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  1. Vampire (17166 bytes)
    7: ...dily fluids of other creatures. This term also applies to mythic animals of the same nature, includin...
    11: ...nt. In [[Homer|Homer's]] ''[[Odyssey]]'', for example, the [[ghost|shades]] that [[Odysseus]] meets on...
    23: ...rs using [[arrow]]s or [[crossbow]] bolts made completely of wood to attempt to strike the monster's h...
    25: ...come to be seen as the absolute surest way to completely destroy a vampire. Previously western vampi...
    33: ...by tradition with some stories having vampires simply turning into a bat and flying over when faced wi...
  2. Automobile (19750 bytes)
    13: ...e-powered [[internal combustion engine]]s were completed almost simultaneously in [[1886]] by [[German...
    15: ...the term [[Horsepower]] was first used. It was in Birmingham also that the first four wheel [[petrol]]-driven ...
    19: Cugnot's invention initially saw little application in his native [[France]], and the center o...
    23: ...r free or get paid to drive them in return for displaying advertisement on the cars, and hence only av...
    33: ...]], the number of auto manufacturers declined sharply as the industry consolidated and matured. Since ...
  3. Edwin Abbott Abbott (2724 bytes)
    3: ...er holding masterships at [[King Edward's School, Birmingham]], and at [[Clifton College]], he succeeded [[G. ...
  4. Propeller (12179 bytes)
    11: ...ater systems were automatic. Variable pitch was replaced with the constant speed mechanism. In some a...
    17: ...irl. However on small aircraft the added cost, complexity, weight and noise of the system rarely make ...
    19: ...]. Light aircraft sometimes forego the weight, complexity and cost of gearing but on larger aircraft a...
    21: ...relative air speed at the blade is rotation speed plus axial speed, a propeller blade tip will reach s...
    27: ...he damage. However the duct adds weight, cost, complexity and (to a certain degree) drag.
  5. Steam engine (17867 bytes)
    15: The first industrial applications of the vacuum engines were in the pumping...
    17: ...ncy of the engine. The next improvement was the replacement of manually operated valves with valves op...
    19: ...sure came much danger and many disasters due to exploding boilers and machinery. The most important re...
    26: ... boiler may be vertical or horizontal. For an example of a vertical boiler of this type observe the bo...
    28: ...''water tube'' boiler the water is heated in multiple tubes exposed to the hot gases. The tubes are jo...
  6. Boulton and Watt (684 bytes)
    1: ...t their [[Soho Foundry]] in [[Smethwick]], near [[Birmingham]], [[England]].
  7. Watt steam engine (4120 bytes)
    2: ...g Newcomen engines and then went on to be used in place of most natural power sources such as wind and...
    4: ...useful; the first example from 1711 was able to replace a team of 500 horses that had powered a wheel ...
    6: ...f the stream was introduced it spent some time simply warming the cylinder back up to boiling temperat...
    14: ...ay. This allowed the steam engine to be used to replace [[water wheel]]s, thereby freeing the British ...
    20: ...Millennium Point]] in [[Birmingham]] (formerly at Birmingham Museum of Science & Industry).

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