I do hope they keep the name - lovely bit of local history. (View Post)

Was visiting Bristol c. 1990 and walking across the Floating Harbour on the swing bridge near the (future) watery grave of Mr Colston's statue. I think an Armstrong job, given the 1870s date and its … (View Post)

Nah, only His Maj's armed forces. (View Post)

FPT apols but in courtesy to @Taz https://www.jstor.org/stable/3104204 possibly? Sorry, memory very faint. (View Post)

Oh, I don't know. One of the most interesting history of tech papers I ever read was about riveting methods in the aircraft industry in IIRC the 1930s and 1940s. The introduction of new methods had a… (View Post)