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9. Shin pads
The shin pad was invented by footballer Samuel Widdowson in 1874 for a team that would go on to become Nottingham Forest. In a game that, back then, allowed elbowing, openly chopping at the shins and manhandling the goalkeeper out of the way, it says a lot about British grit that he didn't develop full body armour. Photo: Leopoldo Smith
10. The MRI Scanner
Magnetic resonance Imaging (MRI) was pioneered by University of Nottingham physicist Sir Peter Mansfield in the 1970s. His groundbreaking work used magnetic waves to create internal images of the human body and transformed the medical landscape. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2003. Photo: ALAIN JOCARD
11. Bicycle gears
James Samuel Archer, 1854-1920, was the co-inventor of the famous Sturmey-Archer gears, the three-speed bicycle gears. He lived in Nottingham, and worked at the Raleigh Cycle Company. Before Archer's invention, uphill cycling largely involved 'putting you back into it' and, in the years since, many more gears have been added to modern bicycles. Although, sadly, Raleigh never seemed to grasp that children might need more than three well into the 1980s. Photo: LIONEL BONAVENTURE
12. The Video Recorder (VCR)
Long confined to history, the VCR was a game changer in the 1980s, when life only offered three television channels and watching a new film involved a trip to a fag smoke-filled 'flicks'. But the first video player was pioneered in Nottinghamshire in 1957 by Norman Rutherford and Michael Turner. Called Telcan or 'television in a can', it cost £60, and could record 20 minutes in black and white. Whilst its longevity was even less impressive than Betamax, it would pave the way for DVDs and all that would follow. And never again would young people have to venture outside to keep themselves amused.(Photo by Ian Waldie/Getty Images) Photo: Ian Waldie