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Stainless Steel — 2023-10-09 23:42:45
…Determination == Harry was born into a poor family. His father was a steel worker at **Thomas Firth & Sons**. Brearley started working at the age of twelve and a couple of years later was working for Firth's as a bottle washer in the chemical lab…
Electronic Computer — 2023-10-07 10:38:05
…sz40" width="" }} == Humble Background == Flowers was born in [[London]], [[England]] the son of a **bricklayer**. He started his apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer but took evening classes to achieve a degree in electrical engineering. …
Lithium-ion Battery — 2023-09-23 15:53:22
…ichael Stanley Whittingham 1970 === [[CategoryScience]]:[[Technology]]:[[1900s]] British chemist M. Stanley Whittingham started researching lithium battery in the early 1970s. He discovered how to store lithium ions using titanium(IV) sulphide and…
Pneumatic Tyre — 2022-05-03 16:45:33
…he new tyre; and when, in 1889, a well-known local cyclist, Willie Hume, won a race at Cherryvale using it, the novelty started to catch on. == Onlooker == The paper manufacturer, Harvey du Cros, who was in the crowd at the time, bought Dunlop'…
Titanic — 2021-08-20 11:12:19
… Perhaps the most famous ship ever built by the White Star Line shipping company of Liverpool England. Work on Titanic started on 31 March 1909, one of three ships called the 'Olympic class'. These magnificent vessels were the industrial marvels …
Workmate — 2021-08-20 11:10:56
… a client base of tradesmen. Slowly the demand increased. ::c:: == Lotus Car == Ron moved to [[London]] and in 1954 started working for the Ford Motor Company at Dagenham as a clay modeller and later he helped to style the **105E Ford Anglia**…
…ench. It was an instant hit. Black & Decker saw the potential and took on exclusive rights of the Workmate in 1973 and started production. To date more than '''60 Million''' Workmates have been sold. @@{{adsense}}@@ …
Concorde — 2021-08-20 11:08:12
…uth [[Gloucestershire]]. Concorde could fly from New York to London in **2 hours 56 minutes**. Development for Concorde started in 1956 and it was still operational in 2003! Truly amazing. ::c:: == Flyover == {{Image url="ConcordeCliftonBridge.jp…
Miss World — 2021-08-20 10:50:22
…pg" class="right" title="Rosemarie Frankland 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 b…
Antibiotics — 2021-08-20 10:41:08
…advances in antibiotics had occurred a few years before this date none of these had impact that penicillin did, Fleming started the Antibiotic era. == Penicillin == British scientist Alexander Fleming was working in his laboratory at St. Mary’s…
…Image url="PenicillinMold.jpg" class="left" title="Penicillin Mold" width="250" }} == Rapid Growth == Other researchers started recreating Fleming’s experiments. Soon enough penicillin was being made to begin testing it on animals and then human…
DNA — 2021-08-14 21:04:12
…trating the DNA model" }} Unperturbed, Crick and Watson using some underhanded assistance gained enough information to started building their DNA model on Wednesday, 4th March and finished in the evening of '''Saturday, 7th March, 1953''' in thei…
CT Scan — 2021-08-14 20:48:42
…computer to take images from X-rays at various angles and create a 3d image of the object. == Prototype == Hounsfield started with a prototype head scanner. He experimented on a preserved brain and the results were encouraging. He then used it…
Horlicks — 2021-08-12 20:30:08
…ded 24 year old William Horlick to return to America with him. James decided to join him in 1873. That same year, they started their own company (J&W Horlicks) to make a malted milk drink. They called their product 'Diastoid' and their advertisin…
Rubber — 2021-08-12 20:24:10
…ented India-rubber springs for various types of clothing such as gloves and '''suspenders'''. The Hancock brothers then started an "elastic works" to manufacture items using the rubber springs. == Mastication == In 1820 Hancock invented his most…
Wellington Boot — 2021-08-09 21:58:54
…y.jpg" class="right" width="120" title="Rubber Wellies" }} In 1856 the Edinburgh-based North British Rubber Company had started to manufacture Britain’s first rubber or ‘gum’ boots. The boots were named ''Wellingtons'' and the name has stuck…
Tarmac — 2021-08-09 21:38:37
…The technique did not include making the stones stick. This was fine in the days of horse drawn vehicles, but when cars started to become commonplace the surface became dusty and inadequate, the jagged material meant tyres often punctured. And wh…
Jigsaw Puzzle — 2021-08-09 21:24:39
…fter they were invented - that these ‘dissections’ began to be known as ‘**jigsaw puzzles**’ when manufacturers started producing cheaper puzzles for children made from cardboard. Jigsaw puzzles are still very popular {{datediff from="176…
Marmalade — 2021-08-08 18:49:30
…lade" width="300" }} {{toc}} === James & Janet Keiller ~1780 === The style of marmalade that we are familiar with today started in Dundee [[Scotland]]. **James Keiller** and his wife **Janet** ran a small sweet and preserves shop in Seagate, **Du…
Sunday School — 2021-08-08 18:39:06
…he time with no hope of an education. And with no one to teach them the good news of the Lord. Several individuals had started the principal of //educating// on a Sunday. Raikes was aware of **William King**, who had set up a Sunday school in nea…
… a success. He then printed a story about the new Sunday schools. Before too long, around 4,000 new Sunday schools were started in towns all over [[England]]. Robert even used his printing press to publish reading books, spelling books, Bible stud…
Electric Toaster — 2020-12-01 01:05:39
…ly. In his autobiography, Reminiscences, Crompton tells of a trip to London 's Great Exhibition of 1851. His schooling started at Sharow, near Ripon in Yorkshire, along with 19 other boys, aged between 7 and 15. One of his fellow pupils there was…
Suffolk Punch — 2020-11-30 16:25:44
…wn as ‘Crisp’s horse’. The Suffolk Horse Society, was formed in Britain in 1877 to promote the Suffolk Punch and started to be exported all over the world. Canada in 1865 United States in 1880 and later to France, Spain, Germany, Russia, Sw…
Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
…orwards, three halves, two backs and a goalkeeper became the accepted method of playing hockey. The United States also started playing field hockey in 1890, with the Field Hockey Association of America, which regulates men's play, being formed in…
… on and a special track, complete with banked curves, made of ice, was constructed next to the road in 1902. The sport started as a leisure activity for the rich young daredevils of Europe who gathered for fun on the alpine slopes. It was added t…
…t_board.jpg" class="right" width="120" }} Darts began in Medieval England and is probably a spin off of archery. Played started on ships where room was restricted, by shortening arrows and throwing them at the bottom of an empty wine barrel. Henry…
Vacuum cleaner — 2020-10-11 23:24:10
…tential 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 where the dirt was collected. The 'su…
…dust into their dustbag. == World Patent == In 1903 Booth was granted world patent rights for the vacuum cleaner. This started a long round of legal battles as would-be competitors attempted to cash in on his invention, and other inventors staked…
Bicycle — 2020-08-15 09:22:15
…fer design was being sought. Starley was born 24th of December 1855 Walthamstow, [[London]], [[England]]. In 1877 he started a new business //Starley & Sutton Co// with William Sutton a local cycling enthusiast. They set about developing safer …
Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25
…elaying development. There were many delays and the lack of funding slowed the project. In Germany, Hans von Ohain had started work on a prototype in 1935 and had passed the prototype stage and was building the first flyable design, the ""Heinkel…
…s unable to deliver the first W.1 production engine before Gloster's experimental airframe was ready. So manufacturing started at GAC Brockworth near Gloucester, but was later moved to Regent Motors in Regent Street Cheltenham because fear of pos…
Christmas Traditions — 2019-12-27 02:21:30
… cards" }} == ||{{Image url="Xmascard.jpg" width="200" title="Christmas Card" }}||The custom of sending Christmas cards started in Britain in 1840 when the first 'Penny Post' public postal deliveries began. Over a billion Christmas cards are now s…
…a stocking on the hearth or bed post on Christmas Eve in the hope that it will be filled with presents the next morning started about 400 years ago in Holland where children placed clogs next to the hearth. In Britain stockings were used instead o…
…ke === ||{{Image url="Christmas_cake.jpg" title="thumb" width="200" title="christmas cake" }}||A rich baked fruit cake started around 1870 in Victorian England. Sometimes with marzipan, icing and sugar frosting.|| == Mincemeat Pie == ||{{Image …
English Language — 2018-01-26 21:45:55
…seen to an '''international language'''. Approximately a third of the world can now communicate in English. == How it Started == From the 'Common Brittonic' languages evolved Old English (or Anglo-Saxon Englisc ). It was an early form of the En…
Thriller — 2017-05-19 15:12:25
…te 'Rock With You' and 'Off the Wall'. ::c:: == Career == >>{{amazon type="book" items="075098256X" }}>> Rod's career started as keyboard player with **Heatwave** also writing their hits including 'Boogie Nights', 'The Groove Line' and 'Always &…
Speedfit — 2017-05-11 00:37:50
…tle="speedfit tee" width="" }} Guest manufacture push-in pipe fittings for copper and plastic plumbing systems. Having started with air compressor fittings these useful quick connect/disconnect fittings are used for oil and water even at mains pr…

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