“It came downstairs as I went up,” said the trooper, “and crossed the moonlighted window with a loose black mantle on […]”

The quantum of light energy was later called a photon.

The speedy, well-engineered Underwood was eventually so successful that within a couple of decades, the vast majority of typewriters followed its model: They were single-shift, frontstroke, typebar typewriters with four-bank QWERTY keyboards, inked by a ribbon.

Oliver had an erratic and often bewildering afternoon and, just to pick out one incident, the images of Joe Hart putting his forehead uncomfortably close to the official are certainly far from the norm.