Posts Tagged ‘history’
The History of LG
December 2nd, 2011 by Dave@LGUK
LG is a multinational company based in Korea dedicated to bringing leading electronics to consumers all over the world. When it comes to TVs, leadership in technology and design has put LG ahead of the game, bringing cutting-edge, beautifully designed TVs to the marketplace, year after year.
Some people ask us how we got our start. Well, it all goes back about half a century ago when, after first producing radios, Goldstar (our name when we were founded) started to produce Korea’s first black & white TVs in August 1966. And we haven’t looked back (well, until now that is…). We’re...
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Every Sound You Can Imagine
February 25th, 2009 by Dave@LGUK
I was just catching up on the excellent electronic music blog, 'Disquiet', and read news of an interesting exhibition at New Langton Arts in San Francisco, (which discounts my attendance, I'm sorry to say).
The exhibtion is called Every Sound You Can Imagine and explores the cross-fertilization between musicians and visual artists, revealing the vital interaction of experimental music with cutting-edge visual art.
Langton presents rare and never-before-heard tapes from its archive by musicians, performers, poets, and visual artists who have performed at Langton since its founding in 1974, including Alvin Curran, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and Wadada Leo Smith. Sgt....
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Credit where it’s due for Land Girls and Jills today
July 23rd, 2008 by Dave@LGUK
Today 50 'Land Girls' and 'Lumber Jills', representing the surviving members of the Women's Land Army and Women's Timber Corps, will go to 10 Downing Street for a formal ceremony attended by Gordon Brown where they will be presented with their badges.
Hilda Gibson, a wartime Land Girl said:
“To serve one’s country in its greatest hour of need, in whatever capacity, for me remains memorable. To receive an award honouring the wartime work of the Women’s Land Army is a powerful and touching recognition.”
Hilda wrote a poem about her land girl experiences which you can read here
There are also regional events...
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The amazing vision of Paul Otlet
June 19th, 2008 by Dave@LGUK
A fascinating article from the New York Times about "The Web Time Forgot", about how a Belgian scientist, Paul Otlet, dreamt up the Internet before the first electronic computer had even been invented:
In 1934, Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or “electric telescopes,” as he called them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files. He described how people would use the devices to send messages to one another, share files and even congregate in online social networks. He called the whole thing a “réseau,” which...
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Apollo 13
April 17th, 2008 by Dave@LGUK
37 years ago today the Apollo 13 splash landed in the Pacific Ocean four days after an oxygen tank explosion in space which spawned on of the most endlessly misquoted quotes: "Houston, we've had a problem here."
Apollo 13 was supposed to land in the Fra Mauro area but the explosion 3 days into the mission forced Apollo 13 to circle the moon without landing. In case you aren't familiar with the plight of Apollo 13, everyone survived.
It's safe to say they didn't enjoy the ride though - there was a lack of food, water and power, making sleep almost impossible...
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Happy Birthday Mobiles!
April 3rd, 2008 by Dave@LGUK
Today is the 35th anniversary of the first mobile phone call.
On April 3rd, 1973 Dr. Martin Cooper, Motorola's Corporate Director of R&D and patent holder for the "Radio Telephone System", used the DynaTAC handset to make the first ever portable phone call. Who did he call? Joel Engel, Head of Research at Bell Labs and his rival in the field, to let him know he was too late! I'm not sure I could've resisted making that call in his place.
Martin Cooper holds a Motorola DynaTAC (for DYNamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage), a 1973 prototype of the first...
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The history of digital cameras
November 2nd, 2007 by Dave@LGUK
Over at Crave there is this fantastic pictorial history of the digital camera - from cameras that recorded onto analogue tape (like videos), to the first true digital handheld cameras, and then the advances in miniaturisation and storage which means we have cameraphones today. We've come a long way since this prototype from Kodak way back in 1975:
A really interesting story - but it misses once crucial detail. What was the first digital photograph of? It's amazing that we have the world's first ever photo still to hand from over 180 years ago, but not the first digital one from...
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