1. FAX — 2023-10-09 23:52:19

   …ain in 1843. He declared that: "a copy of any other surface composed of conducting and non-conducting materials can be taken by these means". {{TOC}} == Electric clocks 1841 == Bain had already invented the electric clock. Using this knowled…

2. Modern Farming — 2023-10-09 23:44:30

   … At the age of seventeen, Tull matriculated at **Oxford**, to St. John's College, on 7th July 1691, but appears to have taken no degree. {{{TOC}}} Jethro Tull is one of the first to propose a scientific approach to agriculture. His scientific …

3. Phototherapy — 2023-10-09 23:41:51

   …ad been covered up by the baby’s sheet. The nurse suggested it had been caused by the sun, but her suggestion was not taken very seriously. {{Image url="SisterWard.png" class="left" title="Sister Ward" width="300" }} A short while after this …
   …incident a tube of blood from an infant with severe jaundice was placed on a windowsill before being taken to the lab for analysis. After sitting in the sun, the sample measurements were below 14 mg/100 mL so a fresh blood s…
   …ample was taken and analysed which read 24 mg/100 mL. The blood sitting on the windowsill was measured again, and read even lower, at 9…

4. Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35

   …t was a boat not a plane; and the Army were "plain not interested". The irony is that it has been the Marines who have taken the hovercraft most seriously, with over 100 giant craft now in use in America and 250 in the Soviet Union, many used i…

5. PIN — 2023-09-23 15:56:10

   …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 subsidiary of Smiths Industries Ltd. Goodfellow designed a software system that could accept a …

6. LCD — 2023-09-23 15:53:09

   …inister of Technology, put out a challenge to find an alternative to the shadow mask colour TV tube. This challenge was taken up by Cyril Hilsum at the Royal Radar Establishment (RRE) in **Malvern** [[Worcestershire]], to explore whether the dis…

7. Digital Photography — 2023-09-23 12:04:21

   …= ~-[[Technology]]:[[1900s]] The first digital colour image, as featured on the cover of //Electronics Magazine//, was taken by physicist and inventor Michael Francis Tompsett in **1972.** Tompsett was a researcher at **English Electric Valve…

8. Toilet — 2023-09-08 09:57:11

   …room with that pan 'to go on'. That room of 'relief'. Thanks to these guys you can now take comfort that your needs are taken care of. The technical challenges in flush toilets were the flush mechanism and a method of prevent smells passing fr…
   …om the drain. Overcoming these challenges has taken hundreds of years. {{Databox Image="HarringtonJohn.jpg" title="Sir John Harrington " width="250" birth_date="4 Augus…

9. DNA — 2021-08-14 21:04:12

   …Medical Research Council Biophysics Research Unit at '''King’s college, London''', to work on an x-ray picture of DNA taken by a graduate student Raymond Gosling, Wilkins assistant. In the November of 1951 Franklin gave a departmental seminar …

10. Reflecting Telescope — 2021-08-14 20:51:21

    …stown == {{Image url="RosseTelescope.jpg" class="right" title="Rosse Telescope" width="" }} The Newtonian principle was taken to extreme proportions in 1845 with the construction of the **Leviathan of Parsonstown** otherwise known as the **Rosse…

11. Saline Drip — 2021-08-12 20:46:29

    …urgh [[Scotland]]. He correctly ascertained that a salt solution could substitute for blood. His experiments were undertaken on five patients in the Edinburgh Cholera Hospital basing his experiments on the theories of the Irish Dr William Brook…

12. Sandwich — 2021-08-08 20:40:14

    …icus'', which also gives us the word vicinity. >>{{amazon items="English Place-names" }}>> The word sandwich has since taken on many uses. When something or someone is stuck between two other objects they are said to be 'sandwiched'. I wonder w…

13. Vaccination — 2021-08-07 23:07:23

    …irymaid, confirmed that one of her **Gloucester cows** called **Blossom**, had recently had cowpox Jenner inserted pus taken from a cowpox pustule and inserted it into an incision on the boy's arm. He was testing his theory, drawn from the folk…

14. Marmite — 2021-04-03 10:38:16

    …clerk Alfred Oxford, employed not far from where the Marmite company was founded in Burton-on-Trent. Alfred Oxford had taken out several patents in the closing years of the 19th century, most of which were for animal feeds. All were based on re…

15. Silicone — 2020-09-22 23:25:26

    …uing world wars put his ideas on hold and he did not foresee the full potential commercial value of his work. This was taken up by Corning Glass who, with Dow Chemicals set up Dow-Corning Corporation to manufacture silicone polymers in 1943. =…

16. Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25

    …e first flyable design, the ""Heinkel HeS 3"". Whittle's efforts would have been far more advanced had the Air Ministry taken a greater interest in the design. {{Image url="Whittle_monument_wm.jpg" class="right" width="120" title="Sir Frank Whit…
    …den the Government could find the money. Manufacturing of the engine was offered to BTH, Vauxhall and Rover. Eventually taken up by Rover only. They also sent out a contract for a simple airframe to carry the engine, which was quickly taken up b…

17. Obstetrical Forceps — 2020-06-28 13:29:13

    …nvention// of the **forceps** a close secret for over 150 years to protect their lucrative trade. The forceps were only taken out of it's carved box during a birth. {{Databox caption="Eldest son of Peter the younger" Image="PeterChamberlen.png" …

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