The start of an exciting 3 part series!A customer recently asked me to transfer some 5” reels of ¼” tape to MP3 memory stick, a recording made 58 years ago of his daughter singing away, memories that ...
Hello. Hope its warm enough for you all. In the last issue, I touched on the topic of electronic eavesdropping and so on, post WW2 and into the ‘70s.In those years, the listening-in was mainly ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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”. 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 ...
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 ...
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, 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 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 ...
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 ...
