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THE SIGNAL BOX: Home Signal edit / delete
"This web site is all about railway signalling. Its primary purpose is to describe the principles behind railway signalling in Great Britain, but some coverage of signalling around the world will also be found." With copious pictures.
to mechanica railway retrotech safety signalling ... on 07 September 2013
mit :: whirlwind :: Redmond Project Whirlwind A Case History In Contemporary Technology 1975 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive edit / delete
The history of Project Whirlwind, with some interesting technical details.
to history ibm mit retrocomputing retrotech sage whirlwind ... on 07 June 2013
Website for Mike Horne author and researcher - Contents edit / delete
Railway history. The book on the history of London Underground's telecommunications is particularly interesting.
to history london rail retrotech telecom train underground ... on 28 May 2013
Stokers and pokers (Open Library) edit / delete
"or, The London and North Western Railway, the electric telegraph and the Railway Clearing House". An amusing 1849 memoir on the early railways.
Phonograph Makers' Pages edit / delete
Homebrew wax cylinder players. Some very neat engineering.
to audio cylinder electronics mechanica record recording retrotech turntable ... on 26 February 2013
Index of ftp://ftp.wideweb.com/GroupBell/ edit / delete
Evan Doorbell's phreaking (and general phone sound collecting) recordings. Hours of listening, if you're in the right frame of mind.
to phone phreaking retrotech telecom ... on 11 February 2013
New home of projects like Das DereLicht.
to amateur electronics radio retrotech surplus ... on 25 November 2012
D A N Y K . W Z . C Z edit / delete
Make your own X-ray machine, amongst a wide selection of other terrifying mad-science projects.
to electronics insanity photography retrotech xray ... on 22 October 2012
The History of Phone Phreaking edit / delete
The blog is quite interesting, but the best bit's the scanned documents, including some classic 60s stuff on phone signalling.
to etext phone phreaking retrotech telecom ... on 13 October 2012
Older Phones & Phone Systems on VoIP edit / delete
(Hm, thought I'd bookmarked this before.) Building an international hobbyist phone system by gluing together telephone collectors' exchanges using Asterisk. Very cool, and now remarkably large.
to asterisk history phone retrotech telecom ... on 13 October 2012
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