The published benefits of domestic wind turbines vary enormously. Taking a very rough average, each one saves about five tonnes of carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere each year, and produces a saving on domestic fuel bills of about £3,000 p.a.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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First residential roof-top wind turbines
Tollard House, the first residential roof top wind turbines installed in the ...
HM Surveyor of Roads, 1690-1715. Not a poor man, he owned property in St Martin's-in-the-Fields, St James's and Dover.
Bethnal Green Borough Engineer in 1909. From The Building News and Engineering Journal, July to December 1918: "Mr. E. E. Finch, the engineer of the City of London, has, with the consent of the co...
In spite of the plaque's claim, there is evidence of a cash dispensing machine being used in Tokyo in 1966. The invention of the British version has been credited to John Shepherd-Barron of the pri...
Road tunnel crossing under the River Thames, connecting Rotherhithe to the Ratcliff district of Limehouse. Designed by Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, it was constructed using both a tunnelling 'shield' a...
Engineer and builder. One of the early innovators with reinforced concrete initially in Brussels. In 1892, he patented a reinforced-concrete construction system. The first building erected using th...
Click on International Council of Nurses for information about the world's first international organisation for health professionals, which she co-founded. Ethel Gordon Manson was born 26 January ...
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