Timeline: Past and Present Company

	Date	Event(s)
1	1907	New Zealand becomes a Dominion Imperial College, London, is established First airship flies over London Lumiere develops a process for colour photography Jul 1907: Leo Hendrik Baekeland patents Bakelite, the first plastic invented that held its shape after being heated 1 Aug 1907: Baden-Powell leads the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island 9 Nov 1907: The Cullinan Diamond presented to Edward VII on his birthday
2	1908	Coal Mines Regulation Act in Britain limits men to an eight hour day Separate courts for juveniles established in Britain Lord Baden-Powell starts the Boy Scout movement 1 Jul 1908: SOS became effective as an international signal of distress 12 Aug 1908: First 'Model T' Ford made
3	1909	Beveridge Report prompts creation of labour Exchanges Peary reaches the north pole First commercial manufacture of Bakelite â€“ start of the plastic age 1 Jan 1909: Old Age Pensions Act came into force 16 Jan 1909: Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole 15 Mar 1909: Selfridges department store opens in London 25 Jul 1909: Bleriot flies across the Channel (36 minutes, Calais to Dover)
4	1910	Railway strike and coal strikes in Britain Constitutional crisis in Britain Dr Crippen caught by radio telegraphy; hanged 23 Nov at Pentonville Madame Curie isolates radium Halley's comet reappears Tango becomes popular in North America and Europe 6 May 1910: Edward VII dies â€“ George V becomes King

George COLLINSON 1907 - 1910