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17 Dec
This Week In History: The Wright Brothers First Powered Flight
- December 17th, 1903 -
On a beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, a man called Orville Wright launched the first powered aeroplane into the sky. The flight lasted 12...
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08 Oct
Robert Stephenson’s Locomotive, The Rocket, wins the Rainhill Trials
- 8th October 1829 -
The Stephenson family will be forever remembered as one of the key railway families in our Island’s history. George Stephenson is even known as the...
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17 Dec
The First Powered Flight
- December 17th 1903 -
On a windswept beach at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville Wright launched the first powered airplane into the sky. The flight lasted 12 seconds and took him 120 feet. The picture, left,...
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03 Apr
The First Mobile Phone Call
- April 3rd 1973 -
It was way back in 1908, in Kentucky, that the first patent for a ‘wireless telephone’ was issued. The first call on a mobile device, however, was made by Martin Cooper, an executive and engineer...
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25 Jan
First Transcontinental Telephone Call
- January 25th 1915 -
Alexander Graham Bell in New York and Thomas Watson in San Francisco make a record telephone transmission. The New York Times said the following:
“On October 9th 1876 Alexander Graham...
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