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The Engineer 150

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April 1894. Victorian wind turbine
We recently had the opportunity of examining a new type of wind motor built by Rollason’s Wind Motor Company of Berners Street, London. The motor has been designed to produce motive power for electric lighting and other purposes, and a specimen has been...
Published: The Engineer - 08 May 2006

March 1896. X-rays
It is barely two months since the news of Professor Rontgen’s striking experiments was received with scepticism. To many it was looked upon as a journalistic hoax, and it was ridiculed pretty freely in the photographic and other journals…...
Published: The Engineer - 08 May 2006

October 1904. The First Rover
In our reports of the trials of small motor cars recently held by the Automobile Club, reference was made to the vehicle which has been constructed by the Rover Cycle Company Limited, Coventry, from the designs of Mr E.W Lewis....
Published: The Engineer - 08 May 2006

December 1909. Marconi’s wireless
The discoveries connected with the propagation of electric waves over long distances, and the practical applications of telegraphy through space, which have gained for me the supreme honour of sharing the Nobel prize for Physics, have been to a great...
Published: The Engineer - 08 May 2006

April 1912. The Titanic
The loss of The Titanic, with its accompanying destruction of human life, brings home to all the endless vigilance required in matters connected with the sea. Against fire, stranding, collision with another ship, stresses of weather, full provision has...
Published: The Engineer - 08 May 2006

April 1923. The first Wembley Stadium
The Stadium which is being built in Wembley Park in connection with the British Empire Exhibition of next year is nearly completed, its erection having been specially expedited for the Football Cup Ties Final on April 28....
Published: The Engineer - 08 May 2006

February 1926. The Electrolux fridge
The refrigerating apparatus which we illustrate herewith is the invention of two young Swedish engineers, Messrs B de Platen and C Munters, and is being manufactured and placed on the market by Electrolux Limited of 153, 155 Regent Street, London W1....
Published: The Engineer - 08 May 2006

June 1926. Television unveiled
A few days ago we had an opportunity of being present at a demonstration given at the offices of Television Ltd, in Upper St. Martins Lane, when the face of a person in the upper part of the building was made to appear on the screen of the receiving...
Published: The Engineer - 08 May 2006

August 1936. Alexandra Palace Television station
On Sunday last we paid a visit to the Alexandra Palace, where a television station has been established to provide an extended trial of the systems devised by Baird Television Ltd, and the Marconi EMI Television Company Ltd....
Published: The Engineer - 08 May 2006

December 1942. The Rolls-Royce Merlin engine
Last week we accepted the invitation of Rolls-Royce Ltd to inspect an example of the firm’s new ‘Merlin 61’ supercharged aero-engine, which is being fitted by the Royal Air Force to the improved Spitfire now operating with Fighter Command....
Published: The Engineer - 08 May 2006

April 1942. The Lancaster Bomber
Last week we accepted the invitation of the Ministry of Aircraft Production to see in production and in the air the latest addition to the Bomber Command aircraft, the Lancaster heavy bomber designed and built by AV Roe and Co Ltd. Recently Mr Winston...
Published: The Engineer - 08 May 2006

August 1945. The story of radar
All the enemy powers have used radar, but their application of this principle has always lagged behind that of the Allies. They have been beaten in the battle of research and application. More nations than one were experimenting between the wars on...
Published: The Engineer - 08 May 2006

July 1945. On board a U-boat
The contrast between Germany and Great Britain is one of highly specialised effort on the one hand, as against a potential which has to be used sparingly in certain fields in order that there should be enough of everything....
Published: The Engineer - 08 May 2006

October 1945. Whittle’s jet engine
The main argument against the gas turbine was that the maximum temperatures permissible with materials available, or likely to be available, was such that the ratio of positive to negative work in the constant pressure cycle could not be great enough to...
Published: The Engineer - 08 May 2006

November 1954. Radiotherapy in Manchester
On Thursday November 11th we visited Manchester to see newly-installed radiotherapy equipment at the Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute, which has a long history as a leading centre for the treatment of cancer....
Published: The Engineer - 08 May 2006

October 1955. Colour TV camera
A complete colour television camera has been supplied to the BBC for experimental purposes by Marconi’s Wireless Telegraphy Company Ltd, Chelmsford, Essex. The equipment consists of a three-tube colour camera, a camera channel amplifier, and complete...
Published: The Engineer - 08 May 2006

June 1955. The age of automation
The conference on ‘The Automatic Factory - What Does it Mean?’ which was organised by the Institution of Production Engineers and held at Margate last week was attended by more than 850 delegates....
Published: The Engineer - 08 May 2006

October 1955. British cars at the Motor Show
The International Motor Show, which opened on Wednesday October 19th, is again drawing crowds of interested visitors, among them a considerable number of foreign buyers, to the spacious exhibition hall at Earl’s Court, London....
Published: The Engineer - 08 May 2006

October 1956. Calder Hall Nuclear Station
The opening of Calder Hall power station by Her Majesty the Queen on October 17th will mark an epoch in the history of power development. For Calder Hall is the first power station in the world to generate electricity on an industrial scale from nuclear...
Published: The Engineer - 08 May 2006

October 1957. Sputnik
There is no question about it! The Russians have sprung a very exciting surprise on the West. It had long been known that they were preparing to establish at least one earth satellite as part of their contribution to the Geophysical Year: and it had been...
Published: The Engineer - 08 May 2006

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