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  1. Lever Brothers — 2023-10-09 23:43:45
    …Honey Soap' then later named it "**Sunlight Soap**". The product sold quickly and production soon reached 450 tons per week by 1888, within a decade it is on sale in **134 countries**. Larger premises were built on the Wirral Peninsula at wh…
  2. Radar — 2023-10-08 00:18:51
    …rime minister, **Stanley Baldwin**, was kept quietly informed of radar's progress. == Increasing the Range == Only two weeks later Wilkins left the Radio Research Station with a small party, including Edward George Bowen (born Swansea, [[Wales…
  3. PIN — 2023-09-23 15:56:10
    …, [[Scotland]] in 1937. During the 1960’s saw the trend of employers to pay wages directly into the employees bank. Weekend closures of banks limited a working person’s access to their own accounts, and money. The banks needed a cash dis…
    …penser or ATM, to provide a weekend service. Martins bank had asked Chubb to produce a machine to be placed outside the bank that would allow customers …
  4. YMCA — 2022-05-17 05:19:39
    … brought many rural young men who needed jobs into cities like London. They worked __10 to 12 hours a day, six days a week__. George wanted to help these poor young men who often lived at their workplace and were easy prey to pickpockets, thu…
  5. Television — 2021-11-06 16:35:18
    …irst public demonstration of moving silhouette images by television at Selfridges department store in London in a three-week series of demonstrations beginning on March 25, 1925. On the 26th of January 1926 in his [[London]] attic laboratory, J…
  6. Paralympic Games — 2021-08-20 10:59:53
    …f the International Olympic Committee and the **IPC** following a June 19, 2001 agreement. The Games take place three weeks after the closing of the Olympics, in the same host city and using the same facilities. Cities bidding to host the Oly…
  7. Beatles — 2021-08-20 10:46:43
    …No. 1 Albums: 19. ~- Most US consecutive No.1 Albums: 8. ~- Most UK consecutive No.1 Singles: 11. ~- Most US cumulative weeks at No.1 Albums: 132. ~- Most Albums in the US Top 200 simultaneously: 11. ~- Most recorded song , 'Yesterday'. ~- All …
  8. Intraocular Lens — 2021-08-20 10:40:24
    …l that success would always be doubtful.//' == Overseas == As early as 1952 he would fly to New York or Washington at weekends, operate there, and return to his London practice by Monday morning. While Americans welcomed a new idea with such …
  9. Stan Laurel — 2021-08-14 21:08:01
    …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 of his first film, //Nuts in May//, Universal offered him a contract. {…
  10. Rubber — 2021-08-12 20:24:10
    …ke solid containing 30% sulphur. Hancock took out another patent on May 21st, 1845 to try to protect his methods. Three weeks later, on June 15, 1845, Goodyear took out a patent in the United States. Later in 1851 Charles Goodyear was awarded …
  11. Sunday School — 2021-08-08 18:39:06
    …efore the Sunday School movement children would work 12 hours a day or longer in the mills 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…
    …Stock had 100 children ages 6 to 14 attending their Sunday schools. Even though the children were taught only one day a week, their behavior began to improve. Robert waited a few years to see if **Sunday schools** were a success. He then prin…
    …iptures for the Sunday schools. By 1831, Sunday schools in Great Britain were teaching **1.25 million children** every week, approximately 25 percent of the population. They were the forerunners of the current English state school system. {{…
  12. Safari Park — 2020-08-17 14:54:27
    …,500 people visited the lions of Longleat, in an estimated 106,000 cars and 1,950 coaches in the first year. Just nine weeks after the park had opened, the first lion cubs were born at Longleat. == Wild Idea == Jimmy Chipperfield, of Chipper…
  13. Emergency Telephone Number — 2017-07-06 10:16:06
    …and hooters to alert exchange operators to give priority to the emergency call. == Instant success == During 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 …
  14. Thriller — 2017-05-19 15:12:25
    …url="Thrillercover.jpg" class="left" title="Thriller cover" width="" }} The album also holds the record for the **most weeks at No. 1 **on the Billboard 200 chart: 37 weeks – Thriller, Michael Jackson, 2/26/1983. He also wrote 'Rock With …

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