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Theme of the Week National Science and Engineering Week Wednesday

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This country has such an extraordinary pedigree in science and engineering the laboratory where Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in London; Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s SS Great Britain in Bristol; Richard Trevithick’s first steam locomotive, “Billy”, in Swansea; and the Forth Rail Bridge – the largest listed building in Scotland and the world’s first major steel bridge – soaring over the Firth of Forth.

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Theme of the Week

National Science and Engineering Week

Wednesday

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Science is simply common Science is simply common sense at its best.sense at its best.

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This country has such an extraordinary pedigree in science and engineering

• the laboratory where Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in London; Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s SS Great Britain in Bristol; Richard Trevithick’s first steam locomotive, “Billy”, in Swansea; and the Forth Rail Bridge – the largest listed building in Scotland and the world’s first major steel bridge – soaring over the Firth of Forth.

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The cradle of the industrial revolution at Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire

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• The focal point of the Ironbridge Gorge is perhaps the Iron Bridge itself - the first bridge in the world to be constructed of iron. Built in 1779 to a design by Shrewsbury architect Thomas Farnolls Pritchard and cast at the Coalbrookdale ironworks of Abraham Darby III,

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Art was inspired by the Industrial Revolution

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• Iron making in Coalbrookdale during the eighteenth century was revolutionary: it developed coal and coke as fuel, applied steam engine technology and promoted the emergence of a transport network. The Iron Bridge confirmed Coalbrookdale’s significance, and became in its own lifetime an internationally known symbol of the Industrial Revolution.

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