[UK-CONTEST] Off topic the ONE SHOW BBC

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

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On 26 Mar 2009, at 09:20, steve wrote:

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> BIt off topic but did anyone else see the foobar that the BBC made  
> last night.  They did an article on radio and from the Museum of  
> History of Science in Oxford, demonstrating the spark tx the man  
> from the museum tapping away the letter V supposedly on the straight  
> key........the ticker tape displaying clearly dot dot dash which is  
> what was being sent, woops.
>
> In 2004 the Marconi Collection was presented to the University of  
> Oxford by the Marconi Corporation. This large and unrivalled archive  
> of objects and documents records the work of Guglielmo Marconi and  
> the wireless telegraph company he founded. The documents are kept in  
> the Bodleian Library and the objects in the Museum of History of  
> Science