1. Carbonated water — 2023-10-09 23:52:55

   …pg" class="right" title="Soda Drink" width="250" }} Priestley’s paper would however capture the eye of a young German watchmaker in Geneva, **Switzerland**, who would ultimately bring Priestly’s science to the masses. His name was **Johann …

2. Steam Engine — 2023-10-08 00:19:36

   …rld's first-ever pressure cooker. Later designs implemented a steam-release valve to keep the device from exploding. By watching the valve rhythmically move up and down Papin conceived of the idea of a piston and cylinder engine. Papin wrote up …

3. Radar — 2023-10-08 00:18:51

   … up the system with several 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 stati…

4. Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35

   …mbridgeshire]]. The sons of Sydney John Cockerell, a London coal merchant,and Alice nee Bennett, the daughter of a City watchmaker, Sir Sydney's elder brother, Theodore, was a biologist, his younger brother, Douglas, an eminent bookbinder; while…

5. LCD — 2023-09-23 15:53:09

   …orge’s materials in their LCDs, the most successful being large** Japanese** corporations. {{Image url="Early_seiko_watch.jpg" class="left" title="Early seiko watch" width="200" }} == Awards == Gray was the recipient of the 1995 Kyoto Prize…

6. Automatic watch — 2023-09-23 12:03:07

   …blems, Harwood looked to develop a watch with a winding mechanism inside the watch. {{image url="john-harwood-movement-1929.jpg" class="left" title="Harwood self-winding watch" width="200" }} {{image u…
   …rl="john-harwood-watch-1929.jpg" class="right" title="Harwood watch face" width="200" }} == Self Winding Watch Company == The watches were first shown at the Basel Fair in 1926. He set up the Harwood Self Winding Watch Company in …
   …1928 to market the watches in the UK.…

7. Toilet — 2023-09-08 09:57:11

   …e valve type flush toilet. === Alexander Cumming 1775 === Alexander Cumming improved the Brondel valve. Cumming was a watchmaker and mechanician from Edinburgh (1732-1814). He invented the 'S'-shaped trap in 1775 and was the first to patent th…

8. Winston Churchill — 2023-08-27 16:11:42

   …along the River Thames for his State Funeral on 30th January 1965. This iconic and very public event was televised live watched worldwide by an audience of **350 million people**.…

9. Pay Toilet — 2022-09-27 07:23:49

   … it, hence the euphemism to "**spend a penny**". Born in Cheltenham, [[Gloucestershire]], [[England]]. He trained as a watchmaker but later became interested in conjuring. Maskelyne became a member of **The Magic Circle** and, like **Harry Houd…

10. Police — 2022-05-20 08:52:50

    … the force. He appointed three sergeants and six police constables. They oversaw. 68 unpaid citizen police officers or watchmen who wore long brown coats with their personal numbers painted on their backs. Each carried a lantern and long stave.…

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

    …artificial lens**. The operation was **televised**, another first, so that other ophthalmologists in the hospital could watch. == Resistance == In 1951, Harold Ridley announced the operation to an ophthalmological congress at Oxford. The news…

12. Powered Flight — 2021-04-05 22:36:49

    … Percy died days later on the 2nd October 1899 before he could display his powered triplane. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9nwSCKq_Do Video of Pilcher in flight]] [[http://www.pilcher-monument.co.uk Website dedicated to Pilcher]] In 2003 …
    …onds longer than the **Wright** brothers managed 4 years later in **1903**. [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22633d Watch a reconstruction of the Pilcher plane flying.]] == Richard Pearse 1903 == {{Image url="RichardPearse.gif" class="left"…

13. DNA Forensics — 2021-01-22 08:47:52

    …s="left" title="DNA fingerprint" width="250" }}ITV created a drama based on this story called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zd1HzWl96Y ‘Code Of A Killer’ - Trailer]]. The drama, featuring **John Simms** as Alec Jeffreys, follows the fir…

14. Bungee Jumping — 2020-08-17 13:17:46

    … vines tied to their ankles as a test of their courage and passage into manhood. == Links == [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8DLooHqJMc |David Kirke 1979 jump]] {{tag ids="Bristol Sport Bungy Bungee"}} {{paypal}}…

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