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Late Great Engineers: Rudolf Diesel - Powering the modern world
Mar 29, 2022 · Late Great Engineers: Rudolf Diesel - Powering the modern world. In-Depth. With the development of his eponymous engine, Rudolf Diesel was to have a profound effect on the way industry, transportation and international freight shaped the 20th century. Written by Nick Smith. Diesel engines play a part in the lives of us all.
Late great engineers: Isambard Kingdom Brunel - The Engineer
Feb 12, 2020 · Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born in Portsmouth on 9th April 1806 during the reign of George III, shortly after the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. It was a time of social and political unrest across Europe, with Brunel’s father, French civil engineer Marc Isambard Brunel (a royalist sympathiser) forced to escape ...
Octopus raises the temperature with Cosy heat pump
Sep 15, 2023 · Customers who require new radiators, piping or a hot water tank should be able to adopt the system for a cost of around £3,000, according to Octopus. “This paves the way to heat pumps for everyone,” Octopus Energy Group CEO and founder Greg Jackson said at the Energy Tech Summit in London, run in partnership with Wired. “This is a huge ...
The Engineer - Late great engineers: Alexander Graham Bell
Jan 5, 2024 · Alexander Bell (the middle name Graham was added on his eleventh birthday), was born in Edinburgh in the mid 19 th century, the heyday of the Victorian age of engineering; of bridges, tunnels and machines. He was the son of Alexander Melville Bell, a teacher and researcher of physiological phonetics, inventor of the phonetic symbol system known ...
Jewel in the crown: Rolls-Royce’s single-crystal turbine blade …
Sep 19, 2017 · An ancient form of metalworking is being used by Rolls-Royce to create a single-crystal turbine blade for jet engines. Casting is one of the oldest and most basic methods of metalworking. If you can make a fire hot enough to melt a metal, and manufacture a crucible to melt it in and a mould that can withstand the heat, you can cast complex ...
Google FireSat constellation to detect early wildfires
Sep 18, 2024 · Tech giant Google is developing a bespoke satellite constellation capable of detecting and tracking wildfires about the size of a school classroom. FireSat will be able to detect fires measuring about 5x5m - Google. Known as FireSat, the low Earth orbit (LEO) constellation will deliver high-resolution imagery that updates every 20 minutes.
The Engineer - Expert Q&A : Supersonic flight
Oct 31, 2023 · The bespoke engine is designed for sustainable supersonic flight and is designed to deliver 25 per cent more time on wing and provide 10 per cent operating cost savings to airline customers, when compared to derivative approaches. According to Boom the Symphony engine engine is designed for sustainable supersonic flight - Boom.
November 1955: Calder Hall - the word's first nuclear power station
Nov 21, 2023 · It all began at Calder Hall, Cumbria, when the plant’s 65MW dual purpose reactors came online in 1956, making it the world’s first full-scale commercial nuclear power station. Prior to that momentous occasion, The Engineer reported on progress at the site in the publication’s November 25, 1955, edition. “It should be appreciated that ...
Salary survey: What’s a UK engineer worth in 2022?
Mar 2, 2022 · This appetite for change is one of the key findings of The Engineer’s latest annual salary survey. According to this year’s survey, which attracted responses from almost 800 engineers across 11 different sectors, the mean average salary for UK engineers now stands at £58k which marks a modest 2.3 per cent increase on last year’s figure.