[time-nuts] Bell Labs ad 1952

[David McGaw]

I have one of those crystals too.  Have the oven somewhere.  Had the 
chassis, just like the picture.  Would have made a great anchor for a 
battleship.

David N1HAC


On 10/3/13 6:24 PM, paul swed wrote:
> Yes remember back then there was Ready Kilowatt (Detroit Edison) power was
> cheap cheap cheap and 600 tubes made lots of sense for winter heating.
> Those were the days of all electric house heat. Instant on.
> Alas this conversation is wayyy of of time-nuts.
> Back to time-nuts. All of the past is why its so impressive that in 10
> watts you can get a heck of a time reference these days. See a save for the
> time-nuts thread.
> Regards
> Paul
> WB8TSL.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Gerald Chafee <gchafee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is that heat due to all the tubes? ;)
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:16 PM, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Gerald it is the clock at the telco company. The folks are not checking
>> the
>>> time. They are getting warmed up from the heat and only appearing to be
>>> checking the time.
>>> Regards
>>> Paul
>>> WB8TSL
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Gerald Chafee <gchafee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I still have one of those 100kHz crystals in a glass tube "Octal"
>>> socket. I
>>>> do not have the room that has 600 vacuum tubes operating and keeping
>> the
>>>> room within 2 degrees. That is too large to be used for my "outer over"
>>>> where the currently shown "inner oven" is being kept to 1/100th of a
>>>> degree.
>>>>
>>>> I will stick with a HP 10811 and a FE 5680A
>>>>
>>>> And for those people staring at the clock in the window wearing winter
>>>> coats - get a life, it is just a clock, and not the accurate one -
>>> probably
>>>> synced through the AC line power's 60 HZ!.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Don Oconnor <eGunk at wowway.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Found this time-nuts related ad from Bell Laboratories 1952. Enjoy
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>> http://i1329.photobucket.com/albums/w541/securitydvr2010/BellLabsad1952300dpi_zpsbce7d701.jpg
>>>>> Don O'Connor
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