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Title: Thats where your voice current is stepped up before it goes out into the ether Post by: Sam KS2AM on December 14, 2020, 03:32:50 PM Nice Western Electric documentary from 1940 about the "Modern Aladdin's Lamp".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-JzxX75oYc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-JzxX75oYc) (https://i0.wp.com/swling.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/KDKA-Transmitter.jpg) Title: Re: Thats where your voice current is stepped up before it goes out into the ether Post by: WBear2GCR on December 15, 2020, 09:37:48 AM Nice shoes there!
Title: Re: Thats where your voice current is stepped up before it goes out into the ether Post by: Sam KS2AM on December 15, 2020, 07:23:01 PM Nice shoes there! ...and the spats are even better ! (https://i.pinimg.com/736x/f3/8f/b5/f38fb5a20fe400372b561ec5ba2cc193.jpg) Title: Re: Thats where your voice current is stepped up before it goes out into the ether Post by: KQ6F on December 15, 2020, 08:06:22 PM Am wondering if the guy with the "shoes" in the old picture was actually wearing slippers?
I watched the stodgy-but-interesting Lowell Thomas video and was amazed at the complexity of the tube-making equipment. Lowell Thomas brought back my little-boy memories of my Grandpa who would come home from his job as an accountant and plunk himself down in front of his Atwater-Kent radio and listen to the WWII news. Thanks for sharing. Rod Title: Re: Thats where your voice current is stepped up before it goes out into the ether Post by: Sam KS2AM on December 15, 2020, 09:07:25 PM Spats
(https://img1.etsystatic.com/000/0/6679506/il_570xN.343155445.jpg) Title: Re: Thats where your voice current is stepped up before it goes out into the ether Post by: KC2ZFA on December 16, 2020, 09:36:52 AM grey spats and black Florsheims with bell-bottom jeans...chick-magnet.
Title: Re: Thats where your voice current is stepped up before it goes out into the ether Post by: KD6VXI on December 16, 2020, 11:22:09 AM Thank GOD some things fade from peoples fancy!
--Shane KD6VXI Title: Re: Thats where your voice current is stepped up before it goes out into the ether Post by: K1JJ on December 16, 2020, 12:45:04 PM My old uncle once told me....
When he grew up in the 30's and 40's, when you turned 15 your father would take you to the men's clothing store and buy you a suit. You wore that suit until it shined. If you didn't have a suit on in those days he said you were considered a bum. It always amazed me from old pictures how men would do manual labor work in those suits. There was a drastic line. You were either an "overall man" or you tried to stay in the in the white collar zone by wearing a suit. Even bums riding the rails wore suits. A much different time than today. Rosie O'Donnell changed everything. ;) T Title: Re: Thats where your voice current is stepped up before it goes out into the ether Post by: Detroit47 on December 16, 2020, 12:55:36 PM Sam
Was it you that posted a film on the scrolling billboard in New York or Chicago. I have been trying to find it. To no avail. I believe it was from the 1940's. Thanks John N8QPC Title: Re: Thats where your voice current is stepped up before it goes out into the ether Post by: Sam KS2AM on December 16, 2020, 01:10:36 PM Sam Was it you that posted a film on the scrolling billboard in New York or Chicago. I have been trying to find it. To no avail. I believe it was from the 1940's. Thanks John N8QPC It wasn't this billboard was it? :P (https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.RfyFXKcVjlCKflu1KGF3bgHaDU?pid=Api&rs=1) I don't remember a scrolling billboard. Title: Re: Thats where your voice current is stepped up before it goes out into the ether Post by: Detroit47 on December 16, 2020, 01:52:46 PM no it was one of the scrolling ones that they change the message. Made up of hundreds of lights. Thanks for the answer though.
John Title: Re: Thats where your voice current is stepped up before it goes out into the ether Post by: Pete, WA2CWA on December 16, 2020, 05:33:50 PM no it was one of the scrolling ones that they change the message. Made up of hundreds of lights. Thanks for the answer though. John Are you referring to the Motograph News Bulletin? Here's something from the 30's. New York in the mid 1930's in Color! Start at 21 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpXnEvW0XD0 Title: Re: Thats where your voice current is stepped up before it goes out into the ether Post by: Detroit47 on December 17, 2020, 10:11:37 AM That wasn't it Pete thank you though. It was a in depth video of the mechanics of this huge sign. I will find it sooner or later and post it. AMfone - Dedicated to Amplitude Modulation on the Amateur Radio Bands
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