WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Europe Records Institute (EURI) Isle of Man Steam Packet Company: World’s oldest continuously operating passenger shipping company
05-07-2022
(WorldKings.org) The Isle of Man Steam Packet Company Limited is the oldest continuously operating passenger shipping company in the world, having been founded in 1830.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Europe Records Institute (EURI) Gardens of Versailles: World’s largest palace garden
04-07-2022
(WorldKings.org) The magnificent formal gardens and parkland were created in what had been a marshland. Much modified over the centuries, today they cover over 800 ha.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Europe Records Institute (EURI) Gateshead Millennium Bridge: World’s only tilting bridge
04-07-2022
(WorldKings.org) Gateshead Millennium Bridge now is part of a long history of bridges built across the River Tyne.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Europe Records Institute (EURI) HMS Victory: World’s oldest commissioned naval ship
01-07-2022
(WorldKings.org) The oldest commissioned warship in the world attracts around 350,000 visitors per year in her role as a museum ship.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Europe Records Institute (EURI) First Bus: Operator of world’s first hydrogen-powered double-decker bus
30-06-2022
(WorldKings.org) The fleet save one kilogram of CO2 with each kilometer they drive as the zero-emission fleet emits nothing more than water.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Europe Records Institute (EURI) ThyssenKrupp: Company developed world's first rope-free elevator system
29-06-2022
(WorldKings.org) On June 22, 2017, Thyssenkrupp launched the world's first fully functional MULTI elevator system at the test tower in Rottweil, Germany.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Chayvo O-14: World’s longest oil well
27-06-2022
(WorldKings.org) Well O-14 was drilled from the Orlan drilling platform towards the south-eastern point of Chayvo field, which lies to the northeast of Russia's Sakhalin Island. The well has a record breaking measured depth of 13,500 m and a horizontal reach of 12,033 m.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Europe Records Institute (EURI) – WITCH: World's oldest working digital computer
27-06-2022
(WorldKings.org) WITCH is the world's oldest working digital computer.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Europe Records Institute (EURI) Elektra: First hydrogen-fueled push boat in the world
22-06-2022
(WorldKings.org) Gerd Holbach, a professor at Technischen Universität Berlin, has shown with a new vessel that fuel cells as a propulsion option will soon no longer be only a theoretical concept. Since 2016 the consortium has been pioneering the development of Elektra, the first hydrogen-fueled push boat in the world.
WORLDKINGS - Worldkings News - Europe Records Institute (EURI) Thomson Snell & Passmore: World’s oldest working law firm
22-06-2022
(WorldKings.org) Thomson Snell & Passmore operates in the areas of wills, trusts, estates, property law, and commercial law, as they have since 1570.