Dr David MillsSpent an interesting afternoon with @[email protected] at the Kirkaldy Testing Works in Southwark.
https://www.testingworks.org.uk/
Got to see the second oldest Charpy Pendulum Tester in the world in action. The finale of the visit was the 116 Ton Hydraulic Kirkaldy Machine tensile testing a bar of steel until it failed
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Kirkaldy's Testing Works
Kirkaldy’s Testing and Experimenting Works is an extraordinary survivor in the heart of transforming London. What’s more, it has played a unique part in that transformation – the place where one man’s belief in ‘Facts not Opinions’ underpinned engineering advances around the world.