MACROBERT - The Royal Academy of Engineering - MacRobert Award 50th Anniversary.
Ted Humble-Smith was commissioned by The Royal Academy of Engineering to help celebrate the 50th and 55th anniversary of the MacRobert Award, one of the UK’s most prestigious awards for engineering excellence and commercial success. The project needed to show the key innovation behind each winner in a new and engaging light.
2007 - gPROMS - Mathematical modelling software.
Temperature, pressure, ingredients, time, power, all infinitely adjustable in the model to show you the result.
This will enable the user to create the optimal performance for the desired outcome.
Set it up, and you can change everything, to see what happens.
An all-seeing digital entity that can help optimise your process.
1986 - Oxford Instruments Group - Superconducting magnets.
The magnetic field is the starting gun. It must be stable and uniform in both space and time. However the creation of such a field with sufficient power would disrupt all metallic objects around it.
In order for MRI to be used within the modern city centre hospitals, the magnetic field needed to be confined.
The placement of one field within another enabled this, and thus MRI could be successfully used within the current hospital environment.
2018 - Owlstone Medical - ReCIVA breath sampler.
It has been suspected for years that breath expelled from our lungs carries clues to our health.
However, capturing those clues requires a number of careful steps and meticulous processes.
Firstly you need to make sure the breath that goes into the lungs is clinically clean, so as not to carry disinformation. Secondly, you need to capture the breath on its exit.
The sample will carry chemical markers, which will give early diagnosis of disease present in the body, and will in time hopefully enable treatment to start earlier.
1978 - Pilkington Brothers Ltd - Triplex Ten-Twenty Windscreen.
Preloaded stresses are held within the combined material. Strengthened glass holds within the outer molecules a tension that when released causes the whole sheet to shatter rather than fragment, which is a huge safety benefit for the occupants of the vehicle.
The ability to bond two sheets together with a clear adhesive ( PVB ) means that the shattered glass now stays roughly together and becomes pliable and movable when broken.
When the sheets are pushed past their limit it’s like a bomb going off inside them, the tension trapped in the outer molecules is realised instantly, causing the shatter effect.
2017 - Raspberry Pi- Micro-computer.
A vehicle to unleash creativity and learning.
"Build a supremely simple computer, and see what students can do with it. We will probably need 3000, we have now made more than 40 million".
The idea was to open a portal to a users imagination and encourage self learning, all growing from a simple start point. Lighting a spark of curiosity, that leads onto a path way to the unknown, where the only barriers are your own imagination.
Raspberry Pi computers now work and exist everywhere, from the ISS to the bottoms of our oceans, at the heart of complex machines.
A Raspberry Pi machine has the potential to release an explosion of learning, feeding the imagination, and unleash endless journeys to discovery with infinite possibilities.
2006 - Optos - Laser retinal scanning.
Imagine trying to photograph a whole room through a key hole from 10cm away.
That’s what Optos had to do, it captures 30 million readings in 0.2 seconds giving an unparalleled image of the retina.
Not only does this give a remarkable insight into the health of the retina, thus giving early indications of eye issues, but also gives future indications for a plethora of other conditions.
2015 - Artemis Intelligent Power - Digital Displacement Hydraulic Transmission .
The innovation grew from a collective study into harnessing the power of the oceans.
Investigation and research into wave power in Scotland, tracing all the way back to the Stephen Salter research group in 1973, which harboured a belief in non-ownership of ideas, created a truly collective approach to problem solving.
Ideas could then take on a life of their own.
2022 - Quanta Dialysis Technologies - SC +System ( portable kidney dialysis ).
Dialysis takes time, involves journeys to hospital three times a week, where you are constantly reminded of your precarious situation.
The emotional stress this will put on your life is immense. However, imagine being able to use a microwave sized machine that sits on your kitchen counter, so simple a 5 year old can help you. Its touch screen looks friendly and there are no medical staff around.
Thanks to Quanta this is now possible, building on valve technology found in disposable fruit juice dispensers, you can now enter enter new dawn of your life.
1969 - Rolls-Royce - For the Pegasus engine used in the Harrier aircraft.
1969 - Freeman, Fox and Partners - For the superstructure of the Severn Bridge.
1972 - EMI Limited - For the application of X Ray techniques for diagnosing brain disease.
1988 - Quantel Limited - For the Paintbox television graphics system and Harry video editing system.
1989 - British Gas - For the “Intelligent PIG” allowing internal inspection of operational pipelines.
1993 - ICI KLEA - For the process and production technology for manufacturing the ozone - benign refrigerant KLEA 134a.
1994 - Soil Machine Dynamics - For the development of subsea cable and pipeline ploughs.
2011 - Microsoft Research - For the Machine-Learning used in the development of the Xbox 360’s human motion capture.
2014 - Cobalt Light Systems - For the innovation of the Insight100 airport security liquid scanner.
2019 - Bombardier - For resin-infused advanced composite wing construction.
MACROBERT - The Royal Academy of Engineering - MacRobert Award 50th Anniversary.
Ted Humble-Smith was commissioned by The Royal Academy of Engineering to help celebrate the 50th and 55th anniversary of the MacRobert Award, one of the UK’s most prestigious awards for engineering excellence and commercial success. The project needed to show the key innovation behind each winner in a new and engaging light.
2007 - gPROMS - Mathematical modelling software.
Temperature, pressure, ingredients, time, power, all infinitely adjustable in the model to show you the result.
This will enable the user to create the optimal performance for the desired outcome.
Set it up, and you can change everything, to see what happens.
An all-seeing digital entity that can help optimise your process.
1986 - Oxford Instruments Group - Superconducting magnets.
The magnetic field is the starting gun. It must be stable and uniform in both space and time. However the creation of such a field with sufficient power would disrupt all metallic objects around it.
In order for MRI to be used within the modern city centre hospitals, the magnetic field needed to be confined.
The placement of one field within another enabled this, and thus MRI could be successfully used within the current hospital environment.
2018 - Owlstone Medical - ReCIVA breath sampler.
It has been suspected for years that breath expelled from our lungs carries clues to our health.
However, capturing those clues requires a number of careful steps and meticulous processes.
Firstly you need to make sure the breath that goes into the lungs is clinically clean, so as not to carry disinformation. Secondly, you need to capture the breath on its exit.
The sample will carry chemical markers, which will give early diagnosis of disease present in the body, and will in time hopefully enable treatment to start earlier.
1978 - Pilkington Brothers Ltd - Triplex Ten-Twenty Windscreen.
Preloaded stresses are held within the combined material. Strengthened glass holds within the outer molecules a tension that when released causes the whole sheet to shatter rather than fragment, which is a huge safety benefit for the occupants of the vehicle.
The ability to bond two sheets together with a clear adhesive ( PVB ) means that the shattered glass now stays roughly together and becomes pliable and movable when broken.
When the sheets are pushed past their limit it’s like a bomb going off inside them, the tension trapped in the outer molecules is realised instantly, causing the shatter effect.
2017 - Raspberry Pi- Micro-computer.
A vehicle to unleash creativity and learning.
"Build a supremely simple computer, and see what students can do with it. We will probably need 3000, we have now made more than 40 million".
The idea was to open a portal to a users imagination and encourage self learning, all growing from a simple start point. Lighting a spark of curiosity, that leads onto a path way to the unknown, where the only barriers are your own imagination.
Raspberry Pi computers now work and exist everywhere, from the ISS to the bottoms of our oceans, at the heart of complex machines.
A Raspberry Pi machine has the potential to release an explosion of learning, feeding the imagination, and unleash endless journeys to discovery with infinite possibilities.
2006 - Optos - Laser retinal scanning.
Imagine trying to photograph a whole room through a key hole from 10cm away.
Thats what Optos had to do, it captures 30 million readings in 0.2 seconds giving an unparalleled image of the retina.
Not only does this give a remarkable insight into the health of the retina, thus giving early indications of eye issues, but also gives future indications for a plethora of other conditions.
2015 - Artemis Intelligent Power - Digital Displacement Hydraulic Transmission .
The innovation grew from a collective study into harnessing the power of the oceans.
Investigation and research into wave power in Scotland, tracing all the way back to the Stephen Salter research group in 1973, which harboured a belief in non-ownership of ideas, created a truly collective approach to problem solving.
Ideas could then take on a life of their own.
2022 - Quanta Dialysis Technologies - SC +System ( portable kidney dialysis ).
Dialysis takes time, involves journeys to hospital three times a week, where you are constantly reminded of your precarious situation.
The emotional stress this will put on your life is immense. However, imagine being able to use a microwave sized machine that sits on your kitchen counter, so simple a 5 year old can help you. Its touch screen looks friendly and there are no medical staff around.
Thanks to Quanta this is now possible, building on valve technology found in disposable fruit juice dispensers you can now enter enter new dawn of your life.
1969 - Rolls-Royce - For the Pegasus engine used in the Harrier aircraft.
1969 - Freeman, Fox and Partners - For the superstructure of the Severn Bridge.
1972 - EMI Limited - For the application of X Ray techniques for diagnosing brain disease.
1988 - Quantel Limited - For the Paintbox television graphics system and Harry video editing system.
1989 - British Gas - For the “Intelligent PIG” allowing internal inspection of operational pipelines.
1993 - ICI KLEA - For the process and production technology for manufacturing the ozone - benign refrigerant KLEA 134a.
1994 - Soil Machine Dynamics - For the development of subsea cable and pipeline ploughs.
2011 - Microsoft Research - For the Machine-Learning used in the development of the Xbox 360’s human motion capture.
2014 - Cobalt Light Systems - For the innovation of the Insight100 airport security liquid scanner.
2019 - Bombardier - For resin-infused advanced composite wing construction.