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This Week’s Selected Theme
17 Feb - 23 Feb 2025
This week our selected stories have the theme of long distance communication.
Mail coaches were introduced to Britain in the late eighteenth century, to provide a more speedy and cost effective system of transport for the post, but also to carry travellers around the country.
Scottish-born Alexander Graham Bell patented his concept of the telephone in 1876, having emigrated to Canada with his parents at the age of 23 and much of his scientific work took place there and in the United States.
Dominating the London skyline since 1965 and opened as the Post Office Tower, this 620 ft high structure was built as part of the growing telecommunications side of the Post Office.
Guglielmo Marconi was an inventor from an Italian and Irish background, who completed much of his research into wireless communication in Britain, and who is widely regarded as the inventor of radio.
From 1870, the small Cornish seaside village of Porthcurno - just south of Land's End - became a hub of the British telecommunications industry. PK Porthcurno, The Museum of Global Communications, celebrates this history.
The World Wide Web is generally acknowledged to have been invented by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee (pictured) whilst working at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva. He also created the first website.
This is just one of dozens of themes to be found within Bite Sized Britain’s hundreds of individual pages!
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High on a hill in mid-Wales, the Spaceguard Centre near Knighton is an independent observatory which monitors the potential threat to our planet posed by 'near earth objects'.
