Girls Can Engineer is a book aimed at getting more girls interested in engineering careers, according to its publisher Pertemps Network: “The key message is that there are no barriers to girls following careers in science, technology, engineering and maths – STEM – sectors.” Aimed at at girls aged seven to nine, “Tech She Can helps all children, especially girls, ...
There was once a revolutionary who was in prison with an engineer. In their prison the engineer expounded on the wonders of electricity and turned the revolutionary into a fervent advocate of electrification.
‘A bank analyst rings me today to tell me about a young company with a market busting product,’ Ed confides to his diary, ‘I know the analyst is only after a fee for M&A, and what he doesn’t know is that The Brats won’t let me have money for M&A but here’s a chance to get growth, and if I ...
Long, long ago, when the world was bipolar, there was an engineer in a far off land who thought the world should be MOS.
I am rather proud of this as there cannot be many fully-LED lit rooms in the world yet. After a year of contemplation, months of designing, weeks of ordering, days of freezing in the workshop, and hours of wiring in the loft....
There was once a CEO of a start-up who was ousted by his VCs. He decided to start a new company but found it so difficult getting funding that he maxed out all his credit cards to keep going.
Always nice to see a thoughtful piece of design, wherever you find it. I came across another neat tin-opener this weekend - the first was the classic P-38.
On November 15th 1971 the world’s first commercially available microprocessor, Intel’s 4bit 4004, was advertised in Electronics News as a ‘micro-programmable computer on a chip’.
Some clever soul thought of off-setting the vertical infill bars in the pedestrian guard railings near crossings in such a way that kids were visible through the railings before they ran out across the crossing.
I found this, and things like this, in Scotland. Each time, they were in pairs, one on either side of a path in the mountains. My guess is that they detect the passage of people along the path, possibly by microwave
