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What The Tech?! Injection Moulding

15 Jan 2026 4 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Injection moulding would provide a technological revolution. When you think of injection moulding, you often think of modern designs that allow for the construction of plastic components that have intricate designs. This isn’t always the case, and th...

What The Tech?! Fly By Wire

16 Dec 2025 4 minute read 10 comments Investigator515

Aviation is usually a pretty fun topic to write about. With man making the move from the Wright Flyer to the Space Shuttle to the F-22 pretty rapidly, there’s been plenty of technology that has worked behind the scenes to make aviation and transport...

What The Tech?! Carbon Fibre

2 Oct 2025 5 minute read 1 comment Investigator515

If you’re into sports, cars or aerospace, you won’t have to look too hard to find the usage of carbon fibre. While some inventions take time to develop and come to life, Carbon fibre was not one of those inventions. With its lightweight, high tensile...

What The Tech?! Microwave Emissions

17 Aug 2025 5 minute read 2 comments Investigator515

The GigaHertz bands would help us to achieve true, cable-free, high-speed data exchange.Today’s world is a world of connectivity. We stream our music from remote servers, access our documents via the cloud and even have the capacity to share our work...

What The Tech?! Microscopes

15 Apr 2025 5 minute read 1 comment Investigator515

Microscopes would unlock the world at a cellular level. While the modern world has some pretty fancy technology, when you look around, it’s kind of easy to understand why. Miniaturised electronics is just one of the reasons we’re able to lean so heav...

What The Tech?! Drones

2 Mar 2025 6 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Drone Technology would help usher in a new technological shift In the years following the Second World War, we saw the rapid development of new technology across many sectors. This would cause ongoing changes to things like life expectancy and our ov...

What The Tech?! Genetic Modification

2 Feb 2025 5 minute read 6 comments Investigator515

This controversial technology has now become commonplace In the post-COVID era, there’s been plenty of fresh controversy around scientific and medical procedures. This has included things like vaccines and even things like the efficacy and safety in...

What The Tech?! Touchscreen Technology

19 Jan 2025 4 minute read 1 comment Investigator515

Touchscreen technology would help kick off the era of smartphones In today’s world, with smartphones, smart vehicles iPads and even touchscreens on aircraft, it’s easy to take the simplicity of the touchscreen interface for granted. For a long time t...

What The Tech?! Gas Turbines

14 Dec 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Investigator515

Gas Turbines evolved to provide conventional power to systems across heavy industry It’s fair to say that the concept of technology can be pretty relative when we consider its context. A Morse code-driven telegram is decidedly boring in a world with...

What The Tech?! Open Source Software

16 Sep 2024 6 minute read 4 comments Investigator515

Open-source software helps power all types of systems the world over. If you aren’t a medium member, you can read with no paywall via substack As technology has played a greater role in our lives, the subscription-based system has also grown. While p...