Day 2 - Ainhoa and Paula

Friday,15th April

Science Museum

Flights facts:

• Vickers Vimy, 1919: this is the aircraft in which John Alcolck and Arthur Whitten Brown made the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic.

• Hawker P.1127, 1960: this aircraft is the first prototype of the Hawker P.1127. The experimental flying done with it proved the practicality of a new method of flight.

• H.S 125 Business Jet, 1265 a miniature airliner.

Technology facts:

Mobile phones:  

• Early telephones were simple boxes, but using them required new social skills.
• At first only well-off people and a few business could afford a telephone.

Computers:

• Packets of bits cross the Atlantic: in 1973, a computer at University College London sent "packets" of digital information to another in California. This was the first transatlantic link in the ARPANET computer network, the predecessor of the internet.

And here is the Apollo 10. This orbited the moon in 1969.

By Ainhoa C and Paula L