Speed: Ever since the industrial revolution humans have loved speed. Maybe its just a natural thing but we have always loved to feel the wind in our face and our hair blowing wildly in the wind. The land speed record was first broken by the stevenson rocket. The rocket was designed by George Stevenson, Robert Stevenson and Henry Booth in 1829. It was designed for one purpose, speed.The engine was tested in front of 15,000 people and the crazy thing is that the engine was steam powered. This meant that hot coal turned water into steam and the steam rose up throught a vent pushing an axle back and forth, thus turning the wheel. The Stevenson Rocket reached speeds of 24 miles an hour. In the 1920's there was a stretch of beach that became known for setting land speed records. It is called Pendine sands and one day a man called J.G Parry Thomas tried to break the land speed record. He broke the record in the car "Babs", it reached speeds of 171 miles per hour but Parry was tempted to break the record again.In 1927 at Pendine Sands he was going to break the record again but it ended at disaster when the car flipped at full speed and Parry died instantly. His car " BlueBird" was destroyed but recently it was rebulit. The current land speed record was made by "thrust". A car that actually broke the sound barrier. On October 15th 1997 "Thrust" broke the land speed record with a speed of 763 miles per hour. The driver was Wing Commander Andy Green. He was a RAF pilot. But in the future there will be a speed car that can reach over 1000 miles per hour, it will have a rocket bolted on to a eurofighter typhoon jet. Hope you enjoyed reading!