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90 min programme to result in the bleeding obvious !!
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Penicillin surely.
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BTW 99% certain that whatever it is a Scot will be involved.
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rain - we stay in and invent.
mexico has little invention? too bloody hot. |
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Sliced bread
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Glasses - the world would be full of Mr Magoos without them
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World Wide Web
light bulb The Beautiful Game  |
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Reflecting telescope: Isaac Newton, 1668
Seed drill: Jethro Tull, 1701 Marine chronometer: John Harrison, 1761 Spinning frame: Richard Arkwright, 1768 Toothbrush: William Addis, c. 1770 Soda water: Joseph Priestley, 1772 Hydraulic press: Joseph Bramah, 1795 Steam engine: Richard Trevithick, 1801 Glider: George Cayley, 1804 Tension-spoked wheel: George Cayley, 1808 Tin can: Peter Durand, 1810 Modern fire extinguisher: George William Manby, 1818 Electric motor: Michael Faraday, 1821 Waterproof material: Charles Macintosh, 1823 Cement: Joseph Aspdin, 1824 Passenger railway: George Stephenson, 1825 Lawnmower: Edwin Beard Budding, 1827 Photography: William Henry Fox Talbot, 1835 Electric telegraph: Charles Wheatstone & William Cooke, 1837 Chocolate bar: JS Fry & Sons, 1847 Hypodermic syringe: Alexander Wood, 1853 Synthetic dye: William Perkin, 1856 Bessemer process: Henry Bessemer, 1856 Linoleum: Frederick Walton, 1860 Sewage system: Joseph Bazalgette, 1865 Modern Torpedo: Robert Whitehead, 1866 Telephone: Alexander Graham Bell, 1876 Light Bulb: Joseph Swan, 1880 Steam turbine: Charles Parsons, 1884 Safety bicycle: John Kemp Stanley, 1885 Pneumatic tyre: John Boyd Dunlop, 1887 Thermos flask: Sir James Dewar, 1892 Electric vacuum cleaner: Hubert Cecil Booth, 1901 Disc Brakes: Frederick William Lanchester, 1902 Stainless Steel: Harry Brearley, 1913 Military tank: Ernest Swinton, 1914 Television: John Logie Baird, 1925 Catseye: Percy Shaw, 1933 Jet Engine: Frank Whittle, 1937 Electronic programmable computer: Tommy Flowers, 1943 Hovercraft: Christopher Cockerell, 1953 Automatic kettle: Peter Hobbs, 1955 Float Glass: Alastair Pilkington, 1959 Hip Replacement: John Charnley, 1962 Carbon fibre: Royal Aircraft Establishment engineers, 1963 Collapsible baby buggy: Owen Maclaren, 1965 ATM: John Shepherd-Barron, 1967 World Wide Web: Tim Berners-Lee, 1989 Wind-up radio: Trevor Baylis, 1991 Steri-spray: Ian Helmore, c. 2008 |
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The Venetian Blind - because ...
But for the Venetian Blind - it would be Curtains for all of us. |
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claymore
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Not bad onlooker. Got me laughing.
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The ' Darkies Walloper' nothing comes close.
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Got to be the railways,it opened up the world and has allowed us plebs to travel and benefit from trade between countries and communities all over the world.
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Nah, Sinclair C5 by miles.
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Spectrum a close second.
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creme eggs
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Zorro, you are the master.
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Food wise it must be chips.
 Closely followed by chippie sauce. |
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mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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Lived on chips as a student and never got fed up with them.
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spoken like a true Scotsman aka
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SH..Sewage system: Joseph Bazalgette, 1865
The Ancient Romans had this covered 2000 years before Mr Bazalgette. http://quatr.us/romans/science/sewage.htm |
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computer
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As said above
The beautiful game ... and excuses |
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NitMoI
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