The invention of the jet engine had a profound effect on the world.
Commercial jet aircraft revolutionised travel, opening up every
corner of the planet. Few know that the jet engine was invented by
an Englishman in 1929. The invention was a masterstroke of genius
by 21-year-old Frank Whittle, replacing the piston engine's
thousands of reciprocating parts with one part: a single smoothly
revolving turbine. Although the world's first jet airliner was the
British de Havilland Comet, Britain then gave away the technology -
not only to the United States but to the Soviet Union as well. The
Jet Set, the air hostess and the package holiday all followed. The
dream of cheap, exotic travel had been realised. Yet, just like the
impact of the internet, there were downsides to the world-reaching
power of this phenomenon. Jet tells the story of this brilliant new
technology, how it shrank the world and how it changed life
forever.
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