1. Internal Combustion Engine — 2023-10-09 23:51:33

   …f internal combustion engine using "heavy oil" as a fuel. ~i)1794:The earliest mention of an oil engine was by Robert Street, in his English patent no. 1983. ~i)1823: Samuel Brown patented the first internal combustion engine to be applied ind…

2. Pedestrian Crossing — 2023-10-07 11:08:59

   …"23/7/1886" death_place="London" }} == John Peake Knight - 1868 == The first pedestrian crossing was erected in Bridge Street, Westminster, London, in December 1868. Knight, a railway engineer, wanted a safe way to allow pedestrians to cross th…

3. Bob Hope — 2023-09-26 16:57:28

   … Welsh mother, Avis Townes, 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" wi…

4. Bouncing bomb — 2023-09-23 12:03:28

   …is quite unique, an amazing original weapon, 133 men and just 19 Lancasters heading out in darkness at night, flying at tree-top height over enemy territory, aiming a bouncing bomb at German dams.…

5. Worcestershire Sauce — 2023-09-18 19:06:46

   …jpg" class="right" title="Lea and Perrins Blue Plaque" width="300" }} == History == Lea took over a pharmacy in Broad Street, Worcester and employed Perrins as his apprentice. They decided to go into partnership in 1823. By the mid-1800s, with…

6. Toilet — 2023-09-08 09:57:11

   …0 === >>{{image url="Twyford_thos.jpg" title="Thomas Twyford " }}>> Thomas William Twyford (1849-1921)born in Hanover Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, was a Pottery manufacturer in England. By 1870, Thomas Twyford's improved version of the Bram…

7. YMCA — 2022-05-17 05:19:39

   … a group of fellow drapers organized the first YMCA. The idea was to substitute Bible study and prayer for life on the streets. By '''1851''' there were 24 YMCAs in Great Britain, with a combined membership of 2,700. Today there are more than…

8. KitKat — 2022-05-03 17:00:51

   …Image src="Kitkat.jpg" class="right" width="350" title="Original wrapper" }} ~-[[CategoryFood Food]]:[[1900s]] === Rowntree 1935 === **Rowntree**'s chocolate covered wafer bar was first introduced in [[England]] in 1935 and was renamed #%KitKa…
   …[[Yorkshire]]. This product was developed as a four-finger wafer crisp, launched in London 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 …
   …tain 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, when it was…

9. Pneumatic Tyre — 2022-05-03 16:45:33

   …[[Scotland]] and qualified as a veterinary surgeon before moving to Belfast in 1867. His practice was at 50 Gloucester Street, Belfast, [[Ireland]]. His great invention, of the inner tube for cycle tyres, came about more or less by chance. In …

10. Microphone — 2021-11-07 21:26:04

    …eveloped later. {{Image url="Microphone-Blue-Plaque.jpg" class="left" title="Microphone Blue Plaque in Great Portland Street, London" width="" }}…

11. Television — 2021-11-06 16:35:18

    …ed early signs of ingenuity, rigging up a telephone exchange to connect his bedroom to those of his friends across the street. ||{{{toc}}}||{{adsense}}|| ::c:: {{Image url="BairdTV.jpg" class="left" title="Early Baird TV" width="250" }} {{Image…

12. Charlie Chaplin — 2021-08-20 11:11:51

    …ndon England 1889 === Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, (16 April **1889** – 25 December **1977**) he was born at **East Street, Walworth, in South [[London]]** [[England]] {{footnote note='There is growing evidence that Chaplin was born in a gyp…

13. James Bond — 2021-08-20 10:49:07

    … Fleming 1952 === ~-[[Literature]]:[[Entertainment]]:[[1900s]] {{Toc}} Ian Fleming was born on 28 May 1908 at 7 Green Street, [[London]] W1 [[England]]. He was the second son of Valentine and Eve Fleming. Ian Fleming's first boarding school, D…

14. Intraocular Lens — 2021-08-20 10:40:24

    …re implanted every year.** Ridley gave this to the world **for free**. Ridley continued in private practice in Harley Street until he was 85. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1986, and **knighted in 2000**. Among the many medic…

15. Stan Laurel — 2021-08-14 21:08:01

    …medy duo **Laurel and Hardy**. === Ulverston England 1890 === Laurel was born **Arthur Stanley Jefferson** in Argyle Street, **Ulverston** 16 June 1890 in [[Lancashire]] now [[Cumbria]], [[England]]. == Music Hall == His career began in the…

16. Scouts — 2021-08-14 20:35:19

    …ell created the **Scout** movement in August 1907. He was born **Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell** at 9 Stanhope Street, Paddington in [[London]], was a decorated soldier, talented artist and actor. {{{toc}}} == War Hero == '''Baden-Powe…

17. Ice Cream Cone — 2021-08-14 20:22:38

    … her hand-held, edible ice cream cone and they would soon go on to replace the unhygienic glass '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 …

18. Football — 2021-08-14 19:52:33

    …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 rules for the modern game were laid down over a series of meetings. ::c:: == Biggest S…

19. Horlicks — 2021-08-12 20:30:08

    …s found employment in London, where James joined a homeopathic chemist company that made dried baby food in Tichborne Street, near Piccadilly Circus, and William, followed his father to become a saddler. == Brewing == {{Image url="HorlicksGr…

20. Nature Reserve — 2021-08-09 22:30:53

    … soapworks which had been set up near his estate in 1839 that leaked out poisonous chemicals which severely damaged the trees in the park and polluted the lake. He was eventually successful in having the soapworks moved. {{Image url="WaltonHall…

21. Wellington Boot — 2021-08-09 21:58:54

    …00s]] 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 easier to wear with the new trousers. {{Image url="DukeWellingtonBoots.jpg" cl…

22. Pub — 2021-08-09 21:19:14

    …ny pubs bear names such as ‘The Kings Arms’ ‘Royal Oak’ or ‘Queens Head’. The Royal Oak is the English oak tree within which King Charles II of England hid to escape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester in 1651. In fac…

23. Cowboy — 2021-08-09 21:03:46

    …of independence and again to refer to black or, as they became known, //buffalo soldiers//. == Links == [[http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2012/01/on-the-history-of-the-word-cowboy.html | Reference]] {{tag ids="Cowboy horse …

24. Salicylic acid — 2021-08-08 18:32:13

    …been suffering from "agues" from a fever. He was aware that **quinine** derived from the bark of the Peruvian cinchona tree could be used to treat malarial fevers. Stone wondered if the **willow tree** bark could have similar properties. He ch…
    …ewed at a small piece of bark from a willow tree (salix alba) and found that it did relieve his symptoms. {{Image url="WillowTree.jpg" class="right" title="Willow Tree…
    …" width="" }} == Stone wrote: == ~& "As this tree delights in a moist or wet soil, where agues chiefly abound, the general maxim that many natural maladies carry their c…

25. Toothbrush — 2021-01-28 15:14:07

    …ush indigenous people have used, and still use, things like miswak from the twigs/roots of the //Salvadora persica// tree or similar to clean teeth. == Links == [[http://www.addis.co.uk/our-history Addis company]] {{Tag ids="Hygiene teeth…

26. Pencil — 2020-11-30 16:27:31

    …scovery == The pure graphite was discovered in the 1500s near Keswick after a violent storm that had up rooted several trees. Shepherds checking their livestock found a black material under these trees tangled in the roots. {{Image url="Grap…

27. Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47

    …1863 the first Football Association (F.A.) was founded in [[England]]. In the '''Freemasons' Tavern''' in Great Queen Street, London on 26 October 1863 rules for the modern game were laid down over a series of meetings. Central to these meetin…
    … in the grounds of Shrubland Hall.(demolished 1948) One of the first real or royal tennis courts was built in Bedford Street to the North of the town in 1846 and survives to this day as a private club. == Table Tennis 1880 == The earliest kn…

28. Vacuum cleaner — 2020-10-11 23:24:10

    …itle="Blue plaque to Hubert Cecil Booth on Park House in Montpellier, Gloucester" width="300" }}The machine toured the streets with a team of of men in white drill suits. On finding a potential 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 …
    …l terminus in Bristol Road was at the southern end of Theresa Place, an imposing ashlar faced terrace, between Theresa Street and Alma Place. The terrace which dates from 1836 is now numbered 73-91 Bristol Road (Linden Tree pub row of houses) a…

29. Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25

    …ickshire. Power Jets completed the engine, which ran successfully on **April 12th, 1937**. The engine was pronounced "streets ahead" of any other advanced engine and managed to interest the Air Ministry enough to fund development with a contra…
    …was ready. So manufacturing started at GAC Brockworth near Gloucester, but was later moved to Regent Motors in Regent Street Cheltenham because fear of possible bombing. {{Image url="Gloster_E28-39.jpg" class="left" title="Gloster Meteor E.28/…

30. Potato Crisp — 2020-08-06 08:17:45

    …s-oracle.jpg" class="left" title="Apicius Redivivus: The Cooks Oracle" width="320" }} Dr. Kitchiner lived at 43 Warren Street, Camden [[London]] [[England]]. He was a man of eclectic interests, music, optics and spectacles and improving **teles…

31. Christmas Traditions — 2019-12-27 02:21:30

    …Christmas Traditions :: [[Domestic]]== {{colour c="red" Christmas }} =={{Image url="Xmastree.jpg" class="right" width="400" }} ||{{{toc}}}|| == {{colour c="red" text="Christmas cards" }} == ||{{Image url="Xmascar…
    … ward of the devil provided it burned continually until reduced to a pile of ashes.|| == {{colour c="green" Christmas tree}} == Was popularised by Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who introduced one to the Royal Household in 1840 fr…

32. Motor Racing Circuit — 2018-05-20 20:38:53

    … There were four Chitty's in all and Louis Zborowski died aged just 29 on the 19th October 1924 when his vehicle hit a tree.…

33. Emergency Telephone Number — 2017-07-06 10:16:06

    …} The 999 call system was introduced after a two year inquiry, following the deaths of five women in a fire at Wimpole Street in London in 1935. Neighbours were unable to dial 0 for the switchboard found it jammed with calls and could not alert…

34. Banksy — 2017-06-19 21:04:17

    …" }} {{Image url="Head.jpg" class="right" title="Banksy?" width="150" }} Banksy whose identity remains 'unknown' is a street artist from Bristol [[Gloucestershire ]] [[England]]. His stenciled artwork is characterized by clever striking images…
    …mes, satirically critiquing war, capitalism, hypocrisy and greed. {{Image url="Banksy1.jpg" class="left" title="Banksy street art" width="200" }} {{Image url="Banksy_mobile_lovers.jpg" class="right" title="Banksy mobile lovers" width="300" }} …

35. Mary Poppins — 2016-05-05 17:16:51

    …== Plot == The books centre on a magical English nanny, Mary Poppins. She is blown by the East wind to Number 17 Cherry Tree Lane, London, and into the Banks's household to care for their children. {{image url="mary_poppins.jpg" class="left" }}…

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