First opening as a convent and orphanage in 1853, it was the school’s first full five-star Ofsted rating since records began in 2000. Almost 80 per cent of the school’s intake are reported to ...

That happened 20 years earlier, when French inventor Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created the “phonautograph” — “a machine that inscribed the vibrations of airborne sounds” and ...

Wednesday afternoon and evening storms could contain damaging wind gusts, and downpours could lead to isolated flooding. The Virginia primary election is over. See the list of projected winners ...

JONATHAN SCOTT: It was a Parisian named Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, in the 1850s, invented a thing called a phonautograph. It was this ingenious device that you sort of bellowed into.

Elisha Otis, the owner of Otis Elevator Company, had a solution: He pioneered a mechanism for elevators in 1853 that would act as a failsafe. It was little more than a wagon spring attached to the ...

Construction took three years but in 1853 the new $4,000 shellcrete building on Mesquite Street was ready for business. However, the plans that included a jail were left out. So when Sheriff Mat ...

According to a Jan. 4 press release, the Florida-based firm reported mining 1,853 Bitcoin in December, a 56% increase from November and a 290% increase from December 2022, claiming: “We believe ...

However the project at the one-time mill, which dates back to 1853, attracted 41 objections with concerns raised over no parking provision and increased traffic. However there were three letters ...

TOI-1853 is a star somewhat smaller than our Sun, with about 0.8 times its mass. And there were clear indications of a planet near the star, now called TOI-1853 b. The planet orbits quite close to ...

His device, which he called the phonautograph, was a pretty simple way of recording sound. "I cover a plate of glass with an exceedingly thin stratum of lampblack. Above I fix an acoustic trumpet ...

US Navy Commodore Matthew Perry first arrived off Japan with a fleet of ships at Uraga, the entrance to what is now Tokyo Bay, on July 8, 1853. On his second uninvited visit, the ships dropped ...