if you understand this youre a giant nerd
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Vibroplex: the Fastest Key in the West
Gilles Messier’s YouTube channel, Our Own Devices, explains vintage technology from the 2,500 year old Pythagorean Cup to the Talking Viewmaster. He also does an occasional series on engineering as depicted in the movies, called Reel Engineering.
Messier’s day job is writing for the Simon Whistler channels, e.g. the video referenced in the video, The Real Reason We Call a Software Glitch a Bug. As also mentioned in the video, he’s an author with his Calling All Stations currently at 4.67/5 stars on goodreads. As not mentioned, he is also a visual artist of neo-deco posters.
Gilles Messier’s YouTube channel, Our Own Devices, explains vintage technology from the 2,500 year old Pythagorean Cup to the Talking Viewmaster. He also does an occasional series on engineering as depicted in the movies, called Reel Engineering.
Messier’s day job is writing for the Simon Whistler channels, e.g. the video referenced in the video, The Real Reason We Call a Software Glitch a Bug. As also mentioned in the video, he’s an author with his Calling All Stations currently at 4.67/5 stars on goodreads. As not mentioned, he is also a visual artist of neo-deco posters.
The Marconi traffic associated with the Titanic sinking was apparently saved by somebody (I think at the main Marconi station at Cape Race?) so we have an interesting picture into the culture of the early radiotelegraph operators.
Telegraphs were a magical way to punch a hole in the age-old space-time continuum, and push information through it via blips & hums on the wire, or, later, in the aether itself.
posted by torokunai at 9:39 AM on July 15 [1 favorite]
Telegraphs were a magical way to punch a hole in the age-old space-time continuum, and push information through it via blips & hums on the wire, or, later, in the aether itself.
posted by torokunai at 9:39 AM on July 15 [1 favorite]
*feigns incomprehension*
posted by HearHere at 10:29 AM on July 15 [2 favorites]
posted by HearHere at 10:29 AM on July 15 [2 favorites]
The bug video hit way too many of my interests: computing, etymology, jokes in fake Latin. I don't know Morse code, though, so can't be a giant nerd... right?
posted by betaray at 10:50 AM on July 15 [1 favorite]
posted by betaray at 10:50 AM on July 15 [1 favorite]
His excellent video on the "RaLa" experiments during the Manhattan project really helped me understand a plot point of the Oppenheimer movie (the bit where implosion team weren't sure they were getting the performance they needed the day before the Trinity test, and were instructed to make one more measurement)
posted by Popular Ethics at 11:07 AM on July 15 [1 favorite]
posted by Popular Ethics at 11:07 AM on July 15 [1 favorite]
His initial CW couldn't even be copied by fldigi, so his first is utter mince.
posted by scruss at 2:22 PM on July 15
posted by scruss at 2:22 PM on July 15
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posted by ChurchHatesTucker at 9:19 AM on July 15 [1 favorite]