Thorn Electronic Industries
If like me you’re the wrong end of 50, you may recall many household electrical goodies showing the brand Ferguson, HMV, Marconi, Ultra etc.It all started with Joules Thorn who was a salesman for the ...
Seth´s Articles
Tannoy…The company that gave us more than just the Public Address system!
The company that gave us more than just the Public Address system!I’ve written about various engineers who have left their mark on the electronics industry. So, here’s another one that shouldn’t be ...
Analogue vs Digital The Audio World
A donation of a nice 1960 Ferguson Radiogram got me thinking about the re-immerging of analogue recording techniques, vinyl records etc. Having got the set working to an “out the shop” condition, ...
Recording techniques over the years. Pt. 3 The cassette!
In part 2, I wrote about how recording sound on tape in the ‘50s-‘60s had taken over from recording direct to metal discs and its’ resulting popularity in the domestic market. The next technology ...
Recording techniques over the years – Part 2
In part 1, I wrote about the beginnings of sound recording, centered around discs. This month we will look at how tape recording developed.Recording onto discs was expensive and the equipment ...
Recording techniques over the years. Part 1
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 ...
Who is listening in part 2
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...