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Coventry STEM

By SDhadwar

  • Textiles

    Textiles
    In 1627 a silk weaving company started, and around the 18th century ribbon wearings works was established by somone called Mr Bird.
    By the end of the 18th century coventry became a major centre of clothing trades.At first single shutter hand-looms were used, later joined a engine and many shutter looms.

  • Clocks and Watches

    Clocks and Watches
    Throughout the 18th and the 19th centries coventry became one of the three main UK centre of watch and clock manufactures.Which ranked alongside prescot near Liverpool and Clerkwell in London.
    However the orgins of clock and watch making in the city can probably be traced to the latter half of the 17th century.
    Samual Watso was sheriff of coventry in 1682 became famous for making an ingenious astromical clock.John Carte a watch maker was from coventry untill he set up a businesse in london.

  • Frank Whittle

    Frank Whittle
    Frank whittle invented the turbojet engine.Whittle's jet egines were developed some years earlier then thoes of Germany.Whittle was a desinger of the first opernational torbojet engine.
    When he was 16!
    He demostraited an aptitude for engineering and a interest in flying.
    Untill he joined the Royal Air Force.

  • Bombing during the Blitz

    Bombing during the Blitz
    Coventrys darkest time took place during the world war 2 when Adolf Hilter sinleged out Coventry for heavy bombing raids.Big areas of the city were totally destroyed caused by massive Greman raids during the night of 14/15 november 1940.
    Hundreds of fire men were sent to Coventry from the midlands, to do there best to put out the fire.Although they did struggle to put out the fires in the houses because the houses were made of wood and that turned into fire.568 peole died and 4,330 houses died.

  • Post war

    Post war
    Soon after the war the city was extensively rebuilt again.The new city centre was built in the 1950s, there was a young town person callled Donald Gibbison and included one of Eurpoe first traffic-free shopping precincts.
    In 1946 the one and only fist one who realised in Rotterdam the idea of which was copied throughout the world.The new Boardgate was opened H.R.H princeses Elizibeth.