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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：2026-10-11 07:18:05Copy HTML The Russians are never quiet, ask the Ukrainians. As for the Chinese they're making themselves known in the South China Sea. They have been for some years but they know their limits with Trump, they are just waiting for a soft bastard Dem they can kick about, like the good old days. |
shula
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-10-11 11:27:41Copy HTML If our pattern continues, they will have that in two years. We'll have a democrat president with possibly both House and Senate having a democrat majority. Then two years after that (2030) we'll have a democrat president with one or both Houses changing parties. It's becoming a yawn-fest over here. Rinse and repeat. The democrats are eating each other, but whoever they put up as their candidate will be who gets elected.
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MarkUK
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-10-12 07:56:20Copy HTML The question I would put to anyone who bemoans a change of government is if the previous leader was so good why was he/she kicked out? The answer is invariably that they weren't that good. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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MarkUK
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-10-12 08:07:25Copy HTML 12 October 1928 - The first clinical use of an iron lung. A negative pressure ventilator and mechanical respirator which encloses the body and assists breathing when muscle control is lost. Invented in the USA by Philip Drinker and Louis Shaw the Drinker Respirator was first used on an eight year old girl in Boston Children's Hospital in October 1928.
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Arnold Bennett
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-10-12 11:25:58Copy HTML The question I would put to anyone who bemoans a change of government is if the previous leader was so good why was he/she kicked out? The answer is invariably that they weren't that good. Some of the greatest leaders in history are removed democratically, I refer you to Churchill |
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-10-12 11:30:04Copy HTML The question I would put to anyone who bemoans a change of government is if the previous leader was so good why was he/she kicked out? The answer is invariably that they weren't that good. Some of the greatest leaders in history are removed democratically, I refer you to Churchill A wartime leader of little use in peacetime? |
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MarkUK
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-10-12 03:18:47Copy HTML Inexplicable really. Most likely, despite his leadership, many wanted a new Britain as promised by Labour. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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shula
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-10-12 08:36:07Copy HTML Trump won't be "removed" in 2028 because his term will have ended and he cannot run for a third term. This is just the way of our politics. The two main parties trade power places on a regular basis. An odd thing about Virginia politics is that we almost always support a democrat ticket for the presidency but when a democrat is elected president, we elect a republican governor and vice versa.
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-10-13 08:02:55Copy HTML Inexplicable really. Most likely, despite his leadership, many wanted a new Britain as promised by Labour. The war in the Far East was not over when he lost the election, So technically he was still a wartime leader. The nation was crying out for wholesale change and the promise of a completely new and fairer Britain Beckoned the working classes. Admiration for Churchill and his achievements never dimmed in the public eye but the people knew he was a wartime leader, not a peacetime leader. My dad liked and admired him, but my mother didn’t and I don’t know why. |
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-10-13 08:51:09Copy HTML 13 October 1945 - Milton Hershey died. American founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company which he established in Lancaster PA in 1894.
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Re：Date of the Day - Science and Industry Date Posted：2026-10-13 11:17:04Copy HTML He was a remarkable man. His education did not go beyond 4th grade, yet he accomplished so much in his life. Hershey, Pennsylvania is a vacation destination -- or it used to be. I don't think I've ever seen a WWII movie without a scene of a soldier giving a Hershey bar to a child.
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