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On 3 July 1938 the Mallard broke the world speed record by reaching 126mph.
In the modern Internet centric world speed has never been more important.
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Now, the two would field competing craft in a bid to claim the first -- and substantially bigger -- Kremer world speed prize.
In Utah, a grad student from the University of Denver shattered a world speed record by hitting 216 MPH on a home-built electric motorcycle.
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The Mallard, famous for breaking the world speed record for steam traction in 1938, will be pulled by Tornado to the National Railway Museum in Shildon.
He set up a number of challenges (three of which have since been claimed) each with a financial reward reflecting their difficulty: The first to fly a figure-eight course around two markers half a mile apart, the first to fly from England to France and a world speed challenge.
The three ocean course attempts will be monitored by the World Sailing Speed Record Council.
Being a jealous type, I wanted to be among the first in Hong Kong to sample the digital world at speed.
Project Runningblade's mower is driven by Don Wales, whose grandfather Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the world land speed record at seven-mile long Pendine Sands in 1924.
Once the average Joe started using the Internet in earnest, things began to change at warp speed in the retail world of separating you from your money.
Fifa, football's world governing body, has agreed changes with the Brazilian government to speed up preparations for the 2014 World Cup.
The government has already declared its intention to make the UK the best place in the world for e-commerce and it is attempting to keep the public sector up to speed with developments in the business world.
The H1N1 virus has spread around the world with unprecedented speed, according to the WHO.
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Or look at the world of high speed trading where millions of dollars balance on milliseconds of timing.
Moody has shown that he is world class - speed, strength, intelligence, he has everything you need for a flanker.
Here's a central truth of our time: Talent and capital flash around the world at the speed of light in search of opportunity.
The virus has spread around the world with unprecedented speed, spreading as widely in six weeks as common influenza viruses spread in the six months, according to WHO.
According to the latest State of the Internet report from Akamai Technologies, the U.S. ranks 9th in the world for connection speed with an average of 7.2 Mbps.
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Just as car freaks make pilgrimages to the city in northern Italy where the Ferrari was born, the yachting world's speed freaks go to Carroll and Goetz in Bristol.
Since there is already a world-class speed-skating rink in the neighbouring province of Alberta, the Richmond rink was designed to be converted into a multipurpose community centre after the festivities conclude.
From the full-website display which enables optimal content browsing, to the 4G LTE high-speed network which powers a world-class multimedia experience, the ZTE Grand S offers cutting-edge features for even the most discerning smartphone user.
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In a world where ideas and capital can move anywhere in the world at the speed of light and flock to cheap production technology and talent, what protections against the future can politicians give us?
As Google's director of search quality and research (a doozy of a job description), Norvig spurs on 140 scientists and engineers racing to add more depth, speed and relevance to the world's best search engine.
All the other Shinkansen routes in Japan lose cart-loads of cash, as high-speed trains do elsewhere in the world.
The U.S. leads the world in high-speed mobile broadband, with almost twice the number of users of second-place Japan.
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In a world moving at Internet speed, a customer's objectives are constantly being revised, so programmers have to be able to hit a moving target.
The company's press release says the 3G network is the first widely available service in the world to use High Speed Downlink Packet Access technology.
High-speed trading has made the financial world even more of a casino game, allowing traders to pick off minuscule price movements in just thousandths of a second.
Speed that only Monza, the world's fastest racetrack, can produce.
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