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Hace 4 días · One John Hugford, deceased, before his death took to wife one Margaret Metley, daughter and heir of Nicholas Metley, late of Merston. They had issue Joan, Alice and Anne. The said John and Margaret were seised of the under-mentioned manors of Merston and Wolston in fee, in her right.
Hace 2 días · The pay toilet – John Nevil Maskelyne, Maskelyne invented a lock for London toilets, which required a penny to operate, hence the euphemism "spend a penny". Electric toaster – Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton; Teasmade – Albert E. Richardson; Magnifying glass – Roger Bacon
Hace 5 días · John Theophilus Desaguliers has won the medal the most often, winning three times, in 1734, 1736 and 1741. In 1976, Dorothy Hodgkin became the first female recipient; Jocelyn Bell Burnell , in 2021, became the second.
Hace 4 días · The Basset Down estate was sold by William Yorke's grandson, also called William, in 1709 to John Coxe and in 1764 Coxe's son, John Hippisley Coxe, sold it to Edmund Maskelyne. Edmund Maskelyne (d. 1775), devised the estate to his brother Nevil, the Astronomer Royal (d. 1811), who continued, however, to live at Purton Stoke.
Hace 2 días · This next piece, I found on the SAMMagicians Instagram Page and I'm basically reprinting it here. After his sudden and untimely passing in 1926, the funeral for Past National President Harry Houdini featured over 2,000 mourners and presented the very first Broken Wand Ceremony.
Hace 2 días · Herschel notified the Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne of his discovery and received this flummoxed reply from him on 23 April 1781: "I don't know what to call it. It is as likely to be a regular planet moving in an orbit nearly circular to the sun as a Comet moving in a very eccentric ellipsis.
Hace 4 días · John Nevil Maskelyne (1839 – 1917) was a stage magician, inventor, and scourge of fake mediums. As well as creating illusions and magical contraptions, he can lay claim to be the first man to 'spend a penny', having originated the coin-operated toilet cubicle.
