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15th March 1906: Rolls-Royce Limited established in Britain

  • 15th March 2023
  • Tagged as: Automobile, Britain, Business, Engine, Invention, Spitfire, Technology

Rolls-Royce Limited was established by Charles Rolls and Henry Royce.

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10th March 1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call when he contacts his assistant, Thomas Watson

  • 10th March 2023
  • Tagged as: Invention, Science, Technology, Telephone

It was while in Boston that Bell’s experiments with sound waves and electricity led to his development of a telegraph-like system to transmit the vibrations associated with speech.

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7th March 1900: First ship-to-shore wireless message sent by SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse

  • 7th March 2023
  • Tagged as: Germany, Marconi, Navy, Radio, Science, Ship, Technology, Wireless

The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first vessel to transmit a ship-to-shore wireless message.

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27th February 1996: Pokémon first launched in Japan

  • 27th February 2023
  • Tagged as: Japan, Pokémon, Technology, Video Game

Pokémon, the world’s highest-grossing media franchise, was launched in Japan with Pocket Monsters: Red and Green.

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9th February 1969: First test flight of the Boeing 747 ‘Jumbo Jet’ at Paine Field in Washington State

  • 9th February 2023
  • Tagged as: Aeroplane, Aircraft, America, Boeing, Pan Am, Technology, Transatlantic, Travel, USA

The plane, named the City of Everett, left the Paine Field runway near Everett in Washington State – about 30 miles north of Seattle – and successfully performed a number of tests before landing at 12.50pm.

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29th January 1942: Desert Island Discs, the longest-running radio show in the UK, first broadcast

  • 29th January 2023
  • Tagged as: BBC, Britain, Broadcast, Culture, Radio, Technology

Desert Island Discs is Britain’s longest-running radio programme.

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21st January 1981: First DeLorean sports car produced (famous as the ‘Back to the Future’ car)

  • 21st January 2023
  • Tagged as: Automobile, Britain, Economy, Invention, Northern Ireland, Science, Technology, USA

The DeLorean DMC-12 sports car was later used as the time machine in Back to the Future.

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28th December 1895: Wilhelm Röntgen publishes his discovery of X-rays

  • 28th December 2022
  • Tagged as: Germany, Health, Medicine, Physics, Science, Technology, x-ray

Röntgen was experimenting with vacuum tubes at the University of Würzburg when he discovered the new ‘invisible light’ on 8 November 1895.

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9th December 1921: Lead identified as a fuel additive to reduce engine knocking in automobiles

  • 9th December 2022
  • Tagged as: Automobile, Chemistry, Invention, Lead, Oil, Poison, Science, Technology, United States, USA

Thomas Midgeley Jr. discovered that adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knocking in automobile engines.

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7th December 1972: The Blue Marble photograph taken of the whole Earth

  • 7th December 2022
  • Tagged as: Apollo, Earth, Moon, NASA, Photography, Science, Space, Space Race, Technology, United States, USA

The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the iconic Blue Marble photograph of the earth.

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