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WEB2024 awards open for entries Celebrating the very best in UK collaborations and innovations in engineering. Now in its ninth year, The Engineer’s Collaborate To Innovate awards (C2I) was established to uncover and celebrate great examples of technology-led engineering collaboration across a range of different disciplines and sectors.
Late, great engineers: Frank Whittle: Founder of the jet age
WEBMay 6, 2022 · Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle, OM, KBE, CB, FRS, Hon FRAeS died of lung cancer at the age of 89 on 9 August 1996 at home in Columbia, Maryland. British aviation engineer and legendary pilot Frank Whittle was the main player in the development of the jet engine that was to change the face of 20th century aviation. Written by Nick Smith.
Salary survey: What’s a UK engineer worth in 2022?
WEBMar 2, 2022 · 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. And whilst more than half of our respondents (56 per cent) have received a …
Late Great Engineers: Rudolf Diesel - Powering the modern world
WEBMar 29, 2022 · Late Great Engineers: Rudolf Diesel - Powering the modern world. In-Depth. With the development of his eponymous engine, Rudolf Diesel was to have a profound effect on the way industry, transportation and international freight shaped the 20th century. Written by Nick Smith. Diesel engines play a part in the lives of us all.
Jewel in the crown: Rolls-Royce’s single-crystal turbine blade …
WEBSep 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 …
Octopus raises the temperature with Cosy heat pump
WEBSep 15, 2023 · Customers who require new radiators, piping or a hot water tank should be able to adopt the system for a cost of around £3,000, according to Octopus. “This paves the way to heat pumps for everyone,” Octopus Energy Group CEO and founder Greg Jackson said at the Energy Tech Summit in London, run in partnership with Wired.
The Big Project: London Array
WEBJun 25, 2012 · The developers, themselves called London Array, are a joint venture company 50 per cent owned by DONG Energy, Denmark’s biggest energy company, which is itself 76 per cent owned by the Danish government. A further 30 per cent is owned by E.On Renewables and 20 per cent by Masdar, the Abu Dhabi state-owned renewable energy company.
The evolution of the aircraft wing
WEBMar 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 ...
ITM Power gears up for green hydrogen revolution - The Engineer
WEBMar 7, 2022 · According to Cooley, this industrial hydrogen accounts for around 70 million tons per year, equivalent to 600GW of electrolysis. At the start of 2022, ITM Power announced a deal with Norwegian chemicals giant Yara for a 24MW electrolyser that will help it reduce reliance on grey hydrogen in ammonia production.
The Engineer - Late great engineers: Charles Goodyear
WEBMar 13, 2023 · Charles Goodyear was born in the last days of the 19 th century on 29 December 1800 in the state of New York. Descended from one of the founders of the colony of New Haven, his ancestor Stephen Goodyear was head of the London Merchants company. Goodyear followed in the family’s mercantile tradition by working as a …