Science and invention in Birmingham 1054 Mk XVIs) had been built. CBAF became the largest and most successful plant of its type during the 1939–45 conflict. As the largest Spitfire factory in the UK, by producing up to 320 aircraft per month, it built over half of the approximately 20,000 aircraft of this type. 1944: Anthony Ernest Pratt takes out his first patent for a board game named 'Murder', this is later to become the world-renowned murder mystery game 'Cluedo'. 1946: Chance Brothers produce the first all-glass syringe with interchangeable barrel and plunger, thereby allowing mass sterilisation of components without the need for matching them.
The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949 all the stories readable and some excellent." The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949 The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949 is a 1949 anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Everett F. Bleiler and T. E. Dikty. It was the first published anthology to present the best science fiction stories for a given year. The stories had originally appeared in 1948 in the magazines "Planet Stories", "Astounding Science Fiction", "Blue Book", "Comment", and "Thrilling Wonder Stories". The anthology was later combined with the and reissued as "Science Fiction Omnibus". L. Sprague de Camp received the anthology favorably, describing it as