Engineering

Tell Musk

24th March 2025 Going Postal 1973 Comments

What do you know about the linear no-threshold model with respect to ionising radiation when giving approval for commercial nuclear power stations? The linear no-threshold (LNT) model is a widely used framework in radiation protection [more…]

Return To The Jernbanemysterium, Part Three

22nd March 2025 Always Worth Saying 1567 Comments

Let’s cut to the quick and get down to brass tacks. Or rather cut to a railway line on the icy wastes of central Norway and investigate a strange trackside anomaly only visible to sharp-eyed [more…]

The Case Against Fordism

12th March 2025 Going Postal 2465 Comments

It’s hard to imagine where we would be today in terms of economic progress, industrial production capacity and labour dynamics if Henry Ford never existed. The revolutionary system he pioneered in the early 20th century, [more…]

Army Procurement’s ‘Strike’ Cul-de-Sac

26th February 2025 Always Worth Saying 2816 Comments

General Sir Nick Carter, former Chief of the Defence Staff of the United Kingdom between 2018 and 2021, championed a strategic concept known as ‘Strike’ as part of his vision for modernising the British Army. [more…]

Worthy of Your Breeding?

1st February 2025 Always Worth Saying 2198 Comments

Just as Nelson flew coloured flags above the Victory instructing the fleet afore Trafalgar that England expected every man to do his duty, so the Ministry of Defence two centuries later is festooned with white [more…]

Bullet Points

27th January 2025 Tom Pudding 2577 Comments

Every once in a while I get involved with some project or other relating to my hobby of collecting and shooting antique firearms and while individually these may not justify a separate GP article, I [more…]

The Helium-Neon Laser

9th December 2024 Doc Mike Finnley 2340 Comments

Introduction In my laser articles Iv’e often mentioned the helium-neon (He-Ne) laser which I have used to align the feedback mirrors and make holograms. I thought that it would be remiss of me not to [more…]

Postcard From Birmingham, Part Eight

2nd November 2024 Always Worth Saying 1872 Comments

Puffins will be devasted to read this is the last episode of Postcard From Birmingham. But thrilled to hear myself and Mrs AWS have been saving up our pennies and coordinating our days off to [more…]

Desert Mysteries Redux – Part Four

24th July 2024 Going Postal 2580 Comments

In Part 3, I included a photograph of a Hawker Hart with most of its fabric covering stripped off as a potential Desert Mystery regarding its fate. Further research has revealed that K4907 apparently had [more…]