Health
Medicine – Part Two
We wuz Kangz! Around 3,000 B.C. we start to see the foundation of ancient civilisations, for example in Egypt. Egypt conquered a number of lands to form an empire, and was in turn conquered itself [more…]
Science
Engineering
Die Rote Drei
This is yet again, based on the reminiscences of Dr Wilhelm Flicke – Die Rote Drei , or the Red Three , referred to three locations around Lake Geneva that were transmitting intelligence back to [more…]
Health
Medicine – Part One
We are often regaled with tales of Our NHS and the wonders it can produce. Indeed it reached a high point recently when it managed to cure the Skripals, who had been poisoned with a [more…]
Engineering
English Cameras & their Lenses
If you ask many people, who, they think, were the most innovative, ‘cutting-edge’ in cameras and lenses, the answer would probably be either, ‘The Germans’ or, possibly, ‘The Japanese’; ask them who made the lenses [more…]
Engineering
Die Rote Kapelle
“Die rote Kapelle” was the name given to an agent transmitter discovered by the Germans in Belgium. They applied the term Kapelle to every case so there was the “Schrammel-Kapelle” , “Zither-Kapelle” , “Blas-Kapelle” an [more…]
Engineering
The Puckle Gun and Others – Part One
War is the driver of technological development. If it were not, we’d still be knocking each other over the head with stone axes. QED. However, not every new military idea gets adopted into the mainstream, [more…]
Engineering
Battle of the Atlantic, Part Two
As has already been mentioned , the German submarine commander liked to attack the largest convoys with the maximum number of U-Boats he could muster , even if this meant other contacted convoys getting through [more…]
Engineering
The Spitfire, of course
Ask anyone from the general public to name a great aeroplane or a great British fighter of WWII, and chances are they will say, without hesitation, “The Spitfire of course.” If you ask why you [more…]
Engineering
The Castle
I love castles and have always found their development and changing functions fascinating. They show social, military and political history. They are a physical representation of the past, and yet many of them are still in [more…]
Arts
Reality plus – the next “big thing”?
Since leaving University over 30 years ago I have worked in the Information Technology sector and have always been interested in how IT evolves, both driving and being driven by new and innovative technologies. I’ve [more…]
America
Battle of the Atlantic, Part One
In 1953 the Operational Evaluation Group of the US Navy produced a report on the effectiveness of the decrypted intelligence during the Battle of the Atlantic. They tried to calculate how the decryption helped both [more…]
Engineering
Shunting to the end
If you remember back at the start of this series, I came up with the idea of a ‘winter project’. Well it is no longer winter, even in the North, so time to bring it [more…]
America
How the Germans broke US Code B7 – Part Two
The previous part described what a two part code is and what you need to be able to break it. This is Dr Müller’s description of how the Germans broke the American B7 code. The [more…]
Mathematics
A Hamiltonian Path in the Natural Numbers – from 1 to 15
We wish to arrange the natural numbers such that adjacent pairs of numbers sum to a square number. Why can we find a Hamiltonian path for some numbers and not others? For a Hamiltonian path, [more…]
Mathematics
Are We living in a Simulated Universe?
Firstly to have any understanding of this theory, one must admit the possibility of our universe existing within a Multiverse. “A multiverse (or meta-universe) is the hypothetical set of multiple possible universes (including our universe) [more…]
America
How the Germans broke US Code B7 – Part One
The TICOM teams brought back lots of documents from Germany , one of them described how the Germans broke the US letter code “B7”. This is a précis of that document. Firstly , a description [more…]
Arts
Ericksonian Hypnosis and NLP
NLP is about making a single intervention to enable rapid change to behaviour I was pitching for some NLP training and had a meeting with the MD. I’m a bit like a street magician. If [more…]
Engineering
German code breaking during WW2, Part Nine
On the eastern front the Germans kept tabs on what the Russians were up to using traffic analysis. They had broken the low level codes but the higher level communications were done using the unbreakable [more…]