Donald Trump, let an engineer help you. We get that you find scientists—despite their amazing feats of discovery and selfless pursuit of new knowledge—too ideological, independent and consumed by contentious claims about climate. So like the last Republican president, you will probably go a long time before selecting a science advisor (George W. Bush had been in the White House over seven months before he chose a physicist). Here’s a bold idea: why not break with tradition and do ...

Herbert Akroyd-Stuart was born on 28 January 1864 at Halifax, Yorkshire, England. He was the son of Charles Stuart, described as a machinists' modelmaker, and his wife Ann, née Akroyd. Akroyd-Stuart attended Newbury Grammar School, Berkshire, and the City and Guilds Technical College, Finsbury, where he assisted in the mechanical engineering department, and later worked in his father's Bletchley Iron and Tinplate Works, which he managed after his father’s death. Various experiments in ...

The ruined church of St Mary’s of Bannow stands on a grassy headland at the mouth of Bannow Bay, in the south-east corner of Ireland. Cows graze up to the low stone walls of the graveyard that surrounds the roofless church. This is all that now remains of the once-thriving medieval town of Bannow. The location, the extent and the layout of the town have been the subject of speculation; it has been described variously, and erroneously, as having sunk under the sea, an Irish Heracleion, or ...

In October 1946, after a stuttering start, The Engineers Journal first became a regular publication. Two editions had been printed prior to this date – in December 1940 and again a year later – but ‘The Emergency’ and the consequent restrictions on paper put a temporary stop to the fledgling publication. To mark the 70th anniversary proper of the Journal, and its beginnings as a regular publication for members of the then Cummann na n-Innealtóirí, we are reproducing the October 1946 ...

The RTE series ‘Building Ireland’ returns this month to explore and explain how Ireland’s great building and engineering achievements came to be, and their impact on the development of our towns and cities. In the company of an enthusiastic team of experts, the series marries local heritage with construction technology and engineering. Architecture, geography and engineering are the disciplines brought to bear; each programme focuses on a prime example of Ireland’s built heritage and ...

[caption id="attachment_32163" align="alignright" width="259"] William Dargan: engineer, entrepreneur and humanitarian[/caption] In 1867, a great Irishman was laid to rest. An honour guard of 700 rail-workers and a funeral cortege of 230 carriages mournfully processed to Glasnevin Cemetery and his mortal remains were reverentially placed beside that of another great Irishman, the ‘Great Emancipator’ himself, Daniel O’Connell. But who was this man who was so greatly honoured? An ...