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SUMMARY:Logie Baird's Mechanical TV and Hitler's V3 Super Gun - Dr Hugh Hu
 nt\, CUED
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CONTACT:Claire Whitaker
DESCRIPTION:The first night of scheduled BBC TV in 1936 was quite an event
 . John Logie Baird's spinning disc camera was an extraordinary contraption
 .  From 1929 to 1932\, the BBC broadcast television using a 30-line Baird 
 system.  On 3 November 1936 Baird's 240-line system was put in direct comp
 etition with EMI/Marconi's electronic scanning system. After a 6-month tri
 al the electronic system won out.  This talk will explore some of the feat
 ures of Logie Baird's system - with a view to building a working replica. 
  If anyone is interested in getting involved in the rebuild then this is a
  good place to start!\n\nOnly eight years later in 1944 Hitler was buildin
 g another extraordinary contraption - the largest gun ever\, the V3\, desi
 gned to fire shells at London from a massive emplacement in a hillside on 
 the French coast. In a race to knock out the supergun\, the Allies dreamt 
 up their own hi-tech weapons. The Americans devised a remote-controlled he
 avy bomber packed with explosives (an operation in which the man "born to 
 be president"\, Joe Kennedy Jr\, died)\, while the British drafted in Barn
 es Wallis\, the genius behind the bouncing bomb. His idea? A weapon that w
 ould trigger an earthquake.  The second part of this talk is based on the 
 Channel Four documentary on the subject and will describe the experiments 
 preformed to determine how the weapon worked and whether it could have ful
 filled its intended purpose.\n
LOCATION:Cambridge University Engineering Department\, LR4
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