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  1. Carbonated water — 2023-10-09 23:52:55
    … == Mass Production == {{Image url="SodaDrink.jpg" 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’…
  2. Internal Combustion Engine — 2023-10-09 23:51:33
    …oduced. {{Image url="Herbert_akroyd_stuart_plaque.jpg" class="right" title="Herbert Akroyd plaque" width="200" }} They would provide electricity for lighting the **Taj Mahal**, the Rock of Gibraltar, the **Statue of Liberty** (chosen after Horn…
    …n arachis, **peanut or vegetable oil** not heavy fossil fuel-oil (Diesel) as a small stationary engine for farmers who would be able to produce their own fuel.…
  3. Modern Farming — 2023-10-09 23:44:30
    …e seed would be dropped in. The hole would be covered over by a harrow (a trailing bar), which gathered soil and evenly deposited it over the seeds. The machine, …
    …horse or ox drawn would then move to the next position and seed again. {{Image url="SeedInDrills.jpg" class="left" title="Seed In Drills" width…
    …mazon type="book" items="1166260496" }}<< Jethro Tull wrote a book “**Horse hoeing husbandry**” for farmers but it would take almost a hundred years before farmers widely adopted his proposals and technologies. He wrote the book in **1731**…
  4. Computer — 2023-10-09 23:40:16
    …nce Engine" width="400" }} It was intended to be able to perform any arithmetical calculation using punched cards that would deliver the instructions, as well as a memory unit to store numbers and many other fundamental components of today's co…
  5. Cat Eyes — 2023-10-09 23:39:36
    …clean themselves'''. The cast iron base collected rain water and whenever the top of the dome was depressed, the rubber would wash rainwater across the glass beads to clear away any dust or grime that had gathered there, just as the human eye ca…
    …ed until his death in '''1976'''. His home was void of carpets, curtains and other comforts, but a pair of Rolls-Royces would be parked outside and he stocked the cellar with crates of Worthington’s White Shield, his ''**'favourite beer**'''.…
  6. Radar — 2023-10-08 00:18:51
    … set up there to become the main centre for all radar research. They soon conducted "full scale" tests of a system that would soon be known as **Chain Home**, attempting to intercept a bomber by radar direction. The tests were a massive failure,…
    …h 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 stations were ready, an…
  7. Portland Cement — 2023-10-08 00:16:46
    …ays and large office buildings are made of concrete. Some boats and ships are even made from concrete. The modern world would look very different without concrete. …
  8. Electronic Computer — 2023-10-07 10:38:05
    …l months until he cracked the code without even seeing a Lorenz! But the algorithm he had devised meant manual decoding would take months, they had to find a way to speed up the process. Flowers designed **Colossus**, the first true functioning …
  9. Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35
    …l's design was the first to build a vehicle that could move over the ground and water, floating on a layer of air. This would reduce friction between the surface and the vehicle. ^^"The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air…
  10. English Bible — 2023-09-25 23:57:13
    …inted in English. Those discovered owning them were punished. At first only the books were destroyed, but soon heretics would be burned. Although the Old Testament had first been written in Hebrew and the New Testament in a dialect of Greek th…
  11. WorldWideWeb — 2023-09-23 15:57:32
    …in hypertext with the Internet. In 1989, Berners-Lee submitted a proposal at CERN to develop an information system that would create a web of information. Initially, his proposal received no reply, but he began working on his idea anyway. == H…
    …TTP == In 1990, he wrote the '''Hypertext Transfer Protocol''' (HTTP)—the language computers would use to communicate hypertext documents over the Internet and designed a scheme to give documents addresses on the Inter…
    … off as computer enthusiasts around the world began setting up their own web servers. Often the owners of the new sites would email Berners-Lee and he would link to their sites from the CERN site. His dream of a global information space was fina…
  12. Telephone — 2023-09-23 15:57:07
    …or a patent on his telephone. ---- == Patent race == >>{{image url="Agbell.jpg" title="Bell" width="200"}}>> He knew he would have to work quickly to get the patent * because other people were also trying to make an invention to transmit the hu…
  13. Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52
    …pparatus in Europe. He could see that this system was more advanced than his own system but needed a 5 core cable which would prove too expensive for the distances involved in the USA. ::c:: == Britain and Beyond == The success of the Cooke Wh…
  14. PIN — 2023-09-23 15:56:10
    …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 to get cash when it was shut. The task was taken up by Kelvin Hughes, a subsidiary of Smiths Industri…
  15. iPod — 2023-09-23 15:52:55
    …nvention, called the IXI, stored only 3.5 minutes of music on to a chip – but Mr Kramer rightly believed its capacity would improve. ::c:: {{image url="Ipod.jpg" width="200" class="left" }} His sketches at the time showed a credit-card-sized p…
  16. Electric Motor — 2023-09-23 15:52:02
    …ing 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 current keeps flowing. In 1832 he was appointed to the lect…
  17. Electric Generator — 2023-09-23 12:04:37
    …he became an errand boy for a bookbinding shop in London. He read every book that he bound, and decided that one day he would write a book of his own. He became interested in the concept of energy, specifically force. Because of his early readin…
    …el Faraday. A **Farad** measures how much electric charge is accumulated on the capacitor. It's hard to imagine how we would cope today without Faraday's discoveries. Thousands of motors all around us make everyday chores so much easier. ||{{…
  18. Toilet — 2023-09-08 09:57:11
    …="Toilet.jpg" title="Toilet" }}>> == Flushing Toilet == ~-[[CategoryInventions]]:[[Domestic]]:[[1500s]] {{{toc}}} Where would be without that little room with that pan 'to go on'. That room of 'relief'. Thanks to these guys you can now take comf…
  19. Electric Car — 2023-08-27 16:16:21
    …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="BerseyHummingbirdTaxi.jpg" class="left" title="Bersey Humming…
  20. Winston Churchill — 2023-08-27 16:11:42
    …rlain, wanted to appease Germany and Hitler and famously waved a paper that he said promised peace. Churchill knew this would not work and warned the government that they needed to help fight Hitler or Germany would take over all of Europe. <<…
  21. Custard — 2022-09-19 23:50:44
    …to find a way of formulating an egg free custard for his wife. After much experimenting he found that cornflour powder would thicken to form a custard-like sauce when mixed with milk and heated. {{Image url="BirdsCustard.jpg" class="right" ti…
  22. Lasagne — 2022-05-20 08:38:58
    …rue it forth.// {{Image url="Lasagne.jpg" class="left" title="Lasagne" width="" }} Modern lasagne has tomatoes but it would be 200 hundred years before Europeans even saw a tomato. Medieval broth refered to both meat or vegetable stew like pr…
  23. YMCA — 2022-05-17 05:19:39
    …rld War. == New Sports == Because of the popularity of the YMCA there was a need to develop activities and games that would amuse the young men but were not aggressive and physical like football and rugby. So the YMCA can claim two other inve…
  24. Postage Stamp — 2021-11-06 16:32:56
    …re paid for by the recipient. Postage was only available to the wealthy and many letters were returned if the receiver would not pay. {{Image url="PennyBlack.jpg" class="right" caption="Penny Black" width="250" }} /* event_date="1516" The Royal…
    …were concerns it had become old and chaotic. Rowland Hill's radical answer was that a uniform charge be introduced that would sweep away the bureaucracy and vast amounts of useless labour thus cheapening the whole operation, which would enable t…
  25. Hip Replacement — 2021-08-20 11:18:03
    …wrote to all his patients asking //'could he have the hips back when they died?'// When a patient passed away, someone 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 duri…
  26. MRI Scan — 2021-08-20 11:04:59
    …eful images. He suggested gradients as a way to spatially localise NMR signals in a paper published in 1973. His method would speed up the process of producing images from an hour to a fraction of a second. A medical diagnostic application was f…
  27. Antibiotics — 2021-08-20 10:41:08
    …didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the **world's first antibiotic**, or bacteria killer," Fleming would later say, "But I suppose that was exactly what I did." {{Image url="PenicillinMold.jpg" class="left" title="Penicilli…
  28. Intraocular Lens — 2021-08-20 10:40:24
    …which is very inert, caused reactions it was decided that such an operation was impossible, and that an artificial lens would be rejected by the body's immune system. {{Image url="HaroldRidleyPlaque.jpg" class="right" title="Harold Ridley Plaque…
    …could produce a lens suitable for his purposes, and for less than £1 each. The two men agreed there and then that they would **never seek to profit** from this invention, a mark of //real// medical professionals, //service not self//. == The …
    …rial out of the eye, not to put it in//'; ~ and '//the operation demanded surgical skills on such a level that success would always be doubtful.//' == Overseas == As early as 1952 he would fly to New York or Washington at weekends, operate th…
  29. IVF — 2021-08-16 10:02:09
    …the world - me, my sister Natalie, her grandchildren - had all been due to science and IVF. Without the biologists, she would have been alone in the world.” {{image url="steptoe-and-edwards.jpg" class="left" title="Steptoe, Purdy and Edwards …
  30. DNA — 2021-08-14 21:04:12
    …ilt their first model of DNA. This was slightly unethical as they had a gentleman’s agreement that the team in London would work on DNA. Watson and Crick invited Franklin and Wilkins to view a DNA model that they had built. Franklin was furiou…
  31. Reflecting Telescope — 2021-08-14 20:51:21
    …ted. This meant that the components of white light were brought to a focus at different places and the image of a star would then appear to be surrounded by a spectrum of colours. This effect is called **chromatic aberration**. {{Image url="Ne…
  32. Automatic Kettle — 2021-08-14 20:44:42
    … 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 == {{image url="K2_1960.jpg" class="right" title=…
  33. Modern Olympics — 2021-08-14 20:26:14
    …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 Greek authoritie…
  34. Ice Cream Cone — 2021-08-14 20:22:38
    …ract ~- 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 glass 'licks' that ice cream street vendors used at the time. She also gave publi…
  35. Football — 2021-08-14 19:52:33
    …ted a common set of rules so that clubs from all over the nation could compete with each other. Little did he know this would become the **biggest sport in the world!** == The Football Pitch Dimensions == {{Image url="football_pitch.png" class…
  36. Hypodermic Syringe — 2021-08-12 20:33:54
    …ravenous injection into dogs in 1656. Wren and others’ wanted to learn if medicines traditionally administered orally would be effective intravenously. {{Image url="Hypodermic-Needle.jpg" class="left" title="Hypodermic Needle" width="" }} ==F…
  37. Horlicks — 2021-08-12 20:30:08
    …n Ruardean" width="400" }}James Horlick snr was also involved in brewing and James junior was curious if a malted drink would be suitable for infants. They experimented in the granary at Ruardean mixing fresh milk with wort, a liquid extracted f…
  38. Sewing Machine — 2021-08-11 11:41:32
    …wl and a tensioning system. The awl pierced the material and a forked rod carried the thread through the hole, where it would be hooked underneath and moved to the next stitching place. The cycle would then be repeated, so locking the stitch. /…
    …covery others, like Singer, had become millionaires from patents which, if Saint's machine had been discovered earlier, would never have been approved. Newton Wilson was one who had suffered at the hands of Singer's lawyers years earlier. It wa…
  39. Adjustable Spanner — 2021-08-10 08:22:45
    …urnSpannerNo3.jpg" class="right" title="Clyburn Spanner head" width="200" }} It also featured //rack and worm// that he would have discussed with engineering work colleague [[Lawn_mower| Edwin Budding]]. Clyburn even produced a double ended adj…
  40. Lawn Mower — 2021-08-10 08:19:36
    …{{image url="EdwardBuddingPlaque.jpg" title="Budding Plaque" width="300" }}>> Budding realised that a similar concept would enable the cutting of grass if the mechanism could be mounted in a wheeled frame to make the blades rotate close to the…
  41. Match — 2021-08-09 22:35:30
    …eveloped a keen interest in finding a means of creating fire easily. Several chemical mixtures were already known which would ignite, but with a sudden explosion, it had not been possible to transmit the flame to a slow-burning substance like wo…
  42. Guillotine — 2021-08-09 22:22:29
    …ves in the uprights. This was held up by a rope. Once the condemned prisoner had been securely fastened the executioner would pull the rope. Amazingly, the executioner might have been the crowd of onlookers, a horse, or even the victim them sel…
    …f! But they were always cheered on by the crowd. The weight of the blade and the speed at which it fell would decapitate the condemned. The Halifax Gibbet was used on market days. This would ensure many people were in the town to…
    … witness the execution and the hope was that the fearsome sight of the Gibbet would act as a deterrent to those who might have considered a life of crime. == Deterrent == The first recorded use of the…
  43. Can — 2021-08-09 21:53:19
    …uld preserve food by heating it and sealing it in glass containers which excluded air. Durand thought a metal container would be more robust. Very soon he was supplying canned food to the Royal Navy and the [[British_Empire|Empire]] in large qu…
  44. Sandwich — 2021-08-08 20:40:14
    …d that quick-food product that we now know as the **sandwich**. He apparently had the meat put on slices of bread so he wouldn’t get his fingers greasy while he was playing cards. == A man is an Island == Montagu was Lord of the Admiralty a…
  45. Bearings — 2021-08-08 20:30:19
    … patented the first ball bearing mechanism. He described how iron balls running in a groove between the wheel and axle would reduce friction in his patent of 1794. {{Image url="PatentBearings.jpg" class="right" title="Philip Vaughan Ball Beari…
  46. Refrigeration — 2021-08-08 18:50:45
    …as less than lukewarm, in fact, it was decidedly chilly. The ice industry was big business. Ice-harvesting companies would remove ice from frozen lakes and store it in ice-houses. Ice companies would ship ice around the country and throughout…
  47. Sunday School — 2021-08-08 18:39:06
    …iness, becoming proprietor of the **Gloucester Journal**. == Sweatshops == Before 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 …
  48. Powered Flight — 2021-04-05 22:36:49
    …p://www.pilcher-monument.co.uk Website dedicated to Pilcher]] In 2003 Pilchers triplane was rebuilt to test whether it would have flown. The rebuilt plane flew successfully for 1 minute 25 seconds, 26 seconds longer than the **Wright** brothers…
    …or many minutes and this was several months before the Wright brothers. Being so reserved he did not think his attempt would qualify as 'First powered flight' until the Wright brothers flight of 12 seconds was claimed as a first! ::cl:: {{Imag…
  49. Pencil — 2020-11-30 16:27:31
    …dustry grew up sawing and shaping the graphite into rods and wrapping it with string. This proved messy and the pencils would break easily, so it was later encased in wood. The modern pencil was born! {{Image url="PencilVan.jpg" class="left" ti…
  50. Railway — 2020-11-30 12:55:52
    …ll but the poorest could afford to travel by train. In the stagecoach days, a ticket from London to Manchester and back would have cost '''£3 10s''' but by 1851 the train fare for this same journey was only '''5s''' for a far quicker and more c…
  51. Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
    …ted a common set of rules so that clubs from all over the nation could compete with each other. Little did he know this would become the biggest sport in the world! [[Football | Main article]] == Cricket 1787 == The origins of cricket are very…
  52. Vacuum cleaner — 2020-10-11 23:24:10
    … == In 1903 Booth was granted world patent rights for the vacuum cleaner. This started a long round of legal battles as would-be competitors attempted to cash in on his invention, and other inventors staked their claims. When a serious outbrea…
  53. Bungee Jumping — 2020-08-17 13:17:46
    …rban vine jumping. ~&"[We used] elastic ropes used to catch jet fighters landing on aircraft carriers, so I thought it would be OK." //David Kirke.// == Dangerous Sports == **David Kirke, Chris Baker of **Bristol**, Simon Keeling, Tim Hunt** (…
  54. Cyclonic Vacuum Cleaner — 2020-08-15 09:18:21
    …tter, said on U.K. national TV, "I do regret that Hoover as a company did not take the product technology off Dyson; it would have lain on the shelf and not been used." …
  55. Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25
    …"right" title="Whittle inspects his engine "}} This rejection would later turn out to be a stroke of luck for Whittle, but because his idea was available to the public, other's overseas (…
    … and had passed the prototype stage and was building the first flyable design, the ""Heinkel HeS 3"". Whittle's efforts would have been far more advanced had the Air Ministry taken a greater interest in the design. {{Image url="Whittle_monument_…
    …e is now a monument to Sir Frank Whittle in the town of Gloucester. Not much of a likeness to the great man, I guess it would be called artistic. He is standing on a his invention looking skyward. {{Image url="WhittleArches.jpg" width="320" cla…
    …is invention. The jet engine made long haul cheap flight possible not just for the rich but for the masses. Many of us would never have had the opportunity to see many wonders around the world without Whittle's jet engine. ||{{Image url="Glost…
  56. Monty Python — 2020-08-06 07:48:50
    …s commissioned by none other than David Attenborough, seemed so intrinsically British that no-one could imagine that it would be an international winner, but slowly it did just that and {{Datediff from="1969" }} years later it is still as popula…
  57. Rubber Band — 2020-06-28 12:40:44
    …the most versatile of inventions. From holding lids on to holding clothing in place. Golf balls to catapults and what would the postman use to hold all those letters together before discarding outside your front door?…
  58. Underground Railway — 2019-10-23 19:35:16
    …wler**, the leading railway engineer of the day. He did not come cheap and his Metropolitan Railway salary of £137,700 would be worth around £10 million today. In its first year it carried more than nine million passengers! It was an outstand…
    …ing success and soon it would be the envy of other capital cities around the world who all wanted their own **Metro**. In 1890 the first underground …
  59. English Language — 2018-01-26 21:45:55
    …ion people are learning English in one form or another. Less than a hundred years ago people from the north of England would struggle to communicate with people from the south of England, a matter of a hundred miles or so! Now speakers from opp…
  60. Emergency Telephone Number — 2017-07-06 10:16:06
    …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. …

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