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Volume 12, Issue 7
1 August 2017
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- Author(s): V. Vitaliev
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7,
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0740
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In the first of three columns to mark the centenary of the 1917 Bolshevik coup d'etat in Russia, Vitali Vitaliev looks back at some of his close encounters with dreaded Soviet technologies. - Author(s): D. Ross
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7,
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0711
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The seeds of Silicon Valley and 21st century tech culture were sown in the Summer of Love 50 years ago. - Author(s): J. Maltby
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7,
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0738
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Jack and his flatmates discuss the nature of existence: have engineers destroyed reality? - Author(s): J. Loeb
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7,
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0714
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Groups critical of Britain's dependence on cars are furious at plans to trial a fleet of 40 selfdriving taxis in pedestrianised zones, saying the project makes a mockery of efforts to encourage walking. - Author(s): C. Chambers
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7,
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0719
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Bitcoin is built on a new financial instrument: the blockchain. Our market commentator explains that modern cryptocurrencies are filling a gap in the world's money supply. - Author(s): P. Dempsey
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7,
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0713
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Time to review the role that digital politics played in Labour's surprise UK General Election performance. - Author(s): A. Miller
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7,
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0723
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The materials and product innovations we need in the future will only happen if the design and engineering industry can transform the way it does business. - Author(s): R. Northfield
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7,
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0739
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Some awesome things were invented in the 1960s, like the lava lamp. And then there are the truly awful gadgets, which seem to have been thought up in the midst of a drug haze... - Author(s): J. Pollard
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7,
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0734
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This is the story of how George Washington Murray used Congress to immortalise the names of America's black engineers. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7,
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0718
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HMS Queen Elizabeth, Britain's biggest ever warship, is conducting sea trials ahead of her commissioning in 2018. The £3.5bn vessel is the world's largest aircraft carrier by displacement outside of the United States. - Author(s): B. Vitaliev
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7,
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0705
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Spinning arrows representing the cycle of life, an endless and ever-so-dynamic Mobius loop that will never be completed... This is the universal recycling symbol, one of the world's most recognisable design logos. Staring at us from buildings, containers, bottles and food wrappings, it appears extremely familiar. Yet it is not common knowledge that, in the words of its creator, American designer Gary Anderson, then a student at the University of Southern California School of Architecture, it was inspired by the spirit of the 1960s and the 1967 Summer of Love. In this paper, we look at the story behind the iconic recycling symbol. - Author(s): D. Sandham
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7,
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0736
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Give your brain a workout with this month's testing puzzles. - Author(s): M. Barfield
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7,
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0735
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Our monthly selection of not-too-credible science and technology mini-stories. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 6 –7
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0712
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News from around the world. - Author(s): J. Loeb
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 10 –11
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0715
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Engineering giant Thyssenkrupp is taking lifts in a wondrous new direction: sideways. Its multi-cabin ropeless elevator, claimed to be the first of its kind in the world, can go left and right as well as up and down and so will enable architects to plan new types of 'wiggly', less phallic skyscrapers, which could then be linked together by way of horizontal 'gerbil tubes'. - Author(s): J. Fell
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 12 –13
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0716
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Located just 15 miles from the Beatles hometown of Liverpool is the Mersey Gateway, an impressive new six-lane cable-stay bridge, which, when it opens this autumn, will provide a much-needed second crossing point between the industrial towns of Runcorn and Widnes. - Author(s): M. Williamson
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 14 –15
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0717
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Helicopters have an image problem: they are seen as complicated, difficult to fly and not generally as safe as winged aircraft. Ohio-based electric truck manufacturer Workhorse is set to change all that with its SureFly personal helicopter that's as easy to fly as a drone and is stacked with redundant safety systems. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 18 –19
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0720
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A cottage in Iceland looks as if it's been swallowed by the earth. Photographer Luke Gram captured the traditional earth house, hidden in the natural landscape on Iceland's east coast. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 20 –21
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0721
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Send your letters to The Editor, E&T, Michael Faraday House, Six Hills Way, Stevenage, Herts SG1 2AY, UK, or to [email protected]. We reserve the right to edit letters and to use submissions in any other format. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 22 –23
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0722
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E&T marked International Women in Engineering Day with a special issue that sparked huge debate on Twitter, Facebook, and in our inbox. We included ideas from seven advertising agencies for campaigns to attract more girls into the profession and asked you to vote in what became our best poll ever. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 26 –29
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0700
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Success has many parents. The eastcoast dominated military-industrial complex and international capitalism could vie with Bay Area hippie counterculture and collectivist ideals of the University of California at Berkeley for custody. All have good claims for laying foundations for today's Silicon Valley. It's little wonder that Silicon Valley ideology seems so confused. The paper presents how 1960s Bay Area radicalism helped shape the technological powerhouse of northern California. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 30 –31
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0724
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We look back at some of the weird and wonderful ideas to come from 1967. - Author(s): F. Aston
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 32 –35
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0701
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The history of the airship is fraught with failure, but why, seemingly against all reason, does the aviation world refuse to give up on dirigibles? Felicily Aston tells all about her flight across the States in Skyship 600. - Author(s): J. Wilson
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 36 –39
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0702
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Beyond the undeniable chemistry of the Beatles and their prodigious songwriting output, there is a good reason why the music of The Fab Four endures. Record producers - both aspiring and those well-established - still look to the sound of Beatles records for inspiration and basic schooling in production techniques. Sonically speaking, the Beatles' recordings remain exquisite examples of how to record pop and rock music par excellence. - Author(s): R. Northfield
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 40 –41
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0725
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People have been building high-rise architecture for centuries. While you can't compare these early 'skyscrapers' to their modern counterparts, such as the world's tallest multi-storey, the Burj Khalifa (which stands 828m high), this collection shows that the desire to dominate the skyline goes back a long way. - Author(s): J. Hayes
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 42 –44
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0703
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By the early summer of 1967, less than a decade after Sputnik became the first human-made object to orbit the Earth, electronic communications satellites had already demonstrated their potential as enablers of abstracted global unification. The scope to extend this capability seemed then as expansive as space itself, and each new addition to the satellite constellation inspired terrestrial broadcasters towards new technological possibilities. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 46 –49
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0704
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Lying 53 miles off the coast of the Netherlands, the Gemini wind farm began running at full capacity in May this year, making it the world's second largest wind farm. Built in just two years, the wind farm narrowly missed out on beating the London Array in the UK's Thames estuary in terms of generating capacity - 600MW versus 630MW. But the farm is in waters that are 12m deeper than those of the London Array so that it could lie out of sight of the coast and pick up the stronger winds of the North Sea. Battered by wind and waves above the ocean's surface, offshore wind foundations can't take chances on what lies on the seabed. - Author(s): P. Dempsey
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 52 –55
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0706
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Protest groups have sought to harness technology since the invention of the printing press, and it was the 1960s that saw the process go electronic. It's interesting, isn't it, that the hippie movement that emerged during 1967's Summer of Love is the first counterculture we think of in colour. Certainly, mods and rockers were fastidious about their appearance, but we remember them in blackand-white: archive footage of Bill Haley rockin' around the clock; grainy clips of scooters headed for Brighton; The Beatles' first movie, 'A Hard Day's Night'. - Author(s): T. Fryer
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 56 –57
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0707
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The vehicle of choice for the dreamers and wanderers of the world, there is nothing that compares to the old VW camper van. But, 50 years after the Summer of Love, Volkswagen has unveiled a successor aimed at the future. - Author(s): R. Brazil
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 58 –61
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0726
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Fifty years after Timothy Leary exhorted a generation to 'Turn on, tune in, drop out', a growing trade in synthetic psychoactive drugs has begun to influence a new crowd of users, despite recent changes in UK drug laws. - Author(s): L. Murray
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 62 –65
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0708
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Harry, a robotic shuttle is part of the GATEway project, an £8m research project led by TRL, the UK transport laboratory, and includes the Royal Borough of Greenwich, Oxbotica, Royal Sun Alliance, Shell and designer of the pod itself - sports car maker Westfield. Garbed in an eye-catching peppermint and white livery, the small pod is the focus of many selfies. Harry is a prototype autonomous vehicle, but the one-tonne, four-passenger shuttle won't be mixing it with lorries on the motorway any time soon. The ultimate purpose of the pod is the so-called first mile/last mile transport concept, and trials are designed to test a future transport-on-demand link between the home and the nearest hub. The hope is to encourage people to use public transport more readily than their own private cars, which remain parked for over 90 per cent of the time. - Author(s): N. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 66 –69
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0709
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This article addresses the method the of flash photography and use of flash light camera for capturing image. - Author(s): V. Vitali
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 70 –71
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0727
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We launch a new readers' photo challenge to locate the world's most decrepit working car. - Author(s): N. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 72 –75
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0728
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Professor of Radio Frequency Engineering at the University of Manchester's School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Danielle George has a high profile in promoting the public understanding of science in the media. She's also founder of the world's first recycled robot orchestra. - Author(s): C. Andrews
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 76 –77
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0710
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These days, coaches have to be analysts as well as motivators and personal assistants. To try and gain insights into a player's performance that will provide them with an edge over their opponents, they make use of sensor technology embedded into rackets, courts and even stuck on to players themselves. According to an expert, a combination of these analytical approaches will give players and their coaches the information they need. Sensors in the racket tell you how you swing the racket and cameras placed around the court tell you what the ball does afterwards. But when it comes to tennis analytics calculations, the best processor around is still the human mind, albeit a human mind trained in high-performance coaching, with an encyclopaedic knowledge of the game of tennis and backed up by a lot of data about their player, the player's opponent and the biomechanics of both players' movements. - Author(s): C. Quin
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 78 –79
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0729
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Sunglasses for the summer, a bargain 'burner' smartphone for the holidays, plus gizmos that make the most of everything from coffee to vinyl. - Author(s): P. Dempsey
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 80 –81
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0730
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German family company combines sustainability with crowdfunding. - Author(s): B. Betts
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 82 –83
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0731
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Going travelling? There's more your mobile can do than just message or phone home. - Author(s): N. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 84 –85
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0732
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As a cultural and counter-cultural revolution, the Summer of Love was underpinned by dramatic shifts in comms and pro-audio technology. Author of 'In Search of the Lost Chord' Danny Goldberg explains all. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 86 –87
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0733
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An exploration of our enduring fascination with the possibility of travelling through time leads this month's selection of new science and technology books. - Author(s): N. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 12, Issue 7, p. 92 –93
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2017.0737
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An early duotone advertisement for the 'Astro' lamp, declared it to be the perfect gift "for one's relatives, one's friends - and, dash it all, oneself". Not only this, but it is a conversation piece styled to "fit any mood, any décor in the home and all discerning establishments".
After All: Soviet Tech - 'Let's take up guns, children, and join the snipers!'
Editor's Letter
Jack's Blog [Columnist]
News Briefing - Pedestrians object to autonomous cars driving on pavements
News Comment- Money & Markets : Cryptocurrency - The Bitcoin bubble is filling a vacuum in the money market
News Comment: View from Westminster - Social Media: How Corbyn married tech and traditional campaign techniques
Opinion: First Person - Comment: R&D - Time to collaborate so we can capitalise on product innovations
Technology - Blog: Bizarre Tech
The Eccentric Engineer - Technology: America's forgotten black pioneers and patent holders
The Graphic: HMS Queen Elizabeth sea trials
The biography of the famous logo [recycling symbol]
Thinking Cap [puzzles]
e&tCetera . . . [mini-stories]
World News
News Briefing - Built Environment: Real-life 'Wonkavator' could revolutionise design of skyscrapers
News Briefing: In Numbers - Mersey Gateway Project
News - Paris Air Show: SureFly takes helicopters to another level
The Bigger Picture - Turf House
Opinion Feedback: Your Letters
Opinion Feedback: Last Issue's Feedback
The Valley vision [Silicon Valley's radical foundations]
PhotoEssay - Design: Inventions from the Summer of Love
The fall and rise: why the dirigible won't die
Being for the benefit of Sgt. Pepper [music technology]
PhotoEssay - Architecture History: Extremely old skyscrapers
Our World: united via satellite [multi-national TV show]
Castles built on sand [offshore wind foundations]
The whole world is still watching [electronic protests]
Flower electric power! [Volkswagen ID Buzz electric vehicle]
Summer of Love - Designer Drugs: Synthetic highs: redesigning the drug trade
Hitch a ride with Harry [autonomous robotic shuttle]
Flash photography [camera technology]
Cars
Interview: Adam Hart-Davis
Sports tech: tennis analytics
Reviews - Consumer Technology: Gadgets
The Teardown: Shift 5.1 smartphone
Software Reviews: We're all going on a . . .
Book Interview: It was 50 years ago today...
Book Reviews: Time Machine Tales, Lombard-Gerin & Inventing the Trolleybus, Machine, Platform, Crowd
Classic Project: Astro Lamp ('Lava Lamp')
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