1. Split the Atom — 2023-10-10 00:05:57

   …tion of **Einstein's law** (E = mc2). Cockcroft and Walton received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951. == Birth of a Bomb == The discovery of **Nuclear Fission** led to many types of experiments, not least, the **Atom Bomb**. {{Tag ids="Nucl…

2. Stainless Steel — 2023-10-09 23:42:45

   …On the 13th August 1913 Brearley created a steel with 12.8% chromium and 0.24% carbon. Every piece of steel he made he bombarded with various acids and stresses. Many failed the tests but the steel made on that day remained rust free. == Mor…

3. Cat Eyes — 2023-10-09 23:39:36

   …d War II** when driving at night became even more perilous because of the government-imposed blackouts to thwart German bombers. The company accelerated its expansion after the the war and eventually occupied a 20 acre site in Boothtown. At its…

4. Radar — 2023-10-08 00:18:51

   …hey soon conducted "full scale" tests of a system that would soon be known as **Chain Home**, attempting to intercept a bomber by radar direction. The tests were a massive failure, with the fighter only seeing the bomber after it had passed its…

5. Pedestrian Crossing — 2023-10-07 11:08:59

   …= George Charlesworth 1951 === Traffic engineer George Charlesworth had worked on the Barnes Wallis-designed [[Bouncing_bomb]] was dubbed ‘Dr Zebra’. Charlesworth headed the team who pioneered the black-and-white markings pilot schemes tha…

6. Electronic Computer — 2023-10-07 10:38:05

   …}>> [[Computer]] == Enigma == The Colossus was not used to decipher the Enigma. That was done with a machine called **Bombe** that was developed for Alan Turing by **Harold 'Doc' Keen** at the **British Tabulating Machine Company** (BTM) bas…
   …ed on the work by the Polish version called the //Bomba//.…

7. Stereo — 2023-09-23 15:56:38

   …em throughout the spring and early summer of 1942. It was during this series of tests on 7 June 1942, that the Halifax bomber carrying the only prototype H2S system crashed at Welsh Bicknor. Alan Blumlein and two colleagues from EMI, along wit…

8. Bouncing bomb — 2023-09-23 12:03:28

   …buster.jpg" class="left" title="Lancaster dropping bouncing bomb" width="500" }} == Operation Chastise == The attack on the German dams was carried out on 16–17 May 1943 by Royal A…
   …d 1,600 civilians drowned: about 600 Germans and 1,000 mainly Soviet forced-labourers. ::c:: {{image url="Barnes_Wallis_Bomb.jpg" class="right" title="Bouncing bomb" width="200" }} It is quite unique, an amazing original weapon, 133 men and ju…
   …st 19 Lancasters heading out in darkness at night, flying at tree-top height over enemy territory, aiming a bouncing bomb at German dams.…

9. Winston Churchill — 2023-08-27 16:11:42

   … went on to power microwave ovens) and [[Split_the_Atom| Nuclear Fission]] to allow Oppenheimer to develop the **Atomic Bomb** technology to the annoyance of the patent holders. P.S. Oppenheimer had been a student of Rutherford at Cambridge Un…

10. Jet Engine — 2020-08-15 08:35:25

    …C Brockworth near Gloucester, but was later moved to Regent Motors in Regent Street Cheltenham because fear of possible bombing. {{Image url="Gloster_E28-39.jpg" class="left" title="Gloster Meteor E.28/39" }} Gloster's chief designer, George C…

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