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12th Apr 2010, 7:56 pm | #1 |
Triode
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British Pathe Digital News Archive
http://www.britishpathe.com/
This site was recently given publicity on BBC1 and seemingly contains a vast amount of freely available film archive footage. Quite facinating - just type 'wireless' into the search box and see what comes up! For example......... http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=8855 Rod |
12th Apr 2010, 9:50 pm | #2 |
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Re: British Pathe Digital News Archive
Thanks very much indeed for this super link,
as well as the hovercraft and many other super films, i very much enjoyed this http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=186 more 'on topic' film |
13th Apr 2010, 1:44 pm | #3 | |
Dekatron
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Re: British Pathe Digital News Archive
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I doubt they could ever have imagined that within a few decades, millions would fit on a chip in memory sticks, SD cards etc, or that 'gigabyte' would be an everyday term to describe the amount of storage in a myriad of devices around the home, from digital cameras to MP3 players, computers etc. They had some strange ideas as to what passed for a 'clean' environment. Women wearing white overalls, but with hair uncovered. When you see how much manual effort went into producing transistors back then, its easy to see why they cost so much, and why the end results were variable. I guess they made them, tested them to see how they performed, then coded them - I doubt they were able to specifically design them with certain parameters in mind. Fascinating stuff! Thanks for the link. David, G4EBT |
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15th Apr 2010, 7:26 pm | #4 |
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Re: British Pathe Digital News Archive
Fascinating stuff indeed. Each transistor made and tested by hand. Amazing! I wonder what happened if someone in the production room coughed?
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16th Apr 2010, 2:53 pm | #5 |
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Re: British Pathe Digital News Archive
There's a Pye Promotional Film to go with the Newmarket one. The Pye stuff proper begins approximately 4mins into the film, should anyone wish to skip the rest.
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16th Apr 2010, 7:13 pm | #6 |
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16th Apr 2010, 7:43 pm | #7 | |
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Re: British Pathe Digital News Archive
Hi,
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Some things don't change Regards, Kat |
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17th Apr 2010, 12:12 pm | #8 |
Octode
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Re: British Pathe Digital News Archive
Bulbs lighting without wires at the schoolboy exhibition, would health and safety allow this today? Glad I was a kid when I was!
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=38542
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20th Apr 2010, 3:46 pm | #9 |
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Re: British Pathe Digital News Archive
Great Radio Caroline footage -
http://www.britishpathe.com/workspac...5&display=list Simon Dee, and the Beatles. |