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207 relations: A roads in Zone 2 of the Great Britain numbering scheme, Aerial bomb, Albert Parker, 3rd Earl of Morley, Alfred Nobel, Ammunition, Andrew Schalch, Architect, Arsenal F.C., Association football, Atomic Weapons Establishment, Barratt Developments, Battle of Waterloo, Berkeley Group Holdings, Board of Ordnance, Brick, British Army during the Victorian Era, British Library, British Museum, Broadwater Green, Bullet, Cadet, Canal, Cartridge (firearms), Chain-link fencing, Chatham, Kent, Chemical substance, Chemist, Chief Royal Engineer, Commons, Congreve rocket, Convict, Cordite, Crimean War, Crossrail, Design, Devonport, Plymouth, Director of the Royal Artillery, Dock (maritime), Dorset, Eltham, Engineer, England, English Football League, Erith Marshes, Europe, Explosive material, Explosive ROF, Filling Factories in the United Kingdom, Firepower – The Royal Artillery Museum, Fireworks, ..., Ford Motor Company, Fort Halstead, Foundation (engineering), Foundry, Frederick Abel, Fuze, George III of the United Kingdom, Gosport, Greater London Council, Greenock, Greenwich Heritage Centre, Greenwich Hospital, London, Gun, Henry Grace à Dieu, Henry Maudslay, History of the Second World War, HM Customs and Excise, HM Prison Belmarsh, Hydraulics, Imperial Chemical Industries, Industrial park, Isle of Dogs, James Dewar, James Nasmyth, James Wyatt, Jan Verbruggen, John Vanbrugh, Joseph Bramah, Joseph Whitworth, Knight, Korean War, Lathe, Leasehold estate, Listed building, Locomotive, London, London Borough of Enfield, Lord Mayor of London, Machine shop, Manufacturing, Marc Isambard Brunel, Marsh, Martin Bowes, Master gunner, Master-General of the Ordnance, Materiel, Mechanical engineering, Memorial Plaque (medallion), Metropolitan Police Service, Michael Richards (engineer), Military engineering, Ministry of Defence Police, Moorfields, Mount Wise, Plymouth, Napoleonic Wars, National Maritime Museum, New Kent Road, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Nitrocellulose, Nobel Enterprises, North Kent Line, Office of Public Sector Information, Old Woolwich, Operation Hurricane, Oxford University Press, Palace of Placentia, Patent, Percussion cap, Picric acid, Pier, Planing (shaping), Planned community, Plumstead, Plumstead railway station, Portsmouth, Power station, Priddy's Hard, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Progress Estate, Proof test, Property Services Agency, Pub, Publication, Pyrotechnics, Quality assurance, RAF Aldermaston, Raid on the Medway, Rail transport, Railroad car, Research, Retort, River Thames, Rocket (weapon), ROF Bridgend, ROF Chorley, Rotunda, Woolwich, Round shot, Royal Armouries, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society, Royal Arsenal Gatehouse, Royal Arsenal Railway, Royal Artillery, Royal Artillery Barracks, Royal Artillery Museum, Royal Engineers, Royal Gunpowder Mills, Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Royal Naval Armaments Depot, Royal Navy, Royal Navy Cordite Factory, Holton Heath, Royal Ordnance Factories F.C., Royal Ordnance Factory, Royal Small Arms Factory, Samuel Bentham, Sawmill, Shell (projectile), Shrapnel shell, Silk, Sir William Congreve, 1st Baronet, Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet, Standard-gauge railway, Stationary steam engine, Steam, Stocking, Stocking frame, Streetcar (carsharing), Thames Clippers, Thames Gateway, Thamesmead, The Blitz, The Foundery, Tiltyard, Tudor architecture, United Kingdom, Upnor Castle, V-1 flying bomb, V-2 rocket, Waltham Abbey (town), Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills, War Department (United Kingdom), War Office, Warehouse, Warrant (law), Warren (domestic), Weapon, Whitehead torpedo, William Anderson (engineer), William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, William Prichard (MP), Woolwich, Woolwich Dockyard, Woolwich railway station, Workshop, World War I, World War II, Yale University Press. Expand index (157 more) »
A roads in Zone 2 of the Great Britain numbering scheme
List of A roads in zone 2 in Great Britain starting south of the River Thames and east of the A3 (roads beginning with 2).
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Aerial bomb
An aerial bomb is a type of explosive or incendiary weapon intended to travel through the air on a predictable trajectory, usually designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
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Albert Parker, 3rd Earl of Morley
Albert Edmund Parker, 3rd Earl of Morley PC, DL, JP (11 June 1843 – 26 February 1905), styled Viscount Boringdon until 1864, was a British peer and Liberal, later Liberal Unionist politician.
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Alfred Nobel
Alfred Bernhard Nobel (21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist.
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Ammunition
Ammunition (informally ammo) is the material fired, scattered, dropped or detonated from any weapon.
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Andrew Schalch
Andrew Schalch (1692 – 5 February 1776), born in Switzerland, was the first gun-founder at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, London.
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Architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs, and reviews the construction of buildings.
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Arsenal F.C.
Arsenal Football Club is a professional football club based in Islington, London, England, that plays in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.
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Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.
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Atomic Weapons Establishment
The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) is responsible for the design, manufacture and support of warheads for the United Kingdom's nuclear weapons.
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Barratt Developments
Barratt Developments plc is one of the largest residential property development companies in the United Kingdom operating a network of over 30 divisions.
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Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
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Berkeley Group Holdings
The Berkeley Group Holdings plc is a British property developer based in Cobham, Surrey.
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Board of Ordnance
The Board of Ordnance was a British government body.
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Brick
A brick is building material used to make walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction.
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British Army during the Victorian Era
The British Army during the Victorian era served through a period of great technological and social change.
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British Library
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the largest national library in the world by number of items catalogued.
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British Museum
The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.
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Broadwater Green
Broadwater Green is a mixed council/private estate in Thamesmead, London.
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Bullet
A bullet is a kinetic projectile and the component of firearm ammunition that is expelled from the gun barrel during shooting.
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Cadet
A cadet is a trainee.
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Canal
Canals, or navigations, are human-made channels, or artificial waterways, for water conveyance, or to service water transport vehicles.
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Cartridge (firearms)
A cartridge is a type of firearm ammunition packaging a projectile (bullet, shots or slug), a propellant substance (usually either smokeless powder or black powder) and an ignition device (primer) within a metallic, paper or plastic case that is precisely made to fit within the barrel chamber of a breechloading gun, for the practical purpose of convenient transportation and handling during shooting.
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Chain-link fencing
A chain-link fence (also referred to as wire netting, wire-mesh fence, chain-wire fence, cyclone fence, hurricane fence, or diamond-mesh fence) is a type of woven fence usually made from galvanized or LLDPE-coated steel wire.
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Chatham, Kent
Chatham is one of the Medway towns located within the Medway unitary authority, in North Kent, in South East England.
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Chemical substance
A chemical substance, also known as a pure substance, is a form of matter that consists of molecules of the same composition and structure.
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Chemist
A chemist (from Greek chēm (ía) alchemy; replacing chymist from Medieval Latin alchimista) is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry.
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Chief Royal Engineer
The Chief Royal Engineer (CRE) is the official head of the Corps of Royal Engineers of the British Army.
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Commons
The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth.
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Congreve rocket
The Congreve rocket was a British military weapon designed and developed by Sir William Congreve in 1804, based directly on Mysorean rockets.
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Convict
A convict is "a person found guilty of a crime and sentenced by a court" or "a person serving a sentence in prison".
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Cordite
* Cordite is a family of smokeless propellants developed and produced in the United Kingdom since 1889 to replace gunpowder as a military propellant.
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Crimean War
The Crimean War (or translation) was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which the Russian Empire lost to an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, Britain and Sardinia.
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Crossrail
Crossrail is a railway line under development in London and the home counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Essex, England.
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Design
Design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object, system or measurable human interaction (as in architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams, and sewing patterns).
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Devonport, Plymouth
Devonport, formerly named Plymouth Dock or just Dock, is a district of Plymouth in the English county of Devon, although it was, at one time, the more important settlement.
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Director of the Royal Artillery
The Director of the Royal Artillery is the professional head of the Royal Regiment of Artillery the artillery arm of the British Army.
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Dock (maritime)
A dock (from Dutch dok) is the area of water between or next to one or a group of human-made structures that are involved in the handling of boats or ships (usually on or near a shore) or such structures themselves.
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Dorset
Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast.
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Eltham
Eltham is a district of south east London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
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Engineer
Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are people who invent, design, analyze, build, and test machines, systems, structures and materials to fulfill objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety, and cost.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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English Football League
The English Football League (EFL) is a league competition featuring professional football clubs from England and Wales.
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Erith Marshes
Erith Marshes is an area of grazing marsh beside the south bank of River Thames in London, England.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Explosive material
An explosive material, also called an explosive, is a reactive substance that contains a great amount of potential energy that can produce an explosion if released suddenly, usually accompanied by the production of light, heat, sound, and pressure.
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Explosive ROF
An Explosive ROF was a UK Government-owned Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF), which specialised in manufacturing explosives during and after World War II.
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Filling Factories in the United Kingdom
A Filling Factory was a munitions factory which specialised in filling various munitions, such as: bombs, shells, cartridges, pyrotechnics, screening smokes, etc.
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Firepower – The Royal Artillery Museum
Firepower: The Royal Artillery Museum was a military museum in Woolwich in south-east London, England, which told the story of the Royal Artillery and of the Royal Arsenal.
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Fireworks
Fireworks are a class of low explosive pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes.
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Ford Motor Company
Ford Motor Company (commonly referred to simply as "Ford") is an American multinational automaker headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.
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Fort Halstead
Fort Halstead is a research site of Dstl, an executive agency of the UK Ministry of Defence.
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Foundation (engineering)
A foundation (or, more commonly, base) is the element of an architectural structure which connects it to the ground, and transfers loads from the structure to the ground.
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Foundry
A foundry is a factory that produces metal castings.
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Frederick Abel
Sir Frederick Augustus Abel, 1st Baronet GCVO, KCB, FRS (17 July 18276 September 1902) was an English chemist.
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Fuze
In military munitions, a fuze (sometimes fuse) is the part of the device that initiates function.
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George III of the United Kingdom
George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death in 1820.
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Gosport
Gosport is a town in Hampshire on the south coast of England.
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Greater London Council
The Greater London Council (GLC) was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986.
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Greenock
Greenock (Grianaig) is a town and administrative centre in the Inverclyde council area in Scotland and a former burgh within the historic county of Renfrewshire, located in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.
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Greenwich Heritage Centre
Greenwich Heritage Centre is a museum and local history resource centre in Woolwich, south-east London, England.
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Greenwich Hospital, London
Greenwich Hospital was a permanent home for retired sailors of the Royal Navy, which operated from 1692 to 1869.
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Gun
A gun is a tubular ranged weapon typically designed to pneumatically discharge projectiles that are solid (most guns) but can also be liquid (as in water guns/cannons and projected water disruptors) or even charged particles (as in a plasma gun) and may be free-flying (as with bullets and artillery shells) or tethered (as with Taser guns, spearguns and harpoon guns).
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Henry Grace à Dieu
Henry Grace à Dieu ("Henry, Thanks be to God"), also known as Great Harry, was an English carrack or "great ship" of the King's Fleet in the 16th century.
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Henry Maudslay
Henry Maudslay (pronunciation and spelling) (22 August 1771 – 14 February 1831) was a British machine tool innovator, tool and die maker, and inventor.
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History of the Second World War
The History of the Second World War is the official history of the British contribution to the Second World War and was published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO).
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HM Customs and Excise
HM Customs and Excise (properly known as Her Majesty's Customs and Excise (or His as appropriate), often abbreviated to HMCE) was a department of the British Government formed in 1909 by the merger of HM Customs and HM Excise; its primary responsibility was the collection of customs duties, excise duties, and other indirect taxes.
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HM Prison Belmarsh
Her Majesty's Prison Belmarsh is a Category A men's prison in Thamesmead, south-east London, England.
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Hydraulics
Hydraulics (from Greek: Υδραυλική) is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids.
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Imperial Chemical Industries
Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was a British chemical company and was, for much of its history, the largest manufacturer in Britain.
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Industrial park
An industrial park (also known as industrial estate, trading estate) is an area zoned and planned for the purpose of industrial development.
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Isle of Dogs
The Isle of Dogs, locally referred to as the island, is a geographic area made up of Millwall, Cubitt Town, Canary Wharf and parts of Blackwall, Limehouse and Poplar.
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James Dewar
Sir James Dewar FRS FRSE (20 September 1842 – 27 March 1923) was a Scottish chemist and physicist.
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James Nasmyth
James Hall Nasmyth (sometimes spelled Naesmyth, Nasmith, or Nesmyth) (19 August 1808 – 7 May 1890) was a Scottish engineer, philosopher, artist and inventor famous for his development of the steam hammer.
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James Wyatt
James Wyatt (3 August 1746 – 4 September 1813) was an English architect, a rival of Robert Adam in the neoclassical style and neo-Gothic style.
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Jan Verbruggen
Jan Verbruggen (1712 – 27 October 1781) was a Dutch master gun-founder in the Netherlands and later at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, London.
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John Vanbrugh
Sir John Vanbrugh (24 January 1664 (baptised) – 26 March 1726) was an English architect and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard.
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Joseph Bramah
Joseph Bramah (13 April 1748 – 9 December 1814), born Stainborough Lane Farm, Stainborough, Barnsley Yorkshire, was an English inventor and locksmith.
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Joseph Whitworth
Sir Joseph Whitworth, 1st Baronet (21 December 1803 – 22 January 1887) was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist.
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Knight
A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a monarch, bishop or other political leader for service to the monarch or a Christian Church, especially in a military capacity.
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Korean War
The Korean War (in South Korean, "Korean War"; in North Korean, "Fatherland: Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the principal support of the United States).
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Lathe
A lathe is a tool that rotates the workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, and turning, with tools that are applied to the workpiece to create an object with symmetry about that axis.
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Leasehold estate
A leasehold estate is an ownership of a temporary right to hold land or property in which a lessee or a tenant holds rights of real property by some form of title from a lessor or landlord.
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Listed building
A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.
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Locomotive
A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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London Borough of Enfield
The London Borough of Enfield is a London borough in north London, England.
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Lord Mayor of London
The Lord Mayor of London is the City of London's mayor and leader of the City of London Corporation.
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Machine shop
A machine shop is a room, building, or company where machining is done.
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Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the production of merchandise for use or sale using labour and machines, tools, chemical and biological processing, or formulation.
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Marc Isambard Brunel
Sir Marc Isambard Brunel (25 April 1769 – 12 December 1849) was a French-born engineer who settled in England.
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Marsh
A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.
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Martin Bowes
Sir Martin Bowes (c. 1500 – 1566) was an English politician.
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Master gunner
Master gunner is an appointment of the warrant officer rank in the British and United States armed forces.
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Master-General of the Ordnance
The Master-General of the Ordnance (MGO) was a very senior British military position from 1415 to 2013 (except 1855-1895 and 1939-1958) with some changes to the name, usually held by a serving general.
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Materiel
Materiel, more commonly matériel in US English and also listed as the only spelling in some UK dictionaries (both pronounced, from French matériel meaning equipment or hardware), refers to military technology and supplies in military and commercial supply chain management.
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Mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is the discipline that applies engineering, physics, engineering mathematics, and materials science principles to design, analyze, manufacture, and maintain mechanical systems.
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Memorial Plaque (medallion)
The Memorial Plaque was issued after the First World War to the next-of-kin of all British and Empire service personnel who were killed as a result of the war.
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Metropolitan Police Service
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), commonly known as the Metropolitan Police and informally as the Met, is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement in Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London, which is the responsibility of the City of London Police.
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Michael Richards (engineer)
Michael Richards (1673-1721) was an Irish military engineer who rose to become Chief Engineer of Great Britain and Surveyor-General of the Ordnance.
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Military engineering
Military engineering is loosely defined as the art, science, and practice of designing and building military works and maintaining lines of military transport and communications.
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Ministry of Defence Police
The Ministry of Defence Police (MDP) is a civilian special police force which is part of the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence.
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Moorfields
In London, the Moorfields were one of the last pieces of open land in the City of London, near the Moorgate.
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Mount Wise, Plymouth
Mount Wise is a historic estate situated within the historic parish and manor of Stoke Damerel and situated about one mile west of the historic centre of the city of Plymouth, Devon.
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Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions, financed and usually led by the United Kingdom.
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National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum (NMM) in Greenwich, London, is the leading maritime museum of the United Kingdom and may be the largest museum of its kind in the world.
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New Kent Road
New Kent Road is a road in the London Borough of Southwark.
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Nicholas Hawksmoor
Nicholas Hawksmoor (probably 1661 – 25 March 1736) was an English architect.
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Nitrocellulose
Nitrocellulose (also known as cellulose nitrate, flash paper, flash cotton, guncotton, and flash string) is a highly flammable compound formed by nitrating cellulose through exposure to nitric acid or another powerful nitrating agent.
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Nobel Enterprises
Nobel Enterprises (phonetic) is a chemicals business that used to be based at Ardeer, in the Ayrshire town of Stevenston, in Scotland.
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North Kent Line
The North Kent Line is a railway which runs from a junction of Britain's South East Main Line, east of St Johns railway station, Greater London to a point south-west of station by the River Medway in Medway where it links to the Chatham Main Line.
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Office of Public Sector Information
The Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) is the body responsible for the operation of Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) and of other public information services of the United Kingdom.
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Old Woolwich
Old Woolwich or Woolwich Central RiversideBoth these terms are potentially confusing as Old Woolwich may also refer to the present-day town centre, which is further south.
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Operation Hurricane
Operation Hurricane was the test of the first UK atomic device, on 3 October 1952.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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Palace of Placentia
The Palace of Placentia was an English Royal Palace built by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in 1443, in Greenwich, on the banks of the River Thames, downstream from London.
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Patent
A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state or intergovernmental organization to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for detailed public disclosure of an invention.
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Percussion cap
The percussion cap, introduced circa 1820, is a type of single-use ignition device used on muzzleloading firearms that enabled them to fire reliably in any weather conditions.
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Picric acid
Picric acid is an organic compound with the formula (O2N)3C6H2OH.
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Pier
Seaside pleasure pier in Brighton, England. The first seaside piers were built in England in the early 19th century. A pier is a raised structure in a body of water, typically supported by well-spaced piles or pillars.
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Planing (shaping)
Planing is a manufacturing process of material removal in which the cutting tool reciprocates against a stationary workpiece producing a plane or sculpted surface.
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Planned community
A planned community, or planned city, is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped greenfield land.
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Plumstead
Plumstead is a district of south east London located in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
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Plumstead railway station
Plumstead railway station serves the suburb of Plumstead, in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, east of Woolwich Arsenal.
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Portsmouth
Portsmouth is a port city in Hampshire, England, mainly on Portsea Island, south-west of London and south-east of Southampton.
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Power station
A power station, also referred to as a power plant or powerhouse and sometimes generating station or generating plant, is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power.
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Priddy's Hard
Priddy's Hard is an area of Gosport, in Hampshire, England now being developed for housing with part of the site retained as a museum.
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Prince Rupert of the Rhine
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland (17 December 1619 – 29 November 1682) was a noted German soldier, admiral, scientist, sportsman, colonial governor and amateur artist during the 17th century.
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Progress Estate
The Progress Estate is a housing estate located in Well Hall, Eltham, Greenwich, South East London.
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Proof test
A proof test is a form of stress test to demonstrate the fitness of a load-bearing structure.
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Property Services Agency
The Property Services Agency (PSA) was an agency of the United Kingdom government, in existence from 1972 to 1993.
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Pub
A pub, or public house, is an establishment licensed to sell alcoholic drinks, which traditionally include beer (such as ale) and cider.
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Publication
To publish is to make content available to the general public.
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Pyrotechnics
Pyrotechnics is the science of using materials capable of undergoing self-contained and self-sustained exothermic chemical reactions for the production of heat, light, gas, smoke and/or sound.
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Quality assurance
Quality assurance (QA) is a way of preventing mistakes and defects in manufactured products and avoiding problems when delivering solutions or services to customers; which ISO 9000 defines as "part of quality management focused on providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled".
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RAF Aldermaston
Royal Air Force Aldermaston or more simply RAF Aldermaston is a former Royal Air Force station located east of Newbury, Berkshire and southwest of Reading, Berkshire, England.
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Raid on the Medway
The Raid on the Medway, during the Second Anglo-Dutch War in June 1667, was a successful attack conducted by the Dutch navy on English battleships at a time when most were virtually unmanned and unarmed, laid up in the fleet anchorages off Chatham Dockyard and Gillingham in the county of Kent.
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Rail transport
Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.
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Railroad car
A railroad car or railcar (American and Canadian English), railway wagon or railway carriage (British English and UIC), also called a train car or train wagon, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport system (a railroad/railway).
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Research
Research comprises "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications." It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories.
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Retort
In a chemistry laboratory, a retort is a glassware device used for distillation or dry distillation of substances.
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River Thames
The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.
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Rocket (weapon)
A rocket is a self-propelled, unguided weapon system powered by a rocket motor.
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ROF Bridgend
ROF Bridgend, (Filling Factory No. 2), located in Bridgend, South Wales, was one of the largest of sixteen World War II, UK government-owned, Royal Ordnance Factory munitions Filling Factories.
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ROF Chorley
ROF Chorley was a UK government-owned, munitions filling, Royal Ordnance Factory (Filling Factory No. 1).
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Rotunda, Woolwich
The Rotunda on Woolwich Common, in south-east London, is a former artillery museum which was established in 1820.
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Round shot
A round shot (or solid shot, or a cannonball, or simply ball) is a solid projectile without explosive charge, fired from a cannon.
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Royal Armouries
The Royal Armouries is the United Kingdom's National Museum of Arms and Armour.
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Royal Army Ordnance Corps
The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a corps of the British Army.
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Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society
The Royal Arsenal Co-operative Society (RACS) was a large consumer co-operative based in south east London, England.
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Royal Arsenal Gatehouse
The Royal Arsenal Gatehouse or Beresford Gate is the main gatehouse of the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, South East London, England.
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Royal Arsenal Railway
The Royal Arsenal Railway was a private military railway.
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Royal Artillery
The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is the artillery arm of the British Army.
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Royal Artillery Barracks
The Royal Artillery Barracks at Woolwich in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, was the home of the Royal Artillery from 1776 until 2007.
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Royal Artillery Museum
The Royal Artillery Museum, one of the world's oldest military museums, was first opened to the public in Woolwich in south-east London in 1820.
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Royal Engineers
The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army.
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Royal Gunpowder Mills
Royal Gunpowder Mills may refer to.
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Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
The Royal Military Academy (RMA) at Woolwich, in south-east London, was a British Army military academy for the training of commissioned officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers.
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Royal Naval Armaments Depot
A Royal Naval Armament Depot (RNAD) was an armament depot (or a group of depots) dedicated to supplying the needs of the Royal Navy (as well as, at various times, the Royal Air Force, the British Army and, by arrangement, foreign/commonwealth governments); they were sister depots of Royal Naval Cordite Factories, Royal Naval Torpedo and Royal Naval Mine Depots.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.
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Royal Navy Cordite Factory, Holton Heath
The Royal Navy Cordite Factory, Holton Heath, (RNCF), was set up at Holton Heath, Dorset in World War I to manufacture cordite for the Royal Navy.
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Royal Ordnance Factories F.C.
Royal Ordnance Factories Football Club were a football club from south east London, England, that existed in the late 19th century.
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Royal Ordnance Factory
Royal Ordnance Factories (ROFs) was the collective name of the UK government's munitions factories in and after World War II.
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Royal Small Arms Factory
The Royal Small Arms Factory (RSAF) was a UK government-owned rifle factory in the London Borough of Enfield in an area generally known as the Lea Valley.
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Samuel Bentham
Sir Samuel Bentham (11 January 1757 – 31 May 1831) was a noted English mechanical engineer and naval architect credited with numerous innovations, particularly related to naval architecture, including weapons.
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Sawmill
A sawmill or lumber mill is a facility where logs are cut into lumber.
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Shell (projectile)
A shell is a payload-carrying projectile that, as opposed to shot, contains an explosive or other filling, though modern usage sometimes includes large solid projectiles properly termed shot.
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Shrapnel shell
Shrapnel shells were anti-personnel artillery munitions which carried a large number of individual bullets close to the target and then ejected them to allow them to continue along the shell's trajectory and strike the target individually.
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Silk
Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles.
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Sir William Congreve, 1st Baronet
Lieutenant General Sir William Congreve, 1st Baronet (4 July 1742 – 30 April 1814) was a British military officer who improved artillery strength through gunpowder experiments.
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Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet
Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet KCH FRS (20 May 1772 – 16 May 1828) was an English inventor and rocket artillery pioneer distinguished for his development and deployment of Congreve rockets, and a Tory Member of Parliament (MP).
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Standard-gauge railway
A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of.
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Stationary steam engine
Stationary steam engines are fixed steam engines used for pumping or driving mills and factories, and for power generation.
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Steam
Steam is water in the gas phase, which is formed when water boils.
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Stocking
Stockings (also known as hose, especially in a historical context) are close-fitting, variously elastic garments covering the leg from the foot up to the knee or possibly part or all of the thigh.
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Stocking frame
A stocking frame was a mechanical knitting machine used in the textiles industry.
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Streetcar (carsharing)
Streetcar was the largest carsharing/car club company in the United Kingdom, established in 2004, which merged with the American company Zipcar in 2010, following a period of investment by Smedvig Capital.
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Thames Clippers
Thames Clippers (styled as MBNA Thames Clippers) is a river bus service on the River Thames in London.
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Thames Gateway
The Thames Gateway is an area of land stretching east from inner east London on both sides of the River Thames and the Thames Estuary.
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Thamesmead
Thamesmead is a district of southeast London, England, east of Charing Cross, mainly consisting of social housing built from the mid-1960s onwards on former marshland on the south bank of the River Thames between Woolwich and Belvedere.
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The Blitz
The Blitz was a German bombing offensive against Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War.
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The Foundery
The Foundery (or Foundry), in Moorfields, was the first London foundry for casting brass cannon for the British Board of Ordnance.
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Tiltyard
A tiltyard (or tilt yard or tilt-yard) was an enclosed courtyard for jousting.
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Tudor architecture
The Tudor architectural style is the final development of Medieval architecture in England, during the Tudor period (1485–1603) and even beyond, and also the tentative introduction of Renaissance architecture to England.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Upnor Castle
Upnor Castle is an Elizabethan artillery fort located on the west bank of the River Medway in Kent.
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V-1 flying bomb
The V-1 flying bomb (Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1")—also known to the Allies as the buzz bomb, or doodlebug, and in Germany as Kirschkern (cherrystone) or Maikäfer (maybug)—was an early cruise missile and the only production aircraft to use a pulsejet for power.
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V-2 rocket
The V-2 (Vergeltungswaffe 2, "Retribution Weapon 2"), technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile.
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Waltham Abbey (town)
Waltham Abbey is a suburban market town in the Epping Forest District of Essex, the metropolitan area of London, and the Greater London Urban Area.
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Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills
The Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey, an Anchor Point of the European Route of Industrial Heritage, (ERIH), set in of parkland and containing 21 buildings of major historical importance, mixes history, science, and attractive surroundings.
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War Department (United Kingdom)
The War Department was the United Kingdom government department responsible for the supply of equipment to the armed forces of the United Kingdom and the pursuance of military activity.
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War Office
The War Office was a department of the British Government responsible for the administration of the British Army between 1857 and 1964, when its functions were transferred to the Ministry of Defence.
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Warehouse
A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods.
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Warrant (law)
A warrant is generally an order that serves as a specific type of authorization, that is, a writ issued by a competent officer, usually a judge or magistrate, which permits an otherwise illegal act that would violate individual rights and affords the person executing the writ protection from damages if the act is performed.
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Warren (domestic)
A domestic warren is an artificial, enclosed establishment of animal husbandry dedicated to the raising of rabbits for meat and fur.
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Weapon
A weapon, arm or armament is any device used with intent to inflict damage or harm.
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Whitehead torpedo
The Whitehead torpedo was the first self-propelled or "locomotive" torpedo ever developed.
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William Anderson (engineer)
Sir William Anderson (5 January 1835 St. Petersburg – 11 December 1898 Woolwich Arsenal) was director-general of the Royal Ordnance factories.
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William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong
William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (26 November 1810 – 27 December 1900) was an English industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside.
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William Prichard (MP)
Sir William Pritchard or Prichard (1632?–1705) was an English merchant and politician, Lord Mayor of London in 1682.
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Woolwich
Woolwich is a district of south-east London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
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Woolwich Dockyard
Woolwich Dockyard was an English naval dockyard along the river Thames in Woolwich, where a large number of ships were built from the early 16th century until the late 19th century.
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Woolwich railway station
Woolwich is an Elizabeth line station under construction in Woolwich in London, England which will open from December 2018,http://www.crossrail.co.uk/route/stations/woolwich-station and will have up to 12 trains per hour to Canary Wharf and Central London when the full line is open in December 2019.
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Workshop
Beginning with the Industrial Revolution era, a workshop may be a room, rooms or building which provides both the area and tools (or machinery) that may be required for the manufacture or repair of manufactured goods.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Yale University Press
Yale University Press is a university press associated with Yale University.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Arsenal
