Atomic timekeeping services started experimentally in 1955, using the first caesium atomic clock at the National Physical Laboratory, UK ( NPL ).

In April 1998, American photographer John S Callahan organized the first surfing project in the Andamans, starting from Phuket in Thailand with the assistance of Southeast Asia Liveaboards ( SEAL ), a UK owned dive charter company.

However, perhaps the first organised attempt to conserve cultural patrimony was the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in the UK, influenced by the writings of John Ruskin the society was founded by William Morris and Philip Webb in 1877.

Accrington was first represented nationally after the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 after the 1885 general election by Accrington ( UK Parliament constituency ).

* John Rex Whinfield, chemist, inventor of Terylene ( polyester ), the first completely synthetic fibre invented in UK

In September 2007, the UK reported its first ever suspected case of the disease, in a Highland cow on a rare breeds farm near Ipswich, Suffolk.

As the official show of the Confederation of Passenger Transport, the UK ’ s trade association for the bus, coach and light rail industry, the three day event offers visitors from Europe and beyond the chance to see and experience, at first hand, the very latest vehicles and product and service innovations right across the industry.

On 17 July 2010, the band performed their first UK gig in almost four years to a crowd of around 30, 000 at Latitude Festival in Henham Park, Southwold.

Write About Love entered the UK albums chart in its first week of release, peaking at No. 8 as of 19 October 2010.

* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.

Between 01: 00 and 06: 00 UK Time ( UKT ) the channel simulcasts with its sister channel, BBC World News, for the first 25 minutes of each hour with world news shown all through the simulcasts.

In the UK, it was a custom for tradesmen to collect " Christmas boxes " of money or presents on the first weekday after Christmas as thanks for good service throughout the year.

The marketing of Elvis Costello's My Aim Is True included advertisements in three UK music papers from which a poster of Costello could be constructed, and the first 1, 000 pressings contained an insert headed Help Us Hype Elvis, which, if completed and returned to Stiff, ensured that a friend would received a free copy.

In 1992 Capercaillie recorded " A Prince Among Islands ", the first Scottish Gaelic language record to reach the UK top 40.

The British Royal Mail first started using bicycles in 1880 ; now bicycle delivery fleets include 37, 000 in the UK, 25, 700 in Germany, 10, 500 in Hungary and 7000 in Sweden.

In the UK and North America, generations of teenagers have got their first jobs delivering newspapers by bicycle.

A reworking of the early track " More Beats + Pieces " gave them their first UK Top 40 hit since 1989 in August.

In the 7th century, Dál Riata was the first territory in what is now the UK to conduct a census.

In 1980, Stamford Bridge hosted the first international floodlit cricket match in the UK, between Essex and the West Indies.

Pepper's, was fellow UK musicians The Moody Blues ' first foray into the concept album.

The Arithmometer, invented in 1820 as a four-operation mechanical calculator, was released to production in 1851 as an adding machine and became the first commercially successful unit ; forty years later, by 1890, about 2, 500 arithmometers had been sold plus a few hundreds more from two arithmometer clone makers ( Burkhardt, Germany, 1878 and Layton, UK, 1883 ) and Felt and Tarrant, the only other competitor in true commercial production, had sold 100 comptometers.

* Dennis the Menace ( UK comics ), the original title of a British comic strip which first appeared in " The Beano ", dated March 17, 1951 ; now published as Dennis and Gnasher

The first Taiko player in the UK was Joji Hirota, soon followed by the UK's first regularly performing Taiko group, Akatsuki Daiko, set up in 1993. Notable current groups are Mugenkyo, Taiko Meantime and Kagemusha Taiko

* IVS – A proprietary version with Digital Rights Management developed by 3D Solar UK Ltd for use in music downloaded from their Tronme Music Store and interactive music and video player.

Encarta contained 66, 000 articles, a user-friendly Visual Browser, interactive maps, math, language and homework tools, a US and UK dictionary, and a youth edition.

Located in London, UK, Square Europe was granted exclusive publishing rights in Europe and other PAL territories for all interactive entertainment titles developed by Square.

* Sketchmap interactive map of designations in Great Britain, including SSSI boundaries ( select ' Nature Reserves ' in UK Map Layers ).

A number of leading museums, for example, the National Gallery, Tate, Victoria & Albert Museum and Science Museum in London ( to cite the leading UK museums active in this field ) were early adoptors in the field of interactive technologies, investing in educational resources, and more latterly, in the creative use of MP3 players for visitors.

Free and subscription providers are available, with differences in the number of channels, capabilities such as the programme guide ( EPG ), video on demand ( VOD ), high-definition ( HD ), interactive television via the red button, and coverage across the UK.

Recent work by the DTG in the UK has led to the development of the MHEG-5 Interaction Channel ( MHEG-IC ), which enables an extension of broadcast interactive services to be delivered via an IP connection.

Ireland has selected MHEG-5 ( UK Profile, v1. 06 ) middleware for interactive services as a recommended feature of its Minimum Receiver Requirements for DTT in Ireland.

* OpenTV, a proprietary system used for interactive television on Sky in the UK.

S4C broadcasts in Wales and throughout the rest of the UK via digital satellite with an interactive option for English-language commentary available via digital satellite.

The first UK Wired Conference had a test lab, where an independent curator selected technology that showcased radical technology advancements and their impact on society, such as the ability to design and " print " real world objects using 3D printers ( such as a fully working violin ) or the ability to model and represent accurate interactive medical and molecular models in Stereoscopic 3D.

Sapient was named the Top Interactive Agency in the UK by New Media Age in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012 and ranked the third largest interactive agency in the world by Advertising Age in April 2009.

He chaired the BBC Journalism Board and had overall responsibility for the world ’ s largest and most trusted news organisation, and all its radio, television and interactive journalism content across the UK and around the globe.

Dr. Farber currently serves on the board of advisors of The Hyperwords Company Ltd of the UK, which works to make the web more usefully interactive and which has produced the free Firefox Add-On called ' Hyperwords '.

An advertisement for Chicken Tonight was the first in the UK to use a red button interactive service to promote the product.

The video could be viewed as an interactive element on UK CD1, the first time this feature was available on a Spice Girls CD.

from press telephone ), the brand name for the UK Post Office's Viewdata technology, was an interactive videotex system developed during the late 1970s and commercially launched in 1979.

With the roll-out of Foxtel Digital, Sky News Australia launched the Sky News Active interactive news service based on the Sky News UK service with the same name.

** In March 2008 Orbis Technology acquired Electracade Ltd, a UK based developer of online interactive games for £ 2. 6M.

Kingston Communications, a regional telecommunications operator in the UK, launched KIT ( Kingston Interactive Television ), an IPTV over digital subscriber line ( DSL ) broadband interactive TV service in September 1999 after conducting various TV and VoD trials.

Yet Micronet 800 had versions of many of the Internet's subsequent features, especially an interactive ' ChatLine ' ( similar to Internet Relay Chat ) developed by Mike Brown, who joined Micronet 800 from the Council for Educational Technology, where he'd devised a standard UK format for downloadable programs which became known as ' telesoftware '.

CD: UK later utilised an interactive chart based on viewers ' votes, called the MiTracks Countdown.

Between 2003 and 2004, The DfES Primary Schools Whiteboard Expansion project ( PSWE ) provided substantial funding to 21 local authorities for the acquisition and use of interactive whiteboards in UK primary schools.

Training staff run residential courses on-site, travel to deliver courses at other sites in the UK, and design interactive courses for use on the BBC's internal network.