Hi, Peter Jordan wrote: > > Well done. > > If the *istD has reached Tyneside, electricity and running water can't be > far behind!!<vbg>.
First house in the world powered by elecricity? Cragside, owned by the Newcastle shipping and armaments magnate Armstrong. First turbine powered ship? Turbinia, manufactured on Tyneside. Inventor of the light bulb? Joseph Swann of Sunderland. Matches? John Walker of same. First passenger steam railway? Stockton on Tees. Enough, already? 8-) OK, I know that the railway is about 40 miles away. But the guy who built the locomotive was born at Wylam and built it in a shed behind the present Newcastle railway station. mike
