Category: Technology

The King’s Speech

“This is the first broadcast made by a British monarch on radio. King George V opened the British Empire Exhibition on 23 April 1924. In his speech, broadcast by the BBC, he thanks all those who worked to deliver such a ‘magnificent result’, despite challenges such as the ‘unfavourable weather’.” (British Library website.)

What Comes Around …

Theophilus Van Kannel was inducted into the National Inventors’ Hall of Fame in 2007.

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Going Electric

Bob Dylan went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. He played Maggie’s Farm on a Fender Stratocaster. To digress, he left it on a ‘plane after the festival and it wasn’t found until 2012.

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No FT …

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for the FTWeekend to fit through my letterbox.

Go Electric

Tesla cars are gratifyingly expensive if, like me, you are a shareholder in Scottish Mortgage and other tech funds. There are at least two Teslas in Margravine Gardens.

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Slightly Bonkers

I try to avoid truisms but we are living through uncertain times not seen since 1940 when, instead of leaving the EU, it looked likely to come to us.