Our Industrial Life

The telegraph system went from speculative theory to a global telecommunications network connecting continents via undersea cables in just 35 years. Episode page: https://www.aveva.com/en/perspectives/podcasts/the-victorian-internet/ Article page: https://www.aveva.com/en/perspectives/blog/dot-dot-dash-35-years-that-shrunk-the-world/ [1] [https://www.aveva.com/en/perspectives/blog/dot-dot-dash-35-years-that-shrunk-the-world/#_edn1] “The Electric & International Telegraph Company's map of the telegraph lines of Europe [https://distantwriting.co.uk/telegraphmap.html]” Published under the Authority of the Electric Telegraph Company by Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen. August 1, 1856. [2] [https://www.aveva.com/en/perspectives/blog/dot-dot-dash-35-years-that-shrunk-the-world/#_ednref2] The Iconography of Manhattan Island [https://archive.org/details/iconographyofman06stok/page/n103/mode/2up?q=jubilee]. Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, 1915. Page 61. [3] [https://www.aveva.com/en/perspectives/blog/dot-dot-dash-35-years-that-shrunk-the-world/#_ednref3] Cyrus W. Field, His life and work [1819-1892]. Isabella Field Johnson [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Cyrus_W_Field_His_Life_and_Work_1819_189/j0kOAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0]. New York Brothers Publishers, 1896. Page 117. [4] [https://www.aveva.com/en/perspectives/blog/dot-dot-dash-35-years-that-shrunk-the-world/#_ednref4]  The story of the telegraph and a history of the great Atlantic cable [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/AGX3855.0001.001/15?rgn=pages&view=image&q1=greatest+event]. Charles F. Briggs and Augustus Maverick. Rudd & Carleton, 1858. Pages 11-12. [5] [https://www.aveva.com/en/perspectives/blog/dot-dot-dash-35-years-that-shrunk-the-world/#_ednref5] The Victorian internet. Tom Standage. Bloomsbury, 1998. Page 90. Visit us at ourindustriallife.com

SNOLAB is the deepest clean lab in the world. It searches for the most elusive building blocks of our universe: neutrinos and dark matter. The Nobel Prize website describes its experiments as like searching for a particular grain of sand in the Sahara—and it relies on industrial data to do it. Visit us at ourindustriallife.com

AI has been helping industries decarbonize for years by making their equipment more energy efficient and helping power grid operators incorporate more renewable energy sources. But, manufacturing, training and running the computers that power AI also produces a lot of carbon emissions. So, which is it? Is AI increasing or decreasing our industrial carbon footprint? Visit us at ourindustriallife.com

Half the world relies on synthetic ammonia fertilizer to grow its food. But traditional ways of making ammonia produce about 2% of global CO2 emissions. On this episode, we speak to Dr. Zhenyu Zhang about how he’s decarbonizing the processes and making green ammonia. Visit us at ourindustriallife.com

A whole generation of industrial workers is about to retire, taking extensive knowledge and skills with them. How can companies attract new high-quality workers and quickly give them the skills previous generations took years to develop? New information technologies, called connected-worker solutions, are helping new workers get up to speed faster than ever before—and making their jobs more safe and attractive as well. Visit us at ourindustriallife.com