Col Campbell
Airman
My user name is my nom de miniature wargaming name. I'm a Campbell by descent from my father's mother's side of the family. My first painted miniature unit was composed of vintage Airfix Waterloo Highlanders.
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My user name is my nom de miniature wargaming name. I'm a Campbell by descent from my father's mother's side of the family. My first painted miniature unit was composed of vintage Airfix Waterloo Highlanders.
I thought that Nicolai Tesla invented the radio? Thoughts?marconi - guy who invented radio.If you say this on some Russian forum someone will eventually say that radio was invented by Popov.
Heinrich Hertz, Oliver Lodge, Nicola Tesla, Gulgemia Marconi, Nikolai Popov, and a host of others all had pieces of the puzzle. As is usually the case, "may the man with the best PR win". Marconi (partly due to his wealth and aristocratic standing) managed to be the most visible and high profile of the lot. He was the one most dedicated to the practical use of "Hertzian waves", where as many of the others tended to view them as useless but fascinating phenomena. Tesla and Popov were also practical minded, but neither was able to establish as much visibility and credibility as Marconi, despite having their own private bands of disciples and supporters, some of which linger on into the present.I thought that Nicolai Tesla invented the radio? Thoughts?
Thank you for that. Yes, it seems that although Marconi used quite a bit of Tesla's technology, it was Marconi's access to British aristocracy, Andrew Carnegie, and Thomas Edison that was of most assistance. It is not what you know, but who you know.Heinrich Hertz, Oliver Lodge, Nicola Tesla, Gulgemia Marconi, Nikolai Popov, and a host of others all had pieces of the puzzle. As is usually the case, "may the man with the best PR win". Marconi (partly due to his wealth and aristocratic standing) managed to be the most visible and high profile of the lot. He was the one most dedicated to the practical use of "Hertzian waves", where as many of the others tended to view them as useless but fascinating phenomena. Tesla and Popov were also practical minded, but neither was able to establish as much visibility and credibility as Marconi, despite having their own private bands of disciples and supporters, some of which linger on into the present.
Cheers,
Wes
Is that the game where opponents try to break the other guy's "conker"? I believe the best conkers have passed through a pig.When I joined this forum years ago I lived in a house with a very large horse chestnut ("conker") tree in the garden. It used to rain conkers every autumn.
Nowadays I live in a house by the side of a river called the Poulter, so everywhere else I'm "Poulterside". this is the only place where "Conkerking" is still in use.
Is that the game where opponents try to break the other guy's "conker"? I believe the best conkers have passed through a pig.
I can't remember where or when I heard that. It had to be some "fluff" news piece. An elderly and delightfully eccentric gentleman was interviewed. He shared both enthusiasm for the sport and that secret.That's the one. People would have you believe that it no longer exists because of the "health and safety brigade". The thing about the pig is interesting.
Impeccable taste, sir. I had an '89 5.0 Mustang (actually 4.922 aka the 302).Mustanglimey
Im on my 3rd mustang (car) like American muscle cars...and View attachment 598390I'm a Limey
CoolImpeccable taste, sir. I had an '89 5.0 Mustang (actually 4.922 aka the 302).
If she's still your wife, she's either lying, or a true saint! Probably the latter.Yosmite Sam. Pronounced 'yo-SIM-e-tee'. A cartoon character I liked in my youth. He was an aggressive, gunslinging prospector, outlaw, and cowboy with a hair-trigger temper and a 'Napolean complex.' Other than me not being short, my wife says that our personalities are very similar. Can't imagine such.