1877 Nicolaus Otto , Francis Crossley, and William Crossley are granted a patent for the first internal-combustion engine to burn gasoline in a piston chamber. (US No. 194,047) View the patent online . 1911 Captain Carlo Piazza of the Italian military flies a Blériot XI monoplane on an hour-long reconnaissance mission of Turkish troop positions, becoming the first pilot to use an airplane for military purposes. Just more nine days later, Italian forces will carry out history’s first

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Friday October 9-Sunday October 18, 9am-5pm, Chapel Gallery, Francis Close Hall, Swindon Road, Cheltenham, GL50 4AZ. (Closed Thursday October 15) Poet Anthony Richards, and painter, Magnus Park, are holding an exhibition of words and paintings, graphics and prints at the University of Gloucestershire to coincide with The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival 2009. Magnus Park was a student at Francis Close Hall, then St Paul’s College, Cheltenham from 1968 to 1972 from where he graduated w

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The Poet and the Painter Exhibition in Cheltenham – Cheltenham Literature Festival

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