• Question: What is your most impressive invention?

    Asked by 678speq38 to Stephen, Sita, Rory, Hannah, Brian, Alison on 5 Mar 2019.
    • Photo: Hannah Currivan

      Hannah Currivan answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      I have not invented anything. 🙂 But one day I will !!! 🙂
      I have made a rail with a stepping motor which flex’s data tapes! I did this as part of my Particle Physics Summer Internship at the University of Glasgow. These data tapes were prototypes for CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) home of the Large Hadron Collider, and especially for one of its detectors called the LHCb ( Large Hadron Collider beauty), its jobs is to detect slight differences between matter and antimatter. The reason I was flexing the data tapes that are to be used for the LHCb was to see if the data being read was being affected by the small flexing it will experience as the detector moves (the detectors move, but very little). This upgrade to the LHCb has been happening since 2018 and will continue for 2019. 🙂 🙂 🙂

    • Photo: Sita Karki

      Sita Karki answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      My most impressive invention is I developed the techniques to process the satellite data to find out if there are landslides or not using Radar.

    • Photo: Rory Scarrott

      Rory Scarrott answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      Hmmm… when I was about five or six, I once tried to protect some pea plants I was growing from slugs by putting together a (super-cool I thought) battery-powered electric fence around them, with a working lightbulb. I think I had been inspired by a trailer of Jurassic Park I’d seen. It worked for about 3 hours before the batteries ran out… :/

    • Photo: Alison Dufresne

      Alison Dufresne answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      Hmmmm *scratches head*. I guess the “direct injection bi-prop 3D printed engine” is pretty impressive. I didn’t do it alone (very little in engineering is done alone!) but I did play a hand in it and I am quite proud of it. We fired it a lot recently and I got to press the button to ignite it. One of the better experiences I’ve ever had. 🙂

    • Photo: Stephen O'Connor

      Stephen O'Connor answered on 8 Mar 2019:

      Honestly, probably a tree house with my friends when I was younger – it was my first construction job and it lasted REALLY well! We also made a swing ladder for it 🙂

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