The story so far

My life's interests have always been photography and electronics.

Briefly:-

At around 8 years old I made a crystal set and fitted it to my bicycle, cycled around listening to the 'Home' service on headphones.

At the age of 12 my Dad gave me his old roll film camera and a film to put in it.

After our holidays I insisted on developing and printing it myself. I still have some of the negatives.

I attended St Albans Grammar and when we moved to Epsom in 1951went to Glyn Grammar School.

I went to the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts to study photography and art.

I won the Shell Photographic Training Scholarship in 1957.

I loved taking photos of people in their surroundings. At that time London  was still a bomb site after WW2.

I did a few years in advertising photography then took a job as photographer with Redifon Flight Simulation, which  also included  technical writing, starting with writiing captions for the photos.

I did an HNC course in digital electronics and computer science

I became a 'radio ham' G3VJM

I  was with Connevans, Lawtronics, Tetronics, and Philips before working for myself which I have done since 1975.

I was Chief Engineer with Connevans designing language laboratories - a group of tape recorders linked together for schools to teach languages. I also developed auditory trainers in conjunction with the RNID.

I joined Tetronics as electronics engineer and photographer. Tetronics (the forth state of matter) were developing some of the earliest gas plasma devices,  we developed under water rock drills for boreholes and also making sub micron particles for the oil industry. See Tetronics International

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With Philips I was a senior engineer  selling 'thick film technology' one of the earliest  forms of subminiature  microelectronics.

I married a beautiful girl from Finland in Oulu cathederal in 1968

We have 2 sons who are now married and 4 grandchildren.

I joined the Geological Museum, London as an audio visual contractor in 1976. With my visual arts and electronics knowledge I have spent many years working with designers and scientists designing and making interactive museum and exhibition displays to interest and hopefully educate visitors. Some of my work can be seen in the drop down menus above.

In around1978 a group was formed in the basement of The Geological Museum called 'Engineering Geology'.

The object of the group was to apply electronic analysis to the study of minerals. As a contractor I was able to help them develop circuits and produce them on printed circuit boards.

Work with this department continued for 20 years, culminating in the development of a device for measuring the salt content of rock without touching it. Essential in the Oil Industry. This product was taken on by Geotek UK and production continues today.  I have made over 150 units so far.

It is called 'Non contact resistivity' measurement

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In the early eighties I developed a photographic system to produce very high resolution images on framed glass plates with a positional accuracy of  better than 50 microns. They were the masters from which microfiche were made.   More than 1500 were made over the next 10 years for NCR before they were taken over by AT&T.

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Now in 2015 as my sons continue the line they have a high tech Audio Visual business and retail outlet.