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Volume 8, Issue 11
December 2013
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- Author(s): D. Ross
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, page: 4 –4
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1101
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 6 –7
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1108
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The latest engineering stories from around the world. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 8 –9
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1109
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Top skiers fly high in the world's biggest wind tunnel. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, page: 10 –10
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1114
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Report calls for action to boost talent pipeline AND Scottish satellite shapes up for February launch. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, page: 12 –12
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1115
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Japan prepares to build 500km/h Maglev line. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, page: 14 –14
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1116
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Inside the Alfa Romeo 4C. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, page: 15 –15
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1117
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Hinkley C agreement kickstarts nuclear replacement programme. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, page: 16 –16
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1118
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Number news. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, page: 18 –18
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1119
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'Chameleon' coating tricks thermal cameras. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, page: 20 –20
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1120
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Custom-printed shoes could help horse run faster. - Author(s): P. Neroth
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, page: 21 –21
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1121
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Cameron resists Europe on data protection regulation. - Author(s): B. Cervi
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, page: 22 –22
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1122
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Failed merger leaves EADS seeking job cuts. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 24 –25
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1123
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New ways of working are needed to make smart cities a reality. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 26 –27
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1124
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- Author(s): S. Parkinson
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, page: 28 –28
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1125
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Why engineers should be leading calls to spend less on creating new weapons. - Author(s): C. Mohtadi and S. Carter
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 30 –31
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1126
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Industry should have more say in the curriculum for undergraduate engineering students. - Author(s): B. Bodhani
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 32 –37
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1100
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Sensor technology is now appearing everywhere, from kerbsides to kitchens, wheelie bins to robotic jellyfish, and sensors are increasingly proving themselves to be the critical interface between the virtual web and the Internet of Things. To convey an idea of the breadth of application requirement sensor technology is meeting, this article presents an A-Z examples of how sensor technology is used to capture, test, control, and measure various spheres in all industry sectors. - Author(s): C. Evans-Pughe
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 39 –43
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1102
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The machine-to-machine applications market needs a way to communicate, and the communications sector is busy finding different ways to help it. Networked wireless communications: the M2M applications world is gagging for it. There are plenty of communications options in existence, of course; but are they suitable for connecting the wonderful world of cyber-physical systems? Applications and services to vitalise the machine-to-machine (M2M) market are evidenced by the emerging range of devices prefixed with the word `smart', but until comms networks that will enable them to connect to each other are up and running M2M's full potential remains unrealised. However, several initiatives are underway. - Author(s): P. Bizony
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 44 –47
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1103
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After 36 years hurtling through space at around 18km per second, Voyager 1 has crossed an incredible boundary. It is the first manmade object to reach interstellar space. We look at the past of a spacecraft that will outlive every conceivable human future. - Author(s): T. Pultarova
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 48 –50
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1104
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Researchers at the University of Surrey have shown that the much-vaunted near-field communications systems being rolled out for contactless card transactions could possibly be hacked at the point-of-sale using inexpensive, rudimentary technology. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, page: 52 –52
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1105
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The field of power electronics is becoming a strong sector within UK's technology base, thanks to conventional techniques such as combining analogue and digital control devices. (5 pages) - Author(s): S. Harris
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 58 –59
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1106
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Tiny electrochemical reactions at plant roots could pave the way for cheap, sustainable electricity generation if the plans of Dutch researchers are realised. - Author(s): R. Dettmer
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 60 –63
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1107
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The rebuilding of Richard Trevithick's Puffing Devil celebrated a seminal event in the history of transport. Trevithick's boiler was a move in the opposite direction to that of Watt, increasing the pressure on the topside of the piston. - Author(s): N. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 64 –67
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1127
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On the 30th anniversary of Thrust2 we talk to its driver, Richard Noble. - Author(s): A. Spurling
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 68 –71
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1128
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A boom in the engineering and technology sectors means Australian companies are looking overseas for qualified employees. - Author(s): C. Andrews
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 72 –74
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1110
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To run trains to Abbey Wood, Crossrail is building a 2.6km tunnel under the Thames between Plumstead and North Woolwich. This tunnel will sit off the main line that goes from Maidenhead in Berkshire and Heathrow Airport through central London, via Paddington and Liverpool Street, along the edge of the medieval and Roman cities, and finally out to Romford and Sheffield in Essex. The paper discusses that the new railway line for Greater London - is more than picking a route and laying track. As Crossrail archaeologists uncover bison bones - and Black Death. - Author(s): R. Pool
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 75 –77
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1111
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The damage that building roads has on the landscape is well documented. From deforestation and the unwanted spread of exotic species, to territory fragmentation and chemical changes in the local environment, the ecological effects are devastating. This paper presents a soon to be revealed global map for road building that could show planners how to help rather th harm the environment. - Author(s): K. Sangani
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 78 –81
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1112
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Sonos was first with synchronous multi-room speakers. But the company is now facing stiff competition from Pure, DTS and CSR. It was only a couple of decades ago that if you wanted to listen to music, you simply removed a record or CD from its sleeve, switched on your stereo and hit play. In the digital era, however, we expect so much more. We have playlists and we can carry our music with us everywhere. We can, for a small subscription fee, stream millions of tracks through Last. FM, Napster and a number of other similar services. But that's not enough for some music fans, and satisfying their zealous equivalent - the audiophile - is near impossible. We are increasingly craving the ability to stream music room-to-room in our homes synchronously so that we're finally untethered from our smartphones or media players. There are clear advantages to distributing sound around a home. Other people in the household are less likely to be disturbed by having one person's music only in certain rooms. Your neighbours, meanwhile, will appreciate you not having to put the living room speakers on full blast to hear the music while you're upstairs. - Author(s): J. Goodyer
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 82 –85
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1113
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This paper look at the life work of the audio pioner. Dolby Laboratories was founded in London in 1965 by Ray Dolby, a young inventor and electrical engineer who had moved to the UK from the US to study for a doctorate in physics at Cambridge University four years earlier. The company initially had just four staff, but over the years would grow into a huge multinational organisation valued at several billion dollars and employing thousands across the globe. Ray Dolby was born in 1933 in Portland, Oregon and grew up in California. A boy of precocious intelligence, he joined Ampex, a company specialising in tape recorders, while still at school and went on to graduate from the elite Stanford University with a degree in electrical engineering in 1957. It's a little-known fact that he later went back to Ampex for a short period and worked on the development of the first home video recorder. - Author(s): S. Munk
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 86 –87
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1129
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Seven-inch tablets go screen-to-screen, smartwatches arrive and camera lenses lose their bodies in the latest consumer technology reviews. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 88 –89
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1130
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Inside the first Google phone from Motorola. - Author(s): B. Betts
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 90 –91
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1131
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A 'visibly' better smartphone. - Author(s): N. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 92 –93
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1132
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Marcus Chown's new book has the answers to everything. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 94 –95
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1133
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New books this month offer a contrast between landmarks in Russian and American technology. - Author(s): J. Pollard
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, page: 96 –96
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1134
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The urge to get back at a neighbour has sparked some remarkable ingenuity in building technology. - Author(s): M. Barfield
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, page: 98 –98
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1135
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The patently ridiculous and our take on engineering history. - Author(s): D. Sandham
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, page: 99 –99
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1136
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Our monthly puzzles page. - Author(s): N. Smith
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, p. 100 –101
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1137
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Casting light on the Anglepoise lamp classic. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, page: 102 –102
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1138
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The students consider a life of crime. - Author(s): V. Vitaliev
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 8, Issue 11, page: 106 –106
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2013.1139
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