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W. Heath Robinson, the Glossary

William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist, illustrator and artist, best known for drawings of whimsically elaborate machines to achieve simple objectives.^[1]

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19th-century British illustrators
20th-century British illustrators
Burials at East Finchley Cemetery
People educated at Islington Proprietary School
People from Pinner

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play written by William Shakespeare in about 1595 or 1596.

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Adam Hart-Davis

Adam John Hart-Davis (born 4 July 1943) is an English scientist, author, photographer, historian and broadcaster.

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Air brake (aeronautics)

In aeronautics, air brakes or speed brakes are a type of flight control surface used on an aircraft to increase the drag on the aircraft.

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Art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics

Art competitions were held as part of the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.

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Big Four (British railway companies)

The "Big Four" was a name used to describe the four largest railway companies in the United Kingdom in the period 1923–1947.

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Bill the Minder

Bill the Minder is a book and television series that tells of the adventures of a 15-year-old boy and his cousins Boadicea and Chad.

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Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park is an English country house and estate in Bletchley, Milton Keynes (Buckinghamshire), that became the principal centre of Allied code-breaking during the Second World War.

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A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place in the United Kingdom, and certain other countries and territories, to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person, event, or former building on the site, serving as a historical marker.

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Boiler

A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated.

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Candle

A candle is an ignitable wick embedded in wax, or another flammable solid substance such as tallow, that provides light, and in some cases, a fragrance.

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Cartoon

A cartoon is a type of visual art that is typically drawn, frequently animated, in an unrealistic or semi-realistic style.

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Cartoonist

A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images).

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Chaff (countermeasure)

Chaff, originally called Window or Düppel, is a radar countermeasure involving the dispersal of thin strips of aluminium, metallized glass fiber, or plastic.

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Charles Robinson (illustrator)

Charles Robinson (1870–1937) was a prolific British book illustrator. W. Heath Robinson and Charles Robinson (illustrator) are 19th-century British illustrators, 20th-century British illustrators, artists from London, illustrators of fairy tales and People from Islington (district).

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Colossus computer

Colossus was a set of computers developed by British codebreakers in the years 1943–1945 to help in the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher.

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Cranleigh

Cranleigh is a village and civil parish, about southeast of Guildford in Surrey, England.

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Cranleigh School

Cranleigh School is a public school (English fee-charging boarding and day school) in the village of Cranleigh, Surrey.

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East Finchley Cemetery

East Finchley Cemetery is a cemetery and crematorium in East End Road, East Finchley.

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Falklands War

The Falklands War (Guerra de Malvinas) was a ten-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and its territorial dependency, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Finsbury Park

Finsbury Park is a public park in Harringay, north London, England.

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Gargantua and Pantagruel

The Five Books of the Lives and Deeds of Gargantua and Pantagruel (Les Cinq livres des faits et dits de Gargantua et Pantagruel), often shortened to Gargantua and Pantagruel or the Cinq Livres (Five Books), is a pentalogy of novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais.

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Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales.

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Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author.

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Harrier jump jet

The Harrier, informally referred to as the Harrier jump jet, is a family of jet-powered attack aircraft capable of vertical/short takeoff and landing operations (V/STOL).

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Heath Robinson (codebreaking machine)

Heath Robinson was a machine used by British codebreakers at the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park during World War II in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher.

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Heath Robinson Museum

The Heath Robinson Museum is a museum in Pinner, northwest London, dedicated to showcasing the work of the world-renowned artist, illustrator, humorist and social commentator William Heath Robinson (1872–1944).

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Hornsey

Hornsey is a district of north London, England, in the London Borough of Haringey.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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John Latey (journalist)

John Latey (30 October 1842 – 26 September 1902) was a British journalist and writer.

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Make Do and Mend

Make Do and Mend was one of several campaigns introduced by the British Government (with the help of voluntary organisations) to reduce clothing consumption and save resources during the Second World War.

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Middlesex

Middlesex (abbreviation: Middx) is a historic county in southeast England.

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Midwinter Pottery

The Midwinter Pottery was founded as W.R. Midwinter by William Robinson Midwinter in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent in 1910 and had become one of England's largest potteries by the late 1930s with more than 700 employees.

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Norman Hunter (writer)

Norman George Lorimer Hunter (23 November 1899 – 23 February 1995) was a British writer of children's literature.

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Nursery rhyme

A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century.

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One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights (أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.

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Percy Bradshaw

Percy Venner Bradshaw (27 November 1877 – 13 October 1965), who often signed PVB, was a British illustrator who also created the Press Art School, a correspondence course for drawing.

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Pinner

Pinner is a suburb in the London Borough of Harrow, northwest London, England, northwest of Charing Cross, close to the border with Hillingdon, historically in the county of Middlesex.

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Professor Branestawm

Professor Branestawm is a series of thirteen children's books written by the English author Norman Hunter.

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Pulley

A pulley is a wheel on an axle or shaft enabling a taut cable or belt passing over the wheel to move and change direction, or transfer power between itself and a shaft.

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Robert Storm Petersen

Robert Storm Petersen (19 September 1882 – 6 March 1949) was a Danish cartoonist, writer, animator, illustrator, painter and humorist.

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Rowland Emett

Frederick Rowland Emett OBE (22 October 190613 November 1990), known as Rowland Emett (with the forename sometimes spelled "Roland" and the surname frequently misspelled "Emmett"), was an English cartoonist and constructor of whimsical kinetic sculpture. W. Heath Robinson and Rowland Emett are English cartoonists.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.

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Rube Goldberg

Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970), better known as Rube Goldberg, was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor.

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Rube Goldberg machine

A Rube Goldberg machine, named after American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is a chain reaction–type machine or contraption intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and (impractically) overly complicated way.

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Scone

A scone is a traditional British baked good, popular in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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St Catherine's School, Bramley

St Catherine's School is an independent girls' boarding and day school in the village of Bramley, near Guildford, Surrey, England.

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Staffordshire

Staffordshire (postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England.

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Tabby cat

A tabby cat, or simply tabby, is any domestic cat (Felis catus) with a distinctive M-shaped marking on its forehead, stripes by its eyes and across its cheeks, along its back, around its legs and tail, and characteristic striped, dotted, lined, flecked, banded, or swirled patterns on the body: neck, shoulders, sides, flanks, chest, and abdomen.

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Tales from Shakespeare

Tales from Shakespeare is an English children's book written by the siblings Charles and Mary Lamb in 1807, intended "for the use of young persons" while retaining as much Shakespearean language as possible.

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The Connoisseur (magazine)

The Connoisseur (later simply Connoisseur) was originally a British magazine taken to the United States by William Hearst and published from 1901 to 1992 in the US, covering luxury topics such as fine art, collectibles and antique furniture.

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The Illustrated London News

The Illustrated London News, founded by Herbert Ingram and first published on Saturday 14 May 1842, was the world's first illustrated weekly news magazine.

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The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby

The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by Charles Kingsley.

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Thomas Heath Robinson

T. W. Heath Robinson and Thomas Heath Robinson are illustrators of fairy tales.

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Twelfth Night

Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night entertainment for the close of the Christmas season.

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United Kingdom home front during World War II

The United Kingdom home front during World War II covers the political, social and economic history during 1939–1945.

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Walker Art Gallery

The Walker Art Gallery is an art gallery in Liverpool, which houses one of the largest art collections in England outside London.

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Wallace and Gromit

Wallace and Gromit is a British stop-motion animated comedy franchise created by Nick Park and produced by Aardman Animations.

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Walter de la Mare

Walter John de la Mare (25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956) was an English poet, short story writer and novelist.

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Wart

Warts are non-cancerous viral growths usually occurring on the hands and feet but which can also affect other locations, such as the genitals or face.

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1932 Summer Olympics

The 1932 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the X Olympiad and also known as (Los Angeles 1932) were an international multi-sport event held from July 30 to August 14, 1932, in Los Angeles, California, United States. The Games were held during the worldwide Great Depression, with some nations not traveling to Los Angeles as a result; 37 countries competed, compared to the 46 at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam, and even then-U.S.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Heath_Robinson

Also known as Heath Robinson, Heath Robinson contraption, Heath-Robinson, William Heath Robinson.

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19th-century British illustrators

20th-century British illustrators

Burials at East Finchley Cemetery

People educated at Islington Proprietary School

People from Pinner

References