Although it had been funding British experimental films as early as 1952, the British Film Institute's foundation of a production board in 1964 — and a substantial increase in public funding from 1971 onwards — enabled it to become a dominant force in developing British art cinema in the 1970s and 80s: from the first of Bill Douglas's Trilogy My Childhood ( 1972 ), and of Terence Davies ' Trilogy Childhood ( 1978 ), via Peter Greenaway's earliest films ( including the surprising commercial success of The Draughtsman's Contract ( 1982 )) and Derek Jarman's championing of the New Queer Cinema.

Some of the first such " fighters " belonged to the " gunbus " series of experimental gun carriers of the British Vickers company that culminated in the Vickers F. B. 5 Gunbus of 1914.

The first British experimental design ( the destroyer HMS Velox ) had been constructed in 1901 and as a result Tirpitz had set up a special commission to develop turbines.

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Two Polish slave janitors of Peenemünde's Camp Trassenheide in early 1943 provided maps, sketches and reports to Polish Home Army Intelligence, and in June 1943 British intelligence had received two such reports which identified the " rocket assembly hall ', ' experimental pit ', and ' launching tower '.

During the Napoleonic Wars the British army created several experimental units known as " Rifles ", armed with the Baker rifle.

The next major advance can be seen in the Birch gun developed by the British for their motorised warfare experimental brigade ( the Experimental Mechanized Force ) after the end of the War.

Deriving from " post "- acid house, the term was first used by the British music media and press as a way to describe the more experimental variant of breakbeat which contained influences of soul, funk and jazz.

In India, commercial cultivation of natural rubber was introduced by the British planters, although the experimental efforts to grow rubber on a commercial scale in India were initiated as early as 1873 at the Botanical Gardens, Calcutta.

* Sopwith Snark, a British experimental fighter plane

* A43 Infantry Tank " Black Prince " a British experimental AFV design, essentially a " super Churchill " of which six prototypes were built very late in World War II.

According to the Association of British Insurers ( ABI ), a typical policy will exclude the following: going to a general practitioner ; going to Accident and Emergency ; drug abuse ; HIV / AIDS ; normal pregnancy ; gender reassignment ; mobility aids, such as wheelchairs ; organ transplant ; injuries arising from dangerous hobbies ( often called hazardous pursuits ); pre-existing conditions ; dental services ; outpatient drugs and dressings ; deliberately self-inflicted injuries ; infertility ; cosmetic treatment ; experimental or unproven treatment or drugs ; war risks.

British forces in the Battle of the Somme used experimental weapons called " Livens Large Gallery Flame Projector ", named for their inventor, a Royal Engineers officer William Howard Livens.

The most common type of composite armour today is Chobham armour, first developed and used by the British in the experimental FV 4211 tank, which was based on Chieftain tank components.

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* Excelsior tank, a British experimental heavy assault tank

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It didn't get beyond the experimental stage, though its principle of operation ( described in Siemens British patent 2074 of 1860, and by Siemens in The Theory of the Gas Engine ) appears to be similar to the commercially successful Brayton engine of 1872.

Henry Cavendish FRS ( 10 October 1731 – 24 February 1810 ) British natural philosopher, scientist, and an important experimental and theoretical chemist and physicist.

Bombardier have since used updated versions of the LRC carriages for Amtrak's Acela Express, the third generation of tilting ICE, the new generation of fast British trains ( Virgin Super Voyager ) and the experimental JetTrain.

The ceremony was invented by two undergraduates in 1971, partly as a spoof on other Oxford ceremonies, and partly to celebrate the end of the experimental period of British Standard Time from 1968 to 1971 when the UK stayed one hour ahead of GMT all year round.

His creation of a laboratory of experimental psychology at Toronto ( which he claimed was the first in the British Empire ) coincided with the birth of his daughters Helen ( 1889 ) and Elizabeth ( 1891 ) which inspired the quantitative and experimental research on infant development that was to make such a vivid impression on Jean Piaget and Lawrence Kohlberg through Baldwin's " Mental Development in the Child and the Race.

Housman's poetry, especially A Shropshire Lad, provided texts for a significant number of British, and in particular English, composers in the first half of the 20th century.

Features of the ' Brahms style ' were absorbed in a more complex synthesis with other contemporary ( chiefly Wagnerian ) trends by Hans Rott, Wilhelm Berger, Max Reger and Franz Schmidt, whereas the British composers Hubert Parry and Edward Elgar and the Swede Wilhelm Stenhammar all testified to learning much from Brahms's example.

The Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting, established in 1955 in Novello's memory, are awarded each year by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors ( BASCA ) to British songwriters and composers as well as to an outstanding international music writer.

Ravel maintained his influential participation with the SMI which continued its active role of promoting new music, particularly of British and American composers such as Arnold Bax, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Aaron Copland, and Virgil Thomson.

Gilbert, Sullivan, Carte and other Victorian era British composers, librettists and producers, as well as the contemporary British press and literature, called works of this kind " comic operas " to distinguish their content and style from that of the often risqué continental European operettas that they wished to displace.

* Cardiff-by-the-Sea: Encinitas ' southernmost oceanfront community, which features streets named after British cities and classical composers, the Lux Art Institute, and the San Elijo Campus of Mira Costa College.

However, his verse evoked response in many great British composers of the time.

In 1919, Bax was one of four British composers to be commissioned to write orchestral music to serve as interludes at Sergei Diaghilev ’ s Ballets Russes in London.

He is generally acknowledged to be one of the most important British composers of the 20th century.

From 1922 ( to 1940 ) an Easter Festival was an important feature in the Bournemouth calendar ; in 1927 the Festival was devoted to music of British women composers.

He cultivated connections with most of the prominent British composers of the day including Edward Elgar, Hamilton Harty, Alexander Mackenzie, Hubert Parry, Charles Villiers Stanford, Ethel Smyth, Gustav Holst and the Australian Percy Grainger.

In 1895, he heard a choir rehearsing Elgar's King Olaf, attended the first performance and became a fervent enthusiast of the new music being produced by Richard Strauss and the British composers of the day.

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When the symphonic poem Paa Vidderne was performed at Monte Carlo on 25 February 1894 in a programme of works from British composers, the Musical Times listed the composers as "... Balfe, Mackenzie, Oakeley, Sullivan ... and one Delius, whoever he may be ".

With the return of peace, his career took off rapidly as a composer of what were, for British audiences, startlingly new pieces, often for unusual ensembles, strongly influenced by Ravel, Stravinsky and the young French composers of Les six.

The company also sponsored LSO commissions of new works by British composers.

Sir Malcolm championed choral music and classical and British composers, especially Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

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He took part in first performances of many British works, including composers Vaughan Williams, Dyson, Cyril Scott, E. J. Moeran, Arthur Bliss and Patrick Hadley.

Previous composer festivals at the Academy have been devoted to the work of Witold Lutosławski, Michael Tippett, Krzysztof Penderecki, Olivier Messiaen, Hans Werner Henze, Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, as well as Academy graduates, Alfred Schnittke, György Ligeti, British and American film composers, Franco Donatoni, Galina Ustvolskaya, Arvo Pärt, György Kurtág and Mauricio Kagel.

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