A gift from the Soviet Union

[johnofgwent]

You mean they delete the ones you edited to say "the evil Tories are responsible for millions of deaths". So they gave you the  :kikass:

They haven't liked mine much since I proved the honour for "tipping" v1 buzzbombs into the English channel went not to the black guy their resident "black history reinventor" tried to say was responsible  but to a very white, handlebar mustachioed chap that operated out of a Kent airstrip and twenty years earlier would have been the inspiration for "Biggles".



My edits stand, but only after a complaint to the admins ...

[Barry]

Careful he will be searching the net for your front door,   he won't find mine I have take it off the hinges and hidden it in the shed just in case ::

Priceless!  :hattip   ::

[Baron von Lotsov]

You know what the problem is with this page?



The subject is espionage and cold war politics, where the analysis is physics. It's simply a matter of the Wiki editors with PhDs in Cold War stuff have not the faintest what a cavity resonator is! If this were a physics topic they would. I've seen this kind of page before where you have a multidisciplinary subject. There are many specialists, but few who can deal with both international politics and a physical science.

[Churchill]

You mean they delete the ones you edited to say "the evil Tories are responsible for millions of deaths". So they gave you the  :kikass:

Careful he will be searching the net for your front door,   he won't find mine I have take it off the hinges and hidden it in the shed just in case ::

[Baron von Lotsov]

The first patent for an integrated circuit was filed by Jacobi of Siemens in 1949. The first working example of an integrated circuit was demonstrated by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments in 1958. Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor then invented the first monolithic IC chip...

Ah well if that is the case then my information could be wrong. Do you have the patent number so I can check? The Transistor junction was invented in 1925.

[patman post]

Well to give you an example. Uncle Sam developed the transistor, but it was an Englishman who first thought of putting it on a chip.



Uncle Sam is certainly industrious, but they do better with a little help from their friends, as we can see here as well.

The first patent for an integrated circuit was filed by Jacobi of Siemens in 1949. The first working example of an integrated circuit was demonstrated by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments in 1958. Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor then invented the first monolithic IC chip...

[Baron von Lotsov]

Since the first Nobel prizes were bestowed in 1901, American scientists have won a whopping 269 medals in the fields of chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine. This dwarfs the tallies of America's nearest competitors, Britain (89), Germany (69) and France (31).

The numbers of patents granted for scientific and technical discoveries is worth investigating too — US companies log up about 300,000+ per year...

Well to give you an example. Uncle Sam developed the transistor, but it was an Englishman who first thought of putting it on a chip.



Uncle Sam is certainly industrious, but they do better with a little help from their friends, as we can see here as well.



Incidently, it was the decade or so after this that was Uncle Sam's and Britain's golden age in science. Things are very different now. We were very smart back then. After all, this is very similar to the radar principle, which as you would know, was another British invention that Uncle Sam found very useful. The Russians were smart as well though. People often forget how smart they were.

[patman post]

... Uncle Sam aint too smart when it comes to science.

Since the first Nobel prizes were bestowed in 1901, American scientists have won a whopping 269 medals in the fields of chemistry, physics and physiology or medicine. This dwarfs the tallies of America's nearest competitors, Britain (89), Germany (69) and France (31).

The numbers of patents granted for scientific and technical discoveries is worth investigating too — US companies log up about 300,000+ per year...

[papasmurf]

Sure, and you won't give reasons.

Reasons for what?

[Baron von Lotsov]

WIKI does not like my edits

Sure, and you won't give reasons.



I've been reading the talk section and Wiki does seem to be somewhat  inaccurate about the technical detail. It can't be a condenser microphone because it needs power to operate. I'm in agreement with the reader here where he says it was simpler than that, where the cavity resonator would be its own microphone. You see sound waves very slightly alter the frequency of resonance as the shape distorts, and this frequency modulates the RF illuminating signal. OK it would only change it a very small amount, but FM is pretty interference-free, unlike AM, so you just crank the volume up on the receiver and get almost perfect audio out. Bloody genius was that Russian chap. The Spycatcher chap apparently said the Yanks could not understand how it worked until the Brits gave them a clue. I would not doubt that. We found it for them in the first place. You see Uncle Sam aint too smart when it comes to science.

[Barry]

WIKI does not like my edits

You mean they delete the ones you edited to say "the evil Tories are responsible for millions of deaths". So they gave you the  :kikass:

[papasmurf]

Come on then, tell us the truth you two and don't just say Wiki is wrong. If you are correct then provide them with an edit.

WIKI does not like my edits

[Baron von Lotsov]

Come on then, tell us the truth you two and don't just say Wiki is wrong. If you are correct then provide them with an edit.

[papasmurf]

You rely too much on Wiki. Peter Wright's "Spycatcher" is about as accurate as Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code". For an MI5 principal scientific officer, Wright's imagination seems as wild as MI6's Q...

I formed similar opinion when reading "Spycatcher."

[patman post]

You rely too much on Wiki. Peter Wright's "Spycatcher" is about as accurate as Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code". For an MI5 principal scientific officer, Wright's imagination seems as wild as MI6's Q...