How soon will car hydraulics be heading to Beaulieu Motor Museum? Why do designers love electric? Electrics has big attractions for designers. Electric actuation has made big inroads towards replacing hydraulics in systems everywhere. We have discussed before about the enormous growth in pure electric actuation on aircraft. Out go those hoses, pumps, control valves [...]
The payback game: so just which hydraulic manufacturers will profit from the robot challenge? The FT recently reported that China bought 66,000 out of 240,000 robot units sold globally last year. The UK bought only an estimated 2400 units in 2015, according to statistics from the International Federation of Robotics. It makes riveting [...]
How the driverless cars hype is quickly going to become a reality. Hollywood loves driverless cars. Sarum rated Minority Report for its glimpse into a driverless future. Even the media loves stories of prototype driverless cars getting lost, going too slowly or simply looking odd. It all provided great entertainment about tech biting off more [...]
How today’s Winter London might have looked quite tame 400 years ago. With some true winter mornings arriving this week in the Medieval Town Square of Salisbury and really freezing weather 80 miles away in London, Sarum are dwelling upon winters in the capital some 400 years ago. Sarum just loves the winter spectacle that [...]
Cupertino raises the stakes even higher on consumer gizmo's. "The Consumer Electronics Show (C.E.S) in Las Vegas this week is the gathering place for those who thrive on tech." Sure is, but sometimes big stories get lost in a sea of gizmos. If you are selling millions of devices or gadgets and you need a [...]
Sarum Hydraulics were cheered to see a hydraulic drill bolted on the back of a reindeer sledge for a rather sensible way of taking ice cores in the Arctic. Being December, our thoughts quickly turned to Christmas, and how we could give a tech makeover to Santa’s dashing, if not slightly archaic, sleigh. The old [...]
This week has been a big week in space, both 220 KM up in orbit and also in a galaxy far, far away. Unless you have been hibernating under a very remote rock with a truly awful wi-fi connection, you will be aware that this week marks the latest instalment in the Holy Grail of [...]
Big noise was made across social, digital and print media this week as buzz surrounding the launch of the latest in the Fallout gaming series reached fever pitch. With what was arguably the biggest launch in gaming history, the hotly anticipated release has defied the transient nature of digital culture, with the majority of fans [...]
It’s 1994 and Richard Branson has just had a rather nasty crash in his Range Rover. Whilst Richard might have been unlucky, all those years ago it seemed obvious to engineers that you should never treat this sort of specialist vehicle as a sports car. With high road clearance cometh a high centre of mass, [...]
Sarum Hydraulics explores the twists and turns of hydraulics in the amusement industry. With so many white-knuckle rides available for the British thrill seeker at theme parks across the country, a rather autumnal Sarum Hydraulics reflects on the enduring popularity of the local travelling fun fair. October in Salisbury in Wiltshire and the bright lights [...]
