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Missed in adventure it made up for in the circles it socialised in. it played host to film—maker alfred hitchcock, poet ts eliot, legendary author hg wells and that's charlie chaplin. # go downtown. british singer and legend petula clark began her career aged nine in front of a type a. now you are going back a bit. i was sending a message, to my uncle, i think. now it's time to send along personal messages and greetings to you... it was just to say hello, we are ok, don't worry about us, and give a little bit of home news, and that was it. air raid siren wails. during rehearsal, there was th...

That's a long time when technology was developing so rapidly. so, what about inside? the type a is called a ribbon microphone — that's because behind the perforated cover is exactly that — a ribbon of metal. with the help of one of the trusty bbc engineering manuals, we can see that sound waves come in from either the front or the back and hit the ribbon in the middle. so thin that it flexes and wiggles when the noise vibrations in the air hit it — just like your eardrum. the flexing moves the ribbon through a magnetic field created by two magnets on either side. doing this generates a v...

Was the most enormous air raid and the producer asked if one of the kids could come up and sing a song or say a piece of poetry, you know, to calm things down, so i go up on stage and they put a box so that i could reach the microphone — it was one of those big bbc microphones, you know? singing. petula clark there. so, while setting off singing careers and directing the second world war, the microphone was clearly doing something right operationally, too. eyes had been on the ground—breaking ribbon microphone invented by rca, the radio corporation of america, but it was a little too expen...

Uncovering its story and here it is. not many are around these days, especially ones that work. it became tradition at the corporation to empty the insides and plate them with gold as leaving presents for announcers. but what a thing to have on your mantelpiece. the good news is here at the bbc we have plenty. you'll notice it looks pretty hefty, and it's actually really big. so it tended to stay in the studios and leave the world travel to its smaller counterparts, but what it missed in adventure it made up for in the circles it socialised in. it played host to film—maker alfred hitchcock, ...

Of poetry, you know, to calm things down. so, i go up on stage and they put a box so that i could reach the microphone — it was one of those big bbc microphones, you know? # makes you think that heaven is comin' close to you... petula clark there. so, while setting off singing careers and directing the second world war, the microphone was clearly doing something right operationally, too. eyes had been on the ground—breaking ribbon microphone invented by rca — the radio corporation of america — but it was a little too expensive. so, in true bbc form, they made their own for less than 10...