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Vacuum Flask — 2023-10-09 23:46:28
… property of matter at extremely low temperatures. He was the first person to liquefy, and later solidify, hydrogen and show that metals had increased ability to conduct electricity at low temperatures. Using charcoal as an absorbing agent, h…
Glastonbury Festival — 2023-10-09 23:45:46
…e| Jimi Hendrix]] died. Headline act was **Tyrannosaurus Rex** (T.Rex) who stepped in for the **Kinks** who failed to show up. == Facts == {{Image url="GlastonburyFestival.jpg" class="left" title="Glastonbury Festival" width="400" }} Glaston…
Steam Engine — 2023-10-08 00:19:36
… to automate the process.) '''Humphrey Gainsborough''' produced a model condensing steam engine in the 1760s, which he showed to '''Richard Lovell Edgeworth''', a member of the Lunar Society. In **1769** '''James Watt''', another member of the…
SMS — 2023-10-04 10:30:06
…eation of txt spk (text speak), like LOL (laughing out loud) and emoticons :-) symbols made from keyboard characters to show emotions. This inspired the creation of emojis.…
Telephone — 2023-09-23 15:57:07
…tter" 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 to make speech sounds. Graham, or "Aleck", as his family called him,…
… == Back in Britain == {{Image url="AlexBellTelephone.jpg" class="left" title="Early Bell Telephone" width="260" }} He showed the invention to Queen Victoria of England and she wanted lines to connect her castles. By 1917, nearly all of the U…
Radio — 2023-09-23 15:56:24
…of communication by radio waves had a long history with many scientists contributing. == 1864 == James Clerk Maxwell showed mathematically that electromagnetic waves could propagate through free space. == 1886 == Heinrich Rudolf Hertz notic…
iPod — 2023-09-23 15:52:55
… believed its capacity would improve. ::c:: {{image url="Ipod.jpg" width="200" class="left" }} His sketches at the time showed a credit-card-sized player with a rectangular screen and a central menu button to scroll through a selection of music…
Automatic watch — 2023-09-23 12:03:07
…jpg" class="right" title="Harwood watch face" width="200" }} == Self Winding Watch Company == The watches were first shown at the Basel Fair in 1926. He set up the Harwood Self Winding Watch Company in 1928 to market the watches in the UK.…
Thoroughbred Horse — 2022-08-29 09:12:34
…4 inches) and capable of speeds of 44mph they are commonly used in horse racing but, Thoroughbreds are also popular for show jumping, dressage, hunting, polo. The English Thoroughbred has since been introduced to most countries, where it is bre…
Crufts — 2022-05-03 17:14:00
…="28 Jun 1852" birth_place="" death_date="10 Sep 1938" death_place="Highbury" }} [[Livestock]]:[[1800s]] == Crufts Dog Show == Crufts dog show is the largest dog show in the world. {{Image url="CruftsWinner.jpg" class="left" title="Crufts Win…
Television — 2021-11-06 16:35:18
…gh on the west coast of [[Scotland]], the son of a clergyman. Dogged by ill health for most of his life, he nonetheless showed early signs of ingenuity, rigging up a telephone exchange to connect his bedroom to those of his friends across the s…
Heroin — 2021-08-20 11:14:28
…aloid with acetic anhydride. == Effective == Charles tested his new drug with colleague F. M. Pierce but observations showed it was not without its own side effects. Wright felt it was not right to pursue another drug with unwanted effects li…
Titanic — 2021-08-20 11:12:19
…nd]], to New York City and sank on April 15, 1912. {{image url="Titanic-Hull.jpg" class="center" title="Titanic Hull to show her scale" width="650" }} >>{{amazonad}}>> |=|(x:2) Titanic Statistics || ||Titanic's Length ||882.75 feet|| ||Titanic'…
Workmate — 2021-08-20 11:10:56
…dea was rejected by manufacturers for many years, so Hickman sold the benches himself to professional builders at trade shows, building up a client base of tradesmen. Slowly the demand increased. ::c:: == Lotus Car == Ron moved to [[London…
MRI Scan — 2021-08-20 11:04:59
… in our bodies. This creates tiny changes that MRI computers process this to construct images. In 1973, Paul Lauterbur showed NMR could produce images from which he could slowly build a picture of the inside of a body. British scientist Peter …
…ication of NMR to imaging that led directly to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). == Faster processing == In 1973 Peter showed how the radio signals from MRI could be mathematically analysed, making possible their interpretation into useful ima…
Miss World — 2021-08-20 10:50:22
…rankland was Miss World in 1961 representing United Kingdom" width="300" }} The BBC started to broadcast the Miss World show in 1959. It became one of the the most popular shows in Britain. The pageant is now broadcast in over 140 countries. …
…n 2000 and his wife Julia became the chairwoman of the Miss world organization. As the the biggest Miss world pageant show in the world it has earned **£250 million** for charity. …
Beatles — 2021-08-20 10:46:43
… Beatlemania exploded in the United States with three national 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 mome…
…lboard Hot 100, a feat that has never been repeated. /* event_date="9 February 1964" Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show */ == The Global Invasion == They held and still hold many records in the music industry. ~- Biggest All-Times Sales.…
Roundabout — 2021-08-16 09:58:53
…ou can get. No traffic light bulbs to replace or traffic chaos when there is a power cut. New research in America has shown that where a roundabout has been installed, savings of up to 40% on fuel can be saved, due to the fact the traffic is …
…flowing more freely. Pennsylvania Transport Department has shown that roundabouts result in 90% reduction in fatalities, 76% reduction in injuries and 35% reduction in all crashes. Wh…
Antiseptic — 2021-08-12 20:38:14
…d operating gowns as a display of their experience. Lister was aware of the work by the French chemist, Louis Pasteur, showing the existence of micro-organisms. Lister conducted his own experiments and decided to use his findings to develop …
Light Bulb — 2021-08-09 21:56:27
…of high resistance" was valid. Unfortunately further research exposed in A Streak of Luck by Robert Conot (1979), also shows that Edison and his attorneys hid significant information from the judge. They cut out the October 7-21, 1879 section …
…of a notebook that the judge might have determined showed that they were simply extending Sawyer’s (or Swan’s) work with carbon "burners" or "rods" in an evacuated glass b…
Pub — 2021-08-09 21:19:14
…e heraldic red lion of Scotland be displayed on all buildings of importance including taverns. A way for Innkeepers to show their loyalty it is perhaps no surprise that so many pubs bear names such as ‘The Kings Arms’ ‘Royal Oak’ or �…
Vaccination — 2021-08-07 23:07:23
…med it 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 protectio…
DNA Forensics — 2021-01-22 08:47:52
…is a geneticist at the University of Leicester. In **1984** through his investigations Jeffreys discovered a method of showing variations between individuals' **DNA** (deoxyribonucleic acid), inventing and developing genetic finger printing. W…
…" class="right" title="Alec Jeffreys Eureka moment" width="280" }} An X-ray film image of a DNA experiment unexpectedly showed both similarities and differences between the DNA of different members of his technician's family. He realized that …
Suffolk Punch — 2020-11-30 16:25:44
…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 and Dales British ponies and the European Haflinger…
Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
…Hockey 1860 == Hockey-like games involving sticks and balls have been played for thousands of years. Historical records show that a crude form of hockey was played in Egypt 4,000 years ago, and in Ethiopia around 1,000 BC. {{Image url="Field_ho…
Stem Cells — 2020-08-17 17:30:21
…ne** in recognition of his work in **2007**. == Stem Cells == {{Image url="StemCells.png" class="left" title="Diagram showing how stem cells are used." width="550" }} Our body is made up of cells that have many different functions. Before a c…
TV Black and White Kiss — 2020-08-17 09:07:45
…da TV. It is a drama that looks at race, class and insecurity in Britain, and contains the first interracial kiss to be shown on TV. This was six years before **Kirk** kissed Uhura in **Star Trek** and that was beaten anyway by the British dra…
Sinoatrial Node — 2020-08-15 18:08:00
…were bicycling through the beautiful cherry orchards near their cottage in [[Kent]]. Upon their return, Flack excitedly showed Keith a wonderful structure he had discovered in the right auricle of the mole, just where the superior vena cava ent…
Monty Python — 2020-08-06 07:48:50
…rry Gillam. Monty Python’s Flying Circus, it's full title, was a ground breaking surreal comedy [[Television]] sketch show of 45 episodes broadcast by the BBC between 1969 and 1974. The show had a catchy theme music by the Band of the Grena…
…dier Guards' of John Philip Sousa's "The Liberty Bell". == So British == The show, which was commissioned by none other than David Attenborough, seemed so intrinsically British that no-one could imagin…
English Language — 2018-01-26 21:45:55
… opposite sides of the globe can communicate with each other. == English speaking countries == As a main language are shown in bold. "" <ul> <li>Antigua </li><li>Australia </li><li>Bahamas </…
Viagra — 2017-06-01 14:56:53
…to flow to the penis as a side effect. Actually, the pill didn't pan out as an effective treatment for angina but still showed promise in the area of hypertension. Instead, Pfizer decided to market the drug as an erectile enhancer. Wood and Dun…
Whisky — 2016-05-26 10:22:03
…= Celts 900 === Distillation in Ireland and Scotland began gathering steam between 11th and 13th century. But records show that Ancient Celts practiced distillation during the production of their **"uisge beatha"** (//water of life//). Throu…

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