1. 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 excep…

2. 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 …

3. 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 interna…

4. 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 al…

5. 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 age…
   …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 to…

6. 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 c…

7. 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 …

8. 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 p…
   …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-…

9. 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 192…

10. 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 wash…

11. 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 == '''Wat…

12. 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 gains…

13. Railway — 2020-11-30 12:55:52

    …"200" }} His locomotive, **Puffing Devil**, successfully carried **10 tons** of iron, **5 **wagons and** 70** men 9.75 miles in 4 hours and 5 minutes. ::cl:: == George Stephenson (1781-1848) == {{Image url="Stephenson.gif" class="right" title=…
    …on. The S&DR opened on 27 September 1825. Driven by Stephenson, Locomotion hauled an 80-ton load of coal and flour nine miles (15 km) in two hours, reaching a speed of 24 miles per hour (39 km/h) on one stretch. The first purpose-built passenger…
    …gging and blasting their way over the British landscape. The amount of track laid in Britain increased from only '''500 miles''' in 1838 to over '''8,000''' by 1855. This expansion of track also brought down the cost of travel so that all but …

14. 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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