light – For the Love of It https://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/fortheloveofit Tue, 30 Jun 2015 22:14:55 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.16 Robin’s Story https://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/fortheloveofit/robins-story/ Tue, 14 Jul 2015 22:11:20 +0000 https://blogs.mhs.ox.ac.uk/fortheloveofit/?p=642 Name: Robin Age: 64 Occupation: Architect From: Wendover Object: Sound/light transmitter/receiver Story: I set up a light beam connected to a tape recorder and has a lens and phototransistor on the other end of the school laboratory. Everyone was fascinated that sound could be transmitted on a beam of light and that interrupting the beam ... [Read more...]

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]]> Name: Robin

Age: 64

Occupation: Architect

From: Wendover

Object: Sound/light transmitter/receiver

Story: I set up a light beam connected to a tape recorder and has a lens and phototransistor on the other end of the school laboratory. Everyone was fascinated that sound could be transmitted on a beam of light and that interrupting the beam of light made sounds. Opto electronics in 1967! I should have gone into science not architecture!

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