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| Thread ID: 61541 | 2005-09-08 10:10:00 | Dr Who 'Anachronism' | Terry Porritt (14) | PC World Chat |
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| 386903 | 2005-09-08 23:14:00 | EXERMINATE!! the last 2 episodes are great..... |
Mary (6534) | ||
| 386904 | 2005-09-08 23:21:00 | No one yet spotted the mistake. I expect Graham L, if he saw the program will certainly know. A cryptic clue is "AEG". Yes of course, the house that Nancy stole food from had an AEG diswasher in it, but AEG is a German brand! BTW, how did "the child" control the typewriter? he could control anything with a speaker in it but that wasn't even an electric typewriter ...... |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 386905 | 2005-09-09 02:43:00 | Ok then, Bruce was getting close :) The style and type of reel to reel tape recorder seen in the hospital didn't exist in Britain until the 1950s. AEG developed the reel to reel tape recorder using HF bias during World War II, the Magnetophon, though an earlier version of the Magnetophon using DC bias was demonstrated in 1935. www.tcd.ie Other tape recorders used wire or steel tape and were primitive relative to the Magnetophon. At the end of the war, the Magnetophon was "liberated" by American engineers, taken back to America where companies like Ampex made copies. The rest as they say is history. IN the UK around 1950, EMI produced a 1/4 ton 'professional' tape recorder, on wheels, whilst Bradmatic produced quite a nice 1/8 ton 'portable' recorder. Here is what G A Briggs had to say in his 1953 edition book "Sound Reproduction": "..... (It) does not mean that tape or wire systems are likely to replace discs for home reproduction of music. Apart from the ease of handling and convenience of storing gramaphone records, it is clear that few famous artistes would be willing to record in a medium which is so easily erased and re-recorded as magnetic tape, where the door would be left wide open for the machinations of the practical joker or other misguided individual". :) Little did he know:) See also here: history.acusd.edu |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 386906 | 2005-09-09 02:43:00 | German products would have been sold in England until late 1939. ;) I'm not sure when AEG expanded to home appliances from their electronics base, but surely that's a bit early for dishwashers? Servants were still cheap weren't they? And wives and children even cheaper? I meant to watch this ... but TV's not a regular thing for me. ;) |
Graham L (2) | ||
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