Powered Manned Flight
Orville and Wilbur Wright
17th December 1903
Accredited World Origin Site
WOS0004 17th December 2023
Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk, NC, 27948, USA
Modern Nursing
Florence Nightingale
9th July 1860
The Nightingale Training School for Nurses,
St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK
Discovery of Penicillin
Alexander Fleming
3rd September 1928
Accredited World Origin Site
WOS0001 3rd September 2023
St Mary’s Hospital, 135a Praed Street, London, W2 1QY, UK
Permanent Radio Station
Guglielmo Marconi
December 1897
Accredited World Origin Site
WOS0002 14th September 2023
Royal Needles Hotel, Totland Bay, Isle of Wight, PO39 0JD, UK
Motor Racing Circuit
Hugh & Ethel Locke King
17th June 1907
Accredited World Origin Site
WOS0003 May 2021
Brooklands Motor Racing Circuit, Weybridge, KT13 0SL, UK
Automatic Computing Engine ACE
Alan Turing OBE FRS
1946
Accredited World Origin Site
WOS0083 13th September 2025
National Physical Laboratory, London, TW11 0LW, UK
MARKING THE ORIGINS OF OUR MODERN WORLD
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These sites have been Nominated for World Origin Site status and are awaiting approval for full Accreditation.
Please support or comment on any of the sites below with more information, links or alternatives. We welcome all additional information and expert opinion for all World Origin Sites whether they are common knowledge or complete unknowns. If a site isn’t listed below please use the Nominations form to apply for future Accreditation. All sites are important to us whether large or small.
