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Elevator — 2023-12-30 12:44:08
…ing from his brother-in-law. He conjured up an elaborate scheme to create a 360 degree panorama view of London on the inside of a dome of his Colosseum specially built in Regents Park resembling the Roman Pantheon. {{Image url="LondonColosseum.…
…jpg" class="left" title="London Colosseum" width="500" }}::cl:: Inside the Colosseum was a steam-powered **"Ascending Room"** capable of elevating up to twelve persons and was raised by "sec…
Stainless Steel — 2023-10-09 23:42:45
…rust. In 1908 Brearley was appointed lead researcher at Firth Laboratories. == Weapon Erosion == One of the major downsides was erosion in weaponry. Brearley was asked to find a way to prolong the life of gun barrels. Harry experimented with …
Phototherapy — 2023-10-09 23:41:51
…h air was more healthy than a stuffy hospital. One warm summer day in the 1950s Sister J Ward took a premature baby outside. When she returned to the unit, the baby was a pale yellow except for a small bright yellow section which had been cove…
Cat Eyes — 2023-10-09 23:39:36
…tseye// was their trademark. == Improved Safety == He founded the company with £500 of capital and opened a factory beside his home in Boothtown. In 1936 Shaw conducted a public experiment at his own expense by installing fifty Catseyes on a …
…dangerous stretch of road outside Bradford. The number of accidents on the road fell sharply and local drivers attributed this to the visibility provided…
…in '''1976'''. His home was void of carpets, curtains and other comforts, but a pair of Rolls-Royces would be parked outside and he stocked the cellar with crates of Worthington’s White Shield, his ''**'favourite beer**'''.…
Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35
…ntions of the 20th century, the Hovercraft, was originally tested in **1955** using an empty ""KiteKat"" cat food tin inside a coffee tin, a vacuum cleaner and a pair of kitchen scales. This led to the first hovercraft to be produced commercial…
Marshall Amplification — 2023-10-07 09:45:58
…stack" width="" }} In 1985, Marshall was invited to add his hand prints to the **Rock Hall of Fame **in Hollywood alongside the instrument pioneers Leo Fender, Robert Moog, Les Paul and Bill Ludwig. He was appointed an OBE for his services to …
PIN — 2023-09-23 15:56:10
… cash dispenser or ATM, to provide a weekend service. Martins bank had asked Chubb to produce a machine to be placed outside the bank that would allow customers to get cash when it was shut. The task was taken up by Kelvin Hughes, a subsidiar…
Automatic watch — 2023-09-23 12:03:07
… to most wrist watches inaccuracy and functional problems, Harwood looked to develop a watch with a winding mechanism inside the watch. {{image url="john-harwood-movement-1929.jpg" class="left" title="Harwood self-winding watch" width="200" }}…
Worcestershire Sauce — 2023-09-18 19:06:46
…opular all over the world and as the business grew so did the premises. By **1865** Lea & Perrins gave up the pharmacy side of the business to concentrate on the manufacture of Worcestershire Sauce. Because Lea and Perrins were originally che…
Toilet — 2023-09-08 09:57:11
…hanks. === Thomas Crapper 1880 === >>{{image url="Crapper.jpg" title="Thomas Crapper" width="180" }}>> Born 1836 Waterside, Yorkshire, England. During the 1880s Thomas Crapper invented the siphonic system for emptying the cistern. This avoide…
Winston Churchill — 2023-08-27 16:11:42
…Birth_date="30 November 1874" Death_date="24 January 1965" Knighted="24 April 1953" width="" }} Winston Churchill is considered by many the **world's greatest leader** of the 20th century. {{toc}} === Blenheim 1874 === Churchill was born 1874 i…
Pay Toilet — 2022-09-27 07:23:49
…velation of the Secrets of Cheating at Games of Chance and Skill. This book became an instant hit and to this day is considered to be a classic gambling book.…
Plastic — 2022-09-01 08:57:23
…h plastic. This is especially so with single use items that are discarded and not reused blotting the oceans and countryside. Things made of Plastic ""<marquee> Bottles Buckets Boxes Cups Toothbrushes Pens Smartphones Computers Televisions X…
Postage Stamp — 2021-11-06 16:32:56
…gham and this is where Rowland was educated. In 1807 Rowland Hill became a student-teacher at his father's school. As a sideline Rowland was also an inventor, although most of his ideas were never used. …
Heroin — 2021-08-20 11:14:28
…ffective == 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 like the drug he wanted to replace, …
…morphine. So he shelved the drug. == Bayer == These side effects did not deter Heinrich Dreser, a German chemist at Bayer Laboratories. He continued to test diacetylmorphine a…
MRI Scan — 2021-08-20 11:04:59
…ct 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 Mansfield developed the mathematical processes that turned MRI into a useful rapid i…
Paralympic Games — 2021-08-20 10:59:53
…lity were held in Rome in 1960; officially called the// 9th Annual International Stoke Mandeville Games//, these are considered to be the first Paralympic Games. The first Winter Paralympics were held in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden in 1976. == P…
Guinness Book of World Records — 2021-08-20 10:45:53
…Departure == On November 27, 1975, editor Ross ""McWhirter"" was assassinated by two members of the Provisional IRA outside his North London home. …
Intraocular Lens — 2021-08-20 10:40:24
…om entering the eye and causes **cataracts**. The ancient Greeks used to deal with this condition by crudely pushing aside the lens within the eye. And until Ridleys invention there was nothing better other than removing the lens and wearing …
Roundabout — 2021-08-16 09:58:53
…, 76% reduction in injuries and 35% reduction in all crashes. When there is a collision on a roundabout they tend to be sideswipes as opposed to a head on crash. You can always shoot a red light, well designed roundabouts slow the traffic reduc…
Vitamins — 2021-08-16 09:52:16
…e**, in 1890, obtained a scholarship to St. Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, from which he qualified in 1896. He held a resident appointment at the Metropolitan Hospital, and then spent several years in general practice in **Coventry** before ent…
Stan Laurel — 2021-08-14 21:08:01
…music hall. Developing his skills in comedic sketches. Laurel was a member of "Fred Karno's Army," where he worked alongside [[Charlie_Chaplin|Charlie Chaplin]]. Chaplin and Laurel arrived in the United States on the same ship from Britain wit…
…h the Karno troupe in 1916. Laurel worked briefly alongside Oliver Hardy in a silent film short **The Lucky Dog** (1921). Around the same time he adopted the stage surname of Laur…
DNA — 2021-08-14 21:04:12
…Nobel Prize''' in Physiology or Medicine. {{Image url="DNA-Eagle-Pub-Cambridge.jpg" class="right" title="DNA plaque outside the Eagle Pub Cambridge" width="400" }} They proposed that the DNA molecule takes the shape of a double helix, an eleg…
CT Scan — 2021-08-14 20:48:42
…graphy. He states the project was run on a shoe-string.'}} He came up with the idea that one could determine what was inside a box by taking X-ray readings at all angles around the object. Godfrey thought he could use a computer to take images…
Public Park — 2021-08-14 20:30:20
…**1847**'''. It soon became an instant economic and social success. Paxton's concept was to create an idealised countryside landscape of open meadows and naturalistic woodland belts. The lakes are shaped to appear as sinuous rivers with views …
Fish and chips — 2021-08-14 20:10:50
…{Image url="Firstnchip_shop.jpg" class="left" title="First chip shop" width="300" }} Tommyfield market in Oldham is considered the home of Britain’s first fish and chip shop. <<{{amazonad}}>>…
Bovril — 2021-08-14 20:09:04
…id Beef'//, that was later called **Bovril.** He returned to Britain in 1880 where he developed the brand further. He resided in his own '**Bovril Castle**' – Kingswood House in Sydenham.…
Christmas Cracker — 2021-08-12 20:39:19
…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" class="left" title="chris…
Antiseptic — 2021-08-12 20:38:14
…ry dropped dramatically. This led to the rise of sterile surgery. On the centenary of his death, in 2012, Lister was considered by most in the medical field as "the father of modern surgery". == Legacy == {{image url="Listerine.jpg" class="rig…
Hypodermic Syringe — 2021-08-12 20:33:54
…e pain. In May 1844, he developed a drip needle for introducing drugs into a vein. Up to that time, it had not been considered possible to administer drugs through the skin, and for the most part, drugs could only be administered orally. …
Match — 2021-08-09 22:35:30
…er 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 did not divulge the exact composition of his matches, wanting to imp…
Guillotine — 2021-08-09 22:22:29
…he execution and the hope was that the fearsome sight of the Gibbet would act as a deterrent to those who might have considered a life of crime. == Deterrent == The first recorded use of the Halifax Gibbet is in 1286 for the execution of **J…
Jigsaw Puzzle — 2021-08-09 21:24:39
…Ashby. == Modern Twist == At this point the puzzles were all hand made on solid wood and were too expensive to be considered a toy. It took over 100 years after they were invented - that these ‘dissections’ began to be known as ‘**jigs…
Cowboy — 2021-08-09 21:03:46
… great cattle drovers were being superceded by the [[Railway]]. Even as late as 1881 Chester A. Arthur, then a U.S. president, spoke sneeringly when he denounced a band of desperadoes as //cowboys//. {{Image url="Cowboy_England.jpg" class="lef…
Sparkling Wine — 2021-08-08 20:32:53
…y Sir George Etherege''' who found 'The Elixir of Life'. This was decades before Dom Pérignon who is traditionally considered to have invented sparkling wine in Champagne around 1697 when he declared //“Come quickly, I am tasting the stars…
Salicylic acid — 2021-08-08 18:32:13
…with me". == A Letter == On April 25, 1763, Reverend Stone wrote to George Parker, second earl of Macclesfield, and president of the **Royal Society** in a letter read before the Royal Society on June 2, 1763, describing the use of dried willo…
Vaccination — 2021-08-07 23:07:23
…ule and inserted it into an incision on the boy's arm. He was testing his theory, drawn from the folklore of the countryside, that milkmaids who suffered the mild disease of cowpox never contracted smallpox, one of the greatest killers of the p…
Marmite — 2021-04-03 10:38:16
…brew-ing industry in the area. He and his brother Leonard, a grocer, planned to market one of the products which he considered palatable for humans. By putting their initials together and adding a Z they created Zalo. But Alfred had a wife an…
Electric Toaster — 2020-12-01 01:05:39
…s the forerunner of today's toasters. The device was quite simple and a person had to turn the bread over to toast both sides and turn the machine off by hand. ::c:: == Crompton == {{Image url="Crompton.jpg" class="left" width="300" title="Colo…
Banoffi Pie — 2020-12-01 00:13:56
…sure that the pan does not boil dry. ~- Remove the tin from the water and allow to cool completely before opening. ~- Inside you will find the soft toffee filling. **Method** ~- Whip the cream with the instant coffee and sugar until thick and s…
Underwater Tunnel — 2020-10-11 23:44:16
…hield.jpg" class="right" title=" Brunel Tunnelling Shield" width="" }} The attempts that had failed led engineers to consider it impractical. But this did not deter Brunel. In January 1818 Brunel patented a revolutionary **tunnelling shield** …
…the shafts down to the tunnel. This in it itself was a marvel of engineering. Instead of digging a hole then building inside, Marc Brunel had the 50 foot wide and 42 foot high shaft built on top of a 25-ton iron hoop, at ground level. This stru…
Vacuum cleaner — 2020-10-11 23:24:10
…is machine had a bunch of high-pressure jets that blew air into carpets in the hope of getting the dust to fly from one side of the carriage into a dustbox on the other side. '''Booth''' asked the '''American inventor''' why he did not use suc…
…1. It was made for Osborne House, a training college for naval officers on the Isle of Wight. The machine was parked outside and the hoses were fed through the windows. It was originally powered by an oil engine, the electric motor was added la…
… terrace which dates from 1836 is now numbered 73-91 Bristol Road (Linden Tree pub row of houses) and is on the eastern side of the road. It was the home of some of Gloucester's merchants. */ == In Life == Booth married the daughter of Francis…
Slavery Abolition — 2020-08-17 15:00:36
…tion Act in 1833. == The Barbary Corsairs == From before 1500 the Barbary pirates of **Africa** operated raids of seaside villages in **Italy, Spain, France, England, Netherlands** even as far north as **Iceland**, capturing **European** me…
Safari Park — 2020-08-17 14:54:27
…=== Longleat - 1966 === ~-[[Livestock]]:[[1900s]] Longleat 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…
Pop Rivet — 2020-08-17 14:41:51
…his brainchild in 1916. Also called a blind rivet it allowed one person to fit a rivet with access only needed from one side. {{Image url="Pop-Rivet-diagram.jpg" class="left" title="Pop Rivet sequence" width="400" }} == Labour Saving == Befor…
…e Wylie invention of blind rivets, securing a rivet required access to both sides of the assembly making it a very labour intensive, time consuming task. The "Pop" rivet freed up workers and increased…
Hydraulics — 2020-08-17 13:24:35
…pressure in the lower part of town. Armstrong convinced the authorities this excess power could be used to power a quayside hydraulic crane that he had been developing. {{Image url="ArmstrongCrane.jpg" class="left" title="Armstrong Crane" wid…
Hydroelectric Power — 2020-08-17 09:05:43
…rt home'// with electric incandescent lighting, a dish washer, a vacuum cleaner and a washing machine. {{tag ids="Cragside Armstrong Hydroelectricity power electricity dynamo"}} …
Life Boat — 2020-08-17 09:00:19
… Lifeboat**. == Gravestone == Lukin died in 1834 in Hythe, Kent. The following inscription was engraved on the reverse side of his tombstone: @@“This LIONEL LUKIN Was the first who built a Life-boat, and was the original Inventor of that pr…
Cyclonic Vacuum Cleaner — 2020-08-15 09:18:21
…. By 1995 The Dyson DC01 became the best-selling vacuum cleaner in the UK. == Competition Regrets == Hoover's vice president for Europe, Mike Rutter, said on U.K. national TV, "I do regret that Hoover as a company did not take the product tec…
Milk of Magnesia — 2020-08-09 19:55:03
…te to treat the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Marquis of Anglesey. His treatment was so succesful he was appointed resident physician to Anglesey and knighted. {{Image url="MilkofMagnesia.jpg" class="left" title="Milk of Magnesia" width="" }…
Cloning — 2020-08-06 15:26:49
…ll and inserting it into a sheep ovum. After 433 failed attempts an embryo was successful. The embryo was then placed inside a female sheep that went through a normal pregnancy. {{Databox caption="Creator" Image="KeithCampbell.jpg" Who="Keith …
Rubber Band — 2020-06-28 12:40:44
… place. Golf balls to catapults and what would the postman use to hold all those letters together before discarding outside your front door?…
Christmas Traditions — 2019-12-27 02:21:30
… Log == ||{{Image url="Yulelog.jpg" title="left" width="200" title="Yule Log" }}||The Celts used to bring a large log inside on the winter solstice and burn it to celebrate the return of Sun God. The Cornish drew a man on a log to commemorate t…
…ft Box" width="200" }}||Takes its name from a former custom of giving a '''Christmas Box''' - a gift of money or food inside a box - to the staff of servants, maids, grooms, cooks, butlers, deliverymen and tradespeople who called regularly duri…
Angus Cattle — 2019-08-31 10:40:52
…gus in 1808. He gathered stock widely and produced cattle of outstanding quality and character. Hugh Watson could be considered the founder of the breed, and was instrumental in selecting the best black, polled animals for his herd. His favorit…
Paternoster — 2018-09-18 13:06:34
…design of its age. One of the first office buildings to use an iron framework structure, its innovative design had a considerable influence on office buildings across the world, inspiring John Root's early Chicago skyscrapers and shaping the Ne…
English Language — 2018-01-26 21:45:55
…gle 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 communicate with each other. == English speaking countries == As a main language are shown in bold.…
Viagra — 2017-06-01 14:56:53
…study on Sildenafil as a heart medicine when it was discovered that it caused increased blood 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 …
Meccano — 2017-05-14 01:23:25
… that could be used to join them together with nuts and bolts. By the end of 1900 Hornby had built a set of parts he considered worth marketing. == Patent 1901 == On advice, he patented his invention in January 1901 as "**Improvements in Toy …
Grand Theft Auto — 2017-05-11 15:45:29
…Houser , born in [[England]] Dan is video game producer as well the co-founder (along with his brother Sam) and vice president of creativity for **Rockstar Games**. === Rockstar North === **Grand Theft Auto V **is the Highest 24 hour revenue g…

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