WSEASE-2024

I am an electrical engineer born in Scotland in 1950. Shortly after 9th November 1989 (the fall of the Berlin Wall), as soon as they were able to do so, tens of thousands of East German electrical engineers travelled on long distance coach trips, sometimes with their whole families in tow, to pay their respects at Maxwell's memorial, located at an incredibly remote place in Galloway, South West Scotland. There was almost no parking available and the local council had to spring into action in order to clear up the sudden traffic jams caused by so many heavy long distance coaches turning up every single day for months on end. These East German electrical engineers were just emerging out of the abject poverty that the Soviet system had imposed upon them. This was a very expensive trip for people in their financial circumstances. It was the local newspaper story of the parking difficulties that put me onto this. It took me 16-years to finally getting around to actually working on it because at that time I was the CEO of a small multi-national corporation, but I decided to explain why the East German electrical engineers needed to do this. I thought it was so obvious that writing this thing up would take me no more than one happy afternoon. Well, it sort of grew on me and maybe I am done now or maybe I am not finished yet, but this matter has fully engaged my attention for 17-years so far, often working at over 80-hours per week.