Griffin Park Opening Era
Turner was part of Brentford's early footballing generation around the move to Griffin Park, which became the club's home for more than a century.
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1904 in Great Britain — Page 2
Explore 62 historical events and records for Great Britain in 1904.
Historical records for Great Britain in 1904
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Henry Brocken
Publication of "Henry Brocken"
Indian Army Divisional System Reorganised
Develops a peacetime structure built around fighting divisions and cavalry brigades with permanent staffs.
Invention of Thermionic Valve
Invents the Thermionic Valve
Labour Representation Committee (LRC)
Appointed Chairman of the LRC
Legion of Honour
Awarded the Legion of Honour
Major General
Appointed Major General
Member of Parliament
Elected Member of Parliament for Cardiff, cousin of Winston Churchill
Nobel Prize
Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the inert gaseous elements in air and determining their place in the periodic system.
Nobel Prize
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics
Nobel Recognition of Noble Gases
Receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the inert gaseous elements and determining their place in the periodic system.
Nostromo
Publication of "Nostromo"
Peter Pan
Publication of "Peter Pan"
Pirrie Consolidates Shipyard Control
Pirrie became the dominant director at Harland and Wolff as the company pursued larger vessel contracts.
Reform of Immigration Law
Defends his Jewish constituents in Manchester by objecting to the Aliens Bill
Return to England
Moves to England with his mother and sister.
Royal Victorian Order
Invited to Balmoral for investiture by King Edward VII as a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
Succession
Becomes Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
Sunspots
Observed that the solar latitudes at which sunspots occur varies in a regular way over the course of an 11 year cycle & in 1904 publishes his results in the form of the "butterfly" diagram. Edward Maunder suggests that the Sun had changed from a period in which sunspots all but disappeared from the solar surface to a renewal of sunspot cycles starting in 1700
The Food of the Gods
Publication of "The Food of the Gods"
Uranium Dating
Suggests radioactive decay can date rocks and minerals.
Vacuum Diode
Invents the thermionic vacuum diode, controlling electron flow from a heated cathode to an anode for radio detection and rectification.
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