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  • Thumbnail for Charles Macintosh
    Google marked the 250th anniversary of the birth of the inventor of the waterproof raincoat with a Google doodle of Macintosh in the rain. Ellis, Ian....
    6 KB (567 words) - 19:03, 16 September 2024
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    London Jewish Tailors, the Waterproof Garment Workers' Trade Union and the London Society of Tailors and Tailoresses. The Waterproof Garment Workers soon...
    2 KB (175 words) - 01:44, 20 April 2022
  • Trades Council. In 1939, he was appointed as the general secretary of the Waterproof Garment Workers' Trade Union (WGWTU). Henry was made a Member of the...
    3 KB (318 words) - 06:09, 18 October 2023
  • postal routes. The river changed course in 1884 and began to flow along the "Waterproof Cutoff", named for nearby Waterproof, Louisiana. Gum Ridge had been...
    4 KB (209 words) - 21:07, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Waterproof Garment Workers' Trade Union
    The Waterproof Garment Workers' Trade Union was a trade union representing workers involved in making waterproof clothing in the United Kingdom. The union...
    3 KB (325 words) - 08:24, 28 November 2022
  • Thumbnail for Gallet Clamshell
    history began in 1936 when Gallet purchased the rights to a patent for the "waterproof" watch case design (Brevet N° 189190), invented by the Swiss firm of...
    8 KB (975 words) - 18:18, 18 September 2024
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    2019. "How did the waterproof jacket evolve? | Part 1: to 1945". Outdoor Gear Coach. Retrieved 15 January 2019. "How did the waterproof jacket evolve?...
    11 KB (1,382 words) - 06:52, 6 September 2024
  • the founder of Kagan Textiles, of Elland, which made raincoats from the waterproof Gannex fabric he had invented. Gannex raincoats were worn by Prime Minister...
    9 KB (934 words) - 08:29, 10 October 2023
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    the casualty to breathe properly. As a battlefield interim measure, the waterproof wrapper of a field dressing can be placed over the hole, with the clean...
    7 KB (962 words) - 05:37, 24 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cowboy bedroll
    practice, it almost duplicated the cowboy bedroll. The addition of the waterproof tarp of the cowboy bedroll may well have descended from this source...
    10 KB (1,636 words) - 15:44, 15 July 2024
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    sashes being made of vinyl in the USA as of 2017[citation needed]. The waterproof nature of uPVC and ease of installation are also benefits. Problems...
    9 KB (1,151 words) - 01:43, 18 September 2024
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    waterproof to 10 m (33 ft), and freeze- and shock-resistant. Because the waterproof case limits lens size, the D10 has a 3× optical zoom lens; resolution...
    3 KB (244 words) - 19:28, 26 June 2023
  • Kobo Aura HD, which added a higher-resolution screen, the waterproof Kobo Aura H2O; and the waterproof Kobo Forma which added physical buttons and a choice...
    32 KB (2,450 words) - 05:06, 3 September 2024
  • waterproof materials in the United Kingdom. The union was founded in 1889 as the Waterproof Trade Union, then in 1891 changed its name to the India Rubber, Cable...
    1 KB (148 words) - 03:00, 17 February 2022
  • Thumbnail for Low-density polyethylene
    made of liquid packaging board, a laminate of paperboard and LDPE (as the waterproof inner and outer layer), and often with of a layer of aluminum foil (thus...
    9 KB (921 words) - 05:37, 23 September 2024
  • non-protruding folded optic design lenses and sliding lens covers, excluding the waterproof Z33WP, which has no lens cover. The w early Z-series cameras featured...
    6 KB (369 words) - 02:37, 17 April 2024
  • Jewish Tailors Union, the London Society of Tailors and Tailoresses and the Waterproof Garment Workers' Trade Union, forming the United Garment Workers' Trade...
    2 KB (271 words) - 16:04, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Zipper
    clamp the waterproof sheeting over the concealed zipper teeth. The zipper teeth are not visible in this image (obscured by the edges of the waterproof sheet)...
    33 KB (4,466 words) - 02:21, 19 October 2024
  • Academy of Music opens in London. 17 June – Charles Macintosh patents the waterproof material later used to make Mackintosh coats. July – Robert Peel ensures...
    9 KB (973 words) - 01:17, 1 October 2024
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    was uninterrupted throughout the whole of the construction period. The waterproof walls were 3 feet (0.91 m) thick and 70 feet (21 m) high. The excavated...
    5 KB (523 words) - 15:34, 4 September 2024
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