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Percy Shaw and the Cat's Eyes
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Everyday Inventions Since the 1930s on Woodlands Junior School website

Jeremy Clarkson's connection with the Kilner Jar, as seen on BBC's Who Do You Think You Are?

Objects and artworks relating to John Harrison in the collections of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich

The extraordinary world of Charles Waterton at Wakefield Museum

BBC film on You Tube - The Clock that Changed the World

BBC History of the World Objects - Cat's Eyes

Youtube: Paper Aeroplane World Championship

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Chard Museum article on John Stringfellow and powered flight

BBC Bitesize - Victorian Inventions