Lothrop Withington, Jr (right), a Harvard freshman, swallowing a goldfish Finish:Stretched 902 Johnny Gray

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This car was driven by David Abbott 'Ab' Jenkins to set world endurance speed records on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah

This was the largest British motor car at the time

Panoramic view of the City of London and Westminster showing St James's Park

The paper was read before the Royal Society on 6 March 1734

Lothrop Withington, Jr (right), a Harvard freshman, swallowing a goldfish Finish:Stretched 902 Johnny GrayLothrop Withington, Jr (right), a Harvard freshman, swallowing a goldfish, USA, 1935. Three days later, at Franklin and Marshall College, a young man ate three. The record was said to have been set in 1938 by Albert E Hays of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who swallowed 42 goldfish in succession.