First Railway Passenger Fataility: Stephenson's Rocket at Parkside
Regulation of Railways Act: Railways Inspectorate
Board of Trade Requirements for New Railways
First Road Traffic Lights
Regulation of Railways Act: Interlocking / Block Working
Regulation of Railways Act: Train Braking
1st person killed by a car, Bridget Driscoll
A method of problem solving used for identifying the root causes of faults or problems
First Aircraft Flight in UK by Sam Cody
The largest ocean liner in service at the time, Titanic was four days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City, with an estimated 2,224 people on board when she struck an iceberg at 23:40 (ship's time) on 14 April. Her sinking two hours and forty minutes later at 02:20 ship's time (05:18 GMT) on 15 April resulted in the deaths of more than 1,500 people, making it one of the deadliest peacetime maritime disasters in history
First version was adopted in 1914 in response to Titanic
The SOLAS Convention in its successive forms is generally regarded as the most important of all international treaties concerning the safety of merchant ships. The first version was adopted in 1914, in response to the Titanic disaster, the second in 1929, the third in 1948, and the fourth in 1960. The 1974 version includes the tacit acceptance procedure - which provides that an amendment shall enter into force on a specified date unless, before that date, objections to the amendment are received from an agreed number of Parties.
Heinrich's Domino Model, developed in 1931, posits that workplace accidents result from a chain of five sequential, interconnected factors (dominoes), where the fall of one triggers the next: ancestry/social environment, personal fault, unsafe act/condition, accident, and injury. Removing any single domino prevents the injury.
March 1931 (AIR 5/920)
The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (c. 37) (abbreviated to "HSWA 1974", "HASWA" or "HASAWA") is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that as of 2011 defines the fundamental structure and authority for the encouragement, regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and welfare within the United Kingdom
The SOLAS Convention in its successive forms is generally regarded as the most important of all international treaties concerning the safety of merchant ships. The first version was adopted in 1914, in response to the Titanic disaster, the second in 1929, the third in 1948, and the fourth in 1960. The 1974 version includes the tacit acceptance procedure - which provides that an amendment shall enter into force on a specified date unless, before that date, objections to the amendment are received from an agreed number of Parties.
In US Armed Forces Military Procedures document MIL-P-1629
Edwards v. National Coal Board was an important case in English case law.
The first non-experimental aircraft that was designed and flown (in 1958) with a fly-by-wire flight control system was the Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
The SOLAS Convention in its successive forms is generally regarded as the most important of all international treaties concerning the safety of merchant ships. The first version was adopted in 1914, in response to the Titanic disaster, the second in 1929, the third in 1948, and the fourth in 1960. The 1974 version includes the tacit acceptance procedure - which provides that an amendment shall enter into force on a specified date unless, before that date, objections to the amendment are received from an agreed number of Parties.
Developed in 1962 at Bell Laboratories by H.A. Watson
Originated in the Heavy Organic Chemicals Division of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI)
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Intuition behind counterexample of Euler's sum of powers conjecture
The Aberfan disaster was the catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip
Cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test at Cape Kennedy killed all three crew members
From 1968 to 1970, the first CADC to use custom digital integrated circuits was developed for the F-14
The first airliner to have analogue fly-by-wire flight controls
Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.
1st Edition of Mil-Std-882 issued
7th crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon. Launched April 11, 1970, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module ruptured two days into the mission, disabling its electrical and life-support system
C is a general-purpose programming language. It was created in the 1970s by Dennis Ritchie and remains very widely used and influential
The operating system was originally written in PDP-7 assembly language, and ported to PDP-11 assembly language in 1970, but in 1973, Version 4 Unix was rewritten in C. Ken Thompson faced multiple challenges attempting the kernel port due to the evolving state of C, which lacked key features like structures at the time. Version 4 Unix, however, still had much PDP-11 specific code, and was not suitable for porting. The first port to another platform was a port of Version 6, made four years later (1977) at the University of Wollongong for the Interdata 7/32,[followed by a Bell Labs port of Version 7 to the Interdata 8/32 during 1977 and 1978.
The SOLAS Convention in its successive forms is generally regarded as the most important of all international treaties concerning the safety of merchant ships. The first version was adopted in 1914, in response to the Titanic disaster, the second in 1929, the third in 1948, and the fourth in 1960. The 1974 version includes the tacit acceptance procedure - which provides that an amendment shall enter into force on a specified date unless, before that date, objections to the amendment are received from an agreed number of Parties.
First IChemE Hazops course
An industrial accident in a small chemical manufacturing plant north of Milan. Caused the highest known exposure to TCDD in residential populations
Robert Nicholas Williams was an American factory worker who was the first known human to be killed by a robot. While working at the Ford Motor Company's Michigan Casting Center, Williams was struck and killed by the arm of a robotic transfer vehicle.
The reactor accident released radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment. It is the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history. On the seven-point logarithmic International Nuclear Event Scale, the accident is rated Level 5
Propounded by James T. Reason of the University of Manchester and has since gained widespread acceptance
Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level programming language, inspired by Pascal and other languages
The technique was developed in the Sandia Laboratories for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Bhopal gas tragedy was a chemical accident on the night of 2-3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal
Therac-25 was involved in at least six accidents between 1985 and 1987, in which some patients were given massive overdoses of radiation
Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard.
The Chernobyl disaster began with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR, close to the border with the Byelorussian SSR, in the Soviet Union
First flight of unstable aircraft relying on digital flight control system from day 1: first flight 30,000 ft, 4g, mach 1.1 + barrel roll
In 1987 the Crown Proceedings (Armed Forces) Act 1987 suspended Crown immunity, however, it can be revived at anytime. The most important thing to note is that immunity from personal injury claims was not suspended during the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
MS Herald of Free Enterprise was a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ferry which capsized moments after leaving the Belgian port of Zeebrugge killing 193 passengers and crew
A crowded British Rail passenger train crashed into the rear of another train that had stopped at a signal just south of Clapham Junction railway station and subsequently sideswiped an empty train travelling in the opposite direction. A total of 35 people died in the collision and 484 were injured. The collision was the result of a signal failure caused by a wiring fault: new wiring had been installed, but the old wiring had been left in place and not adequately secured
A fatal crowd crush at a football match at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
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