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Airport — 2023-10-11 15:23:36
…as a stretch of water. And sea ports were already established around the world. A **pilot** (one who steers a ship) was then required to guide the plane to open water ready for take-off. Between the wars, the Solent area in [[Hampshire]] becam…
Carbonated water — 2023-10-09 23:52:55
…ation by dripping vitriol (sulphuric acid) into powdered chalk (calcium carbonate) producing **CO2 gas**. This gas was then infused into agitated water, inducing a reaction and effervescence. == To the World == Even though Priestly didn’t…
Vacuum Flask — 2023-10-09 23:46:28
…as educated at Edinburgh University. {{{toc}}} In 1875 he became professor of experimental philosophy at Cambridge and then at the Royal Institution in 1877. {{Image url="Flask.jpg" width="300" class="right" }} He researched the liquefaction …
Glastonbury Festival — 2023-10-09 23:45:46
… now draws over **170,000** each summer for a celebration of music, art, and culture. **Glastonbury Fayre**, as it was then, cost **£1** (one pound) with free milk included was held the day after [[Jimi_Hendrix_Experience| Jimi Hendrix]] died…
Modern Farming — 2023-10-09 23:44:30
…rrow (a trailing bar), which gathered soil and evenly deposited it over the seeds. The machine, horse or ox drawn would then move to the next position and seed again. {{Image url="SeedInDrills.jpg" class="left" title="Seed In Drills" width="300…
Lever Brothers — 2023-10-09 23:43:45
…e url="SunlightSoap.jpg" class="left" title="Sunlight Soap" width="300" }} They first called their product 'Honey Soap' then later named it "**Sunlight Soap**". The product sold quickly and production soon reached 450 tons per week by 1888, wi…
Computer — 2023-10-09 23:40:16
… mathematical calculations. A six-wheeled model was initially constructed and demonstrated to a number of audiences. He then developed plans for a bigger, better, machine - Difference Engine 2. He also worked on another invention, the more comp…
…lans, the London Science Museum constructed a working Difference Engine No. 2 from 1989 to 1991, under Doron Swade, the then Curator of Computing. This was to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Babbage's birth. In 2000, the printer which Babbag…
Steam Engine — 2023-10-08 00:19:36
…of a car for example. @@{{image url="WattSteamEngine.jpg" class="" title="Watt Steam Engine" width="500" }}@@ ::c:: == Then a Cornishman == {{Image url="Richard_Trevithick.jpg" class="left" width="125" title="Richard Trevithick 1771 - 1833 b…
Radar — 2023-10-08 00:18:51
…ral layers of reporting that were eventually sent to a single large room for mapping. Observers watching the maps would then tell the fighter groups what to do via direct communications. By **1937** the first three stations were ready, and his…
Portland Cement — 2023-10-08 00:16:46
…mixed with a definite quantity of clay, and the mixture pulverized wet. The wet mixture was to be dried and crushed and then calcined in a vertical kiln and finally the calcine was to be powdered. /* event_date="21 October 1824" Portland ceme…
…ed '**Portland stone**', a limestone that is quarried on the Isle of Portland off the British Coast. Portland stone was then, and still is today, a prestigious building stone in use in [[England]] at the time. Many fine buildings and cathedrals…
Electronic Computer — 2023-10-07 10:38:05
…ultaneously on each of the five tape channels. ||{{image url="Colossus.jpg" class="lef" width="350" title="Colossus then"}}||{{image url="ColossusNow.jpg" class="lef" width="350" title="Colossus now"}}|| == Even Earlier == >>{{amazonad}}>…
Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35
…pher read Engineering at Peterhouse, Cambridge. After Cambridge he worked for the Radio Research company until 1935 and then for the Marconi Wireless Telegraph company from 1935 until 1951. {{Image url="PrototypeHovercraft.jpg" class="left" t…
Marshall Amplification — 2023-10-07 09:45:58
…hed drummer and teacher of drumming. In 1960, Marshall opened a music store in Hanwell, west London, selling drums and then branching out into guitars. {{Image url="Marshall_logo.svg" class="right" title="Marshall logo" width="200" }} Among h…
Bob Hope — 2023-09-26 16:57:28
…ownes, was a light opera singer from Barry. They married in April 1891 and lived at 12 Greenwood Street, Barry Wales. Then moving to Bristol and London. {{Image url="BobHopeHome.jpg" class="left" title="Bob Hope Home" width="" }} == Emigrat…
…igrated to the United States in 1908 aboard the //SS Philadelphia //passing through Ellis Island on March 30, **1908**, then moving on to Cleveland, Ohio.…
English Bible — 2023-09-25 23:57:13
…d into hiding in Europe. When he was eventually caught Tyndale was found guilty of heresy and executed by strangulation then burned at the stake. His last words were "Lord! Open the King of England's eyes". Born in [[Gloucestershire]] William T…
Telephone — 2023-09-23 15:57:07
…live. Bell recovered from the disease. Two years later he went to Boston to open a school for teachers of the deaf and then became a professor at Boston University. It was at this time that he met Mabel Hubbard, one of his students who was 10 …
Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52
… Wheatstone was one of the outstanding academics of the 19th Century. He worked in his fathers music shop in Gloucester then in London developing musical instruments. His experiments with sound led him to coin the terms 'telephone' and 'microph…
LCD — 2023-09-23 15:53:09
… impurities, and George focused on finding new materials for this. == Background == The liquid crystal materials known then had to be heated to 70ºC or more, usually decomposed in a few minutes and were rather viscous, which made their respon…
… by the MOD, through the aegis of Cyril Hilsum, since the university baulked at the costs and risks involved. They were then published in the peer reviewed scientific literature. In 1990 Gray moved to **Merck Chemicals.** == Turning Point == T…
…panding international activity, with adequate supplies of the materials being available, under licence, from Merck Ltd (then BDH Ltd), due to the foresight of Ben Sturgeon, their Research Director. Many companies exploited George’s materials…
Toilet — 2023-09-08 09:57:11
…n. Early toilet bowls were painted cast iron and had no flange on the rim. These discharged into a separate chamber and then into the cess-pit or sewer. The metal rusted and the seals between the components leaked. Because the valve was unrelia…
Mousetrap — 2023-08-31 23:02:31
…**West End of London** in **1952**. It has been at the St Martin's Theatre since 1974. The play ran continuously since then for {{Datediff from="6/10/1952" to="16/3/2020" }} years when COVID forced a suspension. It then resumed on 17 May 2021.…
Cambridge Cream — 2022-05-20 08:48:45
… **'crème à l'Angloise'**. The pudding had been on the menu at Trinity College, Cambridge, for at least 60 years by then. In the 1600's they called it **Cambridge cream**, **Trinity cream** or simply **Burnt cream**. === Trinity Colleg…
… with 1 tbsp of the sugar until they are thick and pale yellow. Remove the cream from the heat, allow to cool slightly, then pour over the egg yolks in a steady stream, whisking constantly. Transfer this mixture to an ovenproof dish or individ…
Lasagne — 2022-05-20 08:38:58
…word for cuisine meaning: to cook, boil, or grill. == Recipe == Loseyns. XX II. IX. //Take gode broth and do in an erthen pot, take flour of payndemayn and make therof past with water. and make therof thynne foyles as paper with a roller, dr…
KitKat — 2022-05-03 17:00:51
…don in September 1935 as **'Rowntree’s Chocolate Crisp**'. It was re-named two years later as KitKat Chocolate Crisp then shortened to just KitKat after the Second World War. The origin of the name KitKat is uncertain but it’s thought the …
Pneumatic Tyre — 2022-05-03 16:45:33
… **1888**, using the word 'pneumatic' for the first time [See below] , in the same year. A local firm, W. Edlin and Co, then agreed to manufacture frames to fit the new tyre; and when, in 1889, a well-known local cyclist, Willie Hume, won a rac…
Television — 2021-11-06 16:35:18
…927 Baird transmitted a long-distance television signal over 438 miles of telephone line between London and Glasgow. He then set up the Baird Television Development Company Ltd, which in 1928 made the first transatlantic television transmission…
Heroin — 2021-08-20 11:14:28
…box caption="Inventor" Image="CharlesWright.jpg" Who="Charles Wright" width="400" birth_date="7/9/1844" birth_place="Southend" death_date="25/6/1894" death_place="" }} === Charles Romley Alder Wright 1874 === ~-[[Medical]]:[[1800s]] Charles Wr…
MRI Scan — 2021-08-20 11:04:59
… class="left" title="Modern MRI Scanner" width="" }} Sir Peter’s early work was in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), then being used to study the chemical structure of substances. He joined the Department of Physics, University of Nottingham…
Antibiotics — 2021-08-20 10:41:08
…rs started recreating Fleming’s experiments. Soon enough penicillin was being made to begin testing it on animals and then humans. In **1941**, they found that even low levels of penicillin cured very serious infections, it saved many lives.…
Intraocular Lens — 2021-08-20 10:40:24
…e 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 //real// medical professionals, //service not s…
Vitamins — 2021-08-16 09:52:16
…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 entering the **Malayan Medical Service** in 1903. ::c:…
Reflecting Telescope — 2021-08-14 20:51:21
…This meant that the components of white light were brought to a focus at different places and the image of a star would then appear to be surrounded by a spectrum of colours. This effect is called **chromatic aberration**. {{Image url="Newtons…
CT Scan — 2021-08-14 20:48:42
…ield started with a prototype head scanner. He experimented on a preserved brain and the results were encouraging. He then used it on a cow brain from a butcher shop, eventually Godfrey scanned his own brain. The medical world, and EMI, were …
Modern Olympics — 2021-08-14 20:26:14
…. Brookes, this enthusiastic Philhellene is endeavouring to organise an International Olympian Festival, to be held in Athens.^^ == Wealthy Ally == ---- >>{{image url="London1948.jpg" title="London Olympics" width="200"}}>> In 1889 a wealthy y…
…e on impressing his guest. The Baron stayed in Brookes' own home and despite the 54 year age difference (Brookes was by then 81), the two men built up a great rapport, Brookes sharing the dream of an international Olympian movement with de Coub…
…e to ill health. In 1896 however the Shropshire doctor's dream was realised. The first revived Olympics were held in **Athens** during the month of April. Tragically, Brookes had died just 4 months earlier. {{image url="1948.jpg" title="1948 …
Ice Cream Cone — 2021-08-14 20:22:38
…>> Marshall's cookery book included a recipe for **"Cornets with Cream"**. After making the ice cream and freezing she then explains how to make the cones using: {{Image url="IceCreamCone.jpg" class="left" title="Ice Cream Cone" width="" }} ~…
Photography — 2021-08-14 19:57:18
…be seen, he found he could chemically speed up the process to develop a useful negative. The image on this negative was then fixed with a chemical solution. This removed the light-sensitive silver making it safe to view the picture in bright li…
…ght. With the negative image, Fox Talbot found he could then repeat the process of printing from the negative. He called this the **'calotype'** and patented the process in 1841. T…
Christmas Cracker — 2021-08-12 20:39:19
…ristmas cracker" width="" }} He tried adding trinkets or small toys to inspire the product sales with limited success. Then after throwing a log onto a fire it gave out a loud crackle that gave him the idea of making his bon-bon pop as it was …
Steel — 2021-08-12 20:31:45
… == Before Steel == Before cheap steel wrought iron was used for construction. The furnaces heated molten iron, it was then stirred by puddlers using long oar-shaped tools, allowing oxygen to combine slowly remove carbon. {{Image url="EiffelTo…
…wer.jpg" class="left" title="Steel beams made Eiffel Tower possible" width="300" }} It was then worked with a forge hammer by the puddler before being rolled into sheets or rails. By 1860, there were over 3000 puddl…
Horlicks — 2021-08-12 20:30:08
…ixing fresh milk with wort, a liquid extracted from malted barley and wheat during the brewing process. The mixture was then reduced to granules by slowly removing its moisture in a copper bain-marie floating in a boiler. ::c:: == Relocation ==…
Rubber — 2021-08-12 20:24:10
…e patented 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 …
…eth that tore up rubber scraps. To Hancock's surprise, the shredded bits adhered into a solid mass of rubber that could then be pressed in molds into solid blocks or rolled into sheets. Hancock's masticator, which was perfected in 1821, made ru…
Sewing Machine — 2021-08-11 11:41:32
…the thread through the hole, where it would be hooked underneath and moved to the next stitching place. The cycle would then be repeated, so locking the stitch. /* By the time of this discovery others, like Singer, had become millionaires from…
…e way. He built a replica of a Saint machine made from the drawings submitted with the patent. He proved it worked. He then booked space at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia right next to the Howe exhibit. Thus visitors to the cel…
Wellington Boot — 2021-08-09 21:58:54
…eptember 1852" }} === Duke of Wellington 1810 === ~-[[CategoryIndustry]]:[[1800s]] In the early 1800s Arthur Wellesley, then Viscount Wellington, asked his shoemaker, Mr George Hoby of St James's Street, [[London]], to make a boot which was eas…
Can — 2021-08-09 21:53:19
…:[[CategoryFood]] Canning is the method of preserving food by storing it in containers that are hermetically sealed and then sterilized by heat. {{toc}} === Peter Durand 1810 === ~-[[1800s]] {{Image url="DurandTinCan.jpg" class="left" title="Du…
Tarmac — 2021-08-09 21:38:37
…was no rutting and no dust. By 1902 Hooley had patented the process of heating **tar**, adding **slag** to the mix and then breaking **stones** within the mixture to form a smooth road surface. {{Image url="NottinghamRadcliffeRoad.jpg" class="…
Pub — 2021-08-09 21:19:14
…n the Romans finally withdrew from Britain they left behind the beginnings of the modern pub. In **965 King Edgar** the then ruler of England, decreed that there should be one **Ale House** per village (a very popular ruler). By this time the u…
Cowboy — 2021-08-09 21:03:46
…lance until the 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.…
Bearings — 2021-08-08 20:30:19
…gs :: {{draft}} === Philip Vaughan 1794 === ~-[[CategoryTransport]]:[[1700s]] Philip Vaughan, an iron master from Carmarthen [[Wales]], patented the first ball bearing mechanism. He described how iron balls running in a groove between the whee…
Sunday School — 2021-08-08 18:39:06
…ay a week, their behavior began to improve. Robert waited a few years to see if **Sunday schools** were 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 al…
Vaccination — 2021-08-07 23:07:23
…oucestershire]] on 17 May 1749, the son of the local vicar. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to a local surgeon and then trained in London. In 1772, he returned to Berkeley and spent most the rest of his career as a doctor in his native tow…
Marmite — 2021-04-03 10:38:16
…rl="WWIfood.jpg" class="right" title="Trench food" width="300" }} == The Name == Marmite originally came in a small earthenware pot, similar to the kind of French casserole dish called a 'Marmite', (pronounced MAR-MEET). This may be where Marm…
Patent Leather — 2021-01-31 22:10:03
…pervious to water, and when soiled, requires only to be wiped with a sponge to restore it to its original lustre.^^ == Then came colour == {{Image url="PatentLeatherBag.jpg" class="left" title="Patent Leather Bag" width="" }} In November 1799,…
Float Glass — 2020-12-08 00:24:27
… the Pilkington Brothers had also innovated. Because there was glass-to-roller contact, surfaces were marked. The glass then had to be ground and polished to produce the parallel surfaces of optical perfection to the finished product. == Pilki…
…ns new process works by floating a piece of glass that has been rolled flat onto a bath of molten tin. The molten glass then flows unhindered under the influence of gravity maintained at a high temperature so the glass is flexible and settles i…
…rticultural glass. == Foreign Licence == The first foreign licence went to the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company in 1962, then the the rest of the world. Today, around 260 float plants use the Pilkington method. ::c:: == Sky's the Limit == {{Ima…
Railway — 2020-11-30 12:55:52
…l="TrainFlyingScotsman.jpg" class="right" title="The Flying Scotsman. First 100mph train" width="400" }} == Britain and then the World == The potential was evident for all to see how the '''train''' was going to transform life. In 1847 there …
Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
…modern cricket is said to be to be 1787, when the Marylebone Cricket Club also known MCC was created. The MCC has since then gone on to become one of the most prominent bodies in world cricket The first official International match was held bet…
…ew balls. Gibb apparently came up with the name "ping pong," representing the sounds of the ball hitting the paddle and then the table. However, an English manufacturer of sporting goods, John Jacques, registered "Ping Pong" as a trade name in…
Underwater Tunnel — 2020-10-11 23:44:16
…the building of 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 structure was then sunk into the soft earth under its own weight! Crowds came everyday to see the shaft disappearing into the ground. The…
Cricket — 2020-08-26 21:18:47
…modern cricket is said to be to be 1787, when the Marylebone Cricket Club also known MCC was created. The MCC has since then gone on to become one of the most prominent bodies in world cricket The first official International match was held bet…
Shakespeare — 2020-08-21 08:52:48
…ries** || || Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Hamlet Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus || All's Well That Ends Well As You Like It Comedy of Errors Cymbeline Love's Labour's Lost Measure …
Stem Cells — 2020-08-17 17:30:21
…olation of **embryonic stem cells** or ES cells. ^^The very first name I gave to these was "ED," for embryo-derived, then "EK," as initials for Evans-Kaufman.^^ /* http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/564324_3 */ == Seeking the Pluripotent C…
Pop Rivet — 2020-08-17 14:41:51
…d Royal Navy reservist, he was granted a British patent for "an improved means of closing tubular rivets." in 1917. He then joined the British aircraft company Armstrong-Whitworth. {{Image url="Pop-rivet-advert.jpg" class="left" title="Pop riv…
Hydraulics — 2020-08-17 13:24:35
…of a cast-iron cylinder fitted with a plunger supporting a very heavy weight. The plunger was raised, drawing in water, then the downward force of the weight created the hydraulic pressure. The cranes were efficient powerful AND pollution…
Cloning — 2020-08-06 15:26:49
…g an embryo cell 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.jp…
Obstetrical Forceps — 2020-06-28 13:29:13
… the forceps existence is only found later from around 1634, but is known the brothers carried out the procedure before then. The secret was passed down through the family. {{Image url="ChamberlenForceps" class="left" title="Chamberlen forcep…
Paternoster — 2018-09-18 13:06:34
…ass="left" title="Paternoster Cyclic Elevator" width="500" }} Unlike an [[elevator]] that stops at each floor and opens then closes a door, the paternoster lift has multiple pods that travel continuously on a loop passing every floor. The pods …
…r chambers are open with no doors capable of carrying two people or more. A passenger steps into a pod as it ascending then alights when it passes the required level, all while it moves at steady, moderate speed. The name comes from the Lati…
Emergency Telephone Number — 2017-07-06 10:16:06
…lls and could not alert anyone of the fire. Prior to 999 people called their local police station to raise the alarm. Then dialling 0 and asking the operator for police, fire or ambulance was the recommended method from 1927. The **General P…
Whisky — 2016-05-26 10:22:03
…nd aged in wooden oak casks. Whisky is an anglicisation of the Gaelic word //uisce, uisge or uicge,// meaning "water". Then distilled alcohol was known in as //aqua vitae// ("water of life"). {{Image url="WhiskyGlass.jpg" class="left" type="ic…
…as forced underground and overnight. It was this period when whisky received its famous nickname **"moonshine"**. == Then there's Whiskey == With a licence to distil Irish whiskey from 1608, the **Old Bushmills Distillery** in Northern Irel…

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