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Historic Environment Record for H BUILDING, Malvern, UK
The building, having military purposes and designated locally as H building, sits on a former Government Research site in Malvern, Worcestershire at Grid Ref SO 786 447. This site was the home of the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) from 1946. It has been owned by QinetiQ since 2001 and is in the process (October 2017 to February 2018) of being sold for redevelopment.
This unique building has at its heart a ‘Rotor’ bunker with attached buildings to house radar screens and operators as well as plant such as emergency generators. Twenty nine Rotor operational underground bunkers were built in great urgency around Britain to modernise the national air defence network, following the Soviet nuclear test in 1949. Two factors make H building’s construction and purpose unique; this prototype is the only Rotor bunker built above ground and it was the home to National Air Defence government research for 30 years.This example of a ROTOR bunker is unique instead of being buried, it was built above ground to save time and expense, as it was not required to be below ground for its research purpose.
H Building was the prototype version of the Rotor project R4 Sector Operations Centre air defence bunkers. Construction began in August 1952 with great urgency - work went on 24 hours a day under arc lights. The main bunker is constructed from cross bonded engineering bricks to
form walls more than 2 feet thick in a rectangle approximately 65ft x 50ft. The two internal floors are suspended from the ceiling. The original surrounding buildings comprise, two radar control and operator rooms, offices and machine plant.
The building was in generally good order and complete. The internal layout of the bunker remains as originally designed. The internal surfaces and services have been maintained and modernised over the 55 years since its construction (Figure 3). The first floor has been closed over.
There are some later external building additions around the periphery to provide additional accommodation.
In parts of the building the suspended floor remains, with 1950s vintage fittings beneath such as patch panels and ventilation ducts.
The building has been empty since the Defence Science & Technology Laboratories [Dstl] moved out in October 2008
As lead for radar research, RRE was responsible for the design of both the replacement radars for the Chain Home radars and the command and control systems for UK National Air Defence.
Project Rotor was based around the Type 80 radar and Type 13 height finder. The first prototype type 80 was built at Malvern in 1953 code named Green Garlic. Live radar feeds against aircraft sorties, were fed into the building to carry out trials of new methods plotting and reporting air activity
A major upgrade of the UK radar network was planned in the late 1950s – Project ‘Linesman’ (military) / ‘Mediator’ (civil) – based around Type 84 / 85 primary radars and the HF200 height finder. A prototype type 85 radar (Blue Yeoman) was built adjacent to H Building in 1959. live radar returns were piped into H Building.
Subsequently a scheme to combine the military and civil radar networks was proposed. The building supported the research for the fully computerised air defence scheme known as Linesman, developed in the 1960s, and a more integrated and flexible system (United Kingdom Air Defence Ground Environment or UKADGE) in the 1970s.
The building was then used for various research purposes until the government relinquished the main site to QinetiQ in 2001. Government scientists continued to use the building until 2008. Throughout its life access was strictly controlled by a dedicated pass sytem.
Notable civil spin-offs from the research in this building include the invention of touch screens and the whole UK Civil Air Traffic Control system which set the standard for Europe.
Chronology
1952 - Construction work is begun. The layout of the bunker area duplicates the underground version built at RAF Bawburgh.
1953 - Construction work is largely completed.
1954 - The building is equipped and ready for experiments.
1956-1958 - Addition of 2nd storey to offices
1957-1960 - Experiments of automatic tracking, novel plot projection systems and data management and communications systems tested.
1960-1970 - Project Linesman mediator experiments carried out including a novel display technique known as a Touch screen ( A World First)
TOUCHSCREEN
A team led by Eric Johnson in H building at Malvern. RRE Tech Note 721 states: This device, the Touch Sensitive Electronic Data Display, or more shortly the ‘Touch Display’, appears to have the potential to provide a very efficient coupling between man and machine. (E A Johnson 1966). See also patent GB 1172222.
Information From Hugh Williams/mraths
1980-1990 - During this period experiments are moved to another building and H building is underused.
1990-1993 - The building was re-purposed and the bunker (room H57) had the first floor closed over to add extra floor area.
2008- The bunker was used until late 2008 for classified research / Joint intelligence centre
2019 - Visual Recording of the buildings interior by MRATHS. Be means of a LIDAR scan and photographs being taken. The exterior was mapped with a drone to allow a 3D Image of the building to be created via Photogrammetry. This was created in Autodesk Photo Recap.
2020 - Building demolished as part of the redevelopment of the site.
Information sourced from MRATHS
Acer Iconia ad on flexibility - the device is a pair of touchscreens, The concept is communicated in a dramatically eye-catching manner with ultra flexible people actually working on the machines. I don't think they actually wore office clothing in the photoshoot but you never know.
After the iPhone I try to swipe and tap my laptop screen too so I can understand the attraction, but I'm not sure about typing on a screen.
Couldn't get a wider angle shot as this ad fills up a wall along a narrow corridor. I was basically at the other edge of the corridor trying to get the picture in.
Lovely touch screen to find stuff in the CNIT. Rarely see anyone use it. Nobody seems bothered that it's crashed.
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All the General Ticketing Machines (except the second from the left), are the new generation machines which are fully touchscreen capable.
In the last two years, tablet computing has become the mainstream, with the iPad leading the charge. For the children of today, touchscreen technology is the blackboard of tomorrow.
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Here's my broken Sony (ebook) Reader - an opportunity to venture inside and find out how a touchscreen works! Unlike smartphones, which have capacitive touchscreens that sense electricity in your fingers, Sony Readers use somewhat simpler infrared touchscreens. They lay a criss-cross pattern of infrared beams over the surface that your fingers interrupt - a bit like Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible - signalling to the processor inside which bit of the screen you're pressing.
This photo is from our article on how touchscreens work.
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Who can blame them? That mobile device they're used to carry around everywhere is a simple do-it-all gadget. They connect with their (virtual) friends, play games, shop with the tips of their fingers and see the world they will probably never visit.
Besides, they seem to already miss the great view in front of them.
You think they care? They have a life to appreciate things that now take for granted or seem unimportant.
Don't we all?
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Here's a closeup of the main circuit board. The big hole at the top is where the battery normally goes. But of most interest are all those little yellow/white dots around the screen. Those are the light emitters and detectors that shoot infrared beams across the surface of the screen to detect your fingers.
This photo is from our article on how touchscreens work.
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Dell XPS 13 (2015) Infinity Display with Touchscreen at local Microsoft Store for $1,299.
Dell XPS 13 (2015) Infinity Display with Touchscreen at local Microsoft Store for $1,299.
I don't own the new XPS 13 (2015). I played with the touch display version for about 45 minutes in the Microsoft store. Also, I played with the non-touch, 1080p matted display for a couple of minutes. Reading web articles (using IE browser), this matted display showed jaggies on the letters and also was dimmer and the colors were less vibrant. The touch screen's high-resolution display was much better in every way (and no jaggies were visible in the web browser) except it had plenty of annoying glare.
Keyboard was only okay to type on. I wanted more downward travel on each keystroke for better confirmation of key press. There was some key wobble. The MacBook Air keys definitely feels better, sturdier, and more comfortable to type on than this XPS keyboard.
Speaker sound was loud enough for me to not have to strain to listen to YouTube's Adele music video playing in the Microsoft store's moderate background noise. But the sound quality was only so-so. I have definitely heard better sound from other laptops.
Cold start and shutdown times were very fast! I was impressed probably because I am accustomed to using Windows 8.1 on hard drives on my laptops.
Pros:
1. Small screen border enabling a form factor of a typical 11" laptop yet have a 13" screen (Wow and bravo to both Sharp and Dell!).
2. Very pleasing, high quality looking touch screen. Viewing angles seemed wide (both vertical and horizontal). Touch works good/responsive too!
3. Loud speakers positioned next to keyboard. But sound quality is only so-so (not the best, but not the worst I've heard from a laptop).
Cons:
1. The matted non-touch screen was average looking. Jaggies showed on the text; the colors were muted.
2. Trackpad: Sometimes I had to try multiple times to get the two finger scrolling to work on the trackpad. This was such annoyance that I just used the touch screen to scroll or I wished I had a mouse wheel to use!
3. Opening the closed lid required using two hands. I tried it with one hand and the lid would only open about one inch before it stopped opening and the bottom of the laptop then lifted up into the air. Also, I had to find the right spot on the edge of the lid in order to separate it from the bottom part. This definitely is not as quick in opening as say on the Macbook Air.
BTW, I never own one or use a Macbook Air regularly, only evaluated them hands-on at Best Buy. Same for the Dell XPS 13 (2015); I don't own one; only test drove it for 45 minutes in the store.
TheVerge article said "Dell's XPS 13 is a look at the future of laptops" and I would agree with that. Seeing and using this laptop, there's no going back to using laptops with bigger screen bezels. But, this laptop (with touch screen) is too pricey. One year from now, other brands will have these small bezel touchscreens too. I want this Dell now, but I can wait for a much lower price.
Photobooth continues to serve me very well as an ad-hoc project tool.
Resulting stencils available here: www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/12/touchscreen-stencils/
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Removing a few screws, we get three main components - the display surround (left), the touchscreen (right), and the PCB with the infrared touchscreen LEDs and light detectors dotted around it. Normally there's a battery in that big hole, but I've removed it already.
This photo is from our article on how touchscreens work.
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Mobility and business telecommunication technology concept: modern mobile devices with touchscreen interface - office tablet computer PC and black glossy smartphone or mobile phone isolated on white background with reflection effect
Mice, and now touchscreens, have become a daily part of our lives in the way we interact with computers. But what about people who lack the ability to use a mouse or touchscreen? Or situations where these would be impractical or outright dangerous?
My research addresses extreme human machine interaction ranging from investigating interaction issues for people with severe physical impairment to proposing new interaction techniques for combat aircraft pilots and automotive drivers, where the context itself imposes situational impairment. I have developed user model and investigated new modalities of interaction involving eye-gaze, head-movement and hand-gesture trackers. I have worked with Indian universities to improve quality of life of rural UK and Indian population as well as collaborated with a major defence company to exploit traditional 'accessibility features' for military combat aircrafts. I have invented new algorithms to simulate users’ interaction with an electronic screen and target prediction technology to facilitate human machine interaction.
This particular photo entry is a collage of our user survey, demonstration and exhibition. In the following paragraphs I have briefly described each photograph.
1: Picture Description
Picure 1: The top left photograph was taken at a rural old-age home at Mandi, India, where I conducted a survey on the exposure and limitation of modern interactive technologies of rural Indian population. Results from my survey was later published in a monograph published by Springer (www.springer.com/computer/hci/book/978-3-319-06165-8).
Picture 2: Picture from a user study from India, computer-novice users found our eye-gaze tracking based system easier and faster to use than conventional computer mouse.
Picture 3 to 5: We have demonstrated our technologies at many different conferences, exhibitions and user trial, where member of public and even children could use our system without any difficulty.
Pictures 6 & 7: These pictures are showing my colleagues using eye gaze tracking based devices while operating a flight simulator as part of a BAE Systems funded project.
Picture 8:The picture was taken at IIT, Mandi as part of a project to explore use of eye gaze tracking to operate a dashboard while driving, so that drivers need not to take their hands off from steering wheel. Presently I am working with Jaguar Land Rover to further explore utility of eye gaze tracking interface in automotive environment.
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This is the Samsung Galaxy S, one of my first touchscreen phones. Doing what I do, it's bit surprising that my Project365 doesn't have more "technology" shots. Visiting museums and such, I'm finding that technology is one of those things that really allows us to date items. It's only in the last few years that touchscreen phones became popular, before that the sliders and flip phones were the norm and even earlier than that the giant Motorola bricks were common. A cell phone shot just had to be a part of my 365 of 2013/2014. A good benefit of touchscreen technology coupled with Internet access and fairly large local storage is that it's a very handy with-me-all-the-time photographer field notes book.
LAPD Pontiac/Holden G8 Technology Demonstrator @ LAPD West Valley Open House. The final version will have a 7 inch longer frame, maintain the Corvette C8 engine and much of the technology. The body will be changed and it will be known as the Chevy Caprice. It should be finalized and tested by 2012 and in production around 2013-2014. The Front panel is just a touchscreen, all of the computing power is in the rear trunk which has its own cooling sytem
Upgraded, touchscreen navigation is one of many new features onboard U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations' newest vessel, a 41-foot SAFE boat on display this week near the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., Sept. 25, 2019. CBP photo by Glenn Fawcett
Fitted an external PSU from linitx.com/product_info.php?cPath=24_54&products_id=142 which has solved the heat problems. Added an extra 64MB RAM. Added connectors for USB and audio under the front flap. Tried to fit the insides of a £4 set of speakers, but managed to break the amp I think. The speakers were already glued in place by this time. I'll try again later with a better amp.
Look closely and you'll also spot that there are light diffusers in the screen surround, lined up exactly with the light emitters and detectors. So I'm assuming light beams fan up and out from the emitters along these little grooves, which turn them into fairly precise parallel lines of invisible light.
This photo is from our article on how touchscreens work.
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I booted it up to see what would happen and it looks like it should work fine. It has 128 MB of ram, and an older AMD CPU. I am not sure how fast it is, I seem to recall PlayerTwo saying that it was 1 Ghz
Toshiba Satellite S40t is 14.1-inch touchscreen laptop under RM2000. Read my review for Toshiba Satellite S40t specs, features and performance benchmark. www.liewcf.com/toshiba-s40t-laptop-review-15695/