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Split the Atom — 2023-10-10 00:05:57
…nails to build the world's first nuclear-particle accelerator in 1929. Rutherford had split the atom in Manchester more than ten years before. He wanted more control over the particles used to penetrate nuclei. He directed Cockcroft and Walton …
… */ On the 14th April 1932 Cockcroft and Walton measured the total kinetic energy of the helium nuclei. It was greater than that of the original hydrogen and lithium nuclei. But they also observed a loss in the total mass of the nuclei. This p…
Modern Farming — 2023-10-09 23:44:30
…ass="right" title="Tull's improved seed drill" }} Early seed drills were very crude devices and not much more effective than sewing seeds by simply throwing them about. Some would germinate and some would fail. It was a very inefficient way of …
Lever Brothers — 2023-10-09 23:43:45
…*William Hough Watson**, had invented a new process to make soap, using glycerin and vegetable oils or palm oil, rather than tallow fat. In 1885 the brothers bought the small soap works in Warrington making Watson a partner. == Soap == {{Image…
Stainless Steel — 2023-10-09 23:42:45
…ded with various acids and stresses. Many failed the tests but the steel made on that day remained rust free. == More than Guns == Harry saw the potential for his steel within the cutlery industry. With the help of his friend Ernest Stuart, …
Phototherapy — 2023-10-09 23:41:51
…x]]. {{toc}} == Sister Ward == Ward was an old school nurse who was convinced sunshine and fresh 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 …
Steam Engine — 2023-10-08 00:19:36
…anet gears—to provide rotary power. In early steam engines the piston is usually connected to a balanced beam, rather than directly to a connecting rod, and these engines are therefore known as beam engines. Boulton soon realised the potenti…
Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35
…He had an enormous capacity for invention and his father, despite reservations (he once described his son as "no better than a garage hand"), put up the money for his early patents. (When Sir Sydney died in 1962, aged 94, some obituaries of thi…
Telephone — 2023-09-23 15:57:07
…essor at Boston University. It was at this time that he met Mabel Hubbard, one of his students who was 10 years younger than he. Mabel had become deaf at the age of four due to scarlet fever. Five years later they were married. At the wedding c…
Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52
…e was wanting to patent his own simple telegraphic apparatus in Europe. He could see that this system was more advanced than his own system but needed a 5 core cable which would prove too expensive for the distances involved in the USA. ::c::…
Stereo — 2023-09-23 15:56:38
… the emerging television industry. While at the cinema with his wife one evening in 1931, Blumlein noticed that rather than the actor's voice following him or her as they moved across the picture, the vocal track stayed anchored to the single …
PIN — 2023-09-23 15:56:10
…re now millions of ATMs around the world, , as well as in ‘point of sale’ (Chip & PIN) terminals, facilitating more than a **billion** ‘chip and PIN’ sales every day. {{Image url="ChubbATM.jpg" class="left" title="Making a cash withdra…
Electric Motor — 2023-09-23 15:52:02
…on produced a vastly improved form of battery – known as the amalgamated zinc battery which had a longer battery life than that produced by Italian innovator Volta. Sturgeon could now power his strong electro-magnets and making them horse-sh…
ATM — 2023-09-23 12:02:41
…tor of **De La Rue Instruments**. A division of De La Rue the banknote and credit card printing firm who produced more than 140 currencies, as well as stock certificates for the New York Stock Exchange.. John's inspiration for the ATM came on…
Worcestershire Sauce — 2023-09-18 19:06:46
…hire Sauce. Because Lea and Perrins were originally chemists, Worcestershire sauce was bottled in round bottles rather than square ones as other sauces at the time were, these round bottles had originally been chemist’s medicine bottles! {{…
Toilet — 2023-09-08 09:57:11
…Domestic]]:[[1500s]] {{{toc}}} Where would be without that little 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…
Electric Car — 2023-08-27 16:16:21
…/ electric vehicles and Formula E could learn a lesson here? The **Horseless Car** got off to a slow start in Britain thanks to the “Red Flag Act” which stated that any vehicle not horse drawn must have two drivers and be preceded by a ma…
Full Breakfast — 2022-05-20 12:26:19
…Full Breakfast :: === Full British Breakfast 1300 === [[CategoryFood]]:[[1300s]] More of a [[Tradition]] than an invention. But this [[CategoryFood]] item, aka the ''Fry Up'', is very British and very popular and has regional var…
Police — 2022-05-20 08:52:50
…s="right" title="Police Box" width="200" }} Blue was chosen because it was the colour of the popular Royal Navy rather than red which was the army's colour and struck fear into the people because of the way soldiers had been used to smash prot…
Cambridge Cream — 2022-05-20 08:48:45
… Chefs at the **Trinity College** in Cambridge, [[England]] first produced **'Cambridge Burnt Cream'** dessert no later than **1630**. ||{{{toc}}}||{{amazon type="book" items="1906507317" }}|| Several country's claim the origin of what is n…
British Empire — 2022-05-20 08:45:03
…tish Empire 1497 === [[Society]] :[[1400s]] The British empire was the **largest **empire in history, it covered more than **13,000,000 square miles** (13 million or 33.7Km2), which is approximately a **quarter** of the Earth’s total land…
… area, and controlled more than **530 million people** – almost a **quarter** of the world’s population at the time. With colonies in every contin…
YMCA — 2022-05-17 05:19:39
…treets. By '''1851''' there were 24 YMCAs in Great Britain, with a combined membership of 2,700. Today there are more than 14,000 local YMCAs with around 45,000,000 members all around the world. == Honour == {{Image url="GeorgeWilliamsPlaqu…
Crufts — 2022-05-03 17:14:00
…, [[England]]. {{Image url="CruftsAgility.jpg" class="right" title="Crufts Agility" width="350" }} Crufts takes up more than 25 acres of the NEC Arena. It has now more than 25,000 canine entries. ::c:: {{Image url="Crufts.jpg" class="left" tit…
KitKat — 2022-05-03 17:00:51
…rtified #%KitKat#% as the ** most sold chocolate brand across the world ** when it was sold in 72 countries. Today more than 17 billion #% KitKat #% fingers are eaten each year from 14 factories around the globe. The original factory in York al…
HomePage — 2022-05-03 16:49:56
…====British Inventions and Discoveries====@@ {{Picturegrid grid="5"}} ::c:: @@Many of the wonders of modern living are thanks to great British Inventors. These people had a dream and fulfilled it.@@ **This is a salute to the British Inventors…
Workmate — 2021-08-20 11:10:56
…ck & 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}}@@ …
Four-minute Mile — 2021-08-20 10:55:12
… 1954" Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute mile. */ For many years, athletes had tried and failed to run a mile in less than four minutes that people thought it to be a //physical impossibility//. It became known as the the "four-minute barrier…
Intraocular Lens — 2021-08-20 10:40:24
… 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 heavy spectacles. Attempts made in the 19th century to replace the lens within the eye w…
…y, in Hove, [[Sussex]]. He learned from Pike that **ICI** could produce a lens suitable for his purposes, and for less than £1 each. The two men agreed there and then that they would **never seek to profit** from this invention, a mark of //r…
…cognition in the End == Intraocular lens implant is now the **most commonly performed** eye surgical procedure. **More than 6 million lenses are implanted every year.** Ridley gave this to the world **for free**. Ridley continued in private p…
IVF — 2021-08-16 10:02:09
…ccessful fertilisation and development. == Nobel Prize == In 2010 they were awarded the Nobel prize, By this time more than **4.5 million** babies had been born as a result of their pioneering initiative. ::c:: {{Image url="IVFPlaque.jpg" cla…
Reflecting Telescope — 2021-08-14 20:51:21
…eflector telescope is still very popular and has changed very little in {{datediff from="1668" }} years. ::c:: == Leviathan of Parsonstown == {{Image url="RosseTelescope.jpg" class="right" title="Rosse Telescope" width="" }} The Newtonian prin…
…ciple was taken to extreme proportions in 1845 with the construction of the **Leviathan of Parsonstown** otherwise known as the **Rosse six-foot telescope**. This was a huge reflecting telescope of **72 inch…
Agatha Christie — 2021-08-14 20:41:37
… Britain's first stand-up surfers. Christie did not have a formal education and taught herself to read. She wrote more than 70 detective novels as well as a record breaking [[Mousetrap | play]]. Christie died on January 12, 1976. == Top Autho…
Scouts — 2021-08-14 20:35:19
…re are now '''**155 countries**''' with internationally recognised National Scout Organizations. The scouts number more than ''**'28 million**''', with over 5 million in the **USA** alone, truly amazing. == Top Seller == The book '''Scouting…
Public Park — 2021-08-14 20:30:20
…ar, prefabricated design and use of glass. It took 2,000 men eight months to build the 'Crystal Palace', which was more than **1848 feet long and 456 feet wide and 135 feet high**. Despite widespread cynicism amongst press and public, when the…
Photography — 2021-08-14 19:57:18
… objects - but these faded quickly. Talbot process based the prints on paper that had been made light sensitive, rather than bitumen or copper-paper. He mastered the three primary elements of photography: **developing, fixing**, and **printing…
Football — 2021-08-14 19:52:33
… width="400" }}It was realised that the game needed a set of rules, so being British there's no better place to do this than the 'Local' [[pub]] over a pint. In the **Freemasons' Tavern** in Great Queen Street, [[London]] on 26 October 1863 ru…
Rubber — 2021-08-12 20:24:10
…bber bands''' and '''life-belt tubes'''. He devised many medical uses for rubber, and promoted the use of rubber rather than leather '''fire hoses'''. {{Image url="Suspender.jpg" class="left" title="Suspender Belt" width="150" }} Thomas even …
Chocolate Bar — 2021-08-09 22:11:02
…ook" items="1492275085" }}>> ::cl:: Fry used a Watts steam engine to help grind the cocoa beans to a much finer powder than had previously been achieved. The machine could not only grind more thoroughly but it could output greater amounts of g…
Light Bulb — 2021-08-09 21:56:27
… wires to his battery and a piece of carbon, the carbon glowed, producing light. But this was more like an electric arc than a lamp. === Swan Light === {{Image url="SwansEarlyBulb.jpg" class="left" title="Swans Early Light Bulb" width="" }} Mu…
…come down, there were 3 million customers and all the basic light bulb patents had expired. (...) Seven years, and more than $100,000 in litigation expenses after Edison’s patent was invalidated by the US Patent Office, on October 6, 1889, a …
…uated glass bulb. (...) In fact, Edison and his team did not find a commercially workable filament (bamboo) until more than 6 months after Edison filed the patent application Link to US espionage: http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/155942 …
Cowboy — 2021-08-09 21:03:46
… width="" }} References go back to around 1620 but written proof starts to appear in late 17th century. For example Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels, in 1725 use of cowboy to refer to nothing more than a boy tending cows. == Buckar…
Industrial Revolution — 2021-08-08 21:48:46
…ke that was used to make iron. Darby thought a furnace could be improved by using a blast furnace fueled by coke rather than charcoal to produce high-grade iron. This was a major step forward in the production of iron as a raw material for the …
…mes of food shortage, he bought up farms to grow food for his workers, built housing for them, and offered higher wages than were paid in other local industry (such as mining or pottery). == Ironbridge 1779 == {{Image url="Ironbridge.jpg" titl…
…'''ferromanganese'''. == Better Steel Train Rails == '''Mushet''' was the first to make durable rails of steel rather than cast iron, providing the basis for the development of rail transportation throughout the world in the late Nineteenth c…
Sparkling Wine — 2021-08-08 20:32:53
…re of fermenting wine. Digby owned a glass works. His new manufacturing technique involved a coal furnace, made hotter than usual by the inclusion of a wind tunnel, and a higher ratio of sand to potash and lime. His bottles were so superior th…
…cing over 3 million bottles a year. Also, the English imported cork from Portugal which made a better seal in a bottle than wooden and cloth stoppers that were used in France. == Bland Imports == During this time still wine being brought to B…
…entury and industrialised the process; his coal-powered factories in Newcastle upon Tyne produced much stronger bottles than were available in France. As a result the English could deliberately induce a secondary fermentation in wine without t…
Refrigeration — 2021-08-08 18:50:45
…, and of some other Means of producing Cold". == Frozen in Time == The reaction to Cullen's invention though was less than lukewarm, in fact, it was decidedly chilly. The ice industry was big business. Ice-harvesting companies would remove…
Vaccination — 2021-08-07 23:07:23
…w Maalim, a hospital worker was the last person on Earth to catch smallpox. It is estimated that Jenner has saved more than 528 million lives. {{Image url="Jennerstatue.jpg" class="right" width="200" }} == Other Interests == He was elected '…
Powered Flight — 2021-04-05 22:36:49
…" title="Rear view of his plane" }} ::cl:: Before he died 1883 Stringfellow had this to say ^^"Somebody must do better than I before we succeed with aerial navigation."^^ [[http://www.chardmuseum.co.uk/Powered_Flight Chard Museum]] ::c:: == Pe…
…ilt to test whether it would have flown. The rebuilt plane flew successfully for 1 minute 25 seconds, 26 seconds longer than the **Wright** brothers managed 4 years later in **1903**. [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22633d Watch a reconstr…
Marmite — 2021-04-03 10:38:16
…was to ferment sugars into alcohol. For many years this by-product of the brewing process was seen as a nuisance rather than potentially valuable food source. It has been reported that Justus von Liebig, a German scientist, had found the method…
Toothbrush — 2021-01-28 15:14:07
… Nylon era == By **1938** the first toothbrush with nylon fibres was produced, which proved sturdier and more efficient than bristles. But in the **United States** it wasn’t until soldiers returned home from World War II indoctrinated with mi…
Float Glass — 2020-12-08 00:24:27
…o the glass is flexible and settles into perfect flat glass. == Old glass == Ribbon glass from a furnace - was cheaper than polished plate glass because it was not ground or polished, but it was unacceptable for high-quality applications. It w…
Petroleum — 2020-12-03 01:07:44
…ung had successfully sued for patent infringement in the USA. It was more crudely refined and that meant it was cheaper than Young's fuel. It also had a reputation for causing explosions and house fires. The Scottish oil industry continued to …
Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
…gend has it that one day in 1823, a senior school boy called **William Webb Ellis** elected to run with the ball rather than retiring to kick it as was the normal mode of play in **Rugby School** football matches. Other clubs followed this lea…
…At this time British soldiers were taking the game around the world and in Canada, where frozen fields were more common than grass, it made its way onto ice and so [[WikiPedia:Bandy Bandy]] [[WikiPedia:Ice_Hockey Ice]] evolved. In 1886 the Ted…
…the game was known as 'Snookers Pool' and was played with a smaller number of balls and to very different scoring rules than the game we know today. It wasn't until the Early 1900's that the game evolved to the game it is now. Played by the ar…
Vacuum cleaner — 2020-10-11 23:24:10
… where the dirt was collected. The 'suction' was essentially similar to the 'suction' of an air compressor. Little more than surface dirt and dust were removed. == 1903 by Royal Appointment == {{Image url="BoothVacuumCleaner.jpg" class="right"…
Bicycle — 2020-08-15 09:22:15
… Sutton Co// with William Sutton a local cycling enthusiast. They set about developing safer and easier to use bicycles than the penny farthing. {{Image url="RoverBicycle.jpg" class="right" title="Rover Bicycle" width="400" }} In 1885 Starley …
Cloning — 2020-08-06 15:26:49
…ame Wilmut said ^^"Dolly is derived from a mammary gland cell and we couldn't think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton's".^^…
Plastic Surgery — 2020-08-06 08:24:01
… Military Hospital and later in Sidcup in 1917. There he and his colleagues performed around 11,000 operations on more than 5,000 soldiers. == Knighthood == Gillies was knighted in the Birthday Honours list of June 1930. == Pioneering sex …
Potato Crisp — 2020-08-06 08:17:45
…ire is the largest in the world. It produces 11m packs of crisps every day from 800 tons of potatoes. It requires more than 350,000 tonnes of potatoes a year. Crisps account for around a **third** of the total world snack industry. The world…
Monty Python — 2020-08-06 07:48:50
…ier 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 imagine that it would be an international winner,…
…at, due it's cost-cutting procedure at the time, the network was about to erase all of the original Monty Python tapes. Thankfully Jones and the Pythons found a way to preserve the recordings. {{tag ids="Comedy Television"}}…
Christmas Traditions — 2019-12-27 02:21:30
…encourage audience participation. English pantomime is modeled with certain modifications upon the masque of the Elizabethan and the Stuart days, influenced by travelling theatres from Europe.|| @@{{adsense}}@@ …
Underground Railway — 2019-10-23 19:35:16
…s Metropolitan Railway salary of £137,700 would be worth around £10 million today. In its first year it carried more than nine million passengers! It was an outstanding success and soon it would be the envy of other capital cities around the…
Stonehenge — 2018-01-26 21:52:34
…B.C**. Along with Avebury, Stonehenge is one of the most famous groups of megaliths in the world. Stonehenge is older than the Egyptian pyramids. From [[http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/373/ UNESCO]], //'Stonehenge is the most architecturally so…
… with another 8ft (2.4m) below ground = **30ft** (9.1m) long and has an estimated weight of 40-50 tons. That is higher than a 3 storey building and weighing more than a 6 African elephants. ::cl:: == Legacy == Stonehenge is one of the most im…
English Language — 2018-01-26 21:45:55
…lated that on an average school day approximately one billion people are learning English in one form or another. Less than a hundred years ago people from the north of England would struggle to communicate with people from the south of Englan…
Emergency Telephone Number — 2017-07-06 10:16:06
…g the first week there were 1,336 calls made to **999**. That number has grown to around 560,000 calls a week and more than 30 million calls a year, call handlers still manage to answer 97% of calls within five seconds. == Why 999? == {{Image…
…d**, in the **dark** or in **thick smoke**. It was suggested using the end number 9, three times would be more sensible than using random numbers, so it could be found easily by touch. …
Viagra — 2017-06-01 14:56:53
… FDA approved Viagra as the first drug to treat impotence. Between 1999 and 2001 sales annual sales of Viagra were more than **one billion dollars** (~£670,000,000 pounds). **Peter Dunn** and **Albert Wood** both of Kent, England are named as…
Harrier Jump Jet — 2017-01-18 16:14:57
… use from aircraft carriers. The RAF retired the Harrier in 2011 and sold the fleet to the US for £180 million. More than 50 years later and the jumpjet has a contender in the Lockheed Martin F-35B aircraft whose VTO engines are supplied by …
Beatrix Potter — 2016-07-23 14:22:52
… best-selling and best-loved children's authors. She wrote and illustrated 28 books that have been translated into more than 35 languages and sold over **100 million** copies. One book is sold every 15 seconds. Born in Kensington, [[London]], …
Salvation Army — 2016-01-07 15:19:48
… url="salvationarmyflag.gif" class="right" title="Salvation 'Army' Flag" width="300" }} Salvation Army operates in more than **125** countries and provides services in over **170** different languages. Its membership (as of 2010 Year Book) in…
…,326 soldiers, 189,176 Adherents, 39,071 Corps Cadets, 378,009 Junior Soldiers, around 104,977 other employees and more than **4.5 million** volunteers!…

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