It was first observed in the mid-infrared ( 3-5 µm wavelength ) in the more convenient diode structures in InSb heterostructure diodes by workers at the Defence Research Agency, Great Malvern, UK ( now QinetiQ ).

After reading a pamphlet by Doctor James Wilson, who operated a hydropathic establishment with James Manby Gully at Malvern, he stayed there for " some nine or ten weeks ", after which he " continued the system some seven weeks longer under Doctor Weiss, at Petersham ", then again at " Doctor Schmidt's magnificent hydropathic establishment at Boppart " ( at the former Marienberg Convent at Boppard ), after developing a cold and fever upon his return home.

* Walcher of Malvern creates a system of measurement for the earth using degrees, minutes, and seconds of latitude and longitude.

The MTOC's three lines fed their cable tram system — Victoria Bridge cable tram terminus to Kew ( Boorondara Cemetery ), opened in 1887 and closed in 1915 after its sale to Kew Council for conversion to a Prahran & Malvern Tramways Trust electric line.

Due to demand for better public transport in Melbourne's inner suburbs of Prahran and Malvern the Prahran & Malvern Tramways Trust Act 1907 was enacted.

Councillor Alex Cameron of Malvern, who led the push for a municipal tramway service, was elected chairman of the trust by both Malvern & Prahran councils.

One detail of Bertie's school life which comes into several stories is his winning of the prize for Scripture Knowledge while at Malvern House.

Latimer wrote to Cromwell in 1538 to plead for the continuation of Great Malvern Priory, and of " two or three in every shire of such remedy ", but by then only total surrender was acceptable.

Because Malvern was the closest railroad station to Hot Springs, it became an important junction point for passengers transferring from rail to stagecoach to complete their journey to the spas in Hot Springs.

* Frank Bonner, born in Little Rock and raised in Malvern, an actor and director best known for playing Herb Tarlek on the classic 1970s and 1980s sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati

Known for a long period as West Chester Intersection, the town ’ s name was changed to Malvern in 1873 when the Pennsylvania Railroad straightened its tracks through the village.

He attended Kew Beach School and Malvern Collegiate Institute, and while growing up in the 1930s displayed an aptitude for performing and theatre.

Further education is provided by South Worcestershire College ( previously known as Evesham and Malvern Hills College ) which caters mainly for students studying at the NVQ and BTEC level or undertaking practical vocational courses.

She attended the independent St James's School for Girls, in West Malvern, Worcestershire, and later travelled to France and Kenya.

Ames was commended for his conduct at Malvern Hill by Col. Henry J.

He decided not to go straight to university but to try a career in journalism, so family friend David Syme of The Age agreed to employ him as district correspondent for nearby Malvern.

** Malvern Preparatory School, an independent Catholic middle and high school for boys

Malvern Men ’ s Skittle League has been running for over 35 years within the Malvern area.

Closures continued in the 1960s with, for example, the Parkside, Fountains, Malvern and Pioneer Mills shutting in 1964.

For top-tier authorities, Shropshire has the lowest rate, and for council districts Malvern Hills has the lowest rate.

Set in the Malvern Hills, the school's location owes much to Malvern's emergence in the nineteenth century as a fashionable spa resort, appreciated for its unpolluted air and the healing qualities of its famous spring water.

Little is known about Malvern over the next thousand years until it is described as "... an hermitage, or some kind of religious house, for seculars, before the conquest, endowed by the gift of Edward the Confessor ...".

The health-giving properties of Malvern water and the natural beauty of the surroundings led to the development of Malvern as a spa, with resources for invalids and for tourists, seeking cures, rest and entertainment.

The tour opened in Malvern before travelling to Milton Keynes, Brighton, Bath, Norwich, Edinburgh and Newcastle ; its run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket was extended due to demand.

When fewer family farms and farm workers, became the norm, in the 1960s, 1970 ’ s, and especially the difficult 1980 ’ s, the economy of Malvern suffered as well, losing many of the established businesses that had so long lined the streets in this community.

Today Malvern is a rural community with its own school system recently renamed as East Mills, a golf course, swimming pool, new library and Carnegie Conference Center, agricultural businesses and government offices, a bank, two residential care facilities, physician ’ s offices, Mills County Fair Grounds, the Wabash Trace Nature Trail, and numerous other small businesses.

Malvern ’ s population is growing as well thanks to new housing developments in and around the community.

With over 400 members from 31 teams who meet with their friends and team mates to play skittles ; this makes Thursday night one of the busiest in the Malvern area ’ s pubs and clubs.

Till twelve fair counties saw the blaze on Malvern ’ s lonely height,

During that battle, Thomas Jonathan Jackson failed to effectively support the remainder of Lee ’ s Army, and thus allowed McClellan ’ s Federal Army to retreat to Malvern Hill.

* A statue stands outside Malvern Court, south of South Kensington Underground Station, and just north of 7 Sydney Place, where he stayed when performing in London.

In 1964, he went to Malvern College and read English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he edited the undergraduate newspaper Varsity.

White Cloud, a town of perhaps 200 persons and a variety of businesses, was located about where the present Wabash Trace Nature Trail crosses the Nishnabotna River three miles southeast of Malvern.

RRE was located in Malvern, Worcestershire, where both TRE and RRDE had been housed at different sites.

Gussie Fink-Nottle met Bertie Wooster at Malvern House Preparatory School, where they were schoolmates ; growing up, he took up residence in a remote part of Lincolnshire to pursue his beloved newt studies.

* Franklin D. Roosevelt, president of the US ( 1933 – 1945 ), has a plaque on Aldwyn Tower, a former hotel in Malvern, Worcestershire, England, where he stayed while convalescing from an illness during his childhood.

Following his military service, he moved to Malvern, where he opened a law office and served as city attorney ( 1920 – 1926 ).

Ancient folklore has it that the British chieftain Caractacus made his last stand against the Romans at the British Camp, a site of extensive Iron Age earthworks on a summit of the Malvern Hills close to where Malvern was to be later established.

Legend tells that the settlement began following the murder of St. Werstan, a monk of Deerhurst, who fled from the Danes and took refuge in the woods of Malvern, where the above-mentioned hermitage had been established.

Malvern Hill, where Ewell fought.

He visited Oxford for the first time, went for a trip on the Thames, and then revisited the hydropathic establishment at Malvern, where he had been with his father as a boy ".

One final consequence of the raid was that the Telecommunications Research Establishment, where much of the Bruneval equipment was analysed, and British radar systems were designed and tested, was moved from Swanage further inland to Malvern to ensure that it was not the target of a reprisal raid by German airborne forces.

His health deteriorated in Malta and at Malvern, Edinburgh, where he sought medical treatment.

Sheedy played junior football with the local Try Boys society team whilst attending De La Salle College Malvern, where future teammate Kevin Bartlett also spent a brief time.

He later attended Malvern College in Worcestershire, England, and subsequently went to the University of Nottingham, where he received a bachelor's degree in industrial economics in 1974.

He fought as a brigade commander at Seven Pines, and under Lee in the Seven Days Battles ( where he was chosen to spearhead the bloody, senseless assault on Malvern Hill ), and Second Bull Run.

It was built in 1860 by the architect E. W. Elmslie who also designed the Great Malvern railway station, and the Council House on the plot where Dr. Gully's original house stood.

Curtis moved to Worcestershire in the 1960s to live in Malvern, where he attended The Grove county primary school.

In Germany, France and America, and in Malvern in England where Dr. James Wilson ( d. 1867 ) followed by James Manby Gully set up their clinics using Malvern water, hydropathic establishments multiplied with great rapidity.

He was educated at the Harborne Vicarage School and later Malvern College in Worcestershire where he was a boarder.

Local bus services connect Malvern Wells with Malvern where the 42, S42 operated by Astons providing circular routes in the Malvern area.