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Date Posted：2026-01-01 08:42:52Copy HTML 1 January 1781 - The World's First Iron Bridge Opened. In 1776 a proposal to construct a wholly metal bridge across the Severn Gorge between the Shropshire villages of Benthall and Madeley was put before Parliament. The necessary Act was passed with the the work for the design going to Thomas Pritchard and the actual casting and construction to Abraham Darby of the Coalbrookdale Ironworks, Shropshire. Work began in 1777 and although the river was spanned as early as July 1779 the bridge was not formally opened to traffic until New Year's Day 1781. It is 100 ft long weighing 378 tons. Such was the fame of the construction that the town that grew up around the two villages was renamed Ironbridge. Closed to road traffic in 1934 it remains in use for pedestrians.
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-06-11 05:19:07Copy HTML Even if it had not burnt down in 1936 it would not have survived the Blitz four years later. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-06-11 07:24:18Copy HTML 11 June 1910 - Jacques Cousteau born. French oceanographer who invented the self-contained underwater breathing apparatus SCUBA and wrote many books and TV programmes about the sea.
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Arnold Bennett
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-06-11 09:50:02Copy HTML Enjoyed his adventures as shown on T.V. |
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-06-11 08:59:00Copy HTML I can still hear his voice in my head……… zare are ze seals fwollocking in ze surf |
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-06-11 10:27:07Copy HTML I loved the tv show. He gave us landlubbers access to the high seas.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-06-12 05:24:51Copy HTML One of the TV programmes I remember fondly from my childhood is The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, a favourite along with Animal Magic, Disney Time and Scooby-Doo before they ruined it with the annoying Scrappy-Doo. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-06-12 06:38:48Copy HTML Then we lost the fantastic Tom and Jerry and foghorn leghorn because some lefty jelly in some whitehall back room, decided they were too violent for children |
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-06-12 07:34:37Copy HTML 12 June 1806 - John Augustus Roebling born. German-American civil engineer born Johann August Röbling in Mühlhausen, Prussia, emigrating to the USA in 1831. From the 1840s onwards he designed and built many vital bridges in the USA culminating in the design of the Brooklyn Bridge which he sadly never saw constructed, he died of tetanus after sustaining a foot injury whilst surveying the site in 1869.
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-06-12 09:44:45Copy HTML It's a shame he never got to travel across the most-sold bridge in the world. Mighty Mouse, Pink Panther, Rocky & Bullwinkle. "It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-06-13 07:43:55Copy HTML 13 June 1514 - The Henry Grace à Dieu launched. Built at Woolwich it was the largest warship in the world at the time, sister ship to the Mary Rose and all but forgotten due to the Mary Rose's sinking in 1545 and recovery 450 years later. 1000 tons, four decks high and 165 feet long with a crew of 700 and 43 cannon it was found to be dangerously unstable so rarely sailed far from the shore. In 1539 it was remodelled by being reduced in height and saw action for the first and only time in 1545 in the battle of the Solent in which the Mary Rose famously capsized. In 1547 it was renamed the Edward in honour of the newly acceded King Edward VI. It was destroyed by fire at Woolwich in 1553.
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-06-13 10:09:02Copy HTML A French name built in Woolwich? Figures she would be unstable. |
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-06-13 10:54:15Copy HTML It is beautiful, though.
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-06-14 07:37:12Copy HTML 14 June 1864 - Alois Alzheimer born. German psychiatrist who was the first to identify "presenile dementia" in a patient in a Frankfurt asylum which he detailed in a paper in 1906. The condition was named after him in Kraepelin's Textbook of Psychiatry in 1910. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-06-14 09:48:18Copy HTML 14 June 1864 - Alois Alzheimer born. German psychiatrist who was the first to identify "presenile dementia" in a patient in a Frankfurt asylum which he detailed in a paper in 1906. The condition was named after him in Kraepelin's Textbook of Psychiatry in 1910. I "forgot" about him. |
