BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Columba Systems Ltd//NONSGML CPNG/SpringViewer/ICal Output/3.3- M3//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20190905T154857Z DTSTART:20191012T120000Z DTEND:20191012T130000Z SUMMARY:Making the modern world: England's first civic university (Herita ge Tour) UID:{}gem-k06v8cx o-1kxvr6 DESCRIPTION:\n\nThis tour takes visitors on a journey from the beginnings of England’s first civic university to the sites of world changing disc overies. It begins within the fine neo-gothic architecture of the Univer sity’s Old Quadrangle and tells the story of Owens College\, which would become England’s first civic university.\n\nFounded from the philanthro py of wealthy Manchester merchants\, Owens College captured the energy a nd spirit of the industrial revolution. Its successor\, the Victoria Uni versity of Manchester\, helped establish the style of the modern univers ity with its secularist approach and pursuit of research alongside teach ing.\n\nThe tour traces the development of the University into the twent ieth century and visits key sites of discovery including where Ernest Ru therford first split the atom and where Alan Turing helped lay the found ations of modern computing. \n\n\nThe tour is outside and lasts around 1 hour.\n\nBooking is essential https://makingthemodernworld.eventbrite.c STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT CLASS:PUBLIC LOCATION:Old Quad\, M139PL END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR