Just go to http://soldersmoke.com. On that archive page, just click on the blue hyperlinks and your audio player should play that episode.
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This is a really wonderful video. I especially liked his presentation on the nature of the EM spectrum, and his use of the centimeter waves to demonstrate wave behaviour. The two slit experiment was very nice. Sir Lawrence's presentation on SWR was brilliant.
Still, you wonder how would all this be done if those waves of Sir Lawrence (and Young, Maxwell and Faraday) were considered to be the photons that they also really are?
The Royal Institution in London is one of the world's most important scientific organizations. In the picture above, Michael Faraday delivers one of the famous "Christmas Lectures."
Billy and I visited the RI a couple of weeks ago and got to sit in the famous theater.
I even got to stand at the famous desk on which so much new science was presented to the world. More on the RI (and Michael Faraday) tomorrow.
In London, Billy and I visited Faraday's workshop in the Royal Institution. Poor Michael set up shop in the servants' quarters in the basement. The shop is still down there (behind glass and well-preserved now). The painting above depicts Faraday at work in his shack.
On display was the very first electrical transformer. And guess what guys: It was a toroid! Here is a picture of it:
I found one of Faraday's drawings of the toroidal transformer and its windings. It looks a lot like the drawings of Doug DeMaw! I'll scan it and post it tomorrow. Off to work now.
Thanks to Stephen 2E0FXZ for alerting us to this important video.
We first posted about the original many years ago. We were delighted to learn that they have remastered the video and added 10 minutes of retrospective commentary from Tim Hunkin.
Here are some of my reactions after watching the updated version:
-- The Marconi videos were amazing. I actually met Elettra at a diplomatic reception in Rome.
-- I was pleased to learn that Marconi was trying to "call up" Mars. FB OM.
-- My son Billy and I sat in that same Royal Institution auditorium where, 100 years before, Oliver Lodge had demonstrated spark gap technology.
-- Tim's comment on the connection to supernatural beliefs was right on the mark. We found out that the house we lived in in London was a center for occult beliefs and practices.
-- Those square lantern batteries brought back fond childhood memories. My first power supplies.
-- The Rexophone -- used by Rex.
-- Very cool of Tim to homebrew a coherer. Extra credit for that.
-- One of the capacitors looks familiar. EF Johnson?
-- I agree with Tim -- crystal radios are a must-build for true radio hams. And do it with galena and a cats whisker.
-- Finally, the RCA ad introduces a term we might want to surreptitiously enter into the Enhanced SSB lexicon: That "Golden Throat" sound.
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