The above is a Southworth Reciprocating steam driven water pump widely used on locomotives , boats,  traction engines, and anything with a  boiler that needs a water supply. Click on the image and you will see my recently completed version running albeit rather irregularly. This version is 6” high.

Harold Hillman

   My brother Harold Hillman, who has
died aged 85. Was a biological scientist
 whose research had applications
 resuscitation, animal slaughter,
execution techniques and the use of
electric stun guns. He found that the
lives of people and animals, such as
new-born calves, could be saved with a
device similar to the one used to inflate air beds,
and that a lethal injection
rather than the electric chair was a more
humane method of execution.
He repeatedly challenged the
orthodox scientific community in its
interpretations of the effects on cell
structures of extracting, dehydration
ing and staining under the electron
microscope. In the book The Living Cell
(1980), which Harold wrote with Peter
Sartory, he argued that the technique
resulted in fundamental changes to the
cells themselves, and was thus unreliable
a view rejected by most of his peers,
and for which he paid a high price in
career terms.
      Harold was uncompromisingly and
intellectually honest, dedicated to. lead-
ing a life based on principle and driven -
by a strong moral compass that affected
everyone he met. Its origins lay in his upbringing by our mother, Annie, a GP who. saw her
responsibility to her sick patients as
overriding that to her children.
This manifestation was revealed in every aspect
of his life - his family; his humanist
philosophy (he met his wife, Elizabeth,
a teacher of deaf people, at a Humanist
Society party in 1973), his abhorrence
of capitalism and his commitment
to exposing institutional corruption,
the diminution of academic freedom,
cover-ups of discreditable research, loss
of human, rights and abuse of animal
welfare. He was a vegan and refused to
wear leather shoes.
Born in London, Harold was the
second of three sons of Annie (nee
Rabinowitz) and David Hillman, a
stained-glass artist. After qualifying
at Middlesex hospital medical school
in 1956, he worked in general practice
while obtaining degrees in physiology
at University College London, and a PhD
in biochemistry at the Institute of Psychiatry in London

  His subsequent professional life
was largely based at Surrey University,
first as reader in physiology, and later
as founder and director of the Unity.
Laboratory of Applied Neurobiology.
He wrote six books and published more
 than 150 papers on various subjects
related to his research.
      He played an active part in many
organisations and societies, including
the Medical Foundation for the Care of
Victims of Torture (now Freedom from
Torture), the Council for Academic
Freedom and Academic Standards,
Freedom to Care and the Association of
University Teachers. He was a founding "
member of Amnesty International and
founding editor of Resuscitation, the
official journal of the European
Resuscitation Council.
Harold is survived by Elizabeth, their
children, Alexander, Rachel, Benedict
and Sophia, four grandchildren and me.
Mayer Hillman
 

Harold Hillman was something of a bete noire to me in the 1970s, at a time when we were just beginning to understand glomerular structure and the pathology of deposits on the glomerular basement membrane. We knew we were looking at artefacts but at least they were consistent and reproducible.   Patlologists wedded to light microscopy would often quote Hillman’s views

Adrian Morley