This post is an entry for the TxP Progress Prize, an essay competition intended to identify antidotes to Britain’s malaise: ‘Britain is stuck. How can we get it moving again?’ This time 200 years ago, Robert Stephenson and his collaborators had just set up shop on Forth Street in Newcastle. Work began in earnest on the world’s first steam engine, the Locomotion No 1, which became operational in 1825. By 1830, they were ready to demonstrate the world’s first passenger train: Stephenson’s Rocket set off from Liverpool on 15th September, carrying passengers including the Prime Minister, to Manchester at speeds averaging 12mph. History was made, and the North West once again affirmed its role as laboratory of the economic future of the world.
The Bee Network must take to the skies
The Bee Network must take to the skies
The Bee Network must take to the skies
This post is an entry for the TxP Progress Prize, an essay competition intended to identify antidotes to Britain’s malaise: ‘Britain is stuck. How can we get it moving again?’ This time 200 years ago, Robert Stephenson and his collaborators had just set up shop on Forth Street in Newcastle. Work began in earnest on the world’s first steam engine, the Locomotion No 1, which became operational in 1825. By 1830, they were ready to demonstrate the world’s first passenger train: Stephenson’s Rocket set off from Liverpool on 15th September, carrying passengers including the Prime Minister, to Manchester at speeds averaging 12mph. History was made, and the North West once again affirmed its role as laboratory of the economic future of the world.