Accelerator: just one of many words spawned by the manufacture of the

Cornflakes: breakfast would never be the same thanks to Mr Kellogg's creation

Militant: first used to describe the action of the suffragettes

Nosey Parker: originated as a nickname for a man who spied on courting couples in London's Hyde Park

Television: much discussed in theory before John L. Baird made it possible in 1926.