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PATENT OF READING GLASS (1890)
Text on the reverse side: Particularly famous for the association with Sherlock Holmes, the magnifying glass is a notable icon in detective fiction...
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Text on the reverse side: Particularly famous for the association with Sherlock Holmes, the magnifying glass is a notable icon in detective fiction...
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Text on the reverse side: Among the ancients the key was a symbol of authority and power. Representing knowledge and success, they represent the ab...
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Text on the reverse side: The square is a tool used for marking and measuring a an accurate right angle. It can serve to symbolise the conscience, ...
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Text on the reverse side: The compass is a symbol of accuracy and judgement which can also symbolise our ability to draw a boundary around our desi...
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Text on the reverse side: In Armidale Australia, 777 couples, totalling 1,554 participants, took part in the largest human wheelbarrow race. The ea...
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Text on the reverse side: A tool with a scoop-shaped metal blade with a pointed head, the trowel serves to dig holes, break up earth, amongst other...
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Text on the reverse side: Traditionally made of wood, most garden forks today are made of steel. This essential gardening tool is used for loosenin...
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Text on the reverse side: In May 2012, the first stopwatch ever made was sold in auction by Christie's at Geneva's Four Seasons Hotel des Bergues. ...
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Text on the reverse side: In the 19th century, pocket watches dominated the industry, and the wristwatch primarily were made for women who did not ...
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Text on the reverse side: First record of a hat, a painting found in a cave at Lussac-les-Chateaux in Central France, dates around 15,000 BC. As fo...
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Text on the reverse side: Luxury watches tend to be water resistant up to 100-300m, however, the Rolex Deep Sea Special watch was taken nearly 11,0...
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Text on the reverse side: It is estimated that a man shaves at least 20,000 times in a lifetime. The strength of a single strand of hair can reduce...
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Text on the reverse side: Golf shoes with separate screw-in spikes were introduced in 1891, followed by the extra saddle-shaped piece of leather ar...
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Text on the reverse side: Surveying around 8,900 adult men, only 92 men responded that they were able tie their own bow tie - equals to about 1% of...
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Text on the reverse side: Numerous variations of the garden trowel has existed since over 10,000 years ago, when people used the shoulder blades of...
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Text on the reverse side: A deep sense of well-being is established through the activity of working with plants as we consciously become aware of t...
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Text on the reverse side: Used for loosening soil and digging, the tines allow an easy insert into the ground to rake out stones and weeds, breakin...
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Text on the reverse side: Louis Vuitton, after an apprenticeship in Paris, opened his own box-making workshop in 1854. The iconic monogram canvas w...
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Text on the reverse side: A space capsule is an often-crewed spacecraft that enables to re-enter the earth's atmosphere without wings. Patent by Ma...
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Text on the reverse side: The space shuttle has a thermal protection, also known as a heat shield, with more than 30,000 tiles made essentially of ...
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Text on the reverse side: The space shuttle travels around earth at around 17,500 miles (28,000 kilometres) every hour while in orbit. As a result,...
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Text on the reverse side: The word "spaceship" was first used in 1880. The first recorded use of the word "spacecraft" was in 1929. A space shuttle...
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Text on the reverse side: In 1947, the first UFO report was made. A pilot named Kenneth Arnold saw nine flying objects and described their movement...
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Text on the reverse side: A tool with a scoop-shaped metal blade with a pointed head, the trowel serves to dig holes, break up earth, amongst other...
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Text on the reverse side: This tool for digging, lifting, and moving bulk materials, exists in various sizes and shapes for numerous functions. A w...
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Text on the reverse side: Although digging the soil is a labour intensive part of gardening, it is an essential preparation filled with benefits fo...
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Text on the reverse side: The term shears refers to scissors longer than 6 inches long made for specific applications. Often shears have a larger h...
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Text on the reverse side: The term "watering pot" was first recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1580. Early versions were made of copper, ...
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Text on the reverse side: This photo from 15th September 1954 was to promote the film The Seven Year Itch. The filming took place at 1am as thousan...
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Text on the reverse side: This was the first film featuring Elvis Presley that was inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry. Th...
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Text on the reverse side: Under deadline, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller was locked them in their hotel room by their music publisher. It took five ...
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Text on the reverse side: Monroe often referred to Marilyn Monroe in the third person, with an inner switch turning “Marilyn” on and off. From bein...
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Text on the reverse side: A glamorous Marilyn Monroe in a publicity photo for 1953 film How to Marry a Millionaire. On her birth certificate as Nor...
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Text on the reverse side: The 1760s saw the hairstyles adding a quarter to half the length of the face. By the mid to late 1770s, huge hair became ...
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Text on the reverse side: Research shows that listening to classical music and meditative sounds before sleep significantly reduces insomnia whilst...
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Text on the reverse side: The redcurrant is native across Europe, and is a member of the genus, ribes, in the gooseberry family. They are seen as a...
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