening on the 5th April 1966 486,500 people visited the lions of Longleat, in an estimated 106,000 cars and 1,950 coaches in the first year. Just nine weeks after…

35. Gravity — 2020-08-06 08:19:13

    …ne of the greatest scientists of all time. Galileo had proved that the planets revolve around the sun, not the earth as people thought at the time. This led Newton to improve [[Reflecting_Telescope| Telescopes]]. But no one had been able to expl…
    …meant that the large mass of the earth pulled objects toward it. That is why the apple fell down instead of up, and why people don’t float in the air. Isaac Newton explained the workings of the universe through mathematics. He formulated laws…

36. Christmas Traditions — 2019-12-27 02:21:30

    …paper tube, twisted at both ends, which contains a party hat, riddle and toy or other trinket. When it is pulled by two people it gives out a crack as its contents are dispersed.|| == Boxing Day == ||{{Image url="BoxingDay.jpg" title="Staff wai…
    …- a gift of money or food inside a box - to the staff of servants, maids, grooms, cooks, butlers, deliverymen and tradespeople who called regularly during the year. This tradition survives in the custom of tipping the milkman, postman, dustmen an…

37. Paternoster — 2018-09-18 13:06:34

    … travel continuously on a loop passing every floor. The pods or chambers are open with no doors capable of carrying two people or more. A passenger steps into a pod as it ascending then alights when it passes the required level, all while it mo…

38. English Language — 2018-01-26 21:45:55

    …ional organisations like **NATO, UN & WHO**. It is calculated that on an average school day approximately one billion people are learning English in one form or another. Less than a hundred years ago people from the north of England would stru…
    …ggle to communicate with people from the south of England, a matter of a hundred miles or so! Now speakers from opposite sides of the globe can communi…

39. Emergency Telephone Number — 2017-07-06 10:16:06

    … unable to dial 0 for the switchboard found it jammed with calls and could not alert anyone of the fire. Prior to 999 people called their local police station to raise the alarm. Then dialling 0 and asking the operator for police, fire or ambul…

40. Meccano — 2017-05-14 01:23:25

    …vice, he patented his invention in January 1901 as "**Improvements in Toy or Educational Devices for Children and Young People**", but not without first having to borrow five pounds from his employer, David Elliot, to cover the costs. His employ…

41. Tank — 2016-05-16 11:27:53

    …enches, disrupting the defence and clearing the way for an infantry advance. == Churchill == With recommendations from people like Ernest Swinton the //Landships Committee//, established by Churchill in February 1915, conducted experiments and t…

42. Salvation Army — 2016-01-07 15:19:48

    …Army. William promoted himself to ‘General Booth’, he summed up the purpose of this body saying "We are a salvation people" and "We are a volunteer army". The Salvation Army was modeled after the military, with its own hymns, often with word…

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