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SUMMARY:'The Hallmarking of Silver and Gold' by Dr Jim Andrew
DESCRIPTION:Photo Credit: Rodolph at the English-language Wikipedia \nJoining us IN PERSON – just turn up\, there’s no need to register\nJoining us ONLINE – click on this zoom link before the event to join in \nThis is a joint event with Thinktank\, Birmingham Science Museum \nThe UK’s consumer protection started some seven centuries ago with the marking of gold and silver products to show purity\, date tested and the maker. The method of establishing the purity of silver products evolved over many years with a need for both accuracy and the time taken to test items submitted for assaying\, particularly in busy assay offices.  \nJim Andrew will explain the system and how to access the details of date and maker\, with examples from the last two centuries. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr Jim Andrew is a former museum manager at Birmingham Science Museum\, and is currently Chairman of Newcomen Midlands.
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/the-hallmarking-of-silver-and-gold-by-dr-jim-andrew/
LOCATION:BIRMINGHAM Think Tank\, Birmingham Science Museum\,\, Curzon Street\, Birmingham\, West Midlands\, B4 7XG
CATEGORIES:Shed Talks (Newcomen Online),UK - Midlands Branch
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SUMMARY:'Presidential Address: Maritime Regulation\, a force for good?' by Vaughan Pomeroy
DESCRIPTION:This event is both an in-person and on-line event. No need to register – just come along or click this zoom link to join on-line. \nRegulation has become a target for many political voices\, red tape restricting innovation and business which should be removed or constrained. Of course\, regulations are introduced to achieve many different objectives. The lecture will look at the development of the current maritime safety regulatory regimes\, international\, national and non-statutory\, to set out how innovation has been addressed\, how specific concerns have driven change and attempt to quantify the benefits. It will conclude by considering current challenges and setting these against the safety gains of the past. \nThe lecture rests heavily on the experience of the speaker gained during forty years working in heavily regulated industries including thirty years with Lloyd’s Register of Shipping. \nAbout the Speaker\nVaughan Pomeroy began his engineering career with British Aircraft Corporation at Weybridge. He then worked with Mott\, Hay and Anderson\, on the design and construction of infrastructure projects including tunnels\, water supply and irrigation schemes\, power generation and distribution and building services.  \nVaughan then spent over thirty years until June 2010 with Lloyd’s Register\, ultimately as the Marine Technical Director responsible for the technical policy of the marine business of that classification society.  \nHe is an engineering graduate of the University of Cambridge\, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects\, a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Fellow and Honorary Vice President of the Institute of Marine Engineering\, Science and Technology and a Chartered Engineer.
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/presidential-address-maritime-regulation-a-force-for-good-by-vaughan-pomeroy/
LOCATION:LONDON  Alan Baxter Gallery\, 75 Cowcross St\, Clerkenwell\, London\, EC1M 6EL
CATEGORIES:Shed Talks (Newcomen Online),UK - London Branch
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ORGANIZER;CN="Newcomen - London Branch":MAILTO:office@newcomen.com
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SUMMARY:'New Maps of Hell: the first years of naval drones & anti-shipping guided missiles' by Dr Phil Judkins
DESCRIPTION:Photo Credit: Public Domain via the US Federal Government \nJoining us IN PERSON – just turn up\, there’s no need to register\nJoining us on-line – Zoom ID: 819 9793 5066 \nIn the Black Sea\, Russia’s fleet has almost ceased to exist\, thanks to a weapon we think of as ultra-modern. Except it isn’t. The first naval drone was German; its first casualty was an Ipswich man\, and the year was 1917! \nDr Phil Judkins traces the history of naval drones and missiles\, and defences against them\, over the last century – a story with many surprises. In the Second World War\, Germany’s devices\, little recorded in history\, sank one battleship\, crippled two more\, sank one heavy cruiser and crippled two more; even less recorded is that Britain’s first response was using electric shavers to jam radio command signals. Not admitted for over 20 years was the biggest single loss of life at sea to US forces\, which occurred in an almost unknown battle between 40 German missiles and two US shipborne radio jammers. \nThe use of similar missiles is traced through the Falklands\, and then brought up to date with the rapid pace of development in the Ukraine\, and of British anti-drone devices such as DragonFire and the less romantically-named Ealing Project. \nThe lecture concludes with contemplation of the future of Britain’s naval carrier forces against the potential opposition of Chinese stealth Ju Tian drone ‘mother-ships’\, each capable of carrying sizeable drone swarms with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) capability thousands of miles before release. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr Phil Judkins’ love of industrial archaeology stems from his childhood playground being an abandoned Victorian waterworks\, with no Health and Safety to concern him! Cambridge’s Classical Archaeology course led to several years in ‘dirt archaeology’\, followed by a management career which ranged from the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment to the City of London. Phil then gave structure to his abiding interest of historic defence electronics through a Cranfield PhD in the history of radar\, and successive Fellowships at the UK’s Defence Academy and at Buckingham University’s Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies. \nHe currently chairs the Defence Electronics History Society and the Purbeck Radar Museum Trust\, in addition to serving on the Committee of the South Yorkshire Newcomen Society\, and lectures on defence topics throughout the UK\, Phil’s particular perspective is to present the role of electronics in conflict as seen by all the contending parties\, rather than from a single national perspective\, so that he welcomes collaboration with colleagues internationally.
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/new-maps-of-hell-the-first-years-of-naval-drones-anti-shipping-guided-missiles-by-dr-phil-judkins/
LOCATION:SHEFFIELD Kelham Island Museum\, Alma Street\, Sheffield\, South Yorkshire\, S3 8RG
CATEGORIES:Shed Talks (Newcomen Online),UK - South Yorkshire Branch
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ORGANIZER;CN="Newcomen - South Yorkshire Branch":MAILTO:meetings.syorks@newcomen.com
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