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Shields Folk	BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did. (74* d)	RE: BS: Positive Things The Irish & British Did.	07 Dec 06
MARMALADE.... europe possibly Portugal RAINCOAT.... In 1821, the first raincoat was manufactured. Made by G. Fox of London, it was called the Fox's Aquatic. TARMAC.....The first recorded use of asphalt as a road building material was in Babylon around 625 B.C., PNEUMATIC TYRES.....RW Thomson invented and patented the Pneumatic Tyre STEAM ENGINE..... In 1765, James Watt while working for the University of Glasgow was assigned the task of repairing a Newcomen engine, which was deemed inefficient but the best steam engine of its time. That started the inventor to work on several improvements to Newcomen's design. Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) built the first steam engine tramway locomotive. I would continue but I'm getting bored.. All from GOOGLE....began as a research project in January, 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford University, California.

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