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A leaflet issued in September 1960 describing various products and services supplied by BICC - British Insulated Callender's Construction - for railway overhead electrification. At the time the company were heavily involved in the West Coast Main Line electrification for British Railways, London Midland Region, and they also won contracts for work in Eastern and Scottish Regions. British Railways had not long adopted the 25kvAC system as a national standard in place of the earlier 1500vDC system that had been used on the completion of schemes initiated by the LNER.
BICC was formed when the two major companies Callender's Cable & Construction Company and British Insulated Cables merged in 1945. As well as manufacturing cables the company also provided design and construction services for a wide range of products as seen on the back page of this leaflet. As well as examples of components for overhead, such as contact wire parts, section insulators and pulleys, the company had a research laboratory which is shown alongside drawing offices and assembly shops. A new British railways London Midland Region EMU is seen running under a newly completed installation of overhead, most likely on the Manchester - Crewe section of the WCML electrification that had not long opened.
Montana Electric Co., Butte, Montana
Image taken from p xv of Western Mining World, Souvenir Edition, Vol. IV, No. 68.
Unique ID: mze-publ1904 p xv
Type: Serial
Contributors: Western Mining World Co.; Chas Heilbronner Co.; Lyman A. Sisley, Ed.
Date Digital: June 2010
Date Original: 1896
Source: Butte Digital Image Project at Montana Memory Project (read the book)
Library: Butte-Silver Bow Public Library in Butte, Montana, USA.
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NASA Science Workshop for Educators - Black Holes: Gravity's Fatal Attraction
University Park, PA
Photo taken August 7, 2009.
Surat Kwanmuang, Mechanical Engineering Graduate Student Instructor, teaches Mika Chen, Mechanical Engineering PhD Student, how to program and use an industrial manipulator robot arm in an EECS 567 section in the HH Dow Building on April 4, 2013.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
NASA Science Workshop for Educators - Black Holes: Gravity's Fatal Attraction
University Park, PA
Photo taken August 7, 2009.
Cal Poly EE Senior Project 2011 Showcase
Cal Poly Electrical Engineering Spring Senior Project Showcase
STORM, 's werelds eerste elektrische toermotorfiets, ontwikkeld door studenten van de TU Eindhoven
foto: Bart van Overbeeke
STORM, world's first electric touring motorcycle, designed by students of TU Eindhoven.
Dr. Michael Orshansky, assistant professor of electrical engineering at The University of Texas at Austin poses for a photo in the stairway in ACES building where he works.
His research interests include developing software that accurately describes microchip behavior at the smallest level, as well as software for designing more reliable microchips.
Dr. Orshansky's work has led him to received a $400,000, five-year National Science Foundation Early Career Development (CAREER) award, among the most prestigious given to young faculty.
Colorado State University electrical engineering professor Chandrasekaran Venkatachalam stands within a dual-offset radar system to be mounted on the CHILL radar.
Source: livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/41389
This photo appeared in the University News, Volume 11, Number 13, August 19 to September 2, 1985. The text was:
Department in the "Doghouse"
Mr. John Alva joined the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1962 when it was “in the doghouse” in Wood Street, Newcastle West. The Department was the only component of the Newcastle University College spilt away from the College at Tighes Hill. Originally part of Newcastle Technical College, it was fated to remain in Newcastle West until 1966.
Mr Alva retired from his position as Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering on August 9. A farewell dinner in his honour was held in the Southern Cross Lounge in the Union.
Born in Turkey, Mr. Alva won a scholarship which enabled him to obtain an undergraduate degree at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and a master’s at King’s College in the University of London.
From about 1950 he spent an interesting period helping to pioneer aspects of the project that provided submerged telephone systems across the world’s oceans.
“As an engineer with the British Post Office Research Station based at Dollis Hill, I was a member of a group which developed repeaters which lasted underwater more 20 years without giving trouble,” Mr. Alva said.
“The line between Scotland and the United States was the first section to be finished. Finally, when the submerged telephone system across the Pacific was joined up to Sidney, the earth was girded.”
John has memories of the Newcastle West breach of the University College. The head of Electrical Engineering was Bert Middlehurst., and Col Yates, John Caldwell and John Alva were the other academics. The Laboratory Craftsman was Ron Goohew, who was a part-time student.
“During the early years many students were converting diplomas to degrees. Most were part-timers and were more motivated than some present-day students.
“Although it was a terrific challenge to keep ahead of the students, I enjoyed my teaching role very much,” he said.
John Alva says that the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is a very pleasant place in which to work.
He expects to return to the campus on several occasions to work-out with the staff volleyball team. Otherwise, his main pursuits will be traveling with his wife, Sylvia, (initially to India) and working around the house."
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NASA Science Workshop for Educators - Black Holes: Gravity's Fatal Attraction
University Park, PA
Photo taken August 7, 2009.
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Through Hole RJ11/45 AND USB Connector 0.5" X 2" Grid
Support 1 RJ11 OR RJ45 connector and 1 USB Type B connector. 8 ground holes are connected a copper plane on the bottom side
Schematic shows the light trapping effect in nanowire arrays. Photos on are bounced between single nanowires and eventually absorbed by them. Image Credit: Wang Research Group, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.
"Nikola Tesla nacque allo scoccare della mezzanotte tra il 9 e il 10 lugliodel 1856, nel villaggio di Smiljan, nella provincia di Lika, in Croazia, tra i monti Velebit e la costa orientale del mare Adriatico. La piccola casa in cui venne alla luce sorgeva accanto alla chiesa serba ortodossa di cue era capo il padre, il reverendo Milutin Tesla."
In the special International Railway Congress issue of the Railway Gazette for 1954 English Electric splashed out with their advertising budget taking a series of full colour pages for adverts looking at the company's lineage and products. English Electric had been formed in December 1918 and brought together a number of companies who had been involved in electrical and mechanical engineering along with wartime munitions work. Of the various concerns it was Dick, Kerr of Preston who had been most involved in transport; primarily tramways but also in railways. The following year EE purchased the Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works Limited at Stafford, works that were to become a major centre of EE activity.
Postwar and the early 1920s saw EE, like many other industrial concerns, struggle financially and in 1928 it was necessary to restructure and recapitalise the company to keep it as a going concern. By 1930 it was announced that much of the capital behind the restructuring came from the American Westinghouse businesses. EE now prospered somewhat to become one of the major UK electrical companies alongside GEC and the AEI group. During WW2 EE became involved in aircraft construction and, by acquiring Napier the aero engine company, the post-war aviation business became an important sector. In 1960 this became part of the new British Aircraft Corporation as the sector raionalised under Government pressure.
In terms of railway work, EE made many traction motors and electrification equipment that were used in 1930s schemes for expansion at London Underground and the Southern Railway. The construction of diesel locomotives began in 1936. In post WW2 years EE acquired both the Vulcan Foundry and Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns Ltd in 1955 to strengthen the business. As can be seen from the adverts much of EE's output had been in the form of exports and the UK railway stock shown dated back, some to pre-EE days. In a way the lack of UK materials shows the slow progress that the newly Nationalised British Railways were making in terms of Modernisation and the undertaking's somewhat slow pace in the replacement of steam with diesel and electric traction. In the years after 1954/55 as BR's Modernisation Plan took hold EE did supply many new items of rolling stock to BR.
"The pressure suit was composed of five layers and the team had to make sure that it would hold pressure, as well as check the comm system, connect the antifog filaments in the helmet, and a number of other things."
The wearable patch of tiny circuits, sensors, and wireless transmitters sticks to the skin like a temporary tattoo, stretching and flexing with the skin while maintaining high performance. Photo Courtesy of Materials Science and Engineering Professor John A. Rogers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.