About 1988
Thurrock residents tell of life under a 'bankrupt' council
... Thurrock Council, which covers an area of Essex just north of the Thames estuary, is merely one of an increasing number to have issued a notice under section 114 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 - effectively meaning the authority is bankrupt...
What are semiconductors and how are they used?
... Americo Lemos, CEO of IQE, a British semiconductor company founded 1988 - and a member of the panel - told the BBC the initial cash injection was " an important step forward" and a " very, very good investment"...
Where next for Scotland as the Nicola Sturgeon era ends?
... Was it though? The SNP had scored spectacular by-election successes before — Motherwell in 1945; Hamilton in 1967; and Glasgow Govan in 1973 and 1988 — only to lose each seat at the subsequent general election...
Nolly: Helena Bonham Carter on soaps, sexism and the death of cinema
... Having written for soaps himself early in his career - he even penned a trial script for Crossroads just before it was axed in 1988 - Davies was keen to give the late actress one more moment in the spotlight and examine why she was suddenly axed...
US court blocks Penguin merger with Simon & Schuster
... The company triggered major controversies with the 1960 publication of DH Lawrence s Lady Chatterley s Lover and The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie in 1988...
Jean-Luc Godard: Visionary director's life and films in pictures
... In his home country, he was awarded an Honorary César trophy twice, in 1987 and 1988 - with the latter presented by Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood...
Was moral campaigner Mary Whitehouse ahead of her time?
... Ofcom has its origins in the Broadcasting Standards Council set up in 1988 - the outcome of her decades long push for ordinary citizens to have an ongoing role in the monitoring of broadcasting standards...
Britain's fabulously cool' engineering innovation
... the image he produced, Quantel Paintbox (MacRobert winner: 1988)...
Britain's" fabulously cool' engineering innovation
The CT scanner", the Vision of Ted Humble-Smith: "It's hell, an invention is"
Ted Humble-Smith is a conceptual still life photographer. He is known for his fashion work. Ted can you take a lipstick or a watch, and with his exceptional vision and skill to turn The Beautiful Into Something even more beautiful.
But you talk to him for a few minutes and it is not clear, he only sees the color and shape of his subjects, but the engineering, the basis for their design.
In fact, it Ted is obviously a passion for you. He points to the 4-inch stiletto heel.
"Everyone laughs when I talk about it," he told me. "But you have this thing That is so elegant, so beautiful - and yet, at the same time, there must be some serious engineering Sciences and mathematics, it also.
"Eight stones, at least by a square centimeter. These Are big loads, but you rarely see people snap their heels in These Days . "
Ted only has his prying eyes to a project for the Royal Academy of Engineering.
He produced a series of images That celebrate, which honors examples of remarkable British innovation. From the aerodynamic design of the Severn Bridge -composite wing of an Airbus Jet .
2019 Winner - Bombardier: The Company developed a resin Infusion of advanced composite wing, now on the Airbus A220The Photos Are clearly conceptual in nature, but the ideas That went be considered in their creation, directly from the interviews with the engineers involved.
Ted took their statements, extracted The Essence , And Then transferred his subjects. His favorite photo at The Moment ; The Choice missed is the EMI X-ray brain scanner, The World 's first Computed Tomography (CT) machine for use in a clinical setting (MacRobert Winner : 1972).
An illuminated, transparent skull That is cut by a rotating disk. The visual narrative describes The Process by which X-rays Are able to build a picture of The Brain , slice by slice.
"It is hell, an invention," says Ted . "When you consider That , if you wanted to look in someone's brain before, in That case basically you had to cut on a bacon slicer And Then put it on a light. The CT scanner is phenomenal. "
1989 - Winner - British Gas : There's a hidden area beneath our feet, where "pigging" devices, inspect pipingTed many of the objects he photographed builds. At first glance, you might think That he has done everything in a software package on his computer. You'd be wrong.
Ted models used were recorded, illuminated in interesting ways and under different exposures. Sure, some of the images have been stacked, and each of the scaffold, such as rods and wires, has been digitally erased. But you would be able to keep his MacRobert models in your hands.
the Image he produced, Quantel Paintbox (MacRobert Winner : 1988 ). Very aptly in this connection.
1988 Winner - Quantel Ltd: TV meteorologists were to adopt The First Paintbox. It allows you to revolutionized dump magnetic-stick-clouds on your cardsPaintbox computer graphics on film and television. It is the industry enabled for the First Time , in order to digitize correctly, color and really play with him on our screens (see the Dire Straits video Money for Nothing).
In his own Image , Ted encoded in his mind's eye paint fly curved plastic films. "You can freeze liquids in photography now. I wanted it to look like the color was exploded on the screen. So, you can do it in a very complicated way with robots and paint guns, or you can do it, in the somewhat haphazard fashion, we have. Basically, you spin, color. "
A wonderful confusion in the studio made for an impressive picture.
A photo shoot in Ted 's studio can be very messyTed 's pictures for the MacRobert 50-year anniversary is presented in an online exhibition of the Royal Academy of Engineering has developed with The National Science and Media Museum in Bradford. And for a taste of the kind of images, Ted The finalists for the year 2020, the MacRobert award have just been announced, and is best known for,
. There Are three in The Shortlist , and they Are all recognized contribution of innovation to a greener future. They Are :
2002 - Winner - CDT: plastic Electronics form the basis for our smartphones. Richard Friend patent-projected, curved plastic sheet (courtesy of GREAT-campaign/IPO)Professor Sir Richard Friend is the Chairman of the Jury. He is also a past Winner for his work on "plastic Electronics " Technology , which has reached ubiquity in the touch screens of our mobile phones.
He said to me: "The companies nominated this year Are wonderful examples of the Things That you have, perhaps, thought That great Britain was to emerge The Natural place for their innovations. We sometimes, we write ourselves out of The World player in quite a few technologies. There is no reason for it and the MacRobert award for keeps, is presented with cases That , quite obviously, in The World . "
It is an issue, stressed Ted Humble-Smith, who professes to have been something of a conversion during his photographic projects.
"I'm quite despondent about where Britain was in The World -That the United Kingdom never seems to do nothing more," he recalls. "But then I started to talk to the people today, and it gave me a whole new belief, and in fact, there Are some incredibly cool stuff happening in the UK. The United Kingdom and to innovate some incredible Things . "
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