Unicorn Inn, Excise Street
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Unicorn Inn, Excise Street
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 20 Jun 2013
A brasserie established in 1639? Surely not. This old inn is the birthplace of the physicist and chemist Sir James Dewar (b.1842), whom we have to thank for the principle behind the vacuum flask. A plaque on the building also informs that he was the first person to liquefy hydrogen gas and the joint inventor of the explosive cordite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_James_Dewar
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Image Location
Latitude
56.068235
Longitude
-3.720126