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You have used this man's inventions today. You just don't know his name. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐ฌ๐ง
The flush toilet. The beer pump in every British pub. The hydraulic press that forges the modern world. โ๏ธ
His name was Joseph Bramah. A Yorkshire farmer's son, born in 1748, taken off the land by an
In Wales, boats cross the sky. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐ฌ๐ง
The man who built it was born with nothing.
At Pontcysyllte, narrowboats cross a trough of iron 38 metres above the River Dee.
They have done it for over 200 years.
The man who built it began as a shepherd's son on a Scottish hill farm,
โCanada would certainly have something that America wanted if Canada could start delivering continental defenses, liberating US Forces and allowing it to partner with greater military responsibilities to deal with other global challenges.โ โ Christopher Coates
Last week,
The oldest human footprints outside Africa are on a beach in Norfolk. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐ฌ๐ง
In May 2013, a rough tide stripped the sand off a slab of ancient estuary mud at Happisburgh, and uncovered footprints. Human ones. Pressed there between 850,000 and 950,000 years ago.
About 5 people,
An English surgeon in Glasgow beat a killer nobody could see. ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐ฌ๐ง
Today, every safe operation on earth begins the way he insisted.
In 1865, 16 deaths in 35 operations was a good surgeon's record. The knife was not the killer. The ward was. Doctors called it hospitalism, and
