Abbey Road Recording Studios
Abbey Road Recording Studios We have all seen the famous photo of the Beatles walking across the zebra crossing toward Abbey Road Studios. Where …
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 listeners’ request during my Valle radio 50s-60s wanting to hear a tune only available on a 78 rpm record, got to thinking about how …
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 …
Some time ago, I wrote about a chap called Mr. Strowger, inventor of the automatic telephone exchange. He set the way to enable us to …
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So, HF radio (High Frequency), what’s that all about? Well, we all have heard about amateur radio and Morse code etc. HF radio, was and …
The nicer side of my working life is repairing vintage guitar amplifiers, for two reasons I guess. One, I like repairing equipment for people that …