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| Thread ID: 52055 | 2004-12-08 07:10:00 | [OT] - Prediction from 1954... | Mike (15) | Press F1 |
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| 300956 | 2004-12-08 23:03:00 | A classic case of forum misunderstanding Tony :) I meant how down to earth and good WW was in comparison with pop magazines like Popular Mechanics. The latter catered for incredulous Americans who would believe anything. Wireless World was one of the best all round electronics magazines, (as distinct from a 'journal' ) Around that time there were articles about anaologue computers, which were probably the first practical computer that could be constructed at home to carry out simulation problems. Then there were those articles by the contributors like 'Henry', 'Cathode Ray', and 'Free Grid'. The good old days :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 300957 | 2004-12-08 23:14:00 | >Just 2 years after that article we were building quite a state of the art analogue >computer at Joseph Lucas with peripherals like a high speed pen plotter and >projection oscilloscope, and 'wireless' link to the factory fuel system test cells. If it's anything like their attempts at automotive electrical systems, I expect it is not quite working yet. Is there any truth to the story that the English custom of drinking warm beer is entirely due to Lucas 'fridges? ;) R2 |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 300958 | 2004-12-08 23:22:00 | Ah, but the Lucas division I'm talking about was the Gas Turbine Equipment Ltd, the worlds leading manufacturer then of gas turbine engine fuel systems. So good that the American Bendix Corporation licensed the rights to manufacture. The majority of the worlds jet planes flew on Lucas systems :D |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 300959 | 2004-12-08 23:25:00 | Fridges?? Never heard that one, but I expect warm beer goes way back :) We did go into making heat pumps for a while. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 300960 | 2004-12-09 00:14:00 | And EW/WW is still publishing articles by Ivor Catt from time to time. :D What amused me most about Popular Mechanics and Popular Science was their frequent cover stories about how every American would have his flying car, and would just drive out of the garage,taking off on the street outside. Since car drivers crash when they have only two dimensions to work in, the carnage in three dimensions would be immense. Perhaps Al Queda should put a flying car in every American garage. ]:) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 300961 | 2004-12-09 01:11:00 | I seem to remember Ivor Catt trying to re-write the laws of physics, particularly Maxwells equations, and I think relativity too. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 300962 | 2004-12-09 01:35:00 | The relativity guy was called Dingle, I think ... I read a book about EPR, Bell's theorem, and quantum entanglement last night. It's a good thing no-one understands quantum theory. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 300963 | 2004-12-09 01:54:00 | Not so much a lack of understanding the theory Graham, rather why and how quantum effects exist at all. The Quantum theories are fine - but they are at best models/guesses at subatomic behaviours. You see it all goes back to photon decoupling in the first 300 years of the Universe....................or so the theory goes. ;) | Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 300964 | 2004-12-09 01:56:00 | > I seem to remember Ivor Catt trying to re-write the > laws of physics, particularly Maxwells equations, and > I think relativity too. Ivor has been in full cry in recent issues of EW!! |
TonyF (246) | ||
| 300965 | 2004-12-09 02:40:00 | I haven't seen EW on sale in Upper Hutt , not for years and years. | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
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