04-09-2009, 10:27 PM
Not quite your conventional take on the origins of the BBC:
Tom McArthur & Peter Waddell. Vision Warrior: The Hidden Achievement of John Logie Baird (Orkney Press Ltd, 1990), p.277
The big prize was, initially at least, radar: TV was the cover-story. The implications, however, go much further:
Guido Giacomo Preparata, take a bow.
Quote:“…the BBC was started in the early 1920s as a means of quietly raising revenue for British radio manufacturers, in order to develop radio signalling equipment for the British secret service…”
Tom McArthur & Peter Waddell. Vision Warrior: The Hidden Achievement of John Logie Baird (Orkney Press Ltd, 1990), p.277
The big prize was, initially at least, radar: TV was the cover-story. The implications, however, go much further:
Quote:"...Appeasement was a fake. Appeasement implied not knowing Hitler's next move. In fact, it now appears that the future Allies were aware of most of these plans, allowing him to make increasingly reckless moves"(Ibid., p.309)
Guido Giacomo Preparata, take a bow.