24-11-2018, 10:49 AM
More vintage footage to display on older televisions.
http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch
Peter
http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch
Peter
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24-11-2018, 10:49 AM
More vintage footage to display on older televisions.
http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/watch Peter
24-11-2018, 01:24 PM
Thanks for link, will be watching some of those on my laptop while SWMBO is watching her stupid soaps & load of old tosh Jeremy Kyle..
24-11-2018, 02:04 PM
I've only watch the first episode of the 1968 one with a rather failed demo of an electron microscope.
Peter
24-11-2018, 02:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 24-11-2018, 02:39 PM by ppppenguin.)
Peter, thanks for the link. The RI are appealing for recordings of "lost" lectures.
This one has special significance for me: http://www.rigb.org/christmas-lectures/w...m-tomorrow It was recorded the year before I went to Imperial College. Laithwaite was professor of heavy current engineering at the time and something of a legend. His work with linear motors was sometimes hazardous, as lumps of aluminium sailed down his basement lab corridor. I never took any of his courses but you couldn't avoid his presence. From about 20 minutes in that lecture he's exploring speaking backwards. His technician for this sequence was Colin Grimshaw who ran the TV studio at Imperial College. I got to know Colin very well over the next few years, due to my involvement in STOIC, the Student Television Of Imperial College. Over one summer vacation he and I rebuilt the studio installation in a new and larger set of rooms. The attached photos are probably from a few months before that lecture, again just before I went to Imperial. They are at the ILEA's TV studios in Battersea where Mark Caldwell (long hair, tie, glasses) was interviewing Tim Curry who was promoting the then new Rocky Horror Picture Show. Colin (almost kneeling) can be seen in both photos. PS: More relevant stuff about TV at Imperial : http://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/blog/videoarc...1968-1979/
www.borinsky.co.uk Jeffrey Borinsky www.becg.tv
24-11-2018, 03:11 PM
(24-11-2018, 01:24 PM)colly0410 Wrote: while SWMBO is watching her stupid soaps & load of old tosh Jeremy Kyle.. Don't tell her this else you might end up on the JK show too.
24-11-2018, 04:35 PM
(24-11-2018, 02:36 PM)ppppenguin Wrote: Peter, thanks for the link. Hi Jeffrey, I always liked Eric Laithwaite. I think I can even remember watching that lecture at the time. When I heard about this on the radio this morning I was hoping they might have filmed some of the earlier lectures. I suppose it was too much to expect any pre-war ones. Peter
24-11-2018, 05:13 PM
(24-11-2018, 04:35 PM)peter scott Wrote:(24-11-2018, 02:36 PM)ppppenguin Wrote: Peter, thanks for the link. Likewise, I'm sure Eric Laithwaite inspired many who read this forum. He was given a hard time for some of his less conventional ideas. I wonder if the first of his lecture series will ever surface. David.
I had a vague feeling I'd seen it somewhere but perhaps I dreamt it. It was in 1967 on BBC1 - I know that because I remember watching it on Sunday mornings and didn't have BBC2 at the time, so it must have been 405.
So perhaps not, then, unless it was originated on 625-lines and the master tape still exists somewhere. It's a great shame that he wasn't allowed to follow his idea through to fruition and he must have been gutted when the Japanese later showed how well it worked. Edit Well, I'm right about the year but not the 405-lines because this source says "THE ENGINEER IN WONDERLAND BBC One London, 27 August 1967 11.30 First shown on BBC-2"
24-11-2018, 09:33 PM
I have the book that accompanied those lectures.
www.borinsky.co.uk Jeffrey Borinsky www.becg.tv
25-11-2018, 01:05 PM
Thanks for the link, Jeffrey. I have the greatest admiration for the late Professor Laithwaite. His treatment by his 'peers' was appalling. He should have been Knighted at the least. His contribution to engineering science wasn't missed by other countries, notably Japan, but we in the UK ostracised him.
Great lecture series. Tony |
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