Who is listening in?
I was talking to a customer the other day about electronic eavesdropping. Strange topic I know.Thinking about how things have changed. After WW2, throughout the Cold and War and later, electronic ...
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Mr. Almon Strowger. The man who gave us the telephone exchange.
I have written about several people that have given us technologies we take for granted. Seeing my electronic post bag bursting at the seams, I thought I would write about another. I bet you are ...
Some engineers that gave us technologies we take for granted!
I’ll start with something simple like the car radio. Or is it simple? Two friends, William Lear and Elmer Wavering, decided to take their respective girl friends out for a drive in the ...
A brief history of the Internet!
We have been digitally communicating with each other for well over a hundred years. We had Semaphore Watch Towers, and Railway Telegraphy where electromagnets, energized from far down the line, that ...
Home Chain Radar
“Home chain Radar”. What’s that all about? Well, before World War 2 started, the government set out to provide an early warning system which would be able to detect nasty airborne fighters before ...
Quick history of Colour TV
Last month, I wrote about some classic old radios. A customer, ex TV engineer, came in during week and we had a walk down TV memory lane.Colour TV had been around in the USA since the late ‘40s. RCA ...
Potted history of the mobile phone!
Last month, I wrote about how the public telephone system started. Having won a Pulitzer Prize as a result, I thought I would tell you all about the dawn of the mobile phone.Mobile telephones have ...
Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla, Brilliant engineer and inventor of the “Death Ray”?Born in Croatia, 1856, Tesla was to become a massive influence in the area of electrical engineering.After school and university, ...
Classic radios of the past
Classic radios of the past Wireless set from the ‘40s-60s, were shackled to a degree performance wise, given that transmitted material was limited to Medium and Long Wave. This gave you an audio ...
BSR, the company that gave us the record player
Dr. Daniel McDonlad ’05-’91.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 another dropping and ...
BBC Radio 4 (real name, Home service), the end is nigh?
I have written about some important topics in my time, but this towers over global warming, asteroid hits, Spanish economy, Global Economy, Covid…. BUT, the end of BBC Radio 4 long wave. This has ...
Alan Blumlein
Unsung engineers that gave us things we take for grantedAlan Blumlein 1903-1942Now here’s a clever chap that not many people would have heard about. Amongst other things, his work was instrumental ...