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  1. Internal Combustion Engine — 2023-10-09 23:51:33
    …" }} They would provide electricity for lighting the **Taj Mahal**, the Rock of Gibraltar, the **Statue of Liberty** (chosen after Hornsby won the oil engine prize at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893), many lighthouses, and for powering Marcon…
  2. English Bible — 2023-09-25 23:57:13
    … death_date="6/10/1536" death_place="Netherlands" }} Tyndale’s New Testament was the first to be printed in English. Those discovered owning them were punished. At first only the books were destroyed, but soon heretics would be burned. Altho…
  3. Electric Motor — 2023-09-23 15:52:02
    …lvanometer, a device for measuring current. Sturgeon died in poverty and is buried in an overlooked Prestwich grave, whose stone simply refers to him as "**The Electrician**".…
  4. Winston Churchill — 2023-08-27 16:11:42
    …dile, hoping it will eat him last." The country lost confidence in Chamberlain, he resigned and Winston Churchill was chosen to be his successor as Prime Minister on May 10, 1940. He was later to write: 'I felt...that all my past life had been…
  5. Hose clamp — 2023-04-06 17:55:49
    Hose clamp :: {{draft}} {{Databox caption="Inventor" Image="JubileeClip" Who="Commander Lumley Robinson" width="350" born="1…
    …son 1921 === [[1900s]] [[CategoryIndustry]] The Jubilee Clip was invented by Commander Lumley Robinson in 1921. It is a hose band clamp designed to make a watertight connection of a soft hose to a metal pipe.…
  6. Police — 2022-05-20 08:52:50
    …was replaced by a '''whistle'''. {{Image url="PoliceBox.jpg" class="right" title="Police Box" width="200" }} Blue was chosen because it was the colour of the popular Royal Navy rather than red which was the army's colour and struck fear into t…
  7. Television — 2021-11-06 16:35:18
    …of his life, he nonetheless showed early signs of ingenuity, rigging up a telephone exchange to connect his bedroom to those of his friends across the street. ||{{{toc}}}||{{adsense}}|| ::c:: {{Image url="BairdTV.jpg" class="left" title="Early …
  8. Vitamins — 2021-08-16 09:52:16
    …ontained in the husk of the rice. == Naming == However, it wasn't until 1912 that Polish scientist Cashmir Funk named those special nutrients "vitamines" after "vita" meaning life and "amine" from the vitamin thiamine. Later on the word was sh…
  9. Reflecting Telescope — 2021-08-14 20:51:21
    …a of a reflecting telescope including James Gregory but had not manufactured a working version. Early telescopes, like those used by Galileo, consisted of glass lenses mounted in a tube. When the light from a star passed through a lens, the dif…
  10. Rubber — 2021-08-12 20:24:10
    …life-belt tubes'''. He devised many medical uses for rubber, and promoted the use of rubber rather than leather '''fire hoses'''. {{Image url="Suspender.jpg" class="left" title="Suspender Belt" width="150" }} Thomas even made rubber bottles. …
    …tle="Wet suit" }}||{{Image url="Welly.jpg" width="120" title="Wellies" }}|| {{Tag ids="Rubber patent sulphur tyre band hose boots gloves mould"}} …
  11. Guillotine — 2021-08-09 22:22:29
    …n 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 Halifax Gibbet is in 1286 f…
  12. Zoo — 2021-08-09 22:18:40
    …ility. {{Image url="ZSL_Logo.png" class="right" title="ZSL Logo" width="" }} [[Elevator | Decimus Burton]] (1800-1881 whose name derives from being the tenth of ten children) was asked to lay out the grounds and housing for the animals in Lond…
  13. Marmite — 2021-04-03 10:38:16
    …c}}} == The Process == The basic raw material used in the manufacture of 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 see…
  14. Petroleum — 2020-12-03 01:07:44
    …for a short period, supplies of torbanite (boghead coal) were dispatched to destinations throughout the world, both to those licensing Young's patent, and to those trying to reproduce the process. Even though Young held the patent, some countr…
  15. Golf — 2020-11-30 16:29:33
    …Scotland 1502 === Most of the early references to golf in Scottish official records are either to ban it or to condemn those playing it. The first documented mention is in Edinburgh on 6th March 1457, when King James II banned ‘ye golf’, in…
  16. Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47
    …ht" width="100"}} Most of the early references to golf in Scottish official records are either to ban it or to condemn those playing it. The first documented mention is in Edinburgh on 6th March 1457, when King James II banned ‘ye golf’, in…
  17. Vacuum cleaner — 2020-10-11 23:24:10
    …e for Osborne House, a training college for naval officers on the Isle of Wight. The machine was parked outside and the hoses were fed through the windows. It was originally powered by an oil engine, the electric motor was added later. The fir…
    …the salesmen demonstrated their wares by throwing street dirt onto people's carpets. The petrol motor started, and long hoses were strung in through the windows attached to a hollow container where the dirt was collected. The 'suction' was esse…
  18. Slavery Abolition — 2020-08-17 15:00:36
    …and alone had **466** merchant ships lost to **Barbary coast** pirates. Captives were forced to convert to **Islam**. Those who converted to Islam may have seen freedom, since enslavement of **Muslims** was prohibited. {{Image url="white-s…
  19. Charles Darwin — 2020-08-06 07:52:58
    …is all fitted together. On the Galapagos Islands he noticed many variations of plants and animals that were similar to those he found in South America, suggesting that species adapted over time and to their environment. Charles Darwin was not…
  20. Rubber Band — 2020-06-28 12:40:44
    …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?…
  21. Banksy — 2017-06-19 21:04:17
    …="menu" items="Banksy, Wall and Piece" }} {{Image url="Head.jpg" class="right" title="Banksy?" width="150" }} Banksy whose identity remains 'unknown' is a street artist from Bristol [[Gloucestershire ]] [[England]]. His stenciled artwork is c…
  22. Harrier Jump Jet — 2017-01-18 16:14:57
    … 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 Royce. {{image url="harrier-jump-jet-vertical-take-off.jpg" class="left" title="Harr…
  23. Tank — 2016-05-16 11:27:53
    …0 tanks** was the Mark IV used en masse at the **Battle of Cambrai** in 20 November 1917. The rhomboidal shape was chosen to give as long a track run as possible to aid the crossing of the wide trenches on the Western Front battlefields. =…
  24. Cilla Black — 2016-03-03 14:46:01
    …th="400" }} Born Priscilla Maria Veronica White (1943-2015) born in Liverpool [[Lancashire]], [[England]] was a singer whose career began in 1963 under the **[[Beatles]]** manager **Brian Epstein**. === Liverpool England 1943 === She had hit …

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