Welsh Achievements - in science, technology and engineering (PDF

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68 MILESTonES 2005 Completion of new Senedd Building in Cardiff Bay for the national Assembly for Wales.
Significant events marking increases in human knowledge punctuate history. The benefits from innovations in science, engineering and medicine spill over into society and Wales has experienced many of these at first hand. The first recorded journey of a ‘railway locomotive’ on the Merthyr Tramroad was to alter the face of the world and commerce in a short space of time and the use of novel lining in a blast furnace at Blaenafon in 1878 was to revolutionise steel making. Even though many milestones were placed on the historical road some years ago, their importance remains, just as more recent ones commemorating stages in the electronics revolution will have importance in years to come… 1999 opened in time to host the Rugby World Cup in Cardiff the 75,000 seat, allweather Millennium Stadium is the world’s largest arena with a retractable roof. 69
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WELSH ACHIEVEMEnTS [ In SCIEnCE, TE
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ConTEnTS 02 Foreword 04 Bioscience
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Most innovations bring about increm
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Morvus Technology established their
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Hair samples are being used to iden
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Antidotes for snake and scorpion bi
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• Life science is seen as a ferti
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Superimpose centuries of human acti
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The earliest example of a cable-sta
Page 19 and 20: The Wales Millennium Centre in Card
Page 21 and 22: Since the early days of the primary
Page 23 and 24: The development of the Internet fol
Page 25 and 26: The first over-water transmission o
Page 27 and 28: • The International Film School W
Page 29 and 30: the management of Siriol Production
Page 31 and 32: The stained-glass expertise practis
Page 33 and 34: In terms of natural and renewable f
Page 35 and 36: Lord Walter Marshall of Rhymney was
Page 37 and 38: • The Institutes of Rural Science
Page 39 and 40: With the basic production of metals
Page 41 and 42: A wholly novel system for fastening
Page 43 and 44: With its long history of mining for
Page 45 and 46: Major aircraft manufacturers and ai
Page 48 and 49: 46 MATERIALS Fully customer-qualifi
Page 50 and 51: For a small country, Wales has been
Page 52 and 53: The identification of crystal faces
Page 54 and 55: 52 TRAnSPoRT Some of Europe’s mos
Page 56 and 57: Aerospace has been a feature on the
Page 58 and 59: 56 The world’s first scheduled ho
Page 60 and 61: 58 The world land speed record of 1
Page 62 and 63: 60 PEoPLE Charles Rolls Motorist an
Page 64 and 65: 1965 - Professor Tavi Murray. b. Mu
Page 66 and 67: 1910 - 1992 Professor Alan Wood. Ch
Page 68 and 69: 1834 - 1913 Sir William Henry Preec
Page 72 and 73: 2009 Believed to be the first state
Page 74 and 75: 72 1973 Britain’s highest dam com
Page 76 and 77: 74 1911 The first airborne radio te
Page 78 and 79: 76 1850 First electrically powered
Page 80 and 81: ConCLUSIon How often have we been t
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