Advances of Technology

rockylizard · Guru

Advances of Technology

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Bugga me, knock me down with a feather and all that stuff.

I had one of those phones in the top pic many moons ago when under the leadership of Geronimo and I have one of those in the bottom pic now while under my own leadership.

Keep Safe on the roads and out there.

Possum3 · Guru

My first Uniden phone had to be located in car with a module the size of a suitcase bolted into the boot, 1 metre aerial was attached to rear of vehicle.

Whenarewethere · Guru

I had a built in car phone, wonderfully clear conversations for both parties back in those days.

Peter_n_Margaret · Guru

Consider also the KODAK story.

1975 The digital camera was invented (by a Kodak employee).
I saw one at the Sony R&D facility in 1982. It was based on a 35mm SLR and it could store 8 pictures on a piece of magnetic tape.
1982 Kodak employed 60,400 people.
1986 Nikon first started selling a digital SLR camera.
1996 digital cameras were common.
2006 digital cameras dominated photography. From first sale to total domination took just 20 years.
2012 Kodak filed for bankruptcy. Employment dropped to 2,500.

Cheers,
Peter

elliemike · Guru

In 1949 or 50 in our street in Liverpool UK, we had a chance to see "Television" for the first time.

The new very tall Transmission Mast at Sutton Coalfield was able to transmit as far north as us. Using a very high mast a neighbour (A Radio tech. and newly trained TV Technician) was able to set up a demonstration viewing for all the neighbours.

I overheard a group of the older men my dad and uncles included talking about what they had just seen.

My 50 year old Uncle Gerry was heard to say.

"I cant see that taking off" how wrong, he was.

In 1953 my Uncle Gerry purchased the first TV in our street.

Image result for 1950 HMV tv set images

-- Edited by elliemike on Sunday 14th of April 2019 06:11:17 PM

Tony Bev · Guru

Yes the telephone came along in leaps and bounds, in the last thirty odd years

A snip from Wikipedia, explaing the workings of my first telephone

biggrin biggrin As a seven year old, with more string than sense biggrin biggrin

Before the invention of the electromagnetic telephone, there were mechanical acoustic devices for transmitting spoken words and music over a distance greater than that of normal speech. The very earliest mechanical telephones were based on sound transmission through pipes or other physical media, and among the very earliest experiments were those conducted by the British physicist and polymath Robert Hooke from 1664 to 1685. From 1664 to 1665 Hooke experimented with sound transmission through a taut distended wire. An acoustic string phone is attributed to him as early as 1667

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Whenarewethere · Guru

Tony Bev wrote:
Sound transmission through a taut distended wire. An acoustic string phone is attributed to him as early as 1667

Our landline had similar performance!

They have been upgrading the copper wire in our street...... to copper wire!

We dumped our landline as is was about a 1/30 the speed of the mobile & we are only 1km from the exchange. Even my 2007 computer gets about 2/3 of the speed below via my mobile's hotspot, at its worst in the evening about 45Mbps download. We are not big users of data so why throw away money using the NBN.