State of Electronics | SOE - Melbourne Cup Announcement 2015 @StateofElectronics | Uploaded 8 years ago | Updated June 24 2024
A quick update from "State of Electronics"
To see the "State of Electronics" playlist click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xu154715CE&list=PLIizEY7AraGytx9YRynoCqXuWcvvCjQbg
We will be back next week (all things being well) with a new episode. This week was tough to organise extra footage, people and stock imagery due to the 4 day weekend here in Melbourne, Australia. As a result we put out this little announcement to explain our absence. This from Wikipedia:
"The Melbourne Cup is Australia's most prestigious Thoroughbred horse race. Marketed as "the race that stops a nation", it is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races."
Interesting thing is there are many innovations that surround horse racing in Australia, including the invention of the Automatic totalisator:
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/australia_innovates/?%20behaviour=view_article&Section_id=1010&article_id=10010
In 1885, Australian Inventor Henry Sutton planned & possibly attempted to broadcast the Melbourne Cup from Melbourne to Ballarat (central Victoria Australia) using metal gas pipes as the signal carrier and the earth as return. The "camera" was based on a Selenium light detector and Nipkow disk, while the projector used a chamber filled with a gas that changed in density depending on the voltage applied across its terminals, to augment light projected through it.
https://federation.edu.au/about-us/our-university/history/geoffrey-blainey-research-centre/honour-roll/s/henry-sutton
A quick update from "State of Electronics"
To see the "State of Electronics" playlist click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xu154715CE&list=PLIizEY7AraGytx9YRynoCqXuWcvvCjQbg
We will be back next week (all things being well) with a new episode. This week was tough to organise extra footage, people and stock imagery due to the 4 day weekend here in Melbourne, Australia. As a result we put out this little announcement to explain our absence. This from Wikipedia:
"The Melbourne Cup is Australia's most prestigious Thoroughbred horse race. Marketed as "the race that stops a nation", it is a 3,200 metre race for three-year-olds and over. It is the richest "two-mile" handicap in the world, and one of the richest turf races."
Interesting thing is there are many innovations that surround horse racing in Australia, including the invention of the Automatic totalisator:
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/australia_innovates/?%20behaviour=view_article&Section_id=1010&article_id=10010
In 1885, Australian Inventor Henry Sutton planned & possibly attempted to broadcast the Melbourne Cup from Melbourne to Ballarat (central Victoria Australia) using metal gas pipes as the signal carrier and the earth as return. The "camera" was based on a Selenium light detector and Nipkow disk, while the projector used a chamber filled with a gas that changed in density depending on the voltage applied across its terminals, to augment light projected through it.
https://federation.edu.au/about-us/our-university/history/geoffrey-blainey-research-centre/honour-roll/s/henry-sutton
