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Elevator — 2023-12-30 12:44:08
…to change travel direction. A hand brake is in evidence. This basic system remained the principle for lifts for over 50 years. == Links == [[http://www.victorianlondon.org/entertainment/colosseum.htm|Victorian London]]…
Split the Atom — 2023-10-10 00:05:57
…build the world's first nuclear-particle accelerator in 1929. Rutherford had split the atom in Manchester more than ten years before. He wanted more control over the particles used to penetrate nuclei. He directed Cockcroft and Walton to build …
Glastonbury Festival — 2023-10-09 23:45:46
…ival** in 1970 that became the **Glastonbury Festival**. == First Festival == Over the past {{datediff from="1970"}} years, starting with a crowd of 1500, Glastonbury now draws over **170,000** each summer for a celebration of music, art, an…
… There are least** 60 stages **on site and eight miles of security fencing. Glastonbury costs **£22m** to put on every year. The tickets **always** sell out. With one exception, 2008 when headline act was rapper Jay-Z, it is a //music// festi…
Modern Farming — 2023-10-09 23:44:30
…6260496" }}<< 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**. Jethro advocated the use …
Stainless Steel — 2023-10-09 23:42:45
…His father was a steel worker at **Thomas Firth & Sons**. Brearley started working at the age of twelve and a couple of years later was working for Firth's as a bottle washer in the chemical laboratory. He studied metallurgy and learnt very …
Cinematography — 2023-10-09 23:41:17
…oundhay Garden**, **Leeds Bridge**, and his son playing the accordion, using his single-lens camera. All this several years before Auguste and Louis Lumière, and William Kennedy Dickson. {{Image url="Louis_Le_Prince_camera.jpg" class="left"…
Cat Eyes — 2023-10-09 23:39:36
…y occupied a 20 acre site in Boothtown. At its peak it employed 130 people to manufacture over** a million Catseyes** a year for export all over the world. ---- == Simple and Effective == {{Image url="Catseyeclean.jpg" title="thumb" width="100"…
Radar — 2023-10-08 00:18:51
…g aircraft at 17 miles, which was enough to stop all work on competing sound-based detection systems. By the end of the year the range was up to **60 miles**, at which point plans were made in December to set up five stations covering the appro…
… of LZ 130, the GRAF Zeppelin II, but concluded the stations were a new long-range naval communications system. == War years == In July 1938 Watson-Watt left Bawdsey Manor and took up the post of Director of Communications Development (DCD-RAE…
Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35
…was a biologist, his younger brother, Douglas, an eminent bookbinder; while Douglas's son Sydney Maurice ("Sandy"), two years Christopher's senior and also a bookbinder, was a celebrated and innovative designer of marbled papers. Despite an int…
… and T.E. Lawrence, literary executor of 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 Churc…
Marshall Amplification — 2023-10-07 09:45:58
…rshallWall.jpg" class="left" title="Marshall Wall" width="300" }} == Marshall Amplification is Born == He took on 18-year-old electronics apprentice, Dudley Craven, resulting in the foundation of **Marshall Amplification.** After many protot…
WorldWideWeb — 2023-09-23 15:57:32
…ier''' (URI). (This is now usually known as a URL—Uniform Resource Locator.) == First Browser == By the end of the year he had also written a client program (browser) to retrieve and view hypertext documents. He called this client ""WorldW…
Telephone — 2023-09-23 15:57:07
… was at this time that he met Mabel Hubbard, one of his students who was 10 years younger than he. Mabel had become deaf at the age of four due to scarlet fever. Five years later they were married. At…
…ll. Because Bell had the patent, he had the right to be the only one to produce telephones in the U.S. for the next 19 years. The unit used to measure the intensity of a sound, the **'decibel'** is named after Alexander Graham Bell. == Back i…
Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52
…ina, Symphonium, Stereoscopy"}} Charles Wheatstone was born in Barnwood, [[Gloucestershire]], he was a curious fifteen-year old. His uncle from London took him to view the telegraph in Mr Ronalds' garden. Charles Wheatstone was one of the outs…
Stereo — 2023-09-23 15:56:38
…isation == Blumlein's binaural experiments began in early 1933, and the first **stereo** discs were cut later the same year. His system for cinematic use was completed by 1935. Blumlein made short test films ( "Trains At Hayes Station", whic…
PIN — 2023-09-23 15:56:10
…ll activate the machine, and allow a withdrawal to be made. This concept is still in use some {{Datediff from="1966"}} years later all around the world though USA were slower to realise the benefits of this simple invention. There are now mil…
LCD — 2023-09-23 15:53:09
…ne over a narrow interval at around room temperature and these were revealed to the world {{Datediff from="22/3/1973"}} years ago in a scientific publication on **22 March 1973**. Working in collaboration with scientists at the RRE, led by Pete…
Electric Motor — 2023-09-23 15:52:02
…rer in Science and Philosophy at the East India Company's Military Seminary at Addiscombe, Surrey, and in the following year he exhibited his **first electromagnet**. He displayed its power by lifting nine pounds with a seven-ounce piece of iro…
…omopolar motor in 1821, physicists were excited to make the electric motor a useful, stronger device. Over the next few years several inventors made magnetic rotating devices including Rev. William Ritchie. In 1830, Sturgeon produced a vastly …
Electric Generator — 2023-09-23 12:04:37
…lled electromagnetic rotation: that is a continuous circular motion from the circular magnetic force around a wire. Ten years later, in 1831, he began his great series of experiments in which he discovered electromagnetic induction. These exper…
ATM — 2023-09-23 12:02:41
…ndered if vending machines can dispense chocolate bars why couldn't banks have a machine to dispense money? Later that year, he met with the chief general manager of Barclays Bank. Shepherd-Barron asked him for 90 seconds to pitch his idea for…
Worcestershire Sauce — 2023-09-18 19:06:46
…ir efforts, they banished their brew to the cellar. There, the sauce lay forgotten until the pair stumbled upon it two years later. Before they discarded their concoction for good, they took one last taste. Much to their surprise, it had m…
Toilet — 2023-09-08 09:57:11
…lush mechanism and a method of prevent smells passing from the drain. Overcoming these challenges has taken hundreds of years. {{Databox Image="HarringtonJohn.jpg" title="Sir John Harrington " width="250" birth_date="4 August 1561" birth_pla…
…000 people paid attendants one penny to use the 'Wash-rooms'. His installation went on to produce a revenue of £1000 a year. Jennings was awarded a gold medal for this pioneering and essential work, when by the 1890s he had enriched public tho…
Mousetrap — 2023-08-31 23:02:31
… St Martin's Theatre since 1974. The play ran continuously since then for {{Datediff from="6/10/1952" to="16/3/2020" }} years when COVID forced a suspension. It then resumed on 17 May 2021. It has by far the longest opening run of any play in h…
Winston Churchill — 2023-08-27 16:11:42
…nst the German Luftwaffe. == VE Day == Britain faced its supreme test. It is for his leadership through these fraught years of 1940-1945 - through **Dunkirk**, the **Battle of Britain** and the **Blitz** - that Churchill is best remembered. H…
Olivia Newton John — 2023-04-06 17:15:33
…ther encouraged her to pursue her singing career in Britain. ::c:: == Back in Britain == After struggling for several years she broke through with a Bob Dylan song **If Not For You** in 1971. In 1974, Newton-John represented the United Kingdo…
Pay Toilet — 2022-09-27 07:23:49
… in Britain. It was produced by the Maskelyne British Typewriter and Manufacturing Company Ltd of London from 1889, two years before a patent was issued. == Writing == In 1894, Maskelyne wrote the book Sharps and Flats: A Complete Revelation o…
National Trust — 2022-07-02 09:18:26
… === Hill, Rawnsley and Hunter 1895 === In **1876** Hill became the treasurer of the **Kyrle Society**, founded in that year by her eldest sister, Miranda, as a "Society for the Diffusion of Beauty". It was a template for the National Trust, **…
…20** years later. {{Image url="CanonRawnsley.jpg" class="left" title="Canon Rawnsley" width="100" }} Hill was engaged in a campai…
Cheesecake — 2022-05-20 12:28:32
… bake at 350°F for 50-55 minutes. So cheesecake has been been eaten in Britain for at least {{Datediff from="1390" }} years. …
Cambridge Cream — 2022-05-20 08:48:45
…is called **'crème à l'Angloise'**. The pudding had been on the menu at Trinity College, Cambridge, for at least 60 years by then. In the 1600's they called it **Cambridge cream**, **Trinity cream** or simply **Burnt cream**. === Trini…
Lasagne — 2022-05-20 08:38:58
…age 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 preperations.…
Loch Ness Monster — 2022-05-03 17:06:34
…r" }} [[Society]] == Cryptozoology == Stories of an //aquatic beast// living in Scotland’s Loch Ness date back 1,500 years, the modern legend of the Loch Ness Monster was boosted when a sighting made the local news on May 2, 1933. The newspa…
…ng-extinct plesiosaurs. The aquatic plesiosaurs were thought to have died off with the rest of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. == In History == There are many references to “Nessie” in Scottish history, dating back to around** A.D. 500…
KitKat — 2022-05-03 17:00:51
…r-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 the Second World War. The origin of the name KitKa…
…nd across the world ** when it was sold in 72 countries. Today more than 17 billion #% KitKat #% fingers are eaten each year from 14 factories around the globe. The original factory in York alone produces over 4 million bars a day. So why not …
Pneumatic Tyre — 2022-05-03 16:45:33
…= He patented this idea on 7 December **1888**, using the word 'pneumatic' for the first time [See below] , in the same year. A local firm, W. Edlin and Co, then agreed to manufacture frames to fit the new tyre; and when, in 1889, a well-known …
Television — 2021-11-06 16:35:18
…mary colour; and three light sources at the receiving end, with a commutator to alternate their illumination. That same year he also demonstrated stereoscopic television. In 1932 he was the first to demonstrate ultra-short wave transmission. …
Postage Stamp — 2021-11-06 16:32:56
… It was the first pre-paid mail service, issued in Great Britain on 1 May **1840**, for official use from 6 May of that year. {{{Toc}}} ::c:: == The Penny Black == Prior to the **Penny Black** letters were paid for by the recipient. Postage w…
Hip Replacement — 2021-08-20 11:18:03
…t 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 operation is seen as a…
… landmark in 20th-century surgery, and is now one of the most performed elective surgical procedures in the world. Each year 35,000 hips are replaced in England and Wales on the NHS, and close to 300,000 THAs performed per year in the United St…
Charlie Chaplin — 2021-08-20 11:11:51
…ized person** on the planet. ::c:: == Rags to Riches == Chaplin's life was the ultimate rags to riches tale. His early years were spent with his mother with whom Charlie first appeared on stage with, at the age of five. But this did not provi…
Workmate — 2021-08-20 11:10:56
….jpg" class="left" width="200" title="workmate" }} == Sell the Idea == His idea was rejected by manufacturers for many years, so Hickman sold the benches himself to professional builders at trade shows, building up a client base of tradesmen.…
Concorde — 2021-08-20 11:08:12
…uise altitude. First flown in **1969**, Concorde entered service in **1976** and continued commercial flights for **27 years**. ::cl:: == Mach 2 == {{Image url="concorde1.jpg" class="left" title="Majestic Concorde" width="400" }}Brian Trubsha…
Cary Grant — 2021-08-20 10:57:47
…nuary 18, 1904 at 15 Hughenden Road, Horfield, a suburb of Bristol, [[Gloucestershire ]] [[England]]. When he was 10 years old, Grant was told that his mother was dead while, in fact, she had been committed to an institution by his father. …
Four-minute Mile — 2021-08-20 10:55:12
….4 that's 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds. /* event_date="6 May 1954" Roger Bannister broke the 4 minute mile. */ For many years, athletes had tried and failed to run a mile in less than four minutes that people thought it to be a //physical impos…
James Bond — 2021-08-20 10:49:07
…7 series is the '''longest running''' and '''most successful movie franchise''' in history. Spanning 26 films over a 50 year period. {{Image url="Drnono.jpg" class="left" title="Promotion for Dr No. Sean Connery as James Bond" }} Sean Connery …
Atomic Clock — 2021-08-20 10:45:05
… and a sensitive detector at the other end. When it was first put in to operation, it was accurate to one second in 300 years. == Links == [[http://www.npl.co.uk/60-years-of-the-atomic-clock/timeline|NPL]]…
Antibiotics — 2021-08-20 10:41:08
…gainst life” but the life in this case is harmful microbes. Although some advances in antibiotics had occurred a few years before this date none of these had impact that penicillin did, Fleming started the Antibiotic era. == Penicillin == B…
Intraocular Lens — 2021-08-20 10:40:24
…implant is now the **most commonly performed** eye surgical procedure. **More than 6 million lenses are implanted every year.** Ridley gave this to the world **for free**. Ridley continued in private practice in Harley Street until he was 85. …
IVF — 2021-08-16 10:02:09
…wn on 25 July 1978, in Oldham General Hospital, Greater Manchester, [[England]]. Louise Brown recently stated: “A few years ago, just before she died, my mum realised that every blood relative she had in the world - me, my sister Natalie, her…
Vitamins — 2021-08-16 09:52:16
…n, from which he qualified in 1896. He held a resident appointment at the Metropolitan Hospital, and then spent several years in general practice in **Coventry** before entering the **Malayan Medical Service** in 1903. ::c:: == The Missing Nu…
…ybe why Australians call us **Pomes** (Pomegranates). But Lind had made the link between vitamins and health almost 200 years before Fletcher. /* event_date="May 1747" James Lind conducted the first clinical trial to confirm that citrus fruits…
Reflecting Telescope — 2021-08-14 20:51:21
…" width="250" }} The reflector telescope is still very popular and has changed very little in {{datediff from="1668" }} years. ::c:: == Leviathan of Parsonstown == {{Image url="RosseTelescope.jpg" class="right" title="Rosse Telescope" width=""…
… and a tube 54 feet long, it remained the largest telescope in the world until 1917, {{datediff from="1845" to="1917"}} years. {{tag ids="Gravity Galileo"}}…
Scouts — 2021-08-14 20:35:19
…items="0192802461" }}>> == Worldwide network == {{Image url="Scout50p.jpg" class="right" width="200" title="Centenary year commemorative coin" }} There are now '''**155 countries**''' with internationally recognised National Scout Organizatio…
Modern Olympics — 2021-08-14 20:26:14
…closed the entire town to concentrate on impressing his guest. The Baron stayed in Brookes' own home and despite the 54 year age difference (Brookes was by then 81), the two men built up a great rapport, Brookes sharing the dream of an internat…
Photography — 2021-08-14 19:57:18
…d patented the process in 1841. This was the basis for all photography for {{Datediff from="1/1/1841" to="16/3/1971" }} years until the invention of [[Digital_Photography | 'Digital photography']].…
Football — 2021-08-14 19:52:33
…rimarily controlling a ball with your feet //not// your hands . The Chinese "football" games date as far back as 3000 years ago. The Ancient Greeks and the Roman used football games to prepare warriors for battle. {{Image url="Football.jpg" …
…chi" once flourished. == Set the Rules == In Britain too, there are records of Football being played for hundreds of years. But it was in England that the modern game of football really begin to take shape. In 1863 the first Football Associa…
Saline Drip — 2021-08-12 20:46:29
… the most important hospital procedures with little changed in the basic mechanism in {{datediff from="23 May 1832" }} years. It has saved millions from ill health or even death by dehydration. It is deservedly on the World Health Organizatio…
Christmas Cracker — 2021-08-12 20:39:19
…e product when two people pulled it apart with cracking sound. By 1900 the company were producing 13 million crackers a year. Over the next few years his idea evolved and grew and he moved from his original premises in Clerkenwell, East [[Lond…
Horlicks — 2021-08-12 20:30:08
… the USA in 1844. He took a trip back to England in 1869 and, while visiting his cousin James at Ruardean, persuaded 24 year old William Horlick to return to America with him. James decided to join him in 1873. That same year, they started the…
…onal in 1908. The entire project cost £28,800 and by 1969, the extended factory produced 30 million pounds of powder a year. In 1945 British Horlicks company bought the American Horlicks out. == Worldwide == In 1935 a factory was built in A…
Rubber — 2021-08-12 20:24:10
…les in his hand and realized that if it was sliced up it could be used as garters, suspenders and waistbands. About 25 years later, another Englishman, '''Stephen Perry''', patented the '''rubber band'''. He made many improvements in the manu…
Colgate — 2021-08-11 11:43:11
…rked as a candle-maker, and in 1806 he went into business for himself, selling soap, candles, and starch. After several years of financial struggle, **William Colgate & Company ** prospered in the 1820s selling Windsor toilet soaps and Pearl st…
…arch. Thirteen years after his death in 1857, the company began selling toothpaste, and in 1893 it introduced toothpaste in a tube.…
Sewing Machine — 2021-08-11 11:41:32
…cabinet maker born in Greenhill Rents parish of St. Sepulchre [[London]], [[England]]. ::c:: == Working again == Many years later in 1874 a man named **William Newton Wilson** found the patent of Thomas’s machine. The original drawings were…
…vered earlier, would never have been approved. Newton Wilson was one who had suffered at the hands of Singer's lawyers years earlier. It was too late for him to claim recompense on the grounds that the later patents were worthless but he got h…
Lawn Mower — 2021-08-10 08:19:36
… Ferrabee machines was used in **Regent's Park Zoological Gardens** 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 st…
Guillotine — 2021-08-09 22:22:29
…ot known what his charge was. An official register of Gibbet executions was not commenced until 1541; but between that year and 1650 there were //only// 54 people sentenced to death, perhaps indicating the effectiveness of the device as a dete…
Chocolate Bar — 2021-08-09 22:11:02
…tol**, [[Gloucestershire]] by **Joseph Fry of Fry & sons** in **1841**. Although chocolate had been consumed for many years it was usually as a gritty health drink. {{Image src="fryschocolatecream.jpeg" class="left" title="Fry's Chocolate C…
Light Bulb — 2021-08-09 21:56:27
…US Patent Office ruled that Edison’s US Patent was invalid due to prior art by William Sawyer and others. By 1889, 10 years after the patent, there were only 710 customers. The problem was that electricity and its support infrastructure cost …
…too much and, of course, had to be installed. Ten more years later, after electricity costs had come down, there were 3 million customers and all the basic light bulb patents had …
…expired. (...) Seven years, and more than $100,000 in litigation expenses after Edison’s patent was invalidated by the US Patent Office, on Oct…
Can — 2021-08-09 21:53:19
…ll sorts including soup, beans, vegetables, fruit and more all over the world. Many **billions** of cans are sold every year throughout the world and best of all, it's **recyclable!** {{Datediff from="1/1/1810" }} years later, the food can is a…
…e firm of Donkin, Hall and Gamble was later merged into Crosse & Blackwells. The patent was re-sold in America some six years later in 1818. == Mass Production == In 1846, **Henry Evans** invents a machine that can manufacture tin cans at a ra…
Shire Horse — 2021-08-09 21:35:31
…= The English Cart Horse Society was founded in **1878**, later changing its name to the Shire Horse Society. The early years of the Society encouraged the export of Shires and in 1888 issued a record breaking 1,400 pedigree export certificates…
Jigsaw Puzzle — 2021-08-09 21:24:39
…this point the puzzles were all hand made on solid wood and were too expensive to be considered a toy. It took over 100 years after they were invented - that these ‘dissections’ began to be known as ‘**jigsaw puzzles**’ when manufacture…
…ucing cheaper puzzles for children made from cardboard. Jigsaw puzzles are still very popular {{datediff from="1766"}} years later providing an educational challenge and pastime hobby for millions of people for a very small outlay. == Spilsbu…
Industrial Revolution — 2021-08-08 21:48:46
…[Gloucestershire]]. He was the youngest son of Agnes Wilson and David Mushet, an ironmaster. Robert spent his formative years studying metallurgy with his father. In '''1856''' Mushet found an inexpensive way to make high quality steel by addi…
…trafficked part of the line where the iron rails had to be renewed every six months, and occasionally every three." Six years later, in 1863, the rail seemed as perfect as ever, although some 700 trains had passed over it daily. {{Image url="Ra…
Sparkling Wine — 2021-08-08 20:32:53
…e [[Gloucestershire]] [[England]]. Although Britain is not renown for wine, it has been produced here for at least 2000 years introduced by the Romans. But the sparkle was added much later. == Superior Bottles and Corks == Bottling wine was …
… These bottles proved so successful that by the end of the 17th century Britain was producing over 3 million bottles a year. Also, the English imported cork from Portugal which made a better seal in a bottle than wooden and cloth stoppers tha…
Bearings — 2021-08-08 20:30:19
…ineers who applied the principle to a multitude of rotating machinery. Bearings improved and miniaturised in the coming years and now just about every moving device has bearings to reduce friction. == Bearing == - Transport - every car lorry…
Refrigeration — 2021-08-08 18:50:45
…embled a //fridge// and was titled: "Apparatus and means for producing ice, and in cooling fluids." It took around 150 years, 1000's of patents and ice that was contaminated from industrial pollution, before people began using refrigerators.…
Plywood — 2021-08-08 18:44:16
…l layers of veneer with glue to form a thicker piece – the first description of what we now call plywood. Over fifty years later machining equipment for the process was improved by Immanuel Nobel. == Naval career == When he was 14, Bentham…
… was apprenticed to a shipwright at Woolwich Dockyard, he later completed his 7-year training at the Naval Academy in Portsmouth. He developed a liking towards the constructional work of the navy. In 17…
Sunday School — 2021-08-08 18:39:06
…hools. 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 printed a story about the new Sunday schools. Before too long, ar…
Salicylic acid — 2021-08-08 18:32:13
…opment of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, aka NSAIDs, that are still useful after {{Datediff from="25/4/1753" }} years in treating inflammatory pain and fevers. == Stones Trials == {{Image url="EdwardStonePlaque.jpg" class="left" title…
…nted by gathering and drying a pound of willow bark and creating a powder. Stone gave powdered willow bark over several years to about 50 people complaining of agues or fevers; it was successful and found to be a //‘powerful astringent and ve…
Vaccination — 2021-08-07 23:07:23
…"left" title="Infant with smallpox" width="250" }} On 14 May **1796** he carried out his now famous experiment on eight-year-old** James Phipps**. Sarah Nelmes, a dairymaid, confirmed that one of her **Gloucester cows** called **Blossom**, had…
Cider — 2021-08-01 19:30:49
…make it, no other country consumes or produces as much. And the making of cider has remained popular for at least 1000 years. {{Image url="CiderApples.jpg" class="left" title="Cider Apples ready for processing" width="300" }} There is evidence…
Powered Flight — 2021-04-05 22:36:49
…**1804** and later there are reports that he transported his butler across his land on his glider. ::cl:: ^^ "About 100 years ago, an Englishman, Sir George Cayley, carried the science of flight to a point which it had never reached before and …
…Databox Image="PercyPilcher.jpg" title="Percy Pilcher" birth_date="16 January 1866" death_date="2 October 1899" }} Four years before the Wright brothers, Pilcher, born in Bath [[Somerset]] in 1866, had constructed his own tri-wing aeroplane. P…
…. The rebuilt plane flew successfully for 1 minute 25 seconds, 26 seconds 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.]] …
Marmite — 2021-04-03 10:38:16
…m where the Marmite company was founded in Burton-on-Trent. Alfred Oxford had taken out several patents in the closing years of the 19th century, most of which were for animal feeds. All were based on recycling the waste yeast from the huge br…
…f MARMITE is spent brewer's yeast, a substance whose original and only use was to ferment sugars into alcohol. For many years this by-product of the brewing process was seen as a nuisance rather than potentially valuable food source. It has bee…
Toothbrush — 2021-01-28 15:14:07
…y ownership until 1996 under the name **Wisdom Toothbrushes**. The company now manufactures 70 million toothbrushes per year in the UK. {{Image url="WilliamAddisBrushes.jpg" class="right" width="250" }} == Nylon era == By **1938** the first to…
Petroleum — 2020-12-03 01:07:44
…ised they had their own oil and coal reserves. In 1859, an oil well was drilled in Titusville Pennsylvania and within 2 years, American petroleum was being produced. {{Image url="YoungsParaffin.jpg" class="right" title="Youngs Paraffin" width=…
…nued to fight a fierce battle against the American product. In 1865 James Young bought out his business partners and a year later formed **Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Co.** {{Tag ids="Petrol Paraffin Oil refinery coal"}} …
Electric Toaster — 2020-12-01 01:05:39
…en he first developed incandescent lamps for indoor use. Crompton immediately saw the potential and, within a couple of years, his firm was selling Swan's lamps and the generating equipment to go with them. == History == Toasting bread began …
Railway — 2020-11-30 12:55:52
…enydarren Ironworks, in Merthyr Tydfil, [[Wales]]. {{Image url="TrevithickCoin.jpg" class="left" title="Trevithick 200 years Coin" width="200" }} His locomotive, **Puffing Devil**, successfully carried **10 tons** of iron, **5 **wagons and** …
Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
…ominent bodies in world cricket The first official International match was held between Canada and United States in the year 1844. [[Cricket | Main article.]] == Rugby 1871 == {{Image url="Rugby_Ball.jpg" class="right" width="100"}} At the mee…
…ball == See [[YMCA]] == Hockey 1860 == Hockey-like games involving sticks and balls have been played for thousands of years. Historical records show that a crude form of hockey was played in Egypt 4,000 years ago, and in Ethiopia around 1,000…
…dle with pebbled rubber, which allowed him to put spin on the ball. A Ping Pong Association was founded in England that year. == Snooker 1875 == {{Image url="Snooker1.jpg" class="right" width="120" }} The game of snooker was invented by a Brit…
… this new billiard sport of snooker surfaced around 1875. The term snooker was used as a derogatory term for the first year recruits of the Royal Military Academy of Woolwich in England. For many years the game was known as 'Snookers Pool' and…
Cricket — 2020-08-26 21:18:47
…but it is without doubt, very English. == Beginnings == The first evidence of cricket being played was recorded in the year **1550**, by the pupils of Royal Grammar School, Guildford. The first //recorded// cricket match took place at Coxheath…
…ominent bodies in world cricket The first official International match was held between Canada and United States in the year 1844. == Cricket Today == Cricket has moved from a quaint English village green on a Sunday afternoon to big glitzy s…
Eraser — 2020-08-18 10:06:20
…d crumbs. This was a messy process, even if you had the crumbs to hand. == Hymen Lipman 1858 == It took another few years for Hymen Lipman (March 20, 1817 – November 4, 1893), born to English parents, to have the idea of putting the erase…
Safari Park — 2020-08-17 14:54:27
…h April 1966 486,500 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 Chipper…
TV Black and White Kiss — 2020-08-17 09:07:45
…62, starring Elizabeth ""MacLennan"" and Lloyd Reckord. {{toc}} British Film Institute found a {{Datediff from="1962"}} year old footage of a one-off play from Granada TV. It is a drama that looks at race, class and insecurity in Britain, and c…
…ontains the first interracial kiss to be shown on TV. This was six years before **Kirk** kissed Uhura in **Star Trek** and that was beaten anyway by the British drama Emergency Ward 10 in 196…
Life Boat — 2020-08-17 09:00:19
…n it, the principles of his patent. The new boat was duly dispatched to Sharpe, in Bamburgh, and served for a number of years as the **first known purpose built Lifeboat**. == Gravestone == Lukin died in 1834 in Hythe, Kent. The following insc…
…which many lives and much property have been preserved from Shipwreck; and he obtained for it the King's patent in the year 1785.”@@ Such was the success of lifeboats that On 28 February 1823 the RNLI was formed. {{Image url="LifeBoat.jpg" …
Sinoatrial Node — 2020-08-15 18:08:00
…ckly realised that this structure closely resembled the atrioventricular node as described by Sunao Tawara earlier that year. Further anatomical studies confirmed the same structure in other hearts, which they named the **sino‐auricular node.…
…ical research for the Royal Air Force . He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1919 New Year Honours . {{Tag ids="Heart pacemaker SA node "}} …
Cyclonic Vacuum Cleaner — 2020-08-15 09:18:21
… airflow, so that suction dropped rapidly. He thought he could improve this and set to work to solve this problem. Five years and 5,127 prototypes later, the world's first cyclonic bagless vacuum cleaner arrived. {{Image url="Dyson_DC01.jpg" cl…
…gs. James wondered if he could apply this to a domestic vacuum cleaner. == Patents and Japan == James Dyson spent two years looking for someone to license his Dual Cyclone™ product. Dyson had to turn to Japan where he began to work with a …
Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25
…Air Ministry enough to fund development with a contract for £6,000 to develop a flyable version. Nevertheless it was a year before all of the funds were available, greatly delaying development. There were many delays and the lack of funding s…
Disc Brakes — 2020-08-09 19:54:18
…re thin and made of brass but they fit the definition of a modern disc brake, beating competitors to the market by many years. == Links == [[http://www.lanchesterinteractive.org/lanchester-timeline| Timeline]]…
Plastic Surgery — 2020-08-06 08:24:01
…one of the first modern sex reassignment from male to female on Roberta Cowell, it became the standard procedure for 40 years. …
Potato Crisp — 2020-08-06 08:17:45
…t produces 11m packs of crisps every day from 800 tons of potatoes. It requires more than 350,000 tonnes of potatoes a year. Crisps account for around a **third** of the total world snack industry. The world annual turnover of crisps is arou…
Monty Python — 2020-08-06 07:48:50
…o-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 popular all around the world. == Nearly Lost == In 1971, Terry Jones was informed by the BBC tha…
Obstetrical Forceps — 2020-06-28 13:29:13
…the birth. == Family Secret == The family kept their //new invention// of the **forceps** a close secret for over 150 years to protect their lucrative trade. The forceps were only taken out of it's carved box during a birth. {{Databox caption…
Christmas Traditions — 2019-12-27 02:21:30
…n in 1840 when the first 'Penny Post' public postal deliveries began. Over a billion Christmas cards are now sent every year in the United Kingdom, many of them sold in aid of charities.|| [[Tradition]] === {{colour c="red" Christmas decoratio…
…hearth or bed post on Christmas Eve in the hope that it will be filled with presents the next morning started about 400 years ago in Holland where children placed clogs next to the hearth. In Britain stockings were used instead of the clogs.|| …
…- to the staff of servants, maids, grooms, cooks, butlers, deliverymen and tradespeople who called regularly during the year. This tradition survives in the custom of tipping the milkman, postman, dustmen and other callers of good service at Ch…
Underground Railway — 2019-10-23 19:35:16
…tegoryTransport]] The world's first underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway, opened {{Datediff from="10/1/1863"}} years ago on the 10th of January 1863. Known as the **'Tube'**, it is now part of the Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropo…
…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 outstanding success and soon it would be the envy of other capi…
…" class="right" title="Modern Tube Train" width="400" }} A second underground line, the District, began operating five years later. The two were eventually linked to create the Circle line. {{tag ids="Train Tube Underground Railway Metro Vict…
Harry Potter — 2018-10-10 17:06:49
… the Forest of Dean and across the Severn River from Dursley. The Harry Potter series runs seven volumes, one for each year Harry Potter spends in school. ::cl:: == Global Phenomenon == {{Image url="Harry_Potter_and_the_Philosophers_Stone.jp…
Stonehenge — 2018-01-26 21:52:34
…nehenge" width="600" }} {{toc}} The prehistoric megalith monument built in [[Wiltshire]], [[England]] dates from **3100 years B.C**. Along with Avebury, Stonehenge is one of the most famous groups of megaliths in the world. Stonehenge is olde…
…ated landscapes, they demonstrate Neolithic and Bronze Age ceremonial and mortuary practices resulting from around 2000 years of continuous use'//. {{Image url="HengeStone.jpg" class="left" title="Henge Stone size comparison" width="280" }} ==…
…= Wessex 3100 BC === Stonehenge was built over several construction phases spanning around 1,500 years. Construction on and around the monument puts the age of the site at **6,500 years**. This pre-dates the Druids and …
English Language — 2018-01-26 21:45:55
…ge url="Language.jpg" class="right" title="" width="" }} It is truly amazing that English as a language survived '''300 years''' of French rule. But survive it did and even bloomed into a whole new vocabulary. Because of the influence of many i…
…n average school day approximately one billion 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 …
Emergency Telephone Number — 2017-07-06 10:16:06
…ite dial up phone with emergency number 999 on the label" width="300" }} 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 di…
…ere 1,336 calls made to **999**. That number has grown to around 560,000 calls a week and more than 30 million calls a year, call handlers still manage to answer 97% of calls within five seconds. == Why 999? == {{Image url="Dialling_999.jpg" …
Meccano — 2017-05-14 01:23:25
…oad in Liverpool, and in 1910 the famous "MECCANO" logo was commissioned. Meccano Ltd's turnover for the 1910 financial year was 12,000 pounds. == Rags to Riches == By the 1930s, Hornby had become a millionaire. He owned a mansion and was cha…
Harrier Jump Jet — 2017-01-18 16:14:57
…ions into designing their own VTOL aircraft but eventually bought Harriers and they are still in service. == Over 50 years Service == It was conceived to operate from improvised bases, such as car parks or forest clearings, without requirin…
…m aircraft carriers. The RAF retired the Harrier in 2011 and sold the fleet to the US for £180 million. More than 50 years later and the jumpjet has a contender in the Lockheed Martin F-35B aircraft whose VTO engines are supplied by Rolls Ro…
Pound Sterling — 2016-05-31 15:19:41
…dest currency** still in use and has been in continuous use since its inception by King Offa **{{datediff from="0780"}} years ago**. {{Image url="OffaCoin.jpg" class="left" title="Offa Coin" width="110" }} {{Image url="PoundCoin.jpg" class="lef…
Salvation Army — 2016-01-07 15:19:48
… in more than **125** countries and provides services in over **170** different languages. Its membership (as of 2010 Year Book) includes 16,938 active and 9,190 retired officers, 1,122,326 soldiers, 189,176 Adherents, 39,071 Corps Cadets, 37…

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