Big Numbers…
Published on February 28 2010About a century separates Stephenson’s Rocket from the Coronation Class “streamliner” locomotive of the 1930s, a century of remarkable progress in rail transport which saw speeds increase from 25 to 125 mph. Half that period separates the first aeroplane to fly in the UK, Cody’s 30 mph ‘Flyer’, from the 1,500 mph English Electric Lightning. The world’s first stored-program electronic computer, the