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Lever Brothers — 2023-10-09 23:43:45
…ng company Lever Brothers. {{TOC}} == Beginings == The Lever brothers were born in Bolton [[England]]. William & James worked in their fathers small grocery business. A local Bolton chemist, **William Hough Watson**, had invented a new process …
Computer — 2023-10-09 23:40:16
…nstrated 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 complex **Analytical Engine**, a revolutionary device on which made him the first **comp…
Cat Eyes — 2023-10-09 23:39:36
…y Shaw (1890 - 1976) was born in Halifax in West [[Yorkshire]] in 1890, the son of Jimmy Shaw, a dyer’s labourer, who worked at a local mill. When he was 14, he worked as a road mender. {{{toc}}} Shaw was inventive, even at a young age, and hi…
Steam Engine — 2023-10-08 00:19:36
…rated the first operational and practical industrial engine. Together, Newcomen and Savery developed a beam engine that worked on the atmospheric, or vacuum, principle. The first industrial applications of the vacuum engines were in the pumping o…
Pedestrian Crossing — 2023-10-07 11:08:59
…ed zebra markings and the terminology stuck. === George Charlesworth 1951 === Traffic engineer George Charlesworth had worked on the Barnes Wallis-designed [[Bouncing_bomb]] was dubbed ‘Dr Zebra’. Charlesworth headed the team who pioneered …
Electronic Computer — 2023-10-07 10:38:05
…*, a machine with 1.6 million billion combinations! Bill Tutte was given the task of cracking the complex code. Tutte worked for several months until he cracked the code without even seeing a Lorenz! But the algorithm he had devised meant manua…
Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35
…bled papers. Despite an interest in the arts, Christopher 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. {…
… Thomas Hardy, called him simply "**grandfather of the hovercraft**".) == War Years == During the war years Cockerell worked with an elite team at Marconi to develop [[RADAR]], a development which Churchill believed had a significant effect on …
… the flying boat firm at Cowes on the Isle of Wight, were given the contract, and the firm, under Cockerell's guidance, worked avidly on the 20ft craft dubbed the "flying saucer". @@{{adsense}}@@ …
Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52
…ew the telegraph in Mr Ronalds' garden. Charles 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 h…
…orse, a painter and electrical experimenter, sailed to Liverpool in May 1838 to see how the Cooke Wheatstone Telegraph worked. Morse was wanting to patent his own simple telegraphic apparatus in Europe. He could see that this system was more adv…
LCD — 2023-09-23 15:53:09
…hers that a thin layer of impure liquid crystal could be used to make a crude optoelectronic display but the DSM design worked poorly and proved to be too power hungry. /* RCA pioneered LCD but the displays were not usable. cyanobiphenyl is the…
YMCA — 2022-05-17 05:19:39
…nd centralization of commerce and industry 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 workplac…
Crufts — 2022-05-03 17:14:00
…fts Winner" width="" }} ::c:: === Charles Cruft 1886 === Crufts was named after its founder, Charles Alfred Cruft, who worked as general manager for a dog biscuit manufacturer. Charles was born in 1852 Bloomsbury [[Sussex]], [[England]]. {{Im…
Hip Replacement — 2021-08-20 11:18:03
…tial hip replacements, known as hemiarthroplasties. Sir John Charnley, tested materials in his own legs to ensure they worked before implanting them in a patient. Sir John and his team had created a clean-air system to protect patients during op…
…meone would be sent to go and collect the hips and the lymph nodes to correlate the facts and to see how the joints had worked during the years they had been in the body. == {{datediff from="1963" }} years on == The total hip replacement operat…
Cary Grant — 2021-08-20 10:57:47
…her was dead while, in fact, she had been committed to an institution by his father. His father, the son of a potter, worked as a tailor but was an alcoholic. {{Image url="CaryGrantPlaque.jpg" class="left" title="Cary Grant plaque in Hughenden…
James Bond — 2021-08-20 10:49:07
…Geneva. He had briefly attended the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst which he did not enjoy. == Reuters == He later worked at Reuters. This was a very enjoyable and successful period and he particularly relished covering a notorious espionage…
IVF — 2021-08-16 10:02:09
…="left" title="Steptoe, Purdy and Edwards with first baby " width="250" }} == A Great Team == Both Steptoe and Edwards worked in the field of reproductive health before their collaboration in 1966, they were especially interested in problems of …
Stan Laurel — 2021-08-14 21:08:01
…ntomime and music hall. Developing his skills in comedic sketches. Laurel was a member of "Fred Karno's Army," where he worked alongside [[Charlie_Chaplin|Charlie Chaplin]]. Chaplin and Laurel arrived in the United States on the same ship from B…
…ritain with the Karno troupe in 1916. Laurel worked briefly alongside Oliver Hardy in a silent film short **The Lucky Dog** (1921). Around the same time he adopted the sta…
CT Scan — 2021-08-14 20:48:42
…ottinghamshire]], [[England]]. He perfected the **C**omputed **A**xial **T**omography scanner, CAT scan for short. He worked for **EMI** and became interested in computers. In 1958, he helped design the first commercially available all-transis…
Bovril — 2021-08-14 20:09:04
…ston. {{Image url="BovrilJar.jpg" class="left" title="Bovril Jar" width="300" }} === John Johnston 1870 === Johnston worked as a butcher in **Edinburgh**, he used surplus meat to make his own meat glaze or beef stock, by heating until it becom…
Vibrator — 2021-08-14 19:48:28
…ge vibrator" width="200" }} == Media Links == The historical but largely fictional film **//Hysteria//** features a reworked history of the vibrator focusing on Dr. Granville's invention.…
Procter Gamble — 2021-08-12 20:35:23
…n [[Herefordshire]] [[England]]. /* event_date="7 December 1801" William Procter was born in England */ As a boy, he worked as general store apprentice candlemaker, learning to “dip candles”. Procter entered into business in the clothing i…
Steel — 2021-08-12 20:31:45
…n. {{Image url="EiffelTower.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 puddling fur…
Colgate — 2021-08-11 11:43:11
…o Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Colgate formed a partnership with Ralph Maher to manufacture soap and candles, and William worked with them. == Independence == {{Image url="ColgateToothpaste.jpg" class="left" title="Colgate Toothpaste" width="300" …
…}} Eventually relocating to New York City, he worked as a candle-maker, and in 1806 he went into business for himself, selling soap, candles, and starch. After several year…
Sewing Machine — 2021-08-11 11:41:32
…a remarkable 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 t…
Lawn Mower — 2021-08-10 08:19:36
…s** in London [[Zoo]], in **1831**. It took another ten years and further innovations to create a machine that could be worked by donkey or horse power, and sixty years before a steam-powered lawnmower was built. == Links == [[https://www.thebud…
Light Bulb — 2021-08-09 21:56:27
…er Joseph Swan was determined to devise a practical, long-lasting electric light. He found that a carbon paper filament worked well, but burned up quickly. In **1878**, he demonstrated his new electric lamps in **Newcastle**, England. Swan pursu…
Shire Horse — 2021-08-09 21:35:31
…="200" }} Both in commerce and agriculture Shire horses literally made the wheels of Britain's industry go round. They worked in fields, in towns, on docks and quays, on canal towpaths, for mills and railways. Their numbers ran into millions. …
Powered Flight — 2021-04-05 22:36:49
…"1888" }} Long before the **Wright brothers** aviation engineer and inventor Henson, born in Nottingham England, Henson worked in Chard lace-making business. In 1842 he designed a large passenger-carrying steam-powered monoplane, with a wing sp…
Railway — 2020-11-30 12:55:52
…near Newcastle-upon-Tyne [[Northumberland]], [[England]]. His 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 en…
…gines employed in mines, and worked in a number of different coalmines in the northeast of England and in Scotland. In 1814 Stephenson constructed his fir…
…-- Stephenson died on 12 August 1848 in Chesterfield in Derbyshire. His only son Robert was also a railway engineer and worked with his father on many of his projects. {{image url="TrainFlyingScotsman.jpg" class="right" title="The Flying Scotsman…
Vacuum cleaner — 2020-10-11 23:24:10
…through the windows. It was originally powered by an oil engine, the electric motor was added later. The first cleaner worked out rather expensive at around £350. The bright red horse-drawn machine measured 4' 6" x 4' 10" x 3' 6" and the large …
Hydraulics — 2020-08-17 13:24:35
…in 1845 set in motion a scheme to provide piped water from distant reservoirs to the households of **Newcastle**. This worked well, so well there was excess water pressure in the lower part of town. Armstrong convinced the authorities this exce…
Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25
…Image url="Gloster_E28-39.jpg" class="left" title="Gloster Meteor E.28/39" }} Gloster's chief designer, George Carter, worked closely with Whittle to design a plane. The engine was built from various test parts and they called it the W.1X, whic…
Disc Brakes — 2020-08-09 19:54:18
…icle disc brake in 1902. == Car Enthusiast == In 1889.Lanchester joined the "Forward Gas Engine Co" in Birmingham and worked there until 1892. He was fascinated by the Benz automobile that he saw at the 1889 Paris Exhibition. This led onto pro…
Plastic Surgery — 2020-08-06 08:24:01
…c surgery. A New Zealander who studied medicine in Cambridge, England later he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and worked as a medical minder during the Great War where he experienced pioneering skin grafts on wounded soldiers. {{Image url…
Meccano — 2017-05-14 01:23:25
…. His employer saw potential in what Hornby was doing and offered him some vacant premises next to the office where he worked to pursue his ideas. With this move, Elliot and Hornby became partners. ::c:: == Into Production == {{Image url="Mecca…

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