Engineers Report Book August 1918
Gentlemen, I beg to report that In July last I received a letter from the Vulcan Boiler General Insurance Company Ltd dated 10th of that month pointing out that the boilers at the Goldstone pumping station were now 56 years old and that even when new had only a moderate factor of safety, and asking that the pressure in future should be reduced from 60 to 40 lbs to the square inch.
Your Obedient Servant
My Notebook November 2009
Ladies and Gentlemen
With numerous diggers paving way for the new kitchens, I wandered to the boiler room to attend to the task of envisaging myself meandering round the exhibition. Suddenly I seized on the idea of how the sound will work, a giddy rush emerging on the Number 5B as I penned it in my notebook.
Enlarging and cropping has been the week’s task in hand, and contemplating funding. With a couple of possibilities on the horizon realising this project with less compromise is an option. I know now what I need to achieve with the sound. I’m ring fencing ideas and about to launch my plans on the Engineerium for consent, before I start writing yet another plea for additional funds. Adventurous it may be, but I am endeavouring to drive my work forward.
To quote James Nasmyth (inventor of the steam hammer, 1808-1890)
‘It is one of the most delightful results of the possession of the constructive faculty, that one can build up in the mind mechanical structures and set them to work in imagination…It is the early cultivation of the imagination which gives the right flexibility to the thinking faculty….’ from the British Engineerium executive summary circa 1993.
