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  1. Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35
    … brother, Theodore, was a biologist, his younger brother, Douglas, an eminent bookbinder; while Douglas's son Sydney Maurice ("Sandy"), two years Christopher's senior and also a bookbinder, was a celebrated and innovative designer of marbled pa…
  2. Intraocular Lens — 2021-08-20 10:40:24
    …s who made the lenses in the **USA** did not share Ridley's relaxed attitude to profits. Unlike Rayner, they set their prices **as high as possible.** == Recognition in the End == Intraocular lens implant is now the **most commonly performed*…
  3. Vitamins — 2021-08-16 09:52:16
    …00" }} Doctor Fletcher was researching the causes of the disease **Beriberi** when he discovered that eating unpolished rice prevented Beriberi and eating polished rice did not. William Fletcher believed that there were special nutrients contai…
    …ned in the husk of the rice. == Naming == However, it wasn't until 1912 that Polish scientist Cashmir Funk named those special nutrients "vitamine…
  4. DNA — 2021-08-14 21:04:12
    …t 5 Pembridge Place, Kensington, London, [[England]] and died of cancer on the 16th April,1958. {{Datetext text=" 'Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins', was born " event_date="15th December, 1916"}} in Pongara, North Wairarapa, New Zealand and di…
  5. Match — 2021-08-09 22:35:30
    …matchbox" width="" }} He called his matches “**Congreves**” after the Congreve’s 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. =…
  6. Pound Sterling — 2016-05-31 15:19:41
    …nate letter **'L'**, and the abbreviation for the unit of mass, lb (pound) because its value originally equated to the price of a pound of **silver** not gold. {{Image url="CoinShield.gif" class="right" title="Coin Shield" width="300" }} The …

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