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Jewel in the crown: Rolls-Royce’s single-crystal turbine blade …
Sep 19, 2017 · An ancient form of metalworking is being used by Rolls-Royce to create a single-crystal turbine blade for jet engines. Casting is one of the oldest and most basic methods of metalworking. If you can make a fire hot enough to melt a metal, and manufacture a crucible to melt it in and a mould that can withstand the heat, you can cast complex ...
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Cranfield Aerospace powers ahead with hydrogen flight vision
Apr 12, 2023 · At a hangar in rural Bedfordshire, UK firm Cranfield Aerospace Solutions is quietly charting a course for a new era of zero-emissions aviation. Jon Excell reports. Cranfield Aerospace Solutions is currently working on the hydrogen-electric modification of a nine-seater Britten-Norman Islander. It takes all sorts to drive a revolution.
Late great engineers: John Logie Baird- the founding father of ...
Sep 6, 2023 · John Logie Baird – his birth certificate records his middle name as ‘Loggie’ – was born on 13 August 1888 in Helensburgh on the Firth of Clyde in Scotland. The fourth and youngest child of the Reverend John and Jesse Baird, by his early teens he had, as one biographer describes it, ‘developed a fascination with electronics and was ...
Salary survey: What’s a UK engineer worth in 2022?
Mar 2, 2022 · This appetite for change is one of the key findings of The Engineer’s latest annual salary survey. According to this year’s survey, which attracted responses from almost 800 engineers across 11 different sectors, the mean average salary for UK engineers now stands at £58k which marks a modest 2.3 per cent increase on last year’s figure.
The evolution of the aircraft wing
Mar 31, 2017 · The aircraft wing has transformed from the wooden and fabric twin-wing set up of the Wright brothers’ Flyer, to the composite materials used in the latest models coming off the production line today from the likes of Boeing and Airbus. In fact, Orville Wright’s first flight, lasting 12 seconds, travelled 120ft - less than the wing span of a ...
Late, great engineers: Edith Clarke - America’s first woman engineer
Jul 13, 2021 · Edith Clarke (1883 - 1959) At the end of the war in 1918 Clarke decamped to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she became the first woman to earn a master’s degree in electrical engineering. Supervised by the electrical engineer Arthur E Kennelly, her thesis was entitled Behavior of a lumpy artificial transmission line as the ...
High technology: engineering London's "Shard"
Oct 17, 2005 · London’s latest high-rise project won’t exactly dwarf the proposed 541m-high Freedom Tower (the likely successor to the World Trade Centre) or the current holder of the world’s tallest building mantle (the 508m-high Taipei 101). But the Shard of Glass — as it is affectionately dubbed by those working on the project — will, at its ...