Welsh Achievements - in science, technology and engineering (PDF
Welsh Achievements - in science, technology and engineering (PDF
Welsh Achievements - in science, technology and engineering (PDF
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The largest purpose<br />
built television<br />
studio complex <strong>in</strong><br />
the world <strong>in</strong> 1982<br />
was opened by HTV<br />
at Culverhouse<br />
Cross, Cardiff.<br />
• The first airborne radio<br />
telephone transmission, the<br />
‘Aerophone’ was made by<br />
Harry Gr<strong>in</strong>dell Matthews to<br />
communicate from the ground<br />
to the air with pilot B.C. Hucks<br />
fly<strong>in</strong>g from Ely Racecourse <strong>in</strong><br />
Cardiff <strong>in</strong> 1911.<br />
• Follow<strong>in</strong>g recent <strong>in</strong>vestment<br />
by BT, next Generation Data<br />
is to <strong>in</strong>vest up to £200 million<br />
<strong>in</strong> Wales to create one of<br />
Europe’s largest <strong>and</strong> most<br />
technically advanced ‘green’<br />
data-centres <strong>in</strong> newport.<br />
• DeepStream Technologies of Parc Menai are lead<strong>in</strong>g the<br />
way <strong>in</strong> develop<strong>in</strong>g m<strong>in</strong>iaturised 3D sensors, to improve the<br />
<strong>in</strong>telligence of a host of household <strong>and</strong> <strong>in</strong>dustrial devices.<br />
The type-pr<strong>in</strong>t<strong>in</strong>g telegraph was <strong>in</strong>vented by David<br />
Hughes from Bala <strong>in</strong> 1855 <strong>and</strong> used throughout the<br />
exp<strong>and</strong><strong>in</strong>g USA. He also <strong>in</strong>vented the carbon granule<br />
microphone <strong>and</strong> demonstrated the first transmission<br />
of electromagnetic waves <strong>in</strong> 1879.
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