Editing Rugby, Warwickshire (section)

===Fame===
[[File:Rugby School 06.jpg|thumb|right|[[Rugby School]].]]
Rugby is most famous for the invention of [[rugby football]], which is played throughout the world. The invention of the game is credited to [[William Webb Ellis]], a [[Rugby School]] pupil who, according to legend, broke the existing rules of football by picking up the ball and running with it at a match played in 1823. Although there is little evidence to support this story, the school is credited with codifying and popularising the sport. In 1845, three Rugby School pupils produced the first written rules of the "Rugby style of game".<ref name="BBC6ways"/>

Rugby School is one of England's oldest and most prestigious [[public school (England)|public schools]], and was the setting of [[Thomas Hughes]]'s semi-autobiographical masterpiece ''[[Tom Brown's Schooldays]],'' published in 1857.<ref name="BBC6ways"/> Hughes later set up a colony in America for the younger sons of the English gentry, who could not inherit under the laws of [[primogeniture]], naming the town Rugby. The settlement of [[Rugby, Tennessee]] still exists.<ref>{{cite news |title=Typhoid, tomatoes and Tom Brown's Schooldays - the story of the rise and fall of Rugby, Tennessee | date=19 August 2020 |url=https://www.rugbyadvertiser.co.uk/news/people/typhoid-tomatoes-and-tom-browns-schooldays-story-rise-and-fall-rugby-tennessee-2946947?itm_source=parsely-api |work=Rugby Advertiser |access-date=24 August 2020}}</ref>

Rugby School is said to have been a major inspiration behind the revival of the [[Olympic Games]]: the French educator, and father of the modern Olympics [[Pierre de Coubertin]], visited Rugby School several times in the late 19th century, and cited the school as one of his major inspirations behind his decision to revive the Olympic Games.<ref name="BBC6ways"/>

Rugby is a birthplace of the [[jet engine]]. In April 1937 [[Frank Whittle]] built and tested the world's [[Power Jets WU|first prototype]] jet engine at the [[British Thomson-Houston]] (BTH) works in Rugby, and during 1936–41 based himself at [[Brownsover Hall]] on the outskirts, where he designed and developed early prototype engines. Much of his work was carried out at nearby [[Lutterworth]]. Whittle is commemorated in Rugby by a [[Frank Whittle#Rugby, England|modern sculpture]] near the town hall dating from 2005, made by [[Stephen Broadbent]].<ref name="OWWhittle">{{cite web |title=SIR FRANK WHITTLE, INVENTOR OF THE JET ENGINE |url=https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/sir-frank-whittle-inventor-turbo-jet-engine |publisher=Our Warwickshire |access-date=16 June 2020}}</ref><ref name="BBC6ways"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Winning ways to hail jet pioneer |url=https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/winning-ways-hail-jet-pioneer-3137042 |work=Coventry Telegraph |access-date=16 June 2020 |date=24 March 2005}}</ref>

[[Holography]] was invented in Rugby in 1947, by the [[Hungary|Hungarian]] born inventor [[Dennis Gabor]], also while working at BTH. For this he later received the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] in 1971.<ref name="OWGabor">{{cite web |title=DENNIS GABOR, RUGBY NOBEL LAUREATE |url=https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/article/dennis-gabor-rugby-nobel-laureate |publisher=Our Warwickshire |access-date=16 June 2020}}</ref>

In the 19th century, Rugby became famous for its once important [[railway]] junction which was the setting for [[Charles Dickens]]'s story ''[[Mugby Junction]]''.