Jeff Woolf of more than six million randomly placed and sized dots per square inch. MicroMap and Woolf were discussed during a debate on innovation in the House of Commons. During this debate, a MicroMap viewer was handed around for members of parliament to use. Woolf worked with Ron Hickman, inventor of the Black & Decker Workmate and designer of the Lotus Elan car, to some extent, benefiting from his patent experience before the final patent application was lodged. MicroMap was patented in many countries around the world. There is a display on the development of MicroMap in the Science Museum in
Lotus Elan of the Elan followed a entirely traditional approach for sports cars of the time - front engine, rear wheel drive - its design included novel ideas that found their way into the designs of other manufacturers' vehicles. Examples include: This generation of the two-seater Elan was famously driven by the character Emma Peel in the 1960s British television series "The Avengers". The reference to a car accident in the Beatles song A Day in the Life was apocryphally based on Tara Browne's fatal accident in his Lotus Elan. Famous Lotus Elan owners and drivers, past & present, include: Despite the