1. Airport — 2023-10-11 15:23:36

   …et the growing civilian air transportation sector. {{Image url="Saunders-Roe_Princess.jpg" class="left" title="Flying boats became immense like the Saunders Roe Princess" width="100%" }} ::c:: == Spitfire == The **Supermarine** factory near …

2. Portland Cement — 2023-10-08 00:16:46

   …ial. Roads, bridges, schools, foundations of buildings, driveways and large office buildings are made of concrete. Some boats and ships are even made from concrete. The modern world would look very different without concrete. …

3. Hovercraft — 2023-10-07 09:48:35

   …Supply to back his project. He had a hard time trying to convince the military: the Admiralty said it was a plane not a boat; the RAF said it was a boat not a plane; and the Army were "plain not interested". The irony is that it has been the M…
   …ed the design and construction of SRN1 - the world's first man-carrying amphibious hovercraft. Saunders Roe, the flying boat firm at Cowes on the Isle of Wight, were given the contract, and the firm, under Cockerell's guidance, worked avidly on…

4. Rotating Boat Lift — 2022-05-03 17:19:08

   …Rotating Boat Lift :: [[CategoryIndustry]]=== Falkirk Wheel 2002 === {{Image url="FalkirkWheel.jpg" class="right" title="Falkirk Whee…
   …l" width="700" }} The Falkirk Wheel in [[Scotland]] is the World’s Only Rotating Boat Lift. The Falkirk Wheel is an exceptional feat of modern engineering. It was inaugurated in **May 2002** and connects …
   …f a Celtic-inspired, double-headed axe. The two gondolas are 21 feet wide, and can hold up to four 66 feet long canal boats. The boatlift is so finely balanced it takes just 22.5 kilowatts (30.2 hp) to power ten hydraulic motors, which consu…

5. Titanic — 2021-08-20 11:12:19

   …rious liner yet. == The Boast == She was touted as the safest ship ever built, 'unsinkable', so safe that only 20 lifeboats were installed. That was barely enough to accommodate half her 2,200 passengers and crew. == The Splendour == The RMS…

6. Public Park — 2021-08-14 20:30:20

   …alistic woodland belts. The lakes are shaped to appear as sinuous rivers with views across them to features such as the Boathouse and Swiss Bridge. {{Image url="BirkenheadPark.jpg" class="right" }} ::c:: == A man with Big Ideas == In **1851*…

7. Life Boat — 2020-08-17 09:00:19

   …, including a false iron keel adding weight to help keep the boat upright. == First Lifeboat == {{Image url="LifeBoatUnimmergible.jpg" class="left" title="Lukins Life Boat the Unimmergible" width="450" }} In 1786 Dr John Sharpe, Archdeac…
   …on of Northumberland, asked Lukin to convert a 'coble' to include in it, the principles of his patent. The new boat was duly dispatched to Sharpe, in Bamburgh, and served for a number of years as the **first known purpose built Lifeboa…
   …g inscription was engraved on the reverse side of his tombstone: @@“This LIONEL LUKIN Was the first who built a Life-boat, and was the original Inventor of that principle of safety, by which many lives and much property have been preserved f…
   …rom Shipwreck; and he obtained for it the King's patent in the year 1785.”@@ Such was the success of lifeboats that On 28 February 1823 the RNLI was formed. {{Image url="LifeBoat.jpg" class="left-right" title="Modern RNLI Life Bo…

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