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SUMMARY:'Coal Conquers Cholera: The Development & Technology of Sewage Treatment' by Nigel Jopson
DESCRIPTION:Joining us IN PERSON – just turn up\, there’s no need to register.\nJoining us ON LINE – click on this zoom link before the event to join in. \nThis is a joint meeting with Thinktank: Birmingham Science Museum \nNigel Jopson's presentation will start with a brief introduction and then will consider the recognition of water-born pathogens as the harbingers of disease and the need to build efficient sewerage systems for the removal of effluent from Victorian cities. The legal and administrative frameworks developed in step with the rise of local government in the 19th century will also be evaluated.  \nNext\, we discuss the motive power for the pumping operations\, the rise of the rotative beam engine and the later developments illustrated with examples of surviving engines. We will consider the historical development of sewage treatment systems\, including the nature and characterisation of effluents both domestic and industrial – both physical and biological treatments will be featured.  \nFinally\, the conclusions that may be drawn will be illustrated. \nAbout the Speaker\nNigel Jopson was a Consultant industrial chemist who retired from the Pulp and Paper industry in 2013. Early in his career\, he was involved in studies on problems with industrial wastewater treatments.  \nHe is also a devout worshipper at the Shrine of Steam!
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/coal-conquers-cholera-the-development-technology-of-sewage-treatment-by-nigel-jopson/
LOCATION:BIRMINGHAM Think Tank\, Birmingham Science Museum\,\, Curzon Street\, Birmingham\, West Midlands\, B4 7XG
CATEGORIES:Newcomen Online Lecture,UK - Midlands Branch
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SUMMARY:'BBC – 100 years of public broadcasting. Disruptive technology in action 1922-2022' by Dr. Mark Pegg
DESCRIPTION:This event is both an in-person and on-line event. To reserve a spot for either option\, please visit the lecture’s Eventbrite page \nIn 2022\, the BBC celebrated 100 years of broadcasting\, having radically transformed Britain. The BBC entered our homes and made radical changes to our society and culture. With its mission to inform and educate as well as entertain\, the BBC soon had a leading role in all the key events of British life – war\, peace\, politics and even the relationship with the monarchy – all changed forever.  \nWhat were the technologies that enabled this to happen: the scientific and technological inventions and innovations that defined the rise and rise of radio and television? This is a timeline of disruptive technologies that created the most powerful force in communications the world had ever seen. As technology continued to progress\, so broadcasting went on re-inventing itself until today it is a convergence of different strands as a digital\, integrated multi-media platform. It is a story of successful technological diffusion\, a series of rapid and transformational impacts on our lives. The focus is on science and technology\, but no account would be complete without the human factor. Broadcasting gave birth to a new breed of personalities: famous speakers\, entertainers and news presenters\, but it also created a cadre of engineers and technicians who made it happen. \nAbout the Lecturer\nMark Pegg read history at Oxford University where his published doctoral thesis was British Broadcasting and Society 1918-1939. He worked in the UK coal mining industry in deep mines and headquarters where he was the Chairman's personal assistant and also researched the modern coal mining history. After working as a management consultant\, he became a Director of a Business School and CEO of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.  \nMark has extensive experience in the UK\, Europe\, Middle East\, Far East and Africa with clients including central governments\, Rolls-Royce plc and the UK Senior Civil Service. He is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.  \nSign Up For This Event Here
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/bbc-100-years-of-public-broadcasting-disruptive-technology-in-action-1922-2022-by-dr-mark-pegg/
LOCATION:LONDON  Alan Baxter Gallery\, 75 Cowcross St\, Clerkenwell\, London\, EC1M 6EL
CATEGORIES:Newcomen Online Lecture,UK - London Branch
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SUMMARY:'The Closed Cycle Gas Turbine' by Dr Fred Starr
DESCRIPTION:Joining us IN PERSON – just turn up\, there’s no need to register.\nJoining us ONLINE – Please click this Zoom Link 10 mins before event to join us (to be added). \nThis talk is about the Closed Cycle Gas Turbine but Dr Fred Starr will also discuss the CCGT or Combined Cycle Gas Turbine\, which supplies up to 65% of Britain's electrical power when the wind isn't blowing or the sun isn't shining. In actual fact\, in the section of British R&D\, in which he worked\, the Closed Cycle Gas Turbine project was deliberately set up to compete with early forms of the CCGT. The Closed Cycle Gas Turbine uses pressurised air\, helium or argon\, in a sort of continuous closed loop. It uses a complex and efficient thermodynamic cycle\, giving a potential advantage over aero-derived and industrial gas turbines. \nThe closed cycle was invented in Switzerland in the 1930s\, at Escher Whyss AG. But another Swiss company\, Brown Boveri AG\, had twenty years experience in the development of the gas turbine for industrial use. Its efforts culminated in the world's first industrial gas turbine at Neuchatel in 1939. There was obviously a flow of information between the two companies\, even though they were in competition. \nThe principal advantage of the Closed Cycle Gas Turbine is that it can use coal or heavy oil\, an impossibility with normal gas turbines. In the post war era\, a number of units were built in countries that had good coal supplies but were short of oil\, and where district heating was common. There was sporadic interest in Britain using peat as a fuel and waste heat from a gas works and some blue skies thinking with the closed cycle in nuclear powered aircraft. The big shortcoming of the closed cycle was that improvements in efficiency demanded a "heater" with tubing that had more high temperature strength and better resistance to corrosion from coal and heavy oil ash. In consequence\, interest died\, apart from a German led programme using a pebble bed high temperature nuclear reactor. \nThe British Gas effort\, around 1990\, was built around the realisation that a new range of "mechanically alloyed" high temperature steels had been developed\, and that natural gas\, when burnt\, does not produce a corrosive ash. Dr Fred Starr "sold" the idea of a high temperature closed cycle to his Assistant Director\, GH Gibson and was told to get on and build a "demonstrator". This was to test out this new high temperature heater\, and incorporate all the salient features of a Combined Cycle Gas Turbine. There will be a brief run through of pictures of the installation. \nReal advances in the nuclear field will come from concepts like the Molten Salt and Molten Lead Reactors. If these were to come about\, the Closed Cycle Gas Turbine fits in very well with these sources of high temperature heat. \nAbout the Speaker\nDr Fred Starr graduated as Metallurgist from Battersea College (now the University of Surrey) in 1966. After a short period\, training to be a shift engineer on a steam reforming plant at Hitchin\, he joined British Gas\, London Research Station\, in Fulham where he remained for 30 years. Initially he did failure investigation on steam reforming plants\, some of which included visits to the sites at Breakwater\, Plymouth\, and Seabank\, Bristol. In this respect\, a big regret was not knowing that the Newcomen Society used to meet at the Science Museum\, just up the road from where he worked in Fulham. \nMuch of Fred’s time at London Research was spent on materials for high temperature gasifiers. When this work terminated\, he came up with novel ideas for generating electricity using natural gas. This included the concept of incorporating a Stirling Engine within a gas boiler\, and the Closed Cycle Gas Turbine project. His deep interest in aircraft and aircraft engines and background in steam reforming were key to the success of the Closed Cycle Gas Turbine “demonstrator”. Privatisation killed real R&D\, and he left British Gas in 1996. Fred’s most important job after leaving British Gas was with the EU’s Joint Research Centre in the Netherlands\, where he did the basic design for a HYPOGEN plant making hydrogen from coal. Despite this\, he is extremely cynical about the hydrogen economy. \nFormally “retiring” in 2007\, Fred became an active member of the Newcomen Society. With the help of Bryan Lawton\, John Anning and Ed Marshall he got the Society to put on a conference on The Piston Engine Revolution (the development of the IC engine). Later on\, he came up with the Swords into Ploughshares conference (how WWI transformed British Engineering).
URL:https://www.newcomen.com/activity/the-closed-cycle-gas-turbine-by-dr-fred-starr/
LOCATION:BRISTOL  BAWA\, 589 Southmead Rd\, Filton\, Bristol\, BS34 7RG
CATEGORIES:Newcomen Online Lecture,UK - Western Branch
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SUMMARY:'You’ll Believe a Man can Fly' by Dr Phil Judkins
DESCRIPTION:Joining us IN PERSON – just turn up\, there’s no need to register.\nJoining us ON LINE – please email meetings.syorks@newcomen.com for zoom link. \nSherburn-in-Elmet airfield\, 1942-4\, and the Airborne Forces Experimental Establishment are trialling unpowered rotary wings on jeeps and trucks\, transatlantic glider tows\, and similar remarkably inventive ways of taking warriors to battle.  \nDr Phil Judkins describes their experiments from the sane and sensible through the weird and wonderful to the downright dangerous\, to Allied troops rather than the enemy!  \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/youll-believe-a-man-can-fly-by-dr-phil-judkins/
LOCATION:SHEFFIELD Kelham Island Museum\, Alma Street\, Sheffield\, South Yorkshire\, S3 8RG
CATEGORIES:Newcomen Online Lecture,UK - South Yorkshire Branch
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