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Automotive

October 1935: Harry Ricardo on the petrol engine

The Great Eastern at the end of its voyage
Electronics

September 1865: The failure of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable

RMS Oceanic

September 1899 - The world's largest ship

Samuel Franklin Cody in Wild West guise
Aerospace

August 1909: First passenger flight

After a year-long trial the Marconi system was chosen
Electronics

This week in 1936 - the dawn of TV broadcasting

Defence & security

August 1884: The dynamite gun

Bazelgette’s drawing of the pumping station in section
Civil & structural

August 1867: ‘A dainty palace of machinery’

Defence & security

July 1916 - A women's engineering works

Rutherford split the nitrogen atom in 1917, and explored the nature of atomic structure

June 1920: Electrons and The Engineer

Medical & healthcare

This Week in 1916: The training of maimed soldiers

Automotive

May 1955 - The British motorsport industry

The speed, construction and provision of lifeboats aboard the Titanic had all been questioned
Rail & marine

May 1912: The Titanic Inquiry