Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, best adding machine. Friends and clients Pete Underwood and his wife came into the play pen today, sporting a gift that …
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If, like me, you are a ‘50s-‘60s ite, you probably remember stacking records up on an automatic turntable, watching the first drop, being played then …
After a few cold months huddled together in their respective cardboard boxes, a few members of extended valve family decided to have a few hours …
Abbey Road Recording Studios We have all seen the famous photo of the Beatles walking across the zebra crossing toward Abbey Road Studios. Where …
Well, it is 80+ years since the first official TV broadcasts were made from Alexandra Palace. Logie Baird and EMI battled it out during an …
As you know, I like writing about engineers and personalities that, in my opinion never received the recognition that they deserved. This chap did, sort …
Thos e of you who read my articles regularly, will appreciate that I have a passion for vintage electronics, engineers who have stamped their mark …
Now, the radio and car were invented around about the same time, Marconi did the radio and another chap did the car. One day, in …
In the 30s John Logie Baird was playing with his version of television. This was an electro-mechanical system and consisted of a metal disc with …
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A customer came in the other day, whilst I was repairing a 1950s record player. I actually had a 78rpm 10” record on the machine …
We all love our electronic techie toys, be they, phones, PCs, labour saving gadgets, TVs and so on. Especially now that these sorts of commodities …
