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The University of Manchester is a public research university in Manchester, England.The main campus is south of Manchester City Centre on Oxford Road.The university owns and operates major cultural assets such as the Manchester Museum, The Whitworth (art gallery), the John Rylands Library, the Tabley House Collection and the Jodrell Bank Observatory—a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Manchester: Manchester University Press (Fiddes was registrar of the university 1904-20 and Ward Professor of History 1926–31) Hartog, P. J. (1900), editor The Owens College, Manchester: a brief history of the college and description of its various departments .
This is a list of University of Manchester people.Many famous or notable people have worked or studied at the Victoria University of Manchester and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology institutions, which combined in 2004 to form the University of Manchester.
Alliance Manchester Business School (Alliance MBS) is the business school of the University of Manchester in Manchester, England. One of the most prestigious business schools in the United Kingdom, it is also the second oldest in the UK, and provides education to undergraduates, postgraduates and executives.
The Manchester Baby, also called the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), was the first electronic stored-program computer.It was built at the University of Manchester by Frederic C. Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Tootill, and ran its first program on 21 June 1948.
The University of Manchester is the second largest full-time non-collegiate university in the United Kingdom, created in 2004 by the merger of Victoria University of Manchester, founded in 1904, and UMIST, founded in 1956, having developed from the Mechanics' Institute founded, as indicated in the university's logo, in 1824.
The Victoria University of Manchester, a predecessor of the University of Manchester, in existence from 1903 to 2004; Vehicles. Avro 533 Manchester, a twin-engine biplane photo-reconnaissance and bomber aircraft of 1918; Avro Manchester, a twin-engine heavy bomber used by the RAF during World War II; Manchester, a four-masted British barque
Old Trafford (/ ˈ t r æ f ər d /) is a football stadium in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, and the home of Manchester United.With a capacity of 74,140 seats, it is the largest club football stadium (and second-largest football stadium overall after Wembley Stadium) in the United Kingdom, and the eleventh-largest in Europe.