Coventry and
Warwickshire Retired Engineers
Past Events
Thursday, 17th. April,
2025 = Visit The MTC = Callum Barker
11am and 1pm – Maximum Numbers 12 per visit
Thursday, 24th. April,
2025 = Visit Sherbourne Recycling = 10:30am
Maximum Number of 12.
Thursday, 20th. March, 2025, Aircraft
Carriers, from their earliest beginnings to the present day.
Dr Andrew Syson, Retired University Lecturer.
Slides
Thursday, 20th. February, 2025, The History Of The Land Speed Record
Willy Goldschmidt, BSc. MSc.
39mph in 1898 to 763mph in 1997
Thursday, January 16th. 2025 = Visit
Thursday, 21st. November, 2024 =
The Antikythera Device – Steve Phillips
The Antikythera mechanism is an Ancient Greek hand-powered model of the Solar
System described as the oldest known example
of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses
decades in advance.
Steve Phillips will describe its use and also has a working model
Antikythera
Presentation Slides
Thursday, 17th. October,
2024 = The Long Silence Falls – Dr. John Moyle
The History of Maritime Communications until 2000
Thursday, January 18th. 2024 =
Visit
Our grateful thanks to Sthitadhee Sarkar of National Grid (Centre)
Thursday, February 15th. 2024 =
Thursday, March 21st. 2024 = Improving
the Performance and Lifetime of Batteries for Next Generation Electric
Vehicles.
Dr. Muhammad Ans, M.Eng,
PhD, University of Warwick.
Thursday, November 16th. 2023 = Death In The Desert = Institute of Traffic Accident Investigators - Dominic Harris, FITA
Thursday, October 19th. 2023 =
Manufacture Of First Composite Armoured Vehicle
Protection by NP Aerospace, Coventry
Roger Medwell, MBE CEng. FIET
Visit to Echills Wood Model Railway – 24th. May 2023