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Nothing is Beyond Our Reach

3rd September 2020 Always Worth Saying 0

During a presidential debate, a little old lady, her grey hair in a bun, asks, “Name the three most important Space Race countries”. Sleepy-creepy Jo Biden, from his basement and with the benefit of voice [more…]

19th Century

Holography, Part Three

2nd September 2020 Doc Mike Finnley 0

A Simple Dual Beam Setup We’ve got our film, developer and a safety lamp. Now we need a holographic camera. Well, not exactly a camera. You can’t take a picture of rolling hills or a [more…]

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19th Century

Holography, Part Two

26th August 2020 Doc Mike Finnley 0

A Holographic Camera Standard photography uses a lens system to focus an image onto a film or an electronic sensor. If you recall from part one, Dennis Gabor had a problem with his electron microscope’s [more…]

20th Century

Car Review: Renault Type AI Sport CT

21st August 2020 Tachybaptus 0

It was after the third accident in the pony trap going down Pitsford Hill that my wife said to me, ‘We really ought to buy a motor car. After all, this is 1910 and we [more…]

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19th Century

Holography, Part One

19th August 2020 Doc Mike Finnley 0

Introduction To the Looking-Glass world it was Alice that said, “I’ve a sceptre in hand, I’ve a crown on my head. Let the Looking-Glass creatures, whatever they be Come dine with the Red Queen, the [more…]

Engineering

Review: Kärcher WD2 Wet and Dry Vacuum

18th August 2020 Going Postal 0

I’m not someone who usually suffers from FOMO but having purchased a new wet & dry vacuum recently and seeing as it is de rigueur to post reviews of vacuum cleaners on GP I thought [more…]

America

Apollo Thirteen

6th August 2020 Going Postal 0

The big issue of today appears to be the climate emergency, have I got that right? Well, what is causing the problem? Carbon Dioxide, yup, got that. 400 parts per million atmospheric CO2, definitely a [more…]

20th Century

The Spitfire, of course, Part 4

5th August 2020 GrumpyAngler 0

Musings on the development of the Miles M20 prototype Firstly, a reminder of where we started back in part one, I suggested in the first article in this series that the Spitfire was not an [more…]

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My Apprenticeship, Part Two

15th July 2020 Going Postal 0

Part one went through the first two years of my drawing office apprenticeship with Babcock and Wilcox Ltd. During the second year, Babcock and Wilcox Ltd became Babcock and Wilcox (Operations) Limited. The first of [more…]

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