Posted on May 28, 2008 by tombrainridge
It was in the advertisement columns of The Times, at a somewhat earlier date, that men were first invited to try a humble but now indispensable article of male attire, the “new invented gallowses or breeches suspensors, for keeping up the breeches without girthing them tight round the waist, but, on the contrary, keep them [...]
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Posted on May 27, 2008 by tombrainridge
Modern advertising is almost infinite in its variety. The notices of Births, Marriages and Deaths on the front page of The Times are advertisements; so is the announcement of a house to let, whether it appears in the classified columns of a newspaper or on an agent’s board planted in the front garden. These and [...]
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Posted on May 27, 2008 by tombrainridge
Since the dawn of television, invented in 1922 by John Logie Baird, a dreamof many scientists for decades (Historic figures, BBC), it took a few years for thetechnology to be adapted. Eventually the BBC started broadcasting (under the name TheBBC Television Service) from Alexandra Palace via Marconi equipment.
It was not until the hostilities of war [...]
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