Memory Lane

64 years ago this was the cartoon in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 26 1960:  

PRODUCTION has started of  a high power tunable Klystron, the 4K M50.0001 A, manufactured by the English Electric Valve Company from information supplied by Eitel McCullough Inc., USA. So, 64 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 26 1960 The story continues: The valve operates at 400 to 610 Mc/s and  is mechanically tuned by external ...

A NEW transistor from Texas Instruments Ltd., is completely British in conception. development and production. So, 64 years ago, starts a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of October 26 1960 The story continues: This is the first device to originate entirely from the Bedford works, and we are assured it will not be the last. Texas Instruments, US, are interested ...

PLANS for the start next year of experimental tests of satellite communications in which the GPO will take part were announced in a White Paper published last week by Mr. J. R. Bevins, Postmaster-General. So, 63 years ago, started a story in uppercase Electronics Weekly’sc edition of April 5, 1961 The satellites are to be launched in America by the ...

 Marconi have officially confirmed that they are carrying out satellite tracking experiments as a contribution to space technology research. So, 63 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s  edition of April 5, 1961 The story continues: Dr. E. Eastwood, chief of re-search, says that to create communication channels between Britain and the US via a repeater satellite needs much ...

A PIPED television system with a difference was officially opened yesterday at Cwmbran New Town, Monmouthshire, by Rear Admiral St. John A. Micklethwait, chairman of Cwmbran Development Corporation. So, 63 years ago, opened a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March 29, 1961 The story continued; The difference is that the system was planned by Multisignals Ltd. simultaneously and in ...

INSTALLATION of the first commercial television station in Ottawa has now been completed by Marconi’s Wireless Telegraph Co. Ltd. This follows the supply and installation by Marconi’s of two commercial television stations in Montreal, which are now in operation. So, 63 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March 29th 1961 The story continued: The Ottawa equipment ...

A BLOOD pressure transducer the size of a match-stick and an ultrasonic blood flow measuring device were among topics discussed at a meeting between leading British heart surgeons and engineers in London last week. So, 63 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of April 5, 1961. The story continued: Held at the Post Graduate Medical School of ...

“The fastest means of communication.” That is how the Post-master-General, the Rt. Hon. Reginald Bevins, M.P., described telex at the inauguration of the Automatic Telex Exchange in the Fleet Building, London, last week. This new exchange completes the conversion of Britain’s telex system to automatic working. So, 64 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of December 21st ...

RECENT numbers of the Soviet journal “Radiotekhnika i Elektronika” contain articles which reveal some indication of the course of Soviet research on tunnel diodes. So, 63 years ago started a story in  Electronics Weekly’s edition of May 3, 1961 The initiator of this work is Prof. V. L. Bonch-Bruyevich who may be fairly described as the doyen of Soviet electronics. ...