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Afrika, Ghana, 2011, Zelfs in de meest afgelegen dorpen van Ghana heeft de bevolking een mobiele telefoon. 80% van de Ghanezen heeft een mobieltje. Een vast telefoonnet bestaat alleen in de stedelijke gebieden. De mobiele telefoon is niet meer weg te denken uit het dagelijkse leven. Hij wordt hoofdzakelijk gebruikt om familie in afgelegen gebieden te bereiken. Vodafone en MTN strijden om de hegemonie. Kleinere partijen zoals Tigo, Airtel, GLO en Zain vechten voor hun aandeel in de markt middles mega billboards en verkooppunten tot in de sloppenwijken in de hoofdstad Accra. MTN maakte in 2009 een omzet van 530 miljoen euro. Het in Zuid-Afrika gevestigde bedrijf heeft een huidige marktwaarde die gelijk staat aan twee keer keer het Bruto Nationaal Product van Ghana. Het prepaid principe maakt telefonie toegankelijk voor de allerarmsten. In 2011 was het minimaal te besteden prepaidbedrag omgerekend 3,5 eurocent in een land waar het gemiddelde dagloon één euro bedraagt. Voorbereidingen van de providers zijn in volle gang om ook het betalingsverkeer via de mobiele telefoon te laten verlopen. Met de komst van de mobiele telefoon is een groot deel van de bevolking officieus in kaart gebracht.
Africa, Ghana, 2011, Even in the most remote villages of Ghana, the population has a mobile phone. 80% of Ghanaians have a cell phone. A fixed line exists only in the urban areas. The mobile phone has become an indispensable part of everyday life. It’s used primarily to reach family in remote areas. Vodafone and MTN battle for supremacy. Smaller parties such as Tigo, Airtel, GLO and Zain are fighting for their share of the market using mega billboards and shops right down to the slums in the capital of Accra. In 2009, MTN made a turnover of 530 million euros. The South African based company has a current market value equal to twice the Gross Domestic Product of Ghana. Prepaid phones have made telephony accessible to even the poorest. In 2011, the minimum prepaid amount to spend was 3.5 eurocents in a country where the average daily wage is one euro. Preparations of the providers are under way to introduce bank payments via mobile phone. Due to the registration of mobile phones a large proportion of the population has been mapped.
Afrika, Ghana, 2011, selbst in den entlegensten Dörfern von Ghana, hat die Bevölkerung ein Mobiltelefon. 80% der Ghanaer hat ein Handy. Ein Festnetzanschluss existiert nur in den städtischen Gebieten. Das Mobiltelefon ist zu einem unverzichtbaren Bestandteil des täglichen Lebens. Es wird in erster Linie gebraucht um den Familien in abgelegenen Gebieten zu erreichen. Vodafone und MTN kämpfen um die Vorherrschaft. Kleinere Parteien wie Tigo, Airtel, GLO und Zain kämpfen für ihren Anteil an dem Markt middles mega Plakatwänden und Shops in den Slums in der Hauptstadt Accra. MTN hat im Jahr 2009 einen Umsatz von €530.000.000. Die südafrikanische Unternehmen hat aktuell ein Marktwert in Höhe von zweimal mal das Bruttoinlandsprodukt von Ghana. Prepaid-Telefonie ist jetzt erreichbar zu den ärmsten. Im Jahr 2011, war die Minimumausgabe zu Prepaid-Betrag 3,5 Eurocent in einem Land, wo der durchschnittliche Tageslohn €1 ist. Die Vorbereitungen der Anbieter sind im Gange, um Bankzahlungen per Handy problemlos aufzunehmen. Durch das Aufkommen des Handys ist einen großen Teil der Bevölkerung inoffiziell registriert wurden.
Ready for use. A retractable carrying-handle doubles as a handset rest, and the handset is withdrawn from a cpmpartment in the base of the instrument. A 'pressel' switch is incorporated for opening the microphone circuit when required.
Top of telephone, left-to-right: Magneto ringer (minus gong!) behind line-terminals, battery compartment, (taking two No12 1.5V cells) behind morse signalling key, chopper / buzzer / induction-coil.
The 264 DC mili-amp meter is another Weston "golden oldie", well brass, actually. This model was aimed at the fine folks in the early days of the telephony industry who were running balanced lines all over god's green acres and needed a handy tool to measure a balanced line signals in the 50mA range and the 264 was chosen because it offered a direct 3 wire balanced input that also made use of a dual coil meter movement that internally mixed together to display a reading on a single gauge display. Depending on how you connected it, it could also be used to either show an additive or subtraction result. It is also fully self powered, as many of their other designs of the day employed. The vacuum tube voltmeter, which came later, historically, did though capture the measurement world because of its greater sensitivity to weaker signals in all manner of frequency ranges for AC use.
The 264 came into production just after the turn of the 20th century, 1901, approx. and was offered in a few different power ranges. I think the one I acquired, a -50 to +50 mili-amp range and was built somewhere between 1929 to about the mid 30's. It was in pretty decent shape both operationally and cosmetically, with just a bit of sticker glue residue and a number of paint pits from one of its previous users trying to scrape it off with a metal implement...screwdriver, most likely. Grrrrr. lol So I decided to just give it a basic cleaning and leave it alone. Though I might try touching up the paint if I can find the right match. Any evidence of the scratches being fixed via these pictures is purely a post production effort.
Enjoy! :)
Increase productivity
Fully featured
The SV8000 Series gives users access to advanced telephony features that enhance their productivity, in addition to supporting many additional multimedia applications.
Value-added applications
A rich suite of advanced applications improves efficiency and business processes using voice, email, instant messaging, SMS, IP telephony, voicemail and video-conferencing.
Mobility
Mobility enables flexible working practices and allows users to work smarter. Collaboration tools will make your employees more productive and more responsive to customers’ inquiries. Wherever users are located, they will be more accessible using IP phones, WLAN and web-based applications.
Manage growth
Scalable architecture.
The SV8000 Series incorporates a very scalable, open architecture with almost unlimited networking capabilities: ideal for businesses needing just 25 to 50 lines as well as for those larger corporations that need thousands of lines. In fact, a group of independent SV8000 servers can be networked to handle up to 200,000 extensions. This unique expansion capability is essential in large businesses where geographic, technical and commercial change is continuous and with new offices and departments constantly emerging, growing and integrating.
Migration and networking
The SV8000 Series can network with your existing NEC and third party systems, so IP technology can be introduced gradually to protect existing investments.
Open interfaces
The system is also future proof. It uses a state-of-the art open interface so new services and applications can be easily integrated - no matter how fast technology advances.
Reduce operating costs
Converged network
The SV8000 Series provides converged communications – data, multimedia and voice over one network, which means just one set of wiring costs. One network also consolidates traffic onto existing circuits, which allows you to leverage bandwidth and software applications. It provides a single, common management system for networked systems, and can reduce long distance/ internal toll charges.
Server-based architecture
The SV8000 Series includes modular core and optional hardware and software components – all of which are server-based, so it fits seamlessly into your IT environment. The heart of the system is the IP communication server, which is based on a true Client-Server design that does not require the purchase of traditional hardware to support analogue stations or trunk circuits.
Central management
The SV8000 Series peripheral devices enable you to manage equipment in branch offices from one central location or from any web-enabled workstation. This eliminates the need for local network management staff and therefore reduces the total cost of network ownership.
Distributed office
A distributed office location environment reduces the operating expenses incurred in managing disparate equipment by consolidating them into one system. Staff can work remotely (on the road or at home) with access to all corporate voice and data resources; all of which means that you can increase your labor pool without the cost of adding office space.
Improve business continuity
High availability
The SV8000 Series offers unparalleled reliability and continues NEC’s reputation for quality. The SV8000 Series is ideal for mission-critical situations such as defense, government and 24hr services. Advanced fault diagnosis, uninterruptible power supply, remote telephony survivability, clustered survivability, and many other fail-over capabilities all ensure the best availability and operational continuity in the industry.
Voice quality
High voice quality is achieved by optimizing specific functions in hardware and software. The high performance of the line-echo cancellation eliminates echo signals. Quality of Service parameters prioritize voice traffic and, depending on the individual communication channel, the appropriate voice volume level is automatically and centrally managed by the server.
Security
The SV8000 Series provides secure communications, including voice encryption, a variety of authentication methods, detailed audit logging, data integrity services and bandwidth management services.
UNIVERGE SV8100 SPECIFICATIONS
Number of SV8100s:
1
2
3
4
w/NetLink
Hardware Capacity
Number of Physical Ports
104
208
312
416
712
Outside Lines
Analog Trunks
Analog Trunks (COT)
40
88
136
184
200
T1/PRI Channels
96
192
200
200
200
BRI Channels
40
88
136
184
200
IP Lines
IP Trunks (SIP/H323)
200***
Terminals
Digital Terminals (TDM)
UNIVERGE DT300 Series
80
160
240
320
512
Analog Terminals
SLT (-24V)
80
160
240
320
512
SLT (-48V)
20
44
68
92
512
IP Terminals
UNIVERGE DT700 Series
512**
SP310 Soft Phone
128**
SIP DECT Terminals
512
Wireless DECT Terminals
8
Applications**
IP Pad Channels
32/64/128
N/A
IP Pad Channels with sRTP
24/48/96
N/A
Embedded Applications
Voice Mail
VM 8000 InMail
2/4/8; Up to 32 hrs of storage; 576 mailboxes (512 subscribers, 32 groups, 32 call routing mailboxes)
N/A
VRS channels
2/4/8/16
N/A
InACD
(512 Agents, 64 ACD Groups)
N/A
In-Skin Applications
Multimedia Conference Bridge
Up to 16
N/A
IVR
Up to 16
N/A
UMS 8000 Mail
Up to 16 ports & 534 hrs storage; .1000 mailboxes
Gigabit POE Switch
8 ports per blade
N/A
Internal Router
4 port managed Ethernet switch w/VLAN support
N/A
Networking
NetLink Networking#
16 systems
K-CCIS networking (T1)
255 systems max. connectable per K-CCIS Network. Actual number depends on numbering plan.
Telephony and Telegraphy - Barnett Freedman 1948 commercial illustration.
(Go to [above] "Actions - View All Sizes - Original" to view this image at its full resolution of 1050x750 - 150 dpi).
Silicon Valley technology Coventry style! Note we have "sending and receiving" plus an "international calling box" But there was a time not so long ago when G.E.C. Coventry was a world leader in telephony.
© Ian Halsey MMXI
Audrey Plonk, Global Security & Internet Policy Specialist, Security & Privacy Policy Team, Intel Corporation
The Session urges all stakeholders to ensure that ICTs, and especially access to mobile telephony and broadband Internet access, need to be fully recognized by the international community in the UN’s post-2015 development agenda to empower people intellectually and financially, to open up fresh employment opportunities, and to give people greater access to learning and education, and health services.
Day 4
16 May 2013
ITU/ J.M. Planche
Radio Kootwijk is a small town in the Dutch municipality of Apeldoorn, with (in 2006) ca. 120 inhabitants. It is situated in a heather- and forest-rich territory in the Veluwe region, east of the sandhills of the Kootwijkerzand and the town of Kootwijk.
The housing accommodations of Radio Kootwijk arose as a result of the building of a shortwave transmitter site with the same name, starting in 1918. The transmitters played an important role in the 20th century as a communication facility between the Netherlands and its then colony of Dutch East Indies. In 1923 Dutch PTT started trans-oceanic telegraphy using a longwave transmitter (a 400KW high frequency alternator) from the German Telefunken company under the callsign PCG, in the 24 kHz and 48 kHz. By 1925 the longwave transmitter was changed by a shortwave tube based, electronic transmitter which had a much better performance due to the better propagation of shortwaves. With this new technology, in 1928 a radio-telephonic connection was established. At the end of World War II, the German occupying forces blew up the transmitter. Afterward some of the radio towers were rebuilt.[1]
Due to the development of new technologies like satellite communication, Radio Kootwijk lost its position as main overseas wireless connection point of the Netherlands. In 1980, the last transmission mast was blown up. In 2004 the park lost its last transmitter functions, and was transferred from the KPN company (successor to PTT) to the State Forestry Commission, which started attracting new buyers. The main building of the former transmitter park, designed by Dutch architect Julius Maria Luthmann and named 'Building A', 'The Cathedral' or sometimes 'The Sphynx', was officially appointed as a monument. It is used as venue and scenery for several cultural events and productions, including the American film Mindhunters in 2004.
This is an example of a current flow test set made by Western Electric used to adjust flat spring, wire spring, polarized, 206 and other types of relays.
Raids at scrap metal premises across Wigan borough yesterday resulted in copper and lead worth tens of thousands of pounds being seized.
As part of Operation Alloy, four sites were visited by police, the Health and Safety Executive, trading standards officials from Wigan and Salford and asset recovery teams from United Utilities, Electricity North West, Virgin Media and BT Openreach.
Electricity North West recovered cabling and copper conductors worth over £3,000 and BT Openreach seized cable worth around £1,000.
Virgin Media found over 4,000 metres of lead and copper cabling, 160 metres of fibre-optic cabling that could supply around 10,000 properties with a broadband, phone and TV connection, and a similar length of cable used for business telephony systems. The company also seized four batteries used to supply power to temporary traffic lights and telephone junction boxes.
In addition, police arrested two people on suspicion of theft after carrying out roadside checks using automatic number plate recognition equipment.
Chief Inspector Clara Williams of Greater Manchester Police’s Wigan Division said: “Metal theft is not a victimless crime, and we have recently seen an increase in this type of offence corresponding with the increased value of metal. An investigation into who has sold this property to scrap dealers is now underway, and we will prosecute anyone thought to be involved.”
In you have information please call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity that will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
For information more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
Visit twitter.com/#!/gmpolice to follow Greater Manchester Police on Twitter.
Slightly distorted circuit-diagram. Typical! - The instrument I chose to photograph has a fixed lid; the other 'D'-V can be opened right up, and despite the use of 'perspective' on Photoshop, this is the best I can manage without clipping.
Fortunately, I have a better cct diagram to hand, so if anyone wants a copy, drop me an e-mail.
Raids at scrap metal premises across Wigan borough yesterday resulted in copper and lead worth tens of thousands of pounds being seized.
As part of Operation Alloy, four sites were visited by police, the Health and Safety Executive, trading standards officials from Wigan and Salford and asset recovery teams from United Utilities, Electricity North West, Virgin Media and BT Openreach.
Electricity North West recovered cabling and copper conductors worth over £3,000 and BT Openreach seized cable worth around £1,000.
Virgin Media found over 4,000 metres of lead and copper cabling, 160 metres of fibre-optic cabling that could supply around 10,000 properties with a broadband, phone and TV connection, and a similar length of cable used for business telephony systems. The company also seized four batteries used to supply power to temporary traffic lights and telephone junction boxes.
In addition, police arrested two people on suspicion of theft after carrying out roadside checks using automatic number plate recognition equipment.
Chief Inspector Clara Williams of Greater Manchester Police’s Wigan Division said: “Metal theft is not a victimless crime, and we have recently seen an increase in this type of offence corresponding with the increased value of metal. An investigation into who has sold this property to scrap dealers is now underway, and we will prosecute anyone thought to be involved.”
In you have information please call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity that will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
For information more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
Visit twitter.com/#!/gmpolice to follow Greater Manchester Police on Twitter.
The very first Mesh Potato, a low-cost meshed wireless access point and asynchronous telephony adaptor combined. In short, a meshed wireless AP you can plug a regular phone into. Open Hardware, Open Source, low-power (sub 2.5 watts).
Raids at scrap metal premises across Wigan borough yesterday resulted in copper and lead worth tens of thousands of pounds being seized.
As part of Operation Alloy, four sites were visited by police, the Health and Safety Executive, trading standards officials from Wigan and Salford and asset recovery teams from United Utilities, Electricity North West, Virgin Media and BT Openreach.
Electricity North West recovered cabling and copper conductors worth over £3,000 and BT Openreach seized cable worth around £1,000.
Virgin Media found over 4,000 metres of lead and copper cabling, 160 metres of fibre-optic cabling that could supply around 10,000 properties with a broadband, phone and TV connection, and a similar length of cable used for business telephony systems. The company also seized four batteries used to supply power to temporary traffic lights and telephone junction boxes.
In addition, police arrested two people on suspicion of theft after carrying out roadside checks using automatic number plate recognition equipment.
Chief Inspector Clara Williams of Greater Manchester Police’s Wigan Division said: “Metal theft is not a victimless crime, and we have recently seen an increase in this type of offence corresponding with the increased value of metal. An investigation into who has sold this property to scrap dealers is now underway, and we will prosecute anyone thought to be involved.”
In you have information please call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity that will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
For information more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
Visit twitter.com/#!/gmpolice to follow Greater Manchester Police on Twitter.
"A Cubic Foot of Copper
486 Pounds
220.445 Kilograms
1868-1911
Presented to
Thomas A. Edison
by American Producers
and Consumers of Copper
in recognition of his stimu
lation by various inventions
in Telegraphy, Telephony, Elec
tric Lighting, Electric Railway,
etc. to the Copper Industry
October thirteenth"
Agents will be using Computer Telephony Integration to answer a call, place a call on hold, and to transfer the call to another department or agent. CTI will be integrated into Siebel, our customer database and management system. Within Siebel, CTI will display as icons within a tool bar, which are similar to tool bars found on Microsoft Office programs or the Internet Explorer web browser. The agent will use these icons the same manner as buttons on a phone.
Siebel will be the call center’s customer database and management system. Agents will be able to document the customer’s contact information, call activity, case files, and process correspondences through mail, E-mail, or fax. There will be a specific way to document the interaction, dependant on what type of call or E-mail the agent receives. Documentation criteria will be established in this manner:
Wrong number / Misdirect / General Questions w/o Contact Information
No documentation needed
Simple Calls/E-mails – General questions with contact information
Agents will search for a contact or create one in Siebel with the customer’s contact information and associate an inbound call activity to that contact. The agent will document the details of the call/E-mail within a comments field. Complex calls or E-mails and specific questions about accounts, technical support, situations requiring research, as a call back may be necessary, and other questions.
Agents will create a Service Request, which will be a file that contains all activities associate with a customer’s case. These activities will be the initial inbound call/E-mail documentation, any outbound calls/E-mails, escalations when necessary, and any outbound correspondences (fax, E-mail, postal mail). There will be a file number associated with the request that a customer can reference later, and an agent will be responsible for the request until the issue is resolved.
The leadership team and quality specialists will use NICE system to monitor calls. The system will record every call, with fifty percent of the calls containing screen shots. All recordings will be accessible for six months, after which they will be archived in a storage facility. Users will also be able to listen to calls live. NICE will also manage the quality evaluations as well. It will contain surveys used to evaluate agents and store them for later access.
Ludhiana ( Bhukhari Kalan ) , 27 January 2014 -
PSIEC , Punjab Small Industry and Export Corporation Former Vice Chairman, Advocate Sukhminderpal Singh Grewal said that our SAD-BJP Government has made several efforts to boost the industrial sector in Punjab state. Grewal said that due to these efforts of SAD-BJP Government as result several business houses are keen to invest in our Punjab. He said that now we have to check Punjab State Power Corporation Limited ( PSPCL ) which is providing poor services to the Consumers in Punjab. In a meeting with Kisan Morcha Workers here today, Grewal lashed out at Punjab State Power Corporation Limited for poor consumer services and absolute non-adherence of Standards of Performance mandated by Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission ( PSERC ) appointed by Government of Punjab. Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission ( PSERC ) has specified critical distribution parameters to provide efficient, reliable and safe system of Electricity through its regulations provided in its Supply Code. These Minimum Standards of Performance provides strict timelines to resolve various Consumer grievances viz. Normal Fuse Off, Overhead Line Breakdowns, Underground Cable Breakdowns, Distribution Transformer Failure, Power Transformer Failure, Street Light Faults, Period of Scheduled Outage, Voltage Fluctuations, Meter Complaints, Release of New Connection, Transfer of Title or Conversion of Services, Shifting of Meter/Service Connection and other Services, Complaints about Consumer’s Bills and restoration of Supply.
Grewal stated that Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission ( PSERC ) mandates a compensation to the Consumer in case of non-fulfillment of these Minimum Standards of Performance. Compensation varies from Rs 50/- to Rs 5000/- for each default for each Consumer. It is well known that Punjab State Power Corporation Limited neither fulfils these Minimum Standard of performance ( MSOP ) nor compensates any Consumer towards any such lapse whereas Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission ( PSERC ) mandates payment of such compensation by the way of adjustment in Electricity Bills. For instance, Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission ( PSERC ) mandates a normal fuse off complaint shall be addressed within 4 hours in cities, towns and urban areas and in case Punjab State Power Corporation Limited ( PSPCL ) fails to resolve the complaint within 4 hours, it shall remit Rs 50/- as compensation by the way of adjustment in the next bill of the Consumer.
Grewal added that Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission ( PSERC ) mandates registration of each and every complaint filed by the Consumer verbally, telephonically or in writing as per a duly approved Consumer Complaint Handling Procedure whereas there is hardly any such effective system in place to register and address consumer complaints. “According to the Annual Revenue Requirement ( ARR ) filed by the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited ( PSPCL ) with the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission ( PSERC ), it received only 2462 complaints in a year from over 65 Lac Consumers across Punjab whereas on an average more than 10000 complaints are received daily by the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited which clearly means Punjab State Power Corporation Limited ( PSPCL ) had fudged Annual Revenue Requirement ( ARR ) figures to avoid compensation and save itself from the wrath of Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission ( PSERC ) ”, added Grewal.
Grewal stated that he will write to Shri Shanta Kumar MP ( Rajya Sabha ) Prabhari Punjab Pradesh, Shri Balramji Dass Tandon Sr. BJP Leader Punjab BJP, Sr Sukhbir Singh Badal President Shiromani Akali Dal ( SAD ), Deputy Chief Minister and Power Minister Punjab, Shri Kamal Sharma Punjab State President Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ), Shri Tikshan Sud Political Advisor to CM Punjab and also to Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission ( PSERC ) to pass strict instructions to Punjab State Power Corporation Limited ( PSPCL ) to ensure registration of each and every complaint and its quick resolution, adhere to the Minimum Standard of performance ( MSOP ) as mandated by Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission ( PSERC ) and compensate each and every Consumer in case of any failure on its part, which is very shameful.
Slow internet connection - 20kbps (0.02mbps) when it should be at least 8mbps.
Everyone blames everyone else,
? is it Entanet the ISP?
? is it FCC of Wolverhampton?
? Is bad local telephony wiring?
? Is it cheapo hardware / software specification by a firm of accountants?
Ma kuang is the reputed clinic, where you are taking the advantage of TCM Singapore. We offer various tcm therapy services including tuina massage, tcm postnatal massage, etc. While viewing the past we observe that our grandparents and fogeys are more energetic than us. This can be because they believe in natural and traditional medicines and cure themselves by following traditional methods. We always try our greatest to serve better and luxury life to our loved ones. Our priority increases in terms of the kid as they fully rely upon parents and family. When it involves their health we became more alert to protect them from serious decease. We wish for better treatment with no side effects for our toddlers and members of the family.
If you reach Ma Kuang clinic and its major goal is to alleviate exhaustion by restoring energy by treating the reason for the matter. To market health and treat sickness, our doctors implement various methods to treat the patients. Being patients, you'll be able to reach our clinic. Furthermore, you'll also visit our website to understand more about us. You will also get in contact via telephony, and acquire deeper knowledge about us with the assistance of our expert.
On what turned out to be the first day of operation, North Norfolk Community Transport’s Mercedes Benz Sprinter 513CDi type number HX14 BGO is captured in Edgefield as it pauses at the Ramsgate Street Bus Shelter to set down passengers whilst working the above journey. (NB - I am not sure of the exact departure time.) As we can see, there is still a traditional post box and red telephone kiosk here, but the latter no longer contains any telephonic apparatus. Presumably it has been removed due to lack of use and in this mobile phone/electronic age, how long before post boxes start to disappear as well?
After operation on Friday 1st September 2017, NNCT withdrew their Friday only Aldborough to Holt via Matlaske, Plumstead, Baconsthorpe, Hempstead and Edgefield service 8. As from the following week the Edgefield to Holt section was incorporated into Sanders new Norfolk County Council supported Friday only service 20. However, the driver of HX14 BGO advised me that Friday 3rd November 2017 saw NNCT reintroduce journeys over the same section of route, thus duplicating the facilities provided by Sanders. The new NNCT service, which is timed to run ahead of service 20 in both directions, gives Edgefield residents more than two hours shopping time in Holt whereas service 20 offers them just over 90 minutes. It will be interesting to see if both services continue to operate.
Now Hear This was a series of audio works presented in various public spaces across Middlesbrough. The project featured new sound works by artists selected for their various interests in the complex relationships between sound, space and location. Adopting diverse modes of broadcast and public address, Now Hear This offered a range of listening experiences and unexpected sonic interventions into our everyday urban environment, creating surprising and engaging encounters with broadcast material.
Commissions included a new sound work by British artist Marcus Coates who broadcast local birdsong in the town’s main shopping centre, whilst Zoë Irvine presented highlights of a world wide 24-hour telephonic singing project in the local library and People Like Us offered a series of 10 free tracks celebrating the humorous side to communication breakdowns via a Bluetooth download hotspot on Middlesbrough’s main shopping street. In addition there was a Walking Tour of all the exhibition sites on Mon 3 March 2008 at 4pm.
Marcus Coates with Geoff Sample: Grounded. The Mall Shopping Centre
Marcus Coates, in collaboration with sound recordist Geoff Sample, broadcast a series of birdsong recordings in Middlesbrough's main shopping centre, The Mall. Using the existing public address system, Coates audio works feature local bird species native to the Tees Estuary and North East England. Broadcast at intervals throughout the day, Coates brings an unexpected soundtrack to this indoor urban environment, drawing some surprising parallels and contrasts between bird life and human behaviour.
Zoë Irvine: DIAL–A–DIVA. Middlesbrough Central Library
Zoë Irvine presented highlights from the audio archive of DIAL–A–DIVA, a 24-hour global, telephonic singing event celebrating one of the earliest broadcast technologies, the Theatrophone. The project recreated the theatrophone experience by allowing listeners to enjoy live musical performances from around the world via a call centre and phone lines for a 24-hour period. Visitors to Middlesbrough Central Library could hear a selection of the recorded performances on listening posts, presented alongside an exhibition of postcards and ephemera reflecting the magical experiences early telecommunications offered.
People Like Us: Breaking Waves. Bluetooth hotspot, Linthorpe Road
Vicki Bennett (aka People Like Us) produced a series of short audio works broadcast via Bluetooth in Middlesbrough Town Centre. These brief musical compositions explored the humorous side to communication breakdowns in all their varied and surprising forms. To experience Breaking Waves audiences were invited to take a Bluetooth enabled device within close proximity of the Bluetooth broadcaster - a poster site situated in front of BHS on Linthorpe Road.
PC to telephone calling built-in to the Windows Live platform. In this demo a merchant was selected from a local search using Windows Live Local and a phone call was placed directly from the PC.
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a story of a yellow box: PCO (Personal Call Office)
".. If there’s one man who built the foundation of the revolution in telephony usage in India in the last two decades of the 20th century, it is Sam Pitroda.
Ironically, this father of the Indian telecom revolution first used a telephone only after moving to the US to study electrical engineering. "Since the fascination of that first call, my dream was to set up small, rural exchanges and connect my country," he thought.
C-Sam Inc, a telecom solutions company promoted by Sam Pitroda, has set up its first India development centre with 40 professionals. The company has offices and development centres in the UK and the US.
"If you want to get it done, go do it!" With one hand in fast-paced business, and the other driving world-changing social development, Sam Pitroda has carved out his life's work with this as its underlying theme. Never satisfied with a standard version of success, he left his career in the United States and returned to India to head the country's first Telecom Commission, and consistently achieved the previously unachievable, including wiring up the entire country
His vision, and his technology, helped connect the people of India—in its far-flung regions and remotest corners, to each other and to the world. When the developed world saw a resource-strained country heading toward a billion people separated by large distances, it saw a tele-density gap nearly impossible to bridge. Looking at the same mammoth problem, Sam Pitroda saw access, not tele-density, as the solution.
He visualized a countrywide network of thousands of phone booths to provide this access. He battled conventional wisdom and lobbies that questioned why impoverished people needed telecom.
Pitroda has been a crusader for long. As a young man, he battled stiff opposition from the ‘roti, kapda aur makaan’ lobby, which was against the concept of a ‘connected’ India. But this young man stood his ground, making the case that telecommunication—along with substantial food, clean water and adequate shelter—was a fundamental component in the process of modernization. The smattering of bright yellow STD PCO boxes in India today, is a manifestation of his efforts.
Pitroda’s tenacity helped create the concept and technology behind the network of ‘STD/PCO’ phone booths across the country, in every village. The 600,000 booths, providing employment for a million people, today dot the remotest regions of India. This model is unique in the world, unparalleled to this day..."
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An invention by Dr. James Harris Rogers
Dr. James Harris Rogers (1856-1929) of Hyattsville, Md., inventor of the "loop aerial" and holder of numerous patents in telegraphy, telephony and radio.
An on-line book called "America’s Greatest War Invention" by H. Winfield Secor can be seen here: www.rexresearch.com/rogers/1rogers.htm
Image derived from the original glass negative.
These two graphs show the rapid growth of telephony between 1885 and 1913 within ITU's Member States. On the left, we see the growth in the length of telephone lines and on the right, the number of telephone calls. Originally published in: L'Union télégraphique internationale: 1865-1915
Radio Kootwijk is a small town in the Dutch municipality of Apeldoorn, with (in 2006) ca. 120 inhabitants. It is situated in a heather- and forest-rich territory in the Veluwe region, east of the sandhills of the Kootwijkerzand and the town of Kootwijk.
The housing accommodations of Radio Kootwijk arose as a result of the building of a shortwave transmitter site with the same name, starting in 1918. The transmitters played an important role in the 20th century as a communication facility between the Netherlands and its then colony of Dutch East Indies. In 1923 Dutch PTT started trans-oceanic telegraphy using a longwave transmitter (a 400KW high frequency alternator) from the German Telefunken company under the callsign PCG, in the 24 kHz and 48 kHz. By 1925 the longwave transmitter was changed by a shortwave tube based, electronic transmitter which had a much better performance due to the better propagation of shortwaves. With this new technology, in 1928 a radio-telephonic connection was established. At the end of World War II, the German occupying forces blew up the transmitter. Afterward some of the radio towers were rebuilt.[1]
Due to the development of new technologies like satellite communication, Radio Kootwijk lost its position as main overseas wireless connection point of the Netherlands. In 1980, the last transmission mast was blown up. In 2004 the park lost its last transmitter functions, and was transferred from the KPN company (successor to PTT) to the State Forestry Commission, which started attracting new buyers. The main building of the former transmitter park, designed by Dutch architect Julius Maria Luthmann and named 'Building A', 'The Cathedral' or sometimes 'The Sphynx', was officially appointed as a monument. It is used as venue and scenery for several cultural events and productions, including the American film Mindhunters in 2004.
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Boulevard de la Villette 12/05/2023 08h49
The corner of the Boulevard de la Villette and Avenue de Flandre in the 19ème arrondissement. At the left the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin (leading all the way to the Pont Notre-Dame crossing the Seine and métro line 2 is flying over this scene.
Boulevard de la Villette
This boulevard is located in the 10ème and 19ème arrondissement in the quartiers Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Hôpital-Saint-Louis, Villette and Combat. It has a total lenght of 1800 meters and a width of 42 meters. The street got its name in the year 1864. and is located on the former mur des Fermiers généraux. This wall (mur des Fermiers généraux) was one of the enclosures of Paris, built just before the Revolution from 1784 to 1790. The purpose of the wall was to allow the collection by the General Farm, at the crossing points, of a tax on the goods entering the city. With a length of twenty-four kilometers, it was destroyed in 1860, during the extension of Paris to the enclosure of Thiers.
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Avenue de Flandre
Avenue de Flandre (formely « rue de Flandre ») is one of the main thoroughfares in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, 1,500 m long.
It connects Place de la Bataille-de-Stalingrad to Avenue Corentin-Cariou and provides access to the Paris ring road via Porte de la Villette.
Traffic is organized around a central parterre lined with trees.
Before 2019, the avenue was composed, in each direction, of 2 traffic lanes (including a lane reserved for public transport and bicycles on only part of the avenue) bordered by 2 parking lanes (one on each side) .
Since 2019, a cycle path has been created in each direction in place of the parking lot on the central side.
The avenue is bordered on most of its length by various shops, practically all services being available: general food, cafes, catering (fast, traditional and foreign), mass distribution (traditional and hard-discount), DIY, services banks, pharmacies, sale and repair of automobiles, bicycles and mopeds, optics, bookstores, telephony, libraries, real estate agencies, etc.
There are 4 métro stations under the Avenue de Flandre:
Corentin Cariou (M) (7)
Crimée (M) (7)
Riquet (M) (7)
Stalingrad (M) (2) (5) (7)
A telephone booth, telephone kiosk, telephone call box or telephone box is a small structure furnished with a payphone and designed for a telephone user's convenience. Such a booth usually has a door to provide privacy and a window to let others know if the booth is in use. The booth may be furnished with a printed directory of local telephone numbers, and a booth in a formal setting such as a hotel may be furnished with paper and pen and even a seat. An outdoor booth may be made of metal and plastic to withstand the elements and heavy use, while an indoor booth (once known as a silence cabinet) may have more elaborate architecture and furnishings. Most outdoor booths feature the name and logo of the telephone service provider.
19th century long distance telephony suffered from high losses, so "silence cabinets" were built to allow hearing faint voices from distant places and shouting across a country without disturbing neighbors. Most were on telephone company premises, and luxuriously appointed, until the turn of the century when they began to appear in railway stations, hotels and other places where well-heeled customers were expected. They became commonplace, though less luxurious, in industrialized countries in the 1910s. In 1959 Phonebooth stuffing, in which dozens of college students crammed their bodies into a standard booth, was a notable fad on campuses in several countries.
Starting in the 1970s pay telephones were less and less commonly placed in booths in the United States. In many areas where they were once common, telephone booths have now been almost completely replaced by non-enclosed pay phones. In the United States, this replacement was caused, at least in part, by an attempt to make the pay telephones more accessible to the handicapped. However, in the United Kingdom phones remained in booths more often than the non-enclosed set up. Although still fairly common, the number of phone boxes has declined sharply in Britain since the late 1990s due to the boom of mobile phones.
Many locations that provide pay phones mount the phones on kiosks rather than in booths — this relative lack of privacy and comfort discourages lengthy calls in high-demand areas such as airports.
Special equipment installed in some telephone booths allows a caller to use a computer, a portable fax machine, or a telecommunications device for the deaf.
An empty room in a hotel. The spaces on either side were once for pay phones. Now they are empty shelves, lining a purposeless chamber. A whole room, without use, save to remind us of telephony and time.
Architect: Carl Åkerblad
Built in: 1924
Client:
World Heritage Grimeton
Grimeton Radio Station was added to UNESCO's World Heritage List in 2004. The radio station uses technology for wireless telegraphy that was developed by Swedish-born American Ernst Alexanderson.
Today, with its alternator and multiple tuned antenna for long wave transmission, Grimeton Radio Station is unique as the only radio station remaining from the time prior to high-power radio tubes, i.e. before shortwave transmission gained prominence.
Grimeton Radio Station (call sign SAQ) began operating in 1924, primarily to facilitate telegraphy with the US. After experiencing severed cable connections during WWI, the Swedish Parliament decided in 1920 to erect a large-scale radio station on the west coast for wireless telegraphy that used long wave transmissions. This would prevent any similar disruptions to communications by making Sweden independent of other countries' cable networks. For precisely this reason, Grimeton Radio Station experienced a boom during WWII. Cable connections had again been severed and wireless telegraphy became Sweden's primary means of communication with the world.
Grimeton Radio Station formed part of a worldwide network of long wave stations designed by Ernst Alexanderson. Today it is the only one remaining.
Source: Grimeton Radio Station World Heritage Site – communication prior to mobile telephony and the smartphone.
Parawa is a locality within the high rainfall portion of the Fleurieu Peninsula.
It has a strong rural community primarily involved with dairying, beef and sheep production.
Community facilities are the Community Hall, CFS (Country Fire Service) and a recreation area with tennis and basketball courts.
Inside the hall a plaque records services rendered to the Parawa District by the late A G Ireland Esq by donating land in 1947 for the site of the Parawa Recreation Centre.
Excellent possibilities for the development of a large area of excellent permanent pastures in high rainfall country near Cape Jervis were revealed in a field day held by the Parawa Progress Association yesterday.
Some outstanding pastures were seen in newly developed country, white clover making remarkable growth.
Many local residents and visitors inspected six properties and all were impressed with the district.
The Association secretary (Mr R F Williams) said that the Parawa district extended from Mount Robinson to the Second Valley Government Forest, was bounded by the range escarpment on the north, and extended to the sea. The area was about 100 square miles.
Feed on the higher ground was green until Christmas while the swamps were always green.
Most of the settlers were ex-servicemen developing the country at their own initiative.
Three years ago a milk pick-up began and fat lambs were now being produced where five years ago there were none. [Ref: Advertiser 9-12-1949]
Dorset Horn cross lambs bred by Mr W S Martin, Sandy Creek, on his property in the Parawa district sold at 55/7 at the Abattoirs last week. [Ref: Chronicle 22-12-1949]
At a field day organised by the Parawa Progress Association last week, visitors were given an opportunity of seeing the progress that has been made.
From practically nothing six years ago the district’s production has risen dramatically, and ten tons of milk are now picked up each day by the Myponga Co-operative Dairying Society.
The Sheep Husbandry Adviser (Mr D Muirhead) stated that a pen of lambs exhibited by Mr A G Ireland were good enough to enter in the export lamb competition.
Many settlers were ex-servicemen who expressed appreciation of the sustenance allowances they received in the first 12 months from the Repatriation Commission. These allowed them breathing space to bring the properties into production. [Ref: Chronicle 30-11-1950]
PARAWA CATTLE SALE
Goldsbrough Mort & Co Limited report having held their opening cattle sale in Mr E Whitlick Jones’ cattle yards on Range Road, Parawa, on Thursday 26 February.
A large crowd was in attendance and of the 184 cattle offered all but 14 were sold at auction. [Ref: Victor Harbor Times 6-3-1953]
AUTOMATIC EXCHANGE FOR PARAWA with instructions
The Postmaster-General (Mr Anthony) has advised the Hon A G Cameron MP that, subject to the final tests of the equipment being satisfactory, a rural automatic exchange which will provide continuous service on an unattended basis will be established at Parawa on Thursday, the 9th July.
The exchange, to which thirty-six subscribers' services will be connected initially, is a fifty line automatic unit having two direct trunk lines to the Yankalilla exchange, which will be obtained by dialling "O”. Subscribers connected to the Parawa exchange will be able to dial each other direct. Calls to Yankalilla and all other trunk line calls will be connected by a telephonist at Yankalilla. Subscribers may also telephone telegrams to the Yankalilla Post Office.
Various tones are necessary in automatic telephony and a knowledge of these is essential to successful use of the facilities. Dialling should not be commenced until a continuous humming. known as "dial" tone, is heard, indicating that the equipment is free. On completion of dialling a low pitched "burr-burr" tone will indicate that the called telephone is ringing. If the called subscriber is engaged a high pitched interrupted buzz known as the "engaged" signal will he heard. A high pitched continuous tone, known as "number unobtainable" tone, will be heard if the number called is not a working line. In this case, either the telephone directory should be referred to or the Yankalilla exchange dialled to verify the number. [Ref: Victor Harbour Times 3-7-1953]
Gymkhana at Parawa
A 19-event programme has been arranged for tomorrow’s gymkhana at Parawa, commencing at 12.45pm. The nett proceeds of the day are in aid of Parawa Recreation Reserve. {Ref: Victor Harbour Times 3-7-1953]
The first wedding in the new Parawa Methodist Church was of Janice, daughter of Mr and Mrs John H Argent, Parawa, to Roger Grenville, son of Mr A G and the late Mrs Ireland.
Mr and Mrs Argent entertained 150 guests at reception in Parawa Hall. [Ref: Leader (Angaston) 12-11-1953]
Second Valley-Parawa Mail Service
Arrangements have been made to establish a road mail service between Second Valley and Parawa as from 1 September.
The new service will provide three times weekly roadside mail delivery facilities to 42 residents in the locality, which has been developed for settlement by ex-servicemen on dairying, agricultural and pastoral holdings.
The proposed mail porter has conveyed mail in the in the past for residents, in conjunction with his carrying activities, but the action which has been taken will place the service on an official basis. [Ref: Victor Harbor Times 27-8-1954]
The Torre dei Lamberti is a medieval tower in Verona , 84 meters high, which rises from Piazza Erbe , the ancient Roman Forum , in the historic center of the city .
With the exception of the Italian Telecom Tower in the district of San Michele Extra (149 meters) and the Borgo Roma Italy Telecom Tower (102 meters), as structures for telephony, the Torre dei Lamberti holds the record for tallest building in the city of Verona , followed by the white bell tower of the Cathedral , 74.9 meters high.
The origins
The tower was commissioned by the powerful family Lamberti (subsequently banished from Verona and extinct), which began to build it in the eleventh century . At that dates back to the lowest part in tan brick and tufa . In 1140 , in the middle age city, was elected to the civic tower was installed and the first bell , of which nothing is known. In 1272 the statutes stated that, in addition to the bell of ' Arengo (then known as Rengo, he called in the assembly meeting), there was also another, the Marangona (derived from "joiner", which in Veronese dialect means carpenter ), to signal the beginning and end of work activities [1] .
In the fourteenth century
In 1311 a bell was recast and a new addition, called the Consolata. In 1394 it fell to Gianfrancesco da Legnago redo the Rengo , which was then also used to scan the executions of death sentences, alarms, signs of fire, the gathering of the militia and the arrival of a plague. Were present at the bell, with the function of janitors, prison guards (the tower usually housed some prison) and lookouts. They were wrong salaried, but staying free of charge in the tower and were exempt from taxes and military obligations .
Venetian period
In May 1403 a bolt of lightning struck the top of the tower, and only in 1448 work began on the restoration and elevation. that lasted until 1464 . In 1406 the bell made ââa plea for the Venetian governor ( Verona recently came under the rule of the Venetian Republic ), maintained their privileges, from what he confirmed. Have come down to us the names of the players of the time: John Bonifacio from San Giovanni in Valle , Christopher Michael from St Nazaire , Benassù James from Santa Maria in Organo , John Nicholas Hood from San Fermo . In 1452 all'Archicampanista Gasparino from Vicenza was awarded the recasting of the bells Marangona and Rengo. In 1471 it was again rebuilt since the Marangona cracked. In the meantime ( 1464 ) ended the work of raising, bringing the tower to reach the 84 meters, completed in style Gothic , in its present form .
In 1521 the Bonaventurini [5] remade the Rengo, which was recast by them in 1557 , getting one that still rings on the tower, octagonal within the cell. In 1597 the dynasty Levo From recast the Marangona, as noted by the teacher Gardoni "Gothic in shape." We also know the identity of ringers into service in 1606 , Roger Minali and children, replaced in his role, from 1632 to 1797 by the family Tanara, in whose chronicles remember that their elderly was burned by a lightning while stretched out a window of tower; a young man fell from the same of their family without suffering any injury.
In the eighteenth century
The Lamberti Tower photographed from the bell tower of the Cathedral of Verona .
In 1779 the famous founder Joseph Ruffini prepared a bell of hours is (in agreement with the eighth Rengo) and another called Rabbiosa to complete the deal that appeared as:
Rengo : note is flat , fused by Bonaventurini in 1557 ;
Marangona : known Kings , melted by the Da Levo in 1597 ;
Angry : note Fa sharp , cast by Ruffini in 1779 ;
Consolata or Bajona : note the , fused by an unknown in 1311 ;
Doorbell hours : note is flat , fused by Ruffini in 1779 .
These are the bells that rang during the historical event of the Veronese Easters .
Also in 1779 there was a proposal to place a large clock on the tower, but the watchmaker who had to do the work died before they start. It was, in 1798 , Count John Sagramoso in place, at his own expense, the clock, replacing that of the nearby Torre del Gardello , who had stopped working for some time .
From the nineteenth century to the present day
In 1833 the Knight John Cavadini, director of a foundry bells rival that of his brother Francis, recast Marangona Rabbiosa Bajona and getting the current complex consists of:
Rengo : note is flat 2, diameter 184 cm, weight 4215 kg. Fused by Bonaventurini in 1557 . is one of the best bells Renaissance and from the point of view of acoustic and decorative, as well as a rarity for age and size.
Marangona : known Kings 3, diameter 130 cm, weight 1300 kg. Excellent and rich fusion of John Cavadini of 1833 . It is one of the best achievements of the period and, without doubt, the best of this smelter.
Bajona : note Fa 3, diameter 108 cm, weight 750 kg. Merged with the Marangona.
Bell : note is flat 3, diameter 82 cm, weight 330 kg. Fused by Ruffini in 1779 . It was used as a clock signal.
The whole forms a fundamental harmonic arrangement of four bronzes to jump ( Sib 2 - King 3 - Makes 3 - Sib 3), as was the custom in the Baroque era.
At the beginning of the twentieth century the task was entrusted to the bell of St. Anastasia . It was the Rengo, November 4 1918 , 10:30, playing a party to announce the armistice with Austria , the end of the First World War [9] . After the Second World War , the management of the bells of the tower passed to companies bell of Santa Maria in Organo (which in 1994 was absorbed by St. Anastasia )
The tower is now open to the public and you can get in the belfries thanks to the stairs or the elevator, enjoying the panoramic view of the city.
The husband has these two headsets hanging hear his desk. The one on the left for work-related Skype use, the one on the right are his high-end Sennheisers, for recreational use. But both looked lonely this morning, before he'd gotten up for the day.
Communication breakdown
Line went dead a couple of days ago. What caused it? Is it the switch? the router? the cat5 cable? the modem? the line filter? phone connection switches? the line connecting to the telephone line?
So the phone company, a fault logged and the line technician comes. Firstly the problem is checked at the exchange.
But the problem is closer to home. Is it outside at the junction? inside the house? No it's outside. Here's the sucker. Coms are down because a 1c piece of wire has burnt out. Replace the wire. Check the phone that it works ....
Back online.
Rare as hens teeth
Talking to the technician who's on job for 30+ years I asked when fibre to the house is going to happen? Fibre to the node is possible but to the house, no. Came to the agreement that wireless is probably going to beat optical fibre. The tech also explained the usual number of lines to a house varies over time. In the past only 1/3 houses had connections and Saturdays were spent collecting the old handsets, collecting them and selling them off to Russia for another life. Then as people started working from home and ADSL became popular these spare lines were chewed up and not replaced. Now it's put more spare lines in and people are backing off using extra phone lines. Interesting stuff.
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The Torre dei Lamberti is a medieval tower in Verona , 84 meters high, which rises from Piazza Erbe , the ancient Roman Forum , in the historic center of the city .
With the exception of the Italian Telecom Tower in the district of San Michele Extra (149 meters) and the Borgo Roma Italy Telecom Tower (102 meters), as structures for telephony, the Torre dei Lamberti holds the record for tallest building in the city of Verona , followed by the white bell tower of the Cathedral , 74.9 meters high.
The origins
The tower was commissioned by the powerful family Lamberti (subsequently banished from Verona and extinct), which began to build it in the eleventh century . At that dates back to the lowest part in tan brick and tufa . In 1140 , in the middle age city, was elected to the civic tower was installed and the first bell , of which nothing is known. In 1272 the statutes stated that, in addition to the bell of ' Arengo (then known as Rengo, he called in the assembly meeting), there was also another, the Marangona (derived from "joiner", which in Veronese dialect means carpenter ), to signal the beginning and end of work activities [1] .
In the fourteenth century
In 1311 a bell was recast and a new addition, called the Consolata. In 1394 it fell to Gianfrancesco da Legnago redo the Rengo , which was then also used to scan the executions of death sentences, alarms, signs of fire, the gathering of the militia and the arrival of a plague. Were present at the bell, with the function of janitors, prison guards (the tower usually housed some prison) and lookouts. They were wrong salaried, but staying free of charge in the tower and were exempt from taxes and military obligations .
Venetian period
In May 1403 a bolt of lightning struck the top of the tower, and only in 1448 work began on the restoration and elevation. that lasted until 1464 . In 1406 the bell made ââa plea for the Venetian governor ( Verona recently came under the rule of the Venetian Republic ), maintained their privileges, from what he confirmed. Have come down to us the names of the players of the time: John Bonifacio from San Giovanni in Valle , Christopher Michael from St Nazaire , Benassù James from Santa Maria in Organo , John Nicholas Hood from San Fermo . In 1452 all'Archicampanista Gasparino from Vicenza was awarded the recasting of the bells Marangona and Rengo. In 1471 it was again rebuilt since the Marangona cracked. In the meantime ( 1464 ) ended the work of raising, bringing the tower to reach the 84 meters, completed in style Gothic , in its present form .
In 1521 the Bonaventurini [5] remade the Rengo, which was recast by them in 1557 , getting one that still rings on the tower, octagonal within the cell. In 1597 the dynasty Levo From recast the Marangona, as noted by the teacher Gardoni "Gothic in shape." We also know the identity of ringers into service in 1606 , Roger Minali and children, replaced in his role, from 1632 to 1797 by the family Tanara, in whose chronicles remember that their elderly was burned by a lightning while stretched out a window of tower; a young man fell from the same of their family without suffering any injury.
In the eighteenth century
The Lamberti Tower photographed from the bell tower of the Cathedral of Verona .
In 1779 the famous founder Joseph Ruffini prepared a bell of hours is (in agreement with the eighth Rengo) and another called Rabbiosa to complete the deal that appeared as:
Rengo : note is flat , fused by Bonaventurini in 1557 ;
Marangona : known Kings , melted by the Da Levo in 1597 ;
Angry : note Fa sharp , cast by Ruffini in 1779 ;
Consolata or Bajona : note the , fused by an unknown in 1311 ;
Doorbell hours : note is flat , fused by Ruffini in 1779 .
These are the bells that rang during the historical event of the Veronese Easters .
Also in 1779 there was a proposal to place a large clock on the tower, but the watchmaker who had to do the work died before they start. It was, in 1798 , Count John Sagramoso in place, at his own expense, the clock, replacing that of the nearby Torre del Gardello , who had stopped working for some time .
From the nineteenth century to the present day
In 1833 the Knight John Cavadini, director of a foundry bells rival that of his brother Francis, recast Marangona Rabbiosa Bajona and getting the current complex consists of:
Rengo : note is flat 2, diameter 184 cm, weight 4215 kg. Fused by Bonaventurini in 1557 . is one of the best bells Renaissance and from the point of view of acoustic and decorative, as well as a rarity for age and size.
Marangona : known Kings 3, diameter 130 cm, weight 1300 kg. Excellent and rich fusion of John Cavadini of 1833 . It is one of the best achievements of the period and, without doubt, the best of this smelter.
Bajona : note Fa 3, diameter 108 cm, weight 750 kg. Merged with the Marangona.
Bell : note is flat 3, diameter 82 cm, weight 330 kg. Fused by Ruffini in 1779 . It was used as a clock signal.
The whole forms a fundamental harmonic arrangement of four bronzes to jump ( Sib 2 - King 3 - Makes 3 - Sib 3), as was the custom in the Baroque era.
At the beginning of the twentieth century the task was entrusted to the bell of St. Anastasia . It was the Rengo, November 4 1918 , 10:30, playing a party to announce the armistice with Austria , the end of the First World War [9] . After the Second World War , the management of the bells of the tower passed to companies bell of Santa Maria in Organo (which in 1994 was absorbed by St. Anastasia )
The tower is now open to the public and you can get in the belfries thanks to the stairs or the elevator, enjoying the panoramic view of the city.
Telephonics - Beechcraft Model 200T Super King Air - N170RL (c/n BT-28/ ex- BB-1117)
This is the Telephonics flying radar testbed. Note the black radome on the underside of the aircraft.
This hovers overr a hotelt. It's ugly and could use a treatment like this one. As you see on the map, it's in Meriden, CT.
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