19-04-2020, 08:01 PM
Here is one in The Secret Life of Machines:
Even though it's tremendously dated that is still one of the best TV series I have seen. I still watch it over and over. I like the episode on Fax machines where him and his mate Rex set up their lathes as a very basic fax by optically scanning a picture wrapped around a tube on one lathe then converting it into sound and sending it acoustically over the analogue phone lines down to the other lathe which is set up with home made thermal paper to reproduce the picture.
Rex was Rex Garrod who also built the radio controlled Brum model (at 10:25 if the linking isn't working):
They don't really make programmes like that these days. Everything is so dumbed down and it all has to be repeated every 5 minutes to catch the channel surfers. Usually with a lot of fake drama adding in. That programme has a ton of information packed into a very short space of time presented in a very clever and engaging way. It's all available on YouTube now.
Simon
Even though it's tremendously dated that is still one of the best TV series I have seen. I still watch it over and over. I like the episode on Fax machines where him and his mate Rex set up their lathes as a very basic fax by optically scanning a picture wrapped around a tube on one lathe then converting it into sound and sending it acoustically over the analogue phone lines down to the other lathe which is set up with home made thermal paper to reproduce the picture.
Rex was Rex Garrod who also built the radio controlled Brum model (at 10:25 if the linking isn't working):
They don't really make programmes like that these days. Everything is so dumbed down and it all has to be repeated every 5 minutes to catch the channel surfers. Usually with a lot of fake drama adding in. That programme has a ton of information packed into a very short space of time presented in a very clever and engaging way. It's all available on YouTube now.
Simon