In 1971 Mattel released, for the first time, the mighty VertiBird, a favourite of boys who bought toys at the time. VertiBird consisted of a…
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Although the curry is the national dish of the British these days, back in the 1960s and 1970s when fish & chips was still Britain’s…
This weekly boys’ adventure comic was published by DC Thomson between January 1961 and November 1992. Popular strips included: Alf Tupper, The Tough of the…
Victory V lozenges were devised by Dr Edward Smith in 1864. He originally made them by hand and gave them to his patients to cure…
Vidal Sassoon was a key force in the 1960s for the commercial direction of hairstyling and was instrumental in turning the profession into a multi-million…
Ampex began manufacturing videotape recorders in the 1950s which used 2″ (5.1 cm) wide tape. The prohibitive price of the units meant only television networks…
Encouraged by the success of Atari, other companies tried dipping their joysticks into the home video game market in 1976. Coleco introduced Telstar Pong, while the…
Despite some industry fears, video didn’t kill the pinball star. Flipper-fuelled action had been an arcade mainstay since long before the days of Pong, and…
In 1938, William Gruber conceived of an apparatus that would take colour photos, the transparencies of which he could lay over one another to create…
Original and outrageous, British designer Vivienne Westwood is one of the most recognised and influential designers of the late twentieth century. By her mid-twenties, Vivienne…
Stuck in the mire of the 1984 video game market crash, Nintendo knew it needed a hook to draw gamers back into the arcades. Their…
Wacky Packages first appeared in 1967 as Die-Cuts and Wacky Ads. Using the same form as traditional trading card packages, Die-Cuts and Wacky Ads came…
British furniture maker John Wade began producing products for the textile and wool spinning industries and manufacturing bottles for Staffordshire’s beer breweries in 1810. In…
1 9 6 9 – 1 9 8 0 (UK) 15 minute episodes Premiering in April 1969, this BBC Radio 2 series (a replacement for…
The technology behind the Sony Walkman – a portable personal device for listening to cassettes – might never have developed without Sony Chairman Akio Morita. Seeking…
Wallabees – suede shoes with a crepe-style squishy sole – were first created by British shoe manufacturer Clark’s in 1968, inspired by a moccasin called…
The concept of a wallet chain came from 1950s biker culture, when leather and metal combined to create the fearsome image of bike gangs. Like…
The commentary of former CBS Evening News anchorman Walter Cronkite defined issues and events in America for almost two decades. Cronkite, whom a major poll…
Atari’s Warlords got Medieval on the old Breakout formula. Instead of chipping away at coloured walls for your own amusement, Warlords gave a more sinister…
“Take two bottles into the shower? Not me. I just wanna wash my hair and go”. The idea that you could save time and money…