On Wednesday May 14th 10 members of the Science & Technology Group made their way to Baginton Airfield otherwise known as Coventry Airport which over the years has been a popular departure point for holiday makers and before that the site of a military aircraft factory owned by Armstrong Whitworth where the Hawker Hunter, Gloster… Read more

On March 6th group member Ray Bradfield gave an enlightening talk entitled Food Myths Part 2, to an audience of a dozen or so at Loder Hall. The talk followed on from his earlier talk about sugar. The public have been made to believe that fat is the bad guy and it shouldn`t be eaten… Read more

On February 6th, Tim Simmons gave us an enlightening talk on electronic “wafer” circuit boards which are the basis of all electronic devices. Through history components have reduced in size. The first dramatic reduction was when the transistor replaced the glass enveloped thermionic valve in the 1940s. Modern integrated circuits, which can be found in… Read more

On December 5th 14 members of the Science & Technology group met to hear from Colin Rowe about Rocket Technology covering the history starting in the 1930s in Germany where at the seaside village of Peenemunde on the Baltic coast the first V2 rocket to enter space would be launched in October 1943. Occurring simultaneously… Read more

This presentation given by Ray Bradfield on Thursday 7th November was inconclusive - in his own words most articles on the TV and in the news media are experts’ opinions and are not to be taken as scientific fact. Over the years we have been told by various eminent people that animal fat is bad… Read more

Fifteen members of the group met on Thursday 3rd October at Loder Hall to hear group member, Tim Simmons, enlighten us on the now topical subject of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The history of AI goes back to the 1940s and Alan Turing, based at Bletchley Park. Turing, considered to be the father of digital computing… Read more

On Thursday September 5th, 16 members of the Science & Technology group met at Loder Hall, Maidwell, to hear from one of our own members, Ray Bradfield, about the seriousness of heat exhaustion leading to heat stroke. We heard about its causes and prevention, particularly in the elderly, and all were surprised at the outcome… Read more

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