Word: scotlande
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Balmoral Castle, where the late Queen Victoria was wont to indulge a "homespun taste for Scotland," journeyed British royalty to spend the weekend. Tenants, servants, and "gillies" on the Balmoral, Agergeldie and Birknall estates were bidden by their Britannic Majesties to a ball. The King's own piper, Major Forsyth, was in attendance; and, "as an interested spectator," came the Archbishop of York...
...socialist sheetlet of Glasgow, Scotland, alarmed by the news, accused the Prince of publicly supporting Professor Carlyle, in which case "the salary and expenses of the Prince of Wales had better be paid in the future by the political organization which is allowed to use him for its own ends...
Announcement came out of England that the shipbuilding firm of William Denny & Brothers, of Dumbarton, Scotland, was to build an experimental ship whose propulsive steam would be retained in water-tube boilers capable of sustaining a pressure of 550 Ibs. to the square inch - more than twice the steam pressure of any steam installation used aboard ship today. This announcement, though it followed close upon the heels of a paper read by a famed engineer before the British Institution of Naval Engineering suggesting that steam turbines could be developed with pressures hitherto undreamed of, might have attracted little notice...
...Government skeptically observed the plans for a machine which applied the energy of a jet of steam impinging upon the blades or vanes of a wheel to produce the rotation of a shaft to which the wheel was fitted. The Government shook its head and Engineer Parsons returned to Scotland, not unruffled. He had discovered the turbine principle a decade before, had perfected it for small units, was convinced it could drive a ship if built big enough...
...anniversary of the steam engine. On Sept. 27, 1825, with no small ceremony and excitement the hitherto horse-drawn cars running from the Darlington coal mines to the Stockton docks (County Durham, England) 37 miles away, were hitched to a steam-driven wagon invented by Engineer George Stephenson of Scotland...