Editing South West England (section)

===Industrial heritage===
Sir [[Benjamin Baker (engineer)|Benjamin Baker]] from Cheltenham jointly-designed the 1890 [[Forth Bridge]]. [[William Murdoch]] in 1792 lit his house in Redruth with gas, the first in Britain. [[Plasticine]] was invented 1897 in Bath by [[William Harbutt]]. [[Thomas Young (scientist)|Thomas Young]] of Somerset is known for his [[double-slit experiment]] in optics, and in [[solid mechanics]] for his famous [[Young's modulus]]. [[Henry Fox Talbot]], inventor of a [[Negative (photography)|negative-positive]] [[Calotype|process]] in 1841, from Wiltshire made the first photograph in August 1835; [[Nicéphore Niépce]] of France can claim the [[View from the Window at Le Gras|first photo]] in 1826; [[William Friese-Greene]] of Bristol is thought to be the ''father of cinematography'' after inventing his ''chronophotographic camera'' in 1889.

[[Hinkley Point A nuclear power station]] was a [[Magnox]] [[power station]] constructed between 1957 and 1962 and operating until ceasing generation in 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/somerset/content/articles/2005/12/06/pwaod_hinkley_feature.shtml|title=Hinkley A: 1965|work=BBC Somerset|publisher=BBC|access-date=5 July 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060718151110/http://www.bbc.co.uk/somerset/content/articles/2005/12/06/pwaod_hinkley_feature.shtml|archive-date=18 July 2006|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Hinkley Point B nuclear power station|Hinkley Point B]] is an [[Advanced gas cooled reactor|Advanced Gas-cooled Reactor]] (AGR) which was designed to generate 1250&nbsp;MW of electricity ([[MWe#Electrical and thermal|MWe]]). Construction of Hinkley Point B started in 1967. In September 2008 it was announced, by [[Électricité de France]] (EDF), that a third, twin-unit [[EPR (nuclear reactor)|European Pressurised Reactor]] (EPR) power station known as [[Hinkley Point C nuclear power station|Hinkley Point C]] is planned,<ref name="new dawn for Uk nuclear power">{{cite news | url=http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN_New_dawn_for_UK_nuclear_power_2409081.html | title=New dawn for UK nuclear power | publisher=World Nuclear News | date=24 September 2008 | access-date=25 September 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080925133549/http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN_New_dawn_for_UK_nuclear_power_2409081.html | archive-date=25 September 2008 | url-status=live }}</ref> to replace Hinkley Point B which was due for closure in 2016,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/3073749/Nuclear-energy-British-Energy-facts.html |title=Nuclear energy: British Energy facts |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=25 September 2008 |location=London |date=24 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080927074509/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/3073749/Nuclear-energy-British-Energy-facts.html |archive-date=27 September 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref> now extended until 2022.
In 1989 the [[Berkeley nuclear power station]] was the first in the UK to be decommissioned. The [[steam-generating heavy water reactor]] was developed at [[Winfrith]] in Dorset.

[[Edgar F. Codd|Ted Codd]], inventor of databases and [[SQL]], was from Poole. [[Campden BRI]] at [[Ebrington]] in north-east Gloucestershire was an important research centre for [[Canning|canned food]]; [[J. S. Fry & Sons]] of Bristol made world's first chocolate bar in 1847.

The first [[carpet]]s were made in Britain in 1741 at [[Wilton, Wiltshire]]. In 1698, [[Thomas Savery]] of Devon developed an early [[steam engine]]; [[Thomas Newcomen]] from Dartmouth made another early steam engine in 1710. [[Edward Butler (inventor)|Edward Butler]], a farmer from Devon born in [[Bickington]] in 1862, invented the petrol engine.