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Which areas of Technology are you interested in?

John Pittwood
Is your interest how the Romans built roads and aquaducts or how the World wide web came about?



I will look all types of infrastructure, buildings and machinery and wonder how it was built but my main interest is Automation & Control. This is a relativly new are of technolgy and I sometimes get the reaction "It doesn't work on steam". However the rate of developement and the lack of corporate interest in last weeks products let alone last years means that we could lose information on recent developments faster than the Victorin era.



So what interests do we have in this community?



John Pittwood


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    I have two main interests.  The first is the history of radar - a subject on which I created an exhibition called The Magic Ear as a millennium project in Malvern.   It eventually went to the Chain Home Transmitter Block at Bawdsey where it has been replaced by a more ambitious and up-to-date display.  Parts of The Magic Ear are now at the RAF Air Defence museum at Neatishead.  I am currently making a film based on interviews with some of the last surviving 'boffins' including Bernard Lovell, Edward Fennessy and Keith Wood.  A subject I would like to understand better are the reasons why Britain found it necessary to 're-invent' radar in the 1930s when so much work had been done elsewhere of which those responsible appeared to be unaware; and why Germany never destroyed the Chain Home system though well aware of its existence.  These appear to me to be among the great intelligence failures of WW2. 


    My second interest is the development of digital technology and especially the under-rated achievements of Alec Reeves, inventor of Pulse Code Modulation. I am slowly writing a book on this subject.


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