Philanthropy

Thank you everyone who attended the Horology Hour on 24th June 2020. Hear all about the Corpus Chronophage, which incorporates John Harrison’s grasshopper escapement from the early 1700’s inside a huge mythical ‘time-eater’ creature that sits on top of the clockface devouring each minute as it passes. You will also discover news about the three other Chronophage clocks. Please click on the video below… read more

Posted by: Editor on June 25, 2020. Comments Off on Horology Hour with Dr John C Taylor OBE

I’m thrilled and delighted that we have the official launch today of the new Midsummer Chronophage at Lion Yard in Cambridge.  Please see the information below that my team has produced.  If you are in the area at 2:30 PM today, do come in and say hello ! Summer Solstice News This summer season sees the City of Cambridge as the home for two magnificent Chronophage clocks.  Today, Friday June 21, the day of the summer solstice, sees the official launch of the new Midsummer Chronophage in the Lion Yard Shopping Centre, Tibbs Row, Cambridge.  The clock features an iridescent… read more

Posted by: Editor on June 21, 2019. Comments Off on Time Flies This Summer in Cambridge

One of the world’s greatest living inventors is to be celebrated with a set of six postage stamps issued by the Isle of Man Post Office (https://www.iompost.com/stamps-coins/collection/invention-and-innovation-dr-john-c-taylor-obe/), focusing on different areas of his life’s work. Dr John C Taylor OBE (https://www.johnctaylor.com/), 80, who was born in Buxton, Derbyshire and has lived in the Isle of Man for the greater part of his life, spent his career creating safety-critical electrical components and switches that are vital to many pieces of technology we use today, most notably the kettle controls that switch our kettles off when they have boiled, and the 360°… read more

Posted by: Editor on September 13, 2017. Comments Off on One of World’s Greatest Living Inventors Celebrated with Six Postage Stamps

The Royal Academy of Engineering has opened the new Taylor Centre, a space for the Academy’s Enterprise Hub, which supports entrepreneurs, and which is named after one of Britain’s most successful engineers, Dr John C Taylor OBE. Dr Taylor, who is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) made his name creating small electrical components that are vital to many pieces of technology we couldn’t live without. Early electric kettles would not turn off when the water was boiling, meaning that they needed constant supervision and were in danger of melting and starting fires if they were not… read more

Posted by: Editor on February 10, 2017. Comments Off on New Royal Academy of Engineering Centre Named after Dr John C Taylor OBE