Antique Collector's History of the World
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A History of Britain
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The History of the World
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The Seventy Architectural Wonders of our World
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The Spacecraft Voyager 2 beams back close up pictures of Uranus and Neptune. |
1986 and 1989 |
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The Space Shuttle Columbia became the first shuttle to orbit the Earth. Flown by Commander John W. Young and Pilot Robert L. Crippen. |
1981 |
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The Dutch company Philips and Japan's Sony introduce the compact disc. Commercial launch, 1982. |
1978 |
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The BBC's CEEFAX and ITV's ORACLE began test transmissions of Teletext. |
1973 |
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The Intel Corporations Intel 4004 is generally regarded as the world's first microprocessor, which was made for a Japanese calculator manufacturer Busicomp. |
1971 |
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Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin become the first men to explore the Moon surface. |
1969 |
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Geostationary satellites, those that sit at a fixed point above the Earth's surface, came into use, and revolutionised international communication. |
1963 |
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The Dutch company Philips invented the compact cassette. |
1963 |
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The hovercraft was invented by Sir Christopher Cockerell. |
1956 |
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The Japanese company Sony introduce the transistor radio.
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1954 |
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The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II was the first major international TV broadcast. |
1953 |
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Francis Crick and James Watson discover that the life molecule, DNA, is a double helix, resembling a twisted ladder. |
1953 |
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The long-playing record (the LP) was invented by Columbia Records (US). It played at 33-rpm and was 10 or 12 inches in diameter. |
1948 |
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US based Bell Labs scientists, J.Bardeen, W.Shockley and W.Braittain are credited with the invention of the transistor. |
1948 |
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The divers aqualung was invented by Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910 -1997). |
1943 |
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What the Romans did for Us
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What the Victorians did for Us
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The Life of Isambard Brunel
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The first flight of a single-rotor helicopter was made by the Russian born aviation pioneer, Igor Sikorsky (1889-1972). |
1939 |
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Two Hungarian inventors, Ladislo and George Biro invented the ballpoint pen. |
1938 |
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The worlds first television service began. |
1936 |
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Nylon is a synthetic fiber invented by Wallace H. Carothers(1896-1937) in America. |
1935 |
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Percy Shaw (1890-1976) invents the reflecting road studs, usually called "Cat's Eyes". |
1934 |
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Sir Frank Whittle (1907-1996) patented a design for a jet aircraft engine. |
1930 |
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The UK Pioneer Airwoman Amy Johnson (1903-1941) became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.
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1930 |
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Charles Lindbergh (1902-1974) makes the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, between New York and Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis. |
1927 |
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John Logie Baird, the Scottish inventor, transmitted the first recognizable pictures. |
1925 |
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Richard G. Drew (1886-1956) invented masking tape and clear adhesive tape. |
1923 |
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The first non-stop transatlantic aeroplane flight, by UK aviators J.Alcock and A.W.Brown. |
1919 |
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The worlds first set of traffic lights are installed in Detroit, USA.
(So that's who's to blame, eh?!!) |
1919 |
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First flight across the English Channel, by Louis Bleriot of France. |
1909 |
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Robert Peary (1856-1920) an American explorer and Naval officer led the first expedition to the North Pole. |
1909 |
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Leo Hendrik Baekeland (1863-1944) a Belgian-born American chemist invented Bakelite, an inexpensive, nonflammable, versatile, and popular plastic. |
1909 |
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The tea bag (originally made of silk and was a sample bag) was invented by New York tea merchant, Thomas Sullivan. |
1908 |
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Henry Ford produces the first Model T. |
1908 |
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Wilbur (1867-1912) & Orville Wright (1871-1948) make the first heavier-than-air flight. |
1903 |
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The age of Victorian Inventions
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Patent Procedures for Inventors
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What the Tudors and Stuarts did for Us
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The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years
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Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), an Italian, sent the first radio transmissions, coded signals that were transmitted only about 1.6 km (1 mile). |
1896 |
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Nikoli Tesla (1856-1943), a Croatian inventor who moved to the USA in 1884, invented the theoretical model for radio. |
1892 |
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The Hall Braille typewriter was invented by Frank Haven Hall. |
1892 |
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The Zip Fastening device used in clothing was invented in the USA by Whitcomb Judson, originally for doing up shoes. |
1891 |
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The Eiffel Tower was completed. Built by Gustave Eiffel (1832-1923) for the International Exhibition of Paris of 1889 commemorating the centenary of the French Revolution. |
1889 |
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The first successful electric tramcars run in Richmond, Virginia, USA. |
1888 |
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John Pemberton (1830-1888) invented Coca-Cola in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. |
1886 |
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Lewis E. Waterman, a New York City insurance salesman, designed the first workable fountain pen. |
1884 |
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Thomas Edison (1847-1931) invented the Light Bulb. |
1880 |
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Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) invented the telephone (with Thomas Watson). |
1876 |
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Melville R. Bissell invented the carpet sweeper to clean his wife's crockery shop at Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. |
1876 |
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Dividing the Earth into 24 time zones was proposed by the Canadian engineer Sir Sandford Fleming. |
1870's |
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The philatelist and inventor of the postcard, Dr. Emanuel Herrmann, sent pictures of the hotel Seefels on the banks of Lake Wörthersee, Austria. |
1869 |
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Dmitri Mendeleyev classifies the elements into the Periodic Table. |
1869 |
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The Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel invented the explosive dynamite. |
1867 |
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After many previous attempts, Brunels ship the Great Eastern laid the first successful transatlantic communication cable. |
1866 |
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The first underground railway opened in London. |
1863 |
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Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace set out their theory of evolution. |
1858 |
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The Singer Sewing Machine, patented 1853, the first practical domestic sewing machine by inventor Isaac M. Singer (1811-75) |
1853 |
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Elisha G. Otis (1811-1861) invented the safe passenger and goods elevator (lift) first used at the Yonkers factory, New York, USA. |
1852 |
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The Great Exhibition of arts and manufactures at Crystal Palace, London. Designed and built by Joseph Paxton (1801-1865). |
1851 |
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Great Britons
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The Victorians
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Submarine cable is laid under the English Channel between Britain and France. |
1851 |
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The safety pin was invented by US inventor Walter Hunt (1795-1859). |
1849 |
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Gold discovered in California. |
1848 |
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The Penny Black, a prepaid adhesive postage stamp, first introduced in Britain. |
1840 |
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Samuel Morse perfects the single-wire telegraph system and the Morse Code. |
1838 |
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Queen Victoria came to the throne (R=1837-1901) |
1837 |
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The first passenger railway opens in England (from Stockton to Darlington). |
1825 |
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English inventor, Joseph Aspdin invented Portland Cement, which has remained the dominant cement ever since and was named after the high quality building stones quarried at Portland, England. |
1824 |
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Josiah Spode II (1755-1827) of England probably perfected bone china by mixing bone ash, refined clay and potterystone, but the real credit almost certainly belongs to Josiah Spode I (1733-1797) who did the early work. |
1800 |
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Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta (1745-1827) was an Italian physicist who invented the chemical battery. |
1800 |
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Fred Dibnah's Industrial Age
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The Second World War
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Tutankhamun - The Exodus Conspiracy
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The Oxford Children's Encyclopedia of History
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Turn Your Invention into Millions
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Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Female Inventors
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Feminine Ingenuity
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Physics in the 20th Century
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The Inventor's Notebook
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British Food: A Thousand Years of History
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Starting in 1750, Ambrose Gallimore established a pottery near Coalport, on the River Severn in Shropshire, England. Later, Thomas Turner, aided by John Rose and Edward Blakeway opened their own factory and brought the Coalport name to international prominence.
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1796 |
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The first semaphore telegraph, from Lille to Paris, 225km (140miles), France, was built by Claude Chappe. |
1794 |
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First Balloon crossing of the English Channel by J.P.Blanchard and J.Jeffries. |
1785 |
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Joseph (1740-1810) and Jacques Etienne (1745-1799) Montgolfier, two French brothers from Vidalon-les-Annonay, near Lyons, made the first successful hot-air balloon flight. |
1782 |
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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) sets up the United States federal postal service. |
1775 |
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The first porcelain factory in Limoges, France, was established, following the discovery close-by of Kaolin, the fine white clay essential to porcelain making, at St.Yrieix in 1765. |
1771 |
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Josiah Spode I (1733-1797), English potter, founder of the Spode pottery manufactory in what is now Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire, England. .
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1770 |
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The Sevres factory in France began producing colourful and gilded hard-paste porcelain reflecting the splendor of the French royal court of the rococo period. |
1769 |
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James Hargreaves (1720?-1778) was the English weaver and spinner who invented the spinning jenny which marked the start of the Industrial Revolution in England. |
1764.
Patented 1770 |
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Josiah Wedgwood, (1730-1795), English potter, rented the Ivy House Pottery Works, Burslem, from his uncles John and Thomas Wedgwood, allowing him to start his own pottery business. |
1759 |
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Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning conductor rod (following experiments with kites in a storm) which could protect buildings and ships from lightning damage. (DON'T try this at home folks!) |
1752 |
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Dr. John Wall and group of local businessmen established the now famous porcelain manufactory on the banks of the River Severn in Worcester, England. Now known as Royal Worcester. |
1751 |
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Andrew Planche with William Duesbury, established the first china works in Derby, England. Became Crown Derby under King George III in 1775, and in 1890, Queen Victoria granted the title "The Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Company". |
1750 |
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Two Frenchmen, the jeweller Charles Gouyn and the silversmith Nicholas Sprimont, first produced soft porcelain at Chelsea, London. Ended 1784. |
1745 |
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The Sèvres Porcelain Factory was originally established at Chateau de Vincennes, France by craftsmen from a nearby porcelain factory at Chantilly. Noted for their finely detailed gilding and hand painted porcelain for the wealthy. |
1738 |
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The sextant was invented independently in both England and America. |
1731 |
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Augustus II (1670-1733) of Saxony, known as Augustus the Strong commissioned alchemy work which may have accidently led to the discovery of the Chinese formula for hard paste porcelain. The first European royal porcelain manufactory was established at Meissen, near Dresden, Germany, to use the formula. |
1710 |
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English glassmaker George Ravenscroft (1618-1681), patented a new type of glass called "lead crystal". Greater amounts of lead oxide gave the glass its brilliance. |
1674 |
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The inventor of the barometer was Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647) an Italian physicist and mathematician. |
1644 |
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Hans Lippershey (c1570-c1619) of Holland is credited with creating the first refracting telescope. Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) built the first reflecting telescope around 1668-9, which was previously described by the Scottish mathematician, James Gregory (1638-1675) in 1663. |
1608 |
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