March 2015

Honoured at last: A tribute to an inventor who saved millions of lives during World War II

30/03/2015

He’s the genius inventor who helped save millions of lives during the Second World War, but whose achievements went unheralded following an early death. However, this is not the tale of Alan Turing – but Alan Dower Blumlein, who was killed in a plane crash while developing Britain’s superior airborne radar system. Blumlein will receive…

IPS sells out at BVE

21/03/2015

When IPS Chairman Simon Bishop gave his talk on “Good Sound Cheap” at BVE, such was the interest that it was standing room only as the crowd spilled out from the theatre.