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Spray nozzle

Steam generator

Antiseptic (Joseph Lister,
1865) in the form of carbolic
acid was a most important
Colour photography (1861) was breakthrough in surgery.
developed by the Scottish physicist Lister discovered that,
James C Maxwell. The first to experi­ applied to wounds and
ment with three­colour photography, sprayed around the theatre,
he photographed this tartan ribbon the acid helped to prevent
using coloured water as a filter. germs and infection.
Carbolic acid reservoir
The telephone
The thermos flask (Sir (Alexander Graham
James Dewar, 1892) Bell, 1876) was the
was first designed as scientific break­
a vacuum for storing through that
low­temperature revolutionized the
gases. The flask was way the world
later mass­produced communicated,
as the thermos, for introducing the
maintaining the transmission of
temperature of hot sound by electricity.
and cold drinks.

The radar receiver
(Robert Watson­Watt,
1935) was in use
long be fore World War
II, since Watson­Watt’s
team had built the first
Penicillin (Alexander Fleming, 1928) is working radar defence
a discovery that has changed the face system by 1935.
of medicine. Fleming’s brainchild was Radar is an acronym
the first antibiotic drug to treat for “radio detection
diseases, and by 1940 it was being used and ranging”.
to save the lives of wounded soldiers.

The first television (John Logie Baird, 1926), or
“televisor”, was black and white, and unable to Dolly the cloned sheep was created in
produce sound and pictures together, but it was 1996 by a team of scientists at
nevertheless hailed as a monumental invention. In Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute. Dolly, the
1928, Baird demon strated the possibilities of first successful clone of an adult animal
creating colour images. in the world, gave birth in 1998.

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