Combining an iron hull with screw-propeller propulsion, SS Great Britain was the largest ship afloat at the time of its launch and introduced technologies that would influence ocean-going ships for the remainder of the nineteenth century.
The Persian poet and philosopher Nasir Khusraw began a seven-year journey through the Islamic world that he recorded in the Safarnama.
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.
With £200 in English gold and banknotes, and a single bag that was smaller than modern carry-on luggage, Bly departed from Hoboken Pier in New Jersey on board the Augusta Victoria steamship on 14 November 1889.
Laika was never intended to return to Earth as the technology to re-enter the atmosphere had not yet been developed.
On 22 July, after travelling more than 3,000 miles, Mackenzie and his party reached the Pacific tidewaters at Dean Channel, near present-day Bella Coola, British Columbia.
The canal was designed as a sea-level waterway stretching approximately 120 miles across the Isthmus of Suez, and its completion in 1869, ten years after work began, significantly reduced travel time between Europe and Asia.
The first traveller’s cheques, in the form of a ‘circular note’ issued by a bank, went on sale in London.
Félicette survived the flight after being secured inside a specially designed capsule on top of a Véronique AG1 rocket, which reached an altitude of about 157 kilometers.
Two of the four original planes successfully completed the entire circumnavigation from Seattle, travelling approximately 26,345 miles (42,398 kilometres) and stopping in 28 countries along the way.
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