by Alan Jervis | May 11, 2020 | Articles
On August 27, 1859, George Bissell and Edwin Drake pioneered the first successful use of a drilling rig on a well drilled especially to produce oil, at a site on Oil Creek near Titusville, P.A. The Drake partners were inspired by Benjamin Silliman, a chemistry...
by Alan Jervis | May 8, 2020 | Blog
The first Lloyd’s building at 12 Leadenhall Street had been built on this site in 1928. In 1958, due to a significant expansion of the market, a new building was constructed across the road at 51 Lime Street (now the site of the Willis Building. Lloyd’s...
by Alan Jervis | May 7, 2020 | Blog
On 17 August 1923, it was first the French government that proposed the convening of a diplomatic conference for the purpose of concluding a convention relating to liability in international carriage by air. The conference was formally deferred on two occasions due...
by Alan Jervis | May 6, 2020 | Blog
There have been reported continuing issues of foundation failure on wind turbines. This issue was given some focus in Højgaard A/S v E.On Climate & Renewables UK Robin Rigg East Limited and another [2017] UKSC 59, where a miscalculation in the strength of the...
by Alan Jervis | May 6, 2020 | Articles
On April 26th 1956, the Ideal-X left the Port of Newark, New Jersey to the Port Houston, Texas. It carried 58 35-feet (8 feet wide by 8 feet high) containers along with bulk cargo. The 35 feet unit represented at that time the standard truck size in the United States....
