![]() Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill developed the world's first stored-program computer in 1948 and Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov first isolated graphene in 2004. At the University of Manchester, Ernest Rutherford first split the atom in 1917 Frederic C. Manchester Liverpool Road railway station is the world's oldest surviving inter-city passenger railway station. ![]() The city is notable for its architecture, culture, musical exports, media links, scientific and engineering output, social impact, sports clubs and transport connections. ![]() Following considerable redevelopment, Manchester was the host city for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Its fortune declined after the Second World War, owing to deindustrialisation, and the IRA bombing in 1996 led to extensive investment and regeneration. The Manchester Ship Canal opened in 1894, creating the Port of Manchester and linking the city to the Irish Sea, 36 miles (58 km) to the west. Historically part of Lancashire, areas of Cheshire south of the River Mersey were incorporated into Manchester in the 20th century, including Wythenshawe in 1931. Manchester's unplanned urbanisation was brought on by a boom in textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution and resulted in it becoming the world's first industrialised city. Throughout the Middle Ages, Manchester remained a manorial township but began to expand "at an astonishing rate" around the turn of the 19th century. ![]() ![]() The history of Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort ( castra) of Mamucium or Mancunium, established in about AD 79 on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell. The city borders the boroughs of Trafford, Stockport, Tameside, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury and Salford. The two cities and the surrounding towns form one of the United Kingdom's most populous conurbations, the Greater Manchester Built-up Area, which had a population of 2.87 million in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. Manchester ( / ˈ m æ n tʃ ɪ s t ər, - tʃ ɛ s-/ listen ⓘ) is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census. ![]()
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