1. FAX — 2023-10-09 23:52:19

   …77" death_place="Scotland" }} === Alexander Bain 1843 === ~-[[Technology]]: [[Communication]]: [[1800s]] The first facsimile machine was devised by Alexander Bain in 1843. He declared that: "a copy of any other surface composed of conducting a…
   …but it's future looks a short one with computers now the favoured device for sending images. {{tag ids="FAX image facsimile transmission "}}…

2. Glastonbury Festival — 2023-10-09 23:45:46

   …vers a huge** 900 acres**, the equivalent of over 500 football pitches. There are least** 60 stages **on site and eight miles of security fencing. Glastonbury costs **£22m** to put on every year. The tickets **always** sell out. With one exce…

3. Radar — 2023-10-08 00:18:51

   … to **60 miles**, at which point plans were made in December to set up five stations covering the approaches to London. One of these…

4. Air Traffic Control — 2023-10-07 10:51:35

   …e in. Distances vary but aircraft that are flying along the airways under [[radar]] surveillance are kept five nautical miles apart horizontally or at least 1,000 feet vertically. == Other fame == Croydon is the home of "[[Mayday]]" the intern…

5. Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52

   …m was built by English inventor Francis Ronalds in **1816** at 26 Upper Mall in Hammersmith, [[London]] . He laid eight miles of wire insulated in glass tubing in his garden and connected both ends to two clocks marked with the letters of the a…

6. Radio — 2023-09-23 15:56:24

   … in the English town of Bedford. In Italy he was able to transmit signals over a hill, a distance of approximately 1.5 miles. Finding little interest or appreciation for his work in Italy, Marconi traveled to London in early **1896** at the ag…
   …a message transversed over the Bristol Channel from Flat Holm Island to Lavernock Point in Penarth, a distance of **3.7 miles**. The message read "**Are you ready**". The English channel was crossed on 27 March **1899**, from Wimereux, France t…

7. Electric Car — 2023-08-27 16:16:21

   … of 9-12 mph, Walter Bersey’s taxis were the first self-propelled vehicles for hire. Although the range was around 38 miles it did not need to recharged, instead the batteries were swapped out in around 3 minutes (about the same as fueling a …

8. British Empire — 2022-05-20 08:45:03

   …iety]] :[[1400s]] The British empire was the **largest **empire in history, it covered more than **13,000,000 square miles** (13 million or 33.7Km2), which is approximately a **quarter** of the Earth’s total land area, and controlled more…

9. Loch Ness Monster — 2022-05-03 17:06:34

   …t volume of fresh water in Great Britain. The body of water reaches a depth of nearly 800 feet and a length of about 23 miles. Some 'authorities' speculate that “Nessie” was a solitary survivor of the long-extinct plesiosaurs. The aquatic …
   …rved a strange aquatic creature into standing stones near Loch Ness. {{Image url="Loch-Ness.jpg" title="Loch Ness: 23 miles long and 750 feet deep" width="100%" height="200" }} The earliest written reference to a monster in Loch Ness is a 7th…

10. Television — 2021-11-06 16:35:18

    …ultra-short wave transmission. == Live Sport == In 1927 Baird transmitted a long-distance television signal over 438 miles of telephone line between London and Glasgow. He then set up the Baird Television Development Company Ltd, which in 19…

11. Charlie Chaplin — 2021-08-20 11:11:51

    …e him the highest paid actor in Hollywood. == Chaplin the Composer == Charlie also wrote some wonderful melodies. "**Smile**" is a song based on an instrumental theme used in the soundtrack for the 1936 Charlie Chaplin movie **Modern Times**.…

12. Four-minute Mile — 2021-08-20 10:55:12

    … a //physical impossibility//. It became known as the the "four-minute barrier". The world record for a mile stood at 4 minutes and 1.3 seconds, set by Gunder Hagg of Sweden in 1945. {{Image url="Bannister_Iffley_Road_Track_Blu…
    …ter Blue plaque" width="" }} === Roger Bannister 1954 === Roger Bannister, born in Harrow, England, in 1929, was a top mile-runner while a student at the University of Oxford and at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School in London. In 1951 and 1…
    …953, he won British championships in the mile run. Bannister researched the mechanics of running and trained using new scientific methods he had developed. On May …
    … setting for Bannister's attempt. Conditions were far from ideal it had been windy and raining. {{Image url="Bannister4mile.jpg" class="left" title="Bannister finishing the 4 minute mile" width="500" }} The starting gun was fired at 6 p.m. Ba…

13. Guinness Book of World Records — 2021-08-20 10:45:53

    …who had been running a fact-finding agency in London. Norris was the timekeeper for Roger Bannister's sub [[four-minute_mile]] in 1954, while Ross helped locate the lost grave of rugby pioneer William Webb Ellis on the French Riviera in 1958. T…

14. Steel — 2021-08-12 20:31:45

    … society and shrinking the nation. The availability of cheap, durable steel rails allowed pioneers to build over 30,000 miles of railroad and colonise the western part of the country. Sheet steel could now be used in consumer products like was…

15. Nature Reserve — 2021-08-09 22:30:53

    …]:[[1800s]] {{toc}} In the 1820s Waterton, an English naturalist and explorer, built a nine-foot-high wall around three miles of his estate at '''Walton Hall''', turning it into the world's first '''nature reserve'''. == Walton Hall == '''Wa…

16. Powered Flight — 2021-04-05 22:36:49

    …'' (founded in 1866) at the Crystal Palace, London, in 1868. The plane was flown indoors from a wire unmanned at twenty miles per hour in front of the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sunderland. The exhibition gave world-wide exposure to gain…

17. Railway — 2020-11-30 12:55:52

    …ng to be left out, Horatio Allen of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company ordered two British locomotives for a sixteen-mile-long line between coal mines and his canal: //The Stourbridge Lion// from Foster, Rastrick, and Co., and the //America/…

18. Motor Racing Circuit — 2018-05-20 20:38:53

    …promote its car industry to help it compete and prosper in Europe. He used his own money in 1906 to build the nearly 3 mile long track that had two huge banked sections nearly 30 ft. high. It was 100 ft. wide hard-surfaced with two long straig…

19. English Language — 2018-01-26 21:45:55

    …le from the north of England would struggle to communicate with people from the south of England, a matter of a hundred miles or so! Now speakers from opposite sides of the globe can communicate with each other. == English speaking countries =…

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