Eighty years ago, a piece of world-changing technology emerged from a semi-derelict garage in Leicestershire - the world's first viable jet engine. But as Frank Whittle's invention took to the ...

The jet engine has a long and storied history. Its development occurred spontaneously amongst several unrelated groups in the early 20th Century. Frank Whittle submitted a UK patent on a design in ...

Gloucester mayor Lorraine Campbell, will be visiting Lutterworth to look at jet engine inventor Sir Frank Whittle’s ...

Many car companies built engines but all, following the design of the Wright brothers, had propellers. Frank Whittle was an RAF pilot and in 1930 patented the design for his jet engine.

Sir Frank Whittle's jet engine powered the Gloster E28/39, which left the ground at Hucclecote in April 1941. Andrew Pugh, chair of Hucclecote Parish Council, said: "It's rather disappointing that ...

An experimental engine created by Air Commodore [Frank Whittle], RAF engineer air officer ... This is not a Hollywood thriller; it is the story of the jet engine. The idea of jet power started ...

Propelled by the same Rolls-Royce Merlin V12 engine that powered Britain's Spitfires to victory ... is authorised by Council. Frank Whittle presents ‘The early history of the Whittle gas turbine’ to a ...

Whittle The Jet Pioneer reveals the titanic struggle of a young aviator and engineer as the Nazis took Europe into total war It was a race for air superiority between Germany and the Allies ...

Inventive engineers figure highly among our Honorary Fellows. By inventing the gas turbine and the jet engine respectively, Sir Charles Algernon Parsons and Sir Frank Whittle helped to usher in the ...

The event, dubbed Awesome Inventions, will celebrate the brains behind pioneering inventions and innovations which have links ...

Frank Olivo is the founder of Sagapixel, a healthcare digital marketing firm that focuses on integrating SEO and social media content for healthcare providers. The firm works with clients ranging ...

Michael Mosley, Cassie Newland and Mark Miodownik describe the scientific achievements of Newcomen and Watt at the start of the industrial revolution. Cassie Newland visits a Mill in Burnley which ...