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Airport — 2023-10-11 15:23:36
…inly **'Flying Boats'**. These war planes became Britain’s first commercial flying boats, and the newspapers of the time reported that Southampton Water had become the world’s first **‘Air-Port’**. {{Image url="Supermarine.jpg" class…
Modern Farming — 2023-10-09 23:44:30
… Tull’s seed drill immeasurably improved this problem. He created a machine that would plant seeds in three rows at a time. == Improved technique == A hole for the seed would be made at a proper depth. The seed would be dropped in. The hole…
…} Jethro Tull is given the distinction of creating the modern seed drill and changing the course of agriculture for all time. Planting with Jethro Tull’s seed drill invention improved germination fivefold. Tull correctly theorized that plants…
Cat Eyes — 2023-10-09 23:39:36
…oadcateye.jpg" title="Cats eye" class="left" width="220" }} == A Winner == Concerned about the growing number of night-time road accidents, the **Department for Transport** staged a competition in 1937 to find a robust road reflector. Percy Sh…
…competition with the Catseye after rival models either broke during the trial or were deemed to be ineffective. == Wartime Solution == Nonetheless '''Reflecting Roadstuds''' found it difficult to drum up orders until **World War II** when dri…
Mayday — 2023-10-08 00:53:45
…yHancock.jpg" class="right" title="Mayday sketch by comedian Hancock" width="350" }} The majority of air traffic at the time was between Croydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris. He heard French pilots using the term ‘M’aidez’, literally …
Radar — 2023-10-08 00:18:51
… long and moved at only 60 miles per hour, in the 20 raids where fighters were launched, they only saw the target three times, and were never able to attack. == Aircraft detection and location == On February 12, 1935, Watson-Watt sent a memo …
Portland Cement — 2023-10-08 00:16:46
…e 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 use the fine stone. With this invention, Aspdin laid the foundation for today's po…
Electronic Computer — 2023-10-07 10:38:05
… Colossus could work at 5000 characters per second with an interval between sprocket holes of 200 microseconds. In this time Colossus performed up to 100 Boolean calculations simultaneously on each of the five tape channels. ||{{image url="C…
Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35
…develop his ideas further and in 1955 he eventually convinced the Ministry of Supply to back his project. He had a hard time trying to convince the military: the Admiralty said it was a plane not a boat; the RAF said it was a boat not a plane; …
Marshall Amplification — 2023-10-07 09:45:58
…ullivan and Pete Townshend.** But they were all frustrated at the poor quality of guitar amplification available at the time, mainly //Fender// from USA. They wanted something "bigger and louder", and Jim Marshall saw an opportunity. {{Image u…
Anaesthetic — 2023-10-04 16:27:18
…and]]" death_date="6/5/1870" death_place="Edinburgh" }} Chloroform was first synthesized around 1830. In 1842 Robert Mortimer Glover discovered its anaesthetic properties on animals. Simpson was the first to demonstrate the safe anaesthetic eff…
English Bible — 2023-09-25 23:57:13
…val Church was Latin - the language of the Roman Empire. Christians were governed from Rome by the Pope during medieval times. Church services were conducted in Latin throughout the Christian world, and translation of the Latin Bible into the…
Telephone — 2023-09-23 15:57:07
…led him, was interested in working with the deaf throughout his life. He only attended school for five years; from the time he was 10 until he was 14, but he never stopped learning. He read the books in his grandfather's library and studied tu…
…nt 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 years younger than he. Mabel had become deaf at the age of fo…
Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52
…phabet engraved around the dial. >>{{amazon type="book" items="1145411770" }}>> The device was a modern wonder at the time. He attempted to interest the Admiralty in this device but after the Napoleonic wars there was little enthusiasm. ::c…
Lithium-ion Battery — 2023-09-23 15:53:22
…-ion battery has made pocket mobile phones a reality. A small compact rechargeable battery cell that can be reused many times over. Electric cars with long range now a reality. …
LCD — 2023-09-23 15:53:09
…oped a new type of **cyanobiphenyl**. This resulting liquid crystal was less viscous, thereby providing faster response times and more transparent, which produced a pure-white colour display for the first time. == Re-invent the Display == {{I…
iPod — 2023-09-23 15:52:55
…ghtly believed its capacity would improve. ::c:: {{image url="Ipod.jpg" width="200" class="left" }} His sketches at the time showed a credit-card-sized player with a rectangular screen and a central menu button to scroll through a selection of …
Electric Motor — 2023-09-23 15:52:02
… force going in one direction was the clever bit. By flipping the current Sturgeon could make the current reverse every time the wheel met the next magnet. That meant the wheel would keep rotating in the //same// direction for as long as the c…
Worcestershire Sauce — 2023-09-18 19:06:46
…acy from the river Severn was the Lamprey fish and local traders had been making sauces to compliment the dish for some time. Because of the [[British_Empire | Raj]] Indian flavours were starting to appeal to customers and nearby rival chemists…
…e 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! {{image url="PlaqueLeaPerrins.jpg" class="…
Electric Car — 2023-08-27 16:16:21
… mention == Even earlier the very first electric car was made by Scotsman** Robert Anderson ** around 1835 but at this time electric motors were in their infancy and the power would have been poor. == Bersey Electric Taxi == {{Image url="Ber…
Lava Lamp — 2022-08-29 08:39:00
…ent]]::[[Arts]]::[[1900s]] Edward Craven-Walker invented his psychedelic Astro lamp in 1963. The idea came from an egg-timer he saw in a [[Dorset]] pub that was made by a regular. Edward envisaged he could illuminate and heat the immiscible oi…
Full Breakfast — 2022-05-20 12:26:19
…very British and very popular and has regional variations. ~&“To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.” //W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)// The full breakfast is a centuries old British breakfast tradition datin…
…nally grilled ~and maybe baked beans. ** All served with a mug of tea and **[[Marmite#hn_HP_Sauce|Brown sauce]]**. Sometimes 'Bubble and squeak' or hash browns. == Full Welsh == Brecwast Cymreig llawn. May include a sea influence of **lave…
Police — 2022-05-20 08:52:50
…restore order only when the exercise of persuasion, advice and warning is found to be insufficient. ~1) Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the p…
…ublic and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence. ~1) Polic…
British Empire — 2022-05-20 08:45:03
… land area, and controlled more than **530 million people** – almost a **quarter** of the world’s population at the time. With colonies in every continent. {{image url="British_Empire_Anachronous.png" class="grow center" title="Map of al…
… url="FlagHawaii.gif" class="left" title="Flag Hawaii" width="" }} ::c:: == Links == [[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/timeline/colonies.htm List of all countries]]…
KitKat — 2022-05-03 17:00:51
… is uncertain but it’s thought the famous KitKat Club of the 1920s had some influence. ::c:: {{Image src="Kit_Kat_wartime_rowntree.jpg" width="300" class="left" title="War-time issue Kitkat " }} It was changed to a blue wrapper in 1945, wh…
Pneumatic Tyre — 2022-05-03 16:45:33
…th liquid rubber. == Patent == He patented this idea on 7 December **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; a…
… the novelty started to catch on. == Onlooker == The paper manufacturer, Harvey du Cros, who was in the crowd at the time, bought Dunlop's patents in 1896 for £3000. Dunlop had in the meantime moved to Dublin, where he manufactured bicycle …
…e url="Tyre.jpg" class="left" title=" Rubber Tyre" width="200" }} ::c:: == Or even earlier == This was not the first time someone had tried making inflatable tyres. Another Scot, Robert William Thomson had patented the idea in 1846 (Dunlop w…
Loudspeaker — 2021-11-07 21:26:37
…ld with nonmagnetic spacers to keep the air gap between the inner and outer poles of a moving coil transducer. At this time there was little need to amplify recorded music, that was still in its infancy, but telephone communication was pushing…
Television — 2021-11-06 16:35:18
… improving the signal conditioning from the photocell and the video amplifier. February 1924 demonstrated to the Radio Times that a semi-mechanical analogue television system was possible by transmitting moving silhouette images, such as his f…
Charlie Chaplin — 2021-08-20 11:11:51
…"**Smile**" is a song based on an instrumental theme used in the soundtrack for the 1936 Charlie Chaplin movie **Modern Times**. Chaplin composed the music, while John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons added the lyrics and title in 1954 and sung by N…
Four-minute Mile — 2021-08-20 10:55:12
…ing gun was fired at 6 p.m. Bannister was aided by Chris Brasher. Bannister took over the lead and passed an unofficial timekeeper at the 1,500-metre mark in 3 minutes 43 seconds, equaling the world’s record for that distance. Bannister push…
Miss World — 2021-08-20 10:50:22
…of 26 contestants competed for the title. The event was called a Bikini Contest to promote the //new// swimsuit of the time. The press saw it as an international event because some of the entrants came from around the world. == First Winner =…
James Bond — 2021-08-20 10:49:07
…etics. {{Image url="007.jpg" class="left" title="Movie logo" width="150" }} After leaving Eton, Ian Fleming spent some time in the Austrian Tyrol at Kitzbühel and went on to study in Munich and Geneva. He had briefly attended the Royal Milita…
Beatles — 2021-08-20 10:46:43
…ullivan Show */ == The Global Invasion == They held and still hold many records in the music industry. ~- Biggest All-Times Sales. 600 million. ~- Most No.1 Singles On UK Charts (Band): 17. ~- Most No.1 Singles On US Charts: 20. ~- Most No.1 …
Guinness Book of World Records — 2021-08-20 10:45:53
…and Ross ""McWhirter"" compiled the **Guinness Book of Records** in August 1954. == Debate == Hugh Beaver was at the time the Managing Director of the **Guinness Brewery**. He was attending a shooting party in County Wexford, [[Ireland]] whe…
…some university friends Norris and Ross McWhirter, who had been running a fact-finding agency in London. Norris was the timekeeper for Roger Bannister's sub [[four-minute_mile]] in 1954, while Ross helped locate the lost grave of rugby pioneer …
Atomic Clock — 2021-08-20 10:45:05
…peration, it was accurate to one second in 300 years. == Links == [[http://www.npl.co.uk/60-years-of-the-atomic-clock/timeline|NPL]]…
IVF — 2021-08-16 10:02:09
…roscope, a long, thin telescopic instrument. Combining these skills enabled them to produce mature eggs at the optimum time to improve chances for successful 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="IVFPlaqu…
Stan Laurel — 2021-08-14 21:08:01
…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 Laurel. Laurel was offered $75 per week to star in two-reel comedies. After the making …
DNA — 2021-08-14 21:04:12
…ts and on the 28 February 1953 in the [[Pub | Eagle pub]] in Cambridge, **Francis Crick** interrupted the patrons' lunchtime to announce that he and **James Watson** had **"discovered the secret of life"**. /* event_date="28 February 1953" The…
Automatic Kettle — 2021-08-14 20:44:42
…Hobbs had gone into business with Russell in 1952, designing and manufacturing a coffee percolator that - for the first time - kept coffee hot, and also producing an automatic tea-maker to rival the Goblin Teasmade. == The K1 == {{image url="…
…ffair. Not only did some early electric kettles boil the water by making it live, if the kettle was not switched off in time, it could boil dry, which at best would wreck the kettle, and at worst could cause a fire. ::c:: == 1960 K2 == {{imag…
Agatha Christie — 2021-08-14 20:41:37
…nment]]:[[Literature]]:[[1800s]] The Guinness Book of World Records lists Christie as the best-selling novelist of all time. Her novels have sold roughly 2 billion. === Torquay England 1890 === Born **Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller** on the 15th…
Scouts — 2021-08-14 20:35:19
… scheme outlined in Scouting for Boys to supplement the programmes of youth organisations that were in existence at the time, like the Boys Brigade and the Boy's Clubs. But boys not in other youth movements bought the book, and set themselves u…
…he **USA** alone, truly amazing. == Top Seller == The book '''Scouting for Boys''' is now in fourth place in the all time best sellers list, behind the Bible, the Koran and Mao-Tse-Tung's Little Red Book selling around **150 million** copies…
Public Park — 2021-08-14 20:30:20
…e 245 plans for the main Exhibition Hall in Hyde Park had been examined and rejected. Paxton was visiting London at the time and heard about the difficulties. Within a few days he delivered a design - a vastly magnified version of his lily hous…
Modern Olympics — 2021-08-14 20:26:14
…ttee decided to award to the winner of the '**long race**' under the name **Wenlock Prize.** This wasn't to be the last time Brookes would make contact with foreign philanthropists who shared some of his ideas. Brookes himself petitioned the Gr…
Ice Cream Cone — 2021-08-14 20:22:38
…flour ~- 8oz (225g) ground almonds ~- 4 medium eggs ~- Half a tsp vanilla extract ~- 2 tbsp rose-water == Ahead of her Time == Agnes began to selling her hand-held, edible ice cream cone and they would soon go on to replace the unhygienic glas…
…s 'licks' that ice cream street vendors used at the time. She also gave public lectures on cooking, ran an agency for domestic staff and was granted a patent for an improved i…
Fingerprints — 2021-08-14 20:06:49
…irst classification. In 1886, he offered the concept to the Metropolitan Police in London, but it was dismissed at that time. {{image url="fingerprint.jpg" class="right" title="fingerprint" width="" }} Faulds wrote to [[Charles_Darwin|Charles …
Vibrator — 2021-08-14 19:48:28
…Vibrator :: === Joseph Mortimer Granville 1880 === ~-[[CategoryInventions]]:[[Medical]]:[[1800s]] {{Image url="FemaleHysteria.jpg" class="right" title…
…y "**Granville's hammer**", the machine was manufactured and sold to physicians to relieve muscle aches. Dr. Joseph Mortimer Granville was born in [[London]], [[England]] 1833. == Hysteria == The "**pelvic massage**" was a common treatment of…
Antiseptic — 2021-08-12 20:38:14
…. Lister was appalled that a surgeon was not required to wash his hands before operating on a patient. Surgeons at the time took pride in the accumulated blood stains on their unwashed operating gowns as a display of their experience. Lister …
Hypodermic Syringe — 2021-08-12 20:33:54
…erer to experience intense 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 a…
Sewing Machine — 2021-08-11 11:41:32
…d 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 patents which, if Saint's machine had been discover…
Guillotine — 2021-08-09 22:22:29
…d in use until **Oliver Cromwell** forbade capital punishment for petty theft. The Halifax Gibbet was used for the last time, for the execution of two criminals on a single day, on 30 April 1650. The first recorded use of what was known as the …
Chocolate Bar — 2021-08-09 22:11:02
…ld not only grind more thoroughly but it could output greater amounts of ground cocoa. This gave the chocolateers more time and energy to improve the product to the confectionery candy bar that is now consumed all over the world. {{Image src=…
Light Bulb — 2021-08-09 21:56:27
…the lack of a good vacuum and an adequate electric source resulted in an inefficient bulb with a small, uncontinued lifetime. {{Image url="JSwanPlaque.jpg" title="Joseph Swan Plaque" width="300" class="right" }} Later Joseph Swan was determine…
Chicken Tikka Masala — 2021-08-09 21:27:48
… width="" }} Ali Ahmed Aslam first concocted the curry dish Tikka Masala in 1970 in Scotland. A British gentleman sometime around 1970 in the **Shish Mahal** restaurant in Glasgow [[Scotland]], found his Chicken Tikka was too dry and requeste…
Jigsaw Puzzle — 2021-08-09 21:24:39
…. Jigsaw puzzles are still very popular {{datediff from="1766"}} years later providing an educational challenge and pastime hobby for millions of people for a very small outlay. == Spilsbury Award == There is now a **Spilsbury Award** that i…
…s presented by the [[http://agpc.org | AGPI ]] to renowned individuals who have provided ongoing, lifetime contributions to the development, preservation, and research of jigsaw puzzles. …
Pub — 2021-08-09 21:19:14
…lways amusing to visitors. The most common name for a pub today is **‘The Red Lion’**. The name originates from the time of **James VI** of Scotland when he ascended the English throne in 1603. He ordered that the heraldic red lion of Scotl…
Cowboy — 2021-08-09 21:03:46
… Picayune**, not referring to a man, but to a //race horse//. The word enters printed use in the U.S. at about the same time the great cattle drives were ending ~1870. N.American cattle herders called themselves **vacquero** a Spanish word tha…
Industrial Revolution — 2021-08-08 21:48:46
…m Darby III took over the family business in the 1770s. As it grew, he attracted more workers with various measures. In times of food shortage, he bought up farms to grow food for his workers, built housing for them, and offered higher wages th…
…at Britain** in 1843 in Bristol [[Gloucestershire]], the first propeller-driven ocean-going iron ship, which was at the time also the largest ship ever built. {{Image url="SSGreatBritain.jpg" }} …
Sparkling Wine — 2021-08-08 20:32:53
…ade 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 Britain from France seemed bland to the English palette as cider was well established with …
…l Sparkle == Spontaneous secondary fermentation had occurred in still wines since antiquity; most glass bottles of the time were not strong enough to contain the high pressures generated, and so exploding bottles were an occupational hazard of…
Refrigeration — 2021-08-08 18:50:45
…y-related paper, "Of the Cold produced by Evaporating Fluids, 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 indust…
Plywood — 2021-08-08 18:44:16
…s Office"//, because it automated the whole process of woodworking machinery for making blocks. A Pulley block, at this time, was one of the British Navy's biggest expense. One ship might need 1500 pulleys all made by hand. His block making mac…
Sunday School — 2021-08-08 18:39:06
…ills and sweatshops 5 or 6 days a week. Raikes knew that the future was grim for these children who had to work all the time with no hope of an education. And with no one to teach them the good news of the Lord. Several individuals had started…
…in London and Toronto" width="300" }} The movement began in **July 1780** in the home of a Mrs Meredith. Within a short time several more schools opened in [[Gloucestershire]]. Soon Robert Raikes and Reverend Thomas Stock had 100 children ages…
Vaccination — 2021-08-07 23:07:23
… protection it provided won out, and vaccination soon became widespread. Jenner became famous and now spent much of his time researching and advising on developments in his vaccine. Jenner carried out research in a number of other areas of medi…
… published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in '''**1787**'''. == Ballooning == During his lifetime 'Hot Air Ballooning' become popular and Jenner held many experiments in this area too. == Links == [[http://www.jenner…
Marmite — 2021-04-03 10:38:16
…lfred had a wife and five children at nearby Walton-on-Trent and because money wasn't plentiful, he devoted much of his time to his family and failed to renew the Zalo patent. https://worldwide.espacenet.com OXFORD ALFRED JAMES GB190105936 …
…£150 for the recipe, plus the use of the name HP, Garton jumped at the chance. Moore had been looking around for some time for a sauce to manufacture and market. He liked both the taste and the name of Garton's HP Sauce, which had an appropri…
Toothbrush — 2021-01-28 15:14:07
…r inciting riots. He was a clever man, who wanted to keep himself presentable but did not like using the method at the time of rubbing a rag with soot and salt on the teeth. So by hand he carved a small brush handle from bone. He drilled holes…
…usiness to his eldest son, also called William. Addis began exporting products abroad to the US in the 1880’s. By the time WWII came along Addis employed 650 people and the first injection moulding machines were purchased and the first nylon …
Float Glass — 2020-12-08 00:24:27
…90" }}Alistair joined the Pilkington Brothers (there was no family connection) as a technical officer in 1947. At this time quality plate glass could only be made by a costly and wasteful plate process that the Pilkington Brothers had also inn…
Railway — 2020-11-30 12:55:52
…father was an engineman at a coalmine. Stephenson himself worked at the mine and learned to read and write in his spare time. He gained a reputation for managing the primitive steam engines employed in mines, and worked in a number of different…
…-built passenger car, dubbed Experiment, was attached, and carried dignitaries on the opening journey. It was the first time passenger traffic had been run on a steam locomotive railway. {{Image url="Gsrocket.jpg" title="Stephensons Rocket" cla…
…o., and the //America// from Robert Stephenson and Co. The trains arrived in the United States by August 1829, at which time Allen became the first person to drive a locomotive in America. @@ {{adsense}} @@ …
Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
…l play in England and it thereafter spread to other countries, particularly in Europe and the British empire. At this time British soldiers were taking the game around the world and in Canada, where frozen fields were more common than grass, …
…rs.jpg" class="right" width="100"}} Rounders is predominantly an English game. The game has been played from the Tudor Times. The earliest nationally formalised rules of play were devised by the GAA in Ireland in 1884. In 1889, the Liverpool &…
…here at a party given in 1873 by the Duke of Beaufort at his country place, "Badminton" in Gloucestershire. During that time, the game had no name, but it was referred to as "The Game of Badminton," and, thereupon, Badminton became its official…
Pop Rivet — 2020-08-17 14:41:51
…tion 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 production. This was particularly useful in Aircraft man…
Hydraulics — 2020-08-17 13:24:35
… press uses Pascal's principle from 1647, that pressure throughout a closed system is constant. This was known for some time but no one had realised how effective and compact a machine could be until the Bramah Press. The hydraulic press is st…
Life Boat — 2020-08-17 09:00:19
…class="left-right" title="Modern RNLI Life Boat" width="" }} ::c:: == Links == [[https://rnli.org/about-us/our-history/timeline/1785-the-first-lifeboats | RNLI ]] [[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F02E2D71E39E033A25751C2A966…
Stevenson Screen — 2020-08-17 08:38:43
…r a natural surface, grass is recommended as other surfaces such as concrete can cause significant error leading to all time high temperatures being recorded inaccurately. {{Tag ids="weather climate temperature "}}…
Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25
…e to design a plane. The engine was built from various test parts and they called it the W.1X, which ran for the first time on '''December 14, 1940'''. This engine powered the Gloster E.28/39 for taxi testing when it took to the air for a shor…
Milk of Magnesia — 2020-08-09 19:55:03
…esia// that came to be known as **Milk of Magnesia**. {{Toc}} The antacid effect of Magnesium had been known for some time but making a palatable oral liquid had proved difficult. {{Image url="FluidMagnesia.jpg" class="left" title="Fluid Magn…
Disc Brakes — 2020-08-09 19:54:18
…brake, beating competitors to the market by many years. == Links == [[http://www.lanchesterinteractive.org/lanchester-timeline| Timeline]]…
Gravity — 2020-08-06 08:19:13
… so he was sent to Cambridge University to study. ||{{{toc}}}||{{adsense}}|| Isaac (1642 - 1727) was born just a short time after the death of Galileo, one of the greatest scientists of all time. Galileo had proved that the planets revolve aro…
…und the sun, not the earth as people thought at the time. This led Newton to improve [[Reflecting_Telescope| Telescopes]]. But no one had been able to explain why the planets …
…rbits. == Enter the Apple == According to the well-known story, it was on seeing an apple fall in his orchard at some time during 1665 or 1666 that Newton conceived that the same force that acted on the apple also governed the motion of the M…
Greenwich Meridian — 2020-08-06 08:03:21
…ased on Greenwich time. Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal 1765 to 1811, processed Flamsteeds charts into tables that could be used by navi…
…oof Open" width="" }} == GMT == All clocks around the world are determined by the longitude offset from Greenwich Mean Time. Because the earths crust is always moving so will the imaginary prime meridian so it cannot be a truly fixed line. …
Charles Darwin — 2020-08-06 07:52:58
…arles Darwin, born in Shrewsbury, [[Shropshire]], [[England]], established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors. === Origin of Species 1859 === Darwin ( 12 February 1809 –19 April 1882) published his theory…
…ations of plants and animals that were similar to those he found in South America, suggesting that species adapted over time and to their environment. Charles Darwin was not the first to propose a theory of evolution but his work was so compe…
Monty Python — 2020-08-06 07:48:50
…the world. == Nearly Lost == In 1971, Terry Jones was informed by the BBC that, 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…
Christmas Traditions — 2019-12-27 02:21:30
…n at Christmas time are pantomimes: song and dance dramatisations of well-known fairy tales like '''Jack and the Beanstalk''', '''Cinderell…
Harry Potter — 2018-10-10 17:06:49
…arry Potter books had been sold in 73 different languages as of mid-2013, making it the best-selling book series of all time. Harry Potter is a global brand worth around** £10 billion**, and the last four Harry Potter books have consecutively…
Emergency Telephone Number — 2017-07-06 10:16:06
… also easy find by the **blind**, 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. …
Meccano — 2017-05-14 01:23:25
…uction manuals in French and English, became available. In 1905 two new sets were introduced and in 1906, for the first time, a small profit was made. == Meccano is Born == In September 1907, Hornby registered his famous "**Meccano**" trade m…
Harrier Jump Jet — 2017-01-18 16:14:57
…landing (V/STOL) due to the perfection of its vectored thrust turbofan engine. Many other aircraft manufacturers of the time tried in vain to make a similar vehicle. The US invested millions into designing their own VTOL aircraft but eventual…
Timeline — 2016-06-21 15:22:44
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