Crapper made sure his name was visible on all his products — which eventually became standard in houses in wealthy countries all over the world. He also patented the floating ballcock inside water tanks and the U-bend plumbing trap, an improvement over the earlier S-bend, as it didn't ...
Crapper made sure his name was visible on all his products — which eventually became standard in houses in wealthy countries all over the world. He also patented the floating ballcock inside water tanks and the U-bend plumbing trap, an improvement over the earlier S-bend, as it didn't ...
Inside the hull, the operator drove the forward propeller using a set of foot pedals and steered theTurtlewith a rudder connected to a wooden tiller. The craft was kept upright by lead ballast, and submerged and surfaced by pumping water in and out of ballast tanks under the operator’s f...
Here Paul Kennedy reveals the role of the problem-solvers and middle-men who made it happen - like Major-General Perry Hobart, who invented the 'funny tanks' which flattened the D-Day beaches; or Captain 'Johnny' Walker, who worked out how to sink U-boats with a 'creeping barrage'. ...
His first-born son was tragically kidnapped and murdered in 1932, a case that became known as "The Crime of the Century". Later, his apparent sympathy towards Nazi Germany prior to World War II stirred public outcry. Yet, despite these tumultuous personal trials and public scrutiny, Lindbergh...
A commemorative painting of activity at the Perry Barr works of Ellisons, commissioned by them to commemorate the end of the Second World War. During the war, the Ministry of Aircraft Production took over their enterprise. Alfred Ellison is not unique in having undertaken the migration north fro...
Of course, we went straight for the WV 12. We’d almost hoped that it wouldn’t be the best beer in the world, that we’d hipster ourselves out of enjoying it. But oh, it’s good. So good it invented its own class of beer – the Abt, or darker, quadrupel – and still dominat...
became the focus of attention for the Republican Party and the nation, instead of a healthy debate on just how to turn a “Peace Dividend” from the Cold War into long term investment in middle class empowerment in the U.S. and for the rest the world our “leaders” claimed to ...
A prime example of this is a mongrel terrier in World War I-era Paris. The dog was literally stumbled upon by James Donovan, an AWOL American soldier. When Donovan was confronted by the Military Police about running away from his unit, he saw the little ball of fur as his ticket away ...