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  1. PIN — 2023-09-23 15:56:10
    … death_date="now" }} The Personal Identification Number was invented by Goodfellow in 1966 to secure cash ATM machines. Referred to as the 'Chip & PIN' system. === James Goodfellow 1966 === James Goodfellow OBE was born in Paisley, [[Scotland]…
  2. LCD — 2023-09-23 15:53:09
    …seiko watch" width="200" }} == Awards == Gray was the recipient of the 1995 Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology, often referred to as the Japanese Nobel Prize. == Links == http://www.merck.co.uk/ https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/fellows…
  3. Electric Motor — 2023-09-23 15:52:02
    …ce for measuring current. Sturgeon died in poverty and is buried in an overlooked Prestwich grave, whose stone simply refers to him as "**The Electrician**".…
  4. Cambridge Cream — 2022-05-20 08:48:45
    …. ||{{{toc}}}||{{amazon type="book" items="1906507317" }}|| Several country's claim the origin of what is now often referred to as ''''crème brulee'''', that literally translates to **Burnt Cream**. == ''''Crème Brulee? Non non'''' == C…
    …ambridge Cream is often thought to be a French invention, the first written reference to it in France is in François Massialot's 'Le cuisinier royal et bourgeois' of 1691, but it is called **'crème …
  5. Lasagne — 2022-05-20 08:38:58
    …" }} Modern lasagne has tomatoes but it would be 200 hundred years before Europeans even saw a tomato. Medieval broth refered to both meat or vegetable stew like preperations.…
  6. Loch Ness Monster — 2022-05-03 17:06:34
    …urs were thought to have died off with the rest of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. == In History == There are many references to “Nessie” in Scottish history, dating back to around** A.D. 500**. When local Picts carved a strange aquatic…
    …l="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-century biography of Saint Columba, the Irish missionary who introduced Christia…
  7. Loudspeaker — 2021-11-07 21:26:37
    …cy, but telephone communication was pushing the need for better audio reproduction. Lodge's cone loudspeaker, which he referred to as a "bellowing telephone", used the basic principle of the conventional cone loudspeaker drivers that we know t…
  8. Guinness Book of World Records — 2021-08-20 10:45:53
    …e url="NickRossMcWhirter.jpg" class="left" title="Nick & Ross McWhirter" width="500" }} After a fruitless search for a reference for such facts, he had the idea that Guiness could provide a 'record' book for settling arguments in [[Pub]]s. ==…
  9. DNA — 2021-08-14 21:04:12
    …yribose; the rungs are each composed of a pair of nitrogen-containing nucleotides. In their Nobel lectures they cite 98 references, none are Franklin’s. Only Wilkins included her in his acknowledgements. Franklin died in 1958.…
  10. Adjustable Spanner — 2021-08-10 08:22:45
    …about **1964**. Today the adjustable crescent shaped spanner is used worldwide and throughout Europe where it is often referred to as the **'English key'** (Clé anglaise - French.) or simply a //'Clyburn Spanner'//. It was made under license …
  11. Match — 2021-08-09 22:35:30
    …s.jpg" class="left" title="John Walker Lights" width="200" }} Walker did not patent his **"Friction Light"** matches, preferring instead to pursue his scientific studies, he did not consider his invention important enough to patent. Also he di…
  12. Light Bulb — 2021-08-09 21:56:27
    …ned British Patent 4933 on 27 November 1880. /* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is commented out for reference only Edison patent was 4 November 1879 granted Jan 1880. on October 8, 1883 the US Patent Office ruled that Ediso…
  13. Cowboy — 2021-08-09 21:03:46
    …**New Orleans Picayune**, not referring to a man, but to a //race horse//. The word enters printed use in the U.S. at about the same time the great cattle …
    … **vacquero** a Spanish word that was Anglicised to become **Buckaroo**. In fact, cowboy was used in a negative way to refer to Brits/Tories who stole US cattle during the war of independence and again to refer to black or, as they became known…
    …s//. == Links == [[http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2012/01/on-the-history-of-the-word-cowboy.html | Reference]] {{tag ids="Cowboy horse vacquero buckaroo cows cattle herder England"}} …
  14. Golf — 2020-11-30 16:29:33
    …ficially throughout [[Scotland]] from 1502, when the ban was lifted. === Edinburgh Scotland 1502 === Most of the early references to golf in Scottish official records are either to ban it or to condemn those playing it. The first documented men…
  15. Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
    …along with another bearing the date **1551**, when an old pond was drained at **Dunblane**, Scotland. The first written reference to a contest using stones on ice coming from the records of Paisley Abbey, Renfrew, in February **1541**. One of t…
  16. Vacuum cleaner — 2020-10-11 23:24:10
    …e" title="Booth Advert" width="" }}@@ ::cl:: /* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is commented out for reference only Theresa Place, Bristol Road Terminus (1879-97) [SO 82621733] The original terminus in Bristol Road was at the …
  17. Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25
    …to see if there would be any interest and give Britain the edge in aviation. The RAF returned the idea to Whittle, they referred to the design as // "impracticable."// {{Image url="Whittlestudent.jpg" class="left" width="300" title="Whittle stu…
  18. Greenwich Meridian — 2020-08-06 08:03:21
    …maker and set these clocks to the local time, Greenwich Mean Time. Flamsteed’s catalogue of stars become the standard reference work for plotting star positions based on Greenwich time. Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal 1765 to 1811, proce…
  19. Christmas Traditions — 2019-12-27 02:21:30
    …can be traced back to Medieval times where the explanation for the word ''meat'' is found, in Old English meat or mete, referred to any food, not just animal.|| == Christmas crackers == ||{{Image url="Xmascracker.jpg" width="200" title="Cracke…
  20. Theodolite — 2017-07-05 08:57:22
    …e 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//. …

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