Fun map of stuff to do. Surely needs a brick tour!!!
The Soliton Wave is fun.
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"After a delay which would probably be unacceptable to present day funding bodies, and in a field he could never have dreamed of, Scott Russell's observations and research of 160 years ago have hit the big time in the present day fibre-optic communications industry. The qualities of the soliton wave which excited him (the fact that it does not break up, spread out or lose strength over distance) make it ideal for fibre-optic communications networks where billions of solitons per second carry information down fibre circuits for cable TV, telephone and computers ("The secrets of everlasting life", New Scientist 15 April 1995). It is fitting that a fibre-optic cable linking Edinburgh and Glasgow now runs beneath the very tow-path from which John Scott Russell made his initial observations, and along the aqueduct which now bears his name."
'Probably' !!!??
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Oops, double post. But can I add there's a photo of a group of people on giant unicycles at the bottom of the page.
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There's a measured mile at St. Abb's Head.
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The soliton wave stuff is cool - there was a big noticeboard up in Heriot Watt about this years ago, it's probably still there.
Looking at the map Scotland is missing a lot of things like the secret bunkers you can visit...Posted 12 years ago # -
There's a small plaque where it happened -
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The Museum of Space Toys in Moffat should be on the list.
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The slightly scary thing is how many of those places I've actually been to!
I even still have the clutch pencil that I bought at the museum in Cumberland about 25 years ago.
I thought the Anderton Boat Lift would have been there, though. Need to add that one.
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