Curated Video
Fibre Optics
Light can be transported over huge distances via fibre optic cables, losing virtually no information. How is this possible? Physics - Waves - Learning Points. Fibre-optic cables carry information from our phones and computers as light. A...
Curated Video
Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell
Miss Palomine talks about the invention and evolution of the telephone. Her discussion includes Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison, and how they were instrumental in developing the telephone.
TMW Media
Things in a Day: Talking on the telephone and telling time
Let's learn how to use a telephone. Also, let's learn about time. Things in a Day, Part 3
Packt
CompTIA Network+ Certification N10-007: The Total Course - Alternative Distribution Panels
This video explains the concept of distribution panels. This clip is from the chapter "Installing a Physical Network" of the series "CompTIA Network+ Certification N10-007: The Total Course".In this section, you will learn to install a...
Packt
CompTIA Network+ Certification N10-007: The Total Course - Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
This video explains the concept of DSL, how it is used, and some of the characteristics that have been applied to access the Internet. This clip is from the chapter "Remote Connectivity" of the series "CompTIA Network+ Certification...
Bloomberg
Trump Downplays National Security Risk Posed by TikTok
In an interview with Fox News, President Trump downplayed the threat of China using TikTok to spy on Americans. Trump suggested all electronic products manufactured in China could carry a risk, adding that the social media app was not...
Bloomberg
President Trump: 'TikTok Is Worthless if I Don't Approve It'
President Donald Trump has temporarily halted a ban on TikTok in the US, granting the company more time to reach a deal for the social media app. "TikTok is worthless, worthless, if I don't approve it," Trump said as he signed an...
British Movietone
THE COLD WAR
Movietone recalls some of the trials and tribulations of last Winter, and underlines ways of beating the Winter to come. Mr Marples plan for keeping traffic moving. A vaccine to ward off flu. A plan to guarantee coal supplies. Plus...
British Movietone
""WALKIE TALKIE"" TO THE RESCUE
Leicester, in the Midlands has produced a walkie talkie system that keeps the city's midwives in constant touch with their headquarters. The scheme has cost 10,000 pounds but the radios are expected to last 25 years without replacement....
British Movietone
TRAILER: PERSONAL CALL - TELEPHONE OPERATORS
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British Movietone
MEET THE SHAKESPEARES
1964 is the four hundredth anniversary of William Shakespeare, the great poet. Few men can feel so closely concerned with this anniversary as Harold George Shakespeare Hart, an engineer of High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire: Mr Hart is the...
British Movietone
SAVE TIME BY TUNNEL
A tunnel to link Essex and Kent was suggested in the seventeen hundreds. But it wasn't until 1938 that a pilot tunnel was completed. Then in 1957 work began to enlarge the existing tunnel to a width of twenty-eight feet. Now, four and a...
British Movietone
NO SMOKE WITHOUT....
Ten scientists in America - the Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health - have brought the whole question of smoking into the headlines once again. After fourteen months of sifting the evidence, their report is unanimous. Smoking does...
British Movietone
MOTOR SHOW
For the first time the Motor Show was held at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham and has clocked up record attendance figures. Although Ford's were unable to display their latest models there was plenty to see on the other...
British Movietone
COMPUTER HITS THE HEADLINES
An entirely new idea in newspaper production based on photography and a well tried British computer has been introduced by the Reading Post, a new evening paper appearing this month. The new plant has cost over a million pounds to...
Bridgeman Arts
Cadets plan to escape occupation and meet with their director in secret. France, 1944
Clip 7 from the 1940s French documentary Les Cadets du Conservatoire (The Conservatory Cadets), about the story of the Cadets of National Conservatoire in Paris under German occupation in WWII. The director meets with his cadets, and...
Bridgeman Arts
EDIT IMW862753 Defence of Paris, Joseph Gallieni, aerial reconnaissance, field telephones, 1914
EDIT IMW862753 Defence of Paris, Joseph Gallieni, aerial reconnaissance, field telephones, 1914
British Movietone
CUPBOARD LOVE
In one of Berlin's busiest streets, a Berlin student is protesting against lack of rooms for students. He has set up a wardrobe as living quarters, complete with telephone, flowers and an electric heater. The wardrobe has become his...
British Movietone
THEIR STATION IS WONDERFUL!
The police at Southend-on-Sea say that their station is the most up-to-date in the country. So, our cameramen went there to have a good look round. For instance, there is an easy-to-work filing system, the only one of its kind in the...
British Movietone
NUCLEAR AGE ""COP SHOP""
One of the best equipped crime-fighting centres in the country has just been opened in Brighton. Costing a million pounds, the headquarters is tailor made to accommodate every police department under one roof. Disclaimer: British...
British Movietone
""COMPAC"" LINKS COMMONWEALTH
It was in 1958, when a special telephone cable was loaded aboard a British cable ship, before the first stage in the plan to create a closer link between the countries of the Commonwealth. This first stage was an undersea cable between...
British Movietone
HUSBANDS - BEWARE
At last - A TV Telephone, on show in San Francisco. Disclaimer: British Movietone is an historical collection. Any views and expressions within either the video or metadata of the collection are reproduced for historical accuracy and do...
British Movietone
IT HAPPENED IN 1963
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British Movietone
""999""
At the nerve centre of the Metropolitan Police a new time system has been started. It halves the time taken to pass an emergency call to a patrol car. In a matter of seconds the car's in contact. Last year nearly a million messages were...