1. Mayday — 2023-10-08 00:53:45

   …ydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris. He heard French pilots using the term ‘M’aidez’, literally //help me//. It sounded like "Mayday" and because it had a stronger sound that both English and French pilots were familiar with Mockford sug…

2. Radar — 2023-10-08 00:18:51

   …ed a patent for radar. By June they were detecting aircraft at 17 miles, which was enough to stop all work on competing sound-based detection systems. By the end of the year the range was up to **60 miles**, at which point plans were made in Dec…

3. Vacuum Tube — 2023-09-23 15:57:19

   … we call electronics technology today. This invention made possible or improved: ~[[Radio]] ~[[Television]] ~[[Radar]] ~Sound recording and reproduction ~Telephone networks, ~Analogue and Digital computers == War Needs == The outbreak of Worl…

4. Telephone — 2023-09-23 15:57:07

   …invented "Visible Speech". This was a code which showed how the tongue, lips, and throat were positioned to make speech sounds. Graham, or "Aleck", as his family called him, was interested in working with the deaf throughout his life. He only a…
   …of Bell. He made parts and built models of Bell's inventions. One day while they were working Bell accidently heard the sound of a plucked reed * coming over the telegraph wire. Watson had been tuning the metal reeds in the next room. Bell drew …
   …to be the only one to produce telephones in the U.S. for the next 19 years. The unit used to measure the intensity of a sound, the **'decibel'** is named after Alexander Graham Bell. == Back in Britain == {{Image url="AlexBellTelephone.jpg" cla…

5. Telegraph — 2023-09-23 15:56:52

   …. He worked in his fathers music shop in Gloucester then in London developing musical instruments. His experiments with sound led him to coin the terms 'telephone' and 'microphone'. == First Telegraph 1837 == {{Image url="CookeWheatstoneTelegr…

6. Stereo — 2023-09-23 15:56:38

   …epted on 14 June 1933 as UK patent number 394,325. He called his technique ''Binaural Sound.'' ::c:: His concepts included: - The use of a coincident pair of velocity microphones with their axes at right angle…
   …Hayes Station", which lasts 5 minutes 11 seconds, and, "The Walking & Talking Film"), his original intent of having the sound follow the actor was fully realised. == War effort == EMI and Alan Blumlein were part of the team that developed and t…

7. Microphone — 2021-11-07 21:26:04

   …ight" title="Hughes carbon microphone" width="" }} He demonstrated his apparatus to the Royal Society by magnifying the sound of insects scratching through a sound box and there were many other witnesses to his microphone's efficiency. Hughes de…

8. Charlie Chaplin — 2021-08-20 11:11:51

   …mposer == Charlie also wrote some wonderful melodies. "**Smile**" is a song based on an instrumental theme used in the soundtrack for the 1936 Charlie Chaplin movie **Modern Times**. Chaplin composed the music, while John Turner and Geoffrey Pa…

9. Concorde — 2021-08-20 11:08:12

   …y successful turbojet-powered **supersonic** passenger jet airliner. With a maximum speed at over **twice the speed of sound** at Mach 2.04 or 1,354 mph at cruise altitude. First flown in **1969**, Concorde entered service in **1976** and cont…

10. Christmas Cracker — 2021-08-12 20:39:19

    …to hold the toy, a corny joke and a paper hat all flew out of the product when two people pulled it apart with cracking sound. By 1900 the company were producing 13 million crackers a year. Over the next few years his idea evolved and grew and …

11. Sport — 2020-11-30 00:32:47

    …ng indoor tennis with friends, using the new balls. Gibb apparently came up with the name "ping pong," representing the sounds of the ball hitting the paddle and then the table. However, an English manufacturer of sporting goods, John Jacques, …

12. English Language — 2018-01-26 21:45:55

    …anguage and is closely related to '''Old Frisian'''. In fact parts of coastal Netherlands around Terschelling have word sounds that are very close to present day English. This period is [[Sandwich]]ed between the occupation of the Romans up to …

13. Beatrix Potter — 2016-07-23 14:22:52

    …bought at a very tender age, in the Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush, for the exorbitant sum of 4/6'//. He was to prove a sound investment. Peter lent his first name to one of the world's best-loved fictional characters and earned Beatrix Potter e…

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