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2 unusual facts about transmissions


Voith Turbo-Transmissions

Finally, the latest development is the LS 640 reU2 transmission which will be used for the first time in the Voith Maxima locomotive having 3,600 kW.

The first turbo-transmission was developed in 1932 by Voith in Heidenheim, Germany.


1950s in Irish television

21 July 1955 - The BBC brings into service its Divis transmitter, its first permanent 405-line VHF Band I facility serving Northern Ireland, marking the launch of a television service for Northern Ireland; the 35 kW transmissions can also be readily received in much of the Republic of Ireland.

1955 in Northern Ireland

July 21 - The BBC brings into service its Divis transmitter, its first permanent facility serving Northern Ireland, marking the launch of a television service for Northern Ireland; the 35 kW transmissions can also be readily received in much of the Republic of Ireland.

2MT

Transmissions began on 14 February 1922 from an ex-Army hut next to the Marconi laboratories at Writtle, near Chelmsford in Essex.

ArmaTrac

The tractors use ZF and Carraro transmissions built under license by them in Turkey.

Automotive industry in Spain

In 1999, they moved their turbine engines operations to a new factory in Bezons, outside of Paris, using the original factories for power transmissions and accessory systems for jet engines.

Banned from Argo

"Our lady of Communications" (Uhura) wins "a shipwide bet" by altering Argo's planetary communication system so that video transmissions viewed on Argo will make all people on the screen appear to be nude.

BFO

Beat frequency oscillator used to create an audio frequency signal for continuous wave (Morse code) transmissions

Brocken Transmitter

This tower was intended to be used after 1939 for TV transmissions to central Germany, but due to the beginning of World War II, it was transformed into a radar facility.

Burnhope transmitting station

From the station's 750 foot mast, transmissions from Burnhope were on VHF Channel 8 at a peak vision ERP of 100 kW, successfully covering a region spanning the North Yorkshire moorlands and Teesside in the South, to the remote upper reaches of Northumberland in the North.

Colac, Victoria

Analog Television transmissions ceased on Thursday 5 May 2011 as part of the Federal Government`s nationwide plan for Digital terrestrial television in Australia, which involves switching over all television broadcast services from analog systems to digital DVB-T systems.

Colonial Raptor

It has a multitude of electronic countermeasure and monitoring tools including jamming transmissions, scrambling signals of guided weapons, and Viper Identification friend or foe operations.

Combine harvester

Self-propelled combines started with standard manual transmissions that provided one speed based on input rpm.

Deccani Souls

It was screened at the Transmissions Film Festival in New Delhi, India and was later screened to public at Cochin, Thrissur, Kozhikode, Hyderabad and Mumbai.

Electronic message journaling

Morgan Stanley had a $1.45 billion judgment against them and Merrill Lynch was issued a $2.5 million fine because of their inability to reproduce e-mail transmissions.

Ford C3 transmission

The Bordeaux Automatic Transmission Plant, in Blanquefort, France (in the Bordeaux metropolitan area) produces automatic transmissions for a variety of rear-wheel drive vehicles.

GM 6T40 transmission

Since 2008, these transmissions have been produced by GM Daewoo at the Boryeong Transmission Plant in Boryeong, South Korea.

Greyhound Canada

From the 1985 model year 96A3 to the 1995 model year D4000 and D4500 (102D(L)3), as well as the first Prevost H3-45 coaches, Greyhound Canada specified manual transmissions in all their intercity coaches.

Guhyasamāja tantra

'Gos Lotsawa Khug pa lhas btsas originated a transmission in Tibet, as did Marpa Lotsawa. The Sakya tradition received both transmissions. Tsongkhapa, founder of the Gelug tradition, considered the Esoteric Community to be the most important of the tantras and used the Ārya tradition as a template for interpreting all the other tantric traditions.

Gustave-Auguste Ferrié

Today the Espace Ferrié (Musée des Transmissions) continues his memory in Cesson-Sévigné.

HMAS Harman

The station ended transmissions on 1 June 2005, and the remaining structures on the site were demolished in December 2006 to allow for residential development on the site, forming the new suburb of Lawson.

Judica-Cordiglia brothers

Working with scavenged and improvised equipment, they claimed to have successfully monitored transmissions from the Soviet Sputnik program and Explorer 1, the first American satellite, using equipment that recorded flight information such as telemetry, voice recordings and visual data.

Larry Don

It is powered by twin 1965 Cummins 220 marine diesel engines with gear-reduction transmissions and 32 inch four blade propellers.

Late betting

In this case they used the wire transmissions of Western Union before they were made public to find results of already run races.

Long delayed echo

Duncan Lunan proposed the radio echoes observed by Størmer and Van der Pol in 1928 might have been transmissions from a Bracewell probe, an artifact of aliens trying to communicate with us by bouncing back our own signals.

Mainflingen longwave transmitter

Mainflingen longwave transmitter is a large facility for commercial longwave transmissions at Mainflingen, Hesse, Germany, which was built in 1956.

Mersen

This includes brushes and brush-holders, contacts for current collection, slip-ring assemblies and signal transmissions systems.

Nizah Morris

In April 2003 the Philadelphia Police Department released an edited version of the 911 recording, which included 3 transmissions between officers Skala, Novak, and Berry.

Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock, Massachusetts

(Marconi had only achieved one-way transmissions prior to his date).

Oldsmobile Quad 4 engine

The LG0 engine was only available with the heavy-duty (for its time) Getrag designed HM-282/NVG-T550 five-speed transmissions.

PEXQ

PESQ (Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality) for speech transmissions and

Qattara Depression

The German officer stationed in the depression was cited by Gordon Welchman as helpful in the breaking of the Enigma machine code, due to his regular transmissions stating there was "nothing to report".

Radio Swan

Cuba responded to the broadcasts by setting up a jamming station to block the transmissions of Radio Swan and initiated La Voz de INRA, or The Voice of INRA which represented the National Institute of Agrarian Reform with an anti-American message.

Rafael Bracero

Having become WAPA's top sportscaster, Bracero then took over the transmissions of BSN basketball games (which he shared with Manolo Rivera Morales and Fufi Santori), most of the boxing telecasts, MLB baseball games and football games.

Roe Green Park

In May 1929, two 25 metre high masts were erected, and the first international moving picture transmissions, from Berlin in Germany to England, were received here.

Saturn MP transmission

The Saturn MP Transmission were a series of 5-speed manual and 4-speed automatic transmissions that were manufactured by Saturn Corporation exclusively for the S-Series.

Skywave

In June and July 1923, Guglielmo Marconi's transmissions were completed during nights on 97 meters from Poldhu Wireless Station, Cornwall, to his yacht Ellette in the Cape Verde Islands.

Southern Television broadcast interruption

The interruption ceased shortly after the statement had been delivered, transmissions returning to normal shortly before the end of a Looney Tunes cartoon.

The Kenya Presidential Election Petition 2013

The main petitioner Raila Odinga in a press conference shortly after the results were announced on 9 March in a Speech he titled 'democracy on trial' noted that the election had been marred by massive failures by the BVR kits, Pollbooks, tallying system and transmissions system.

The Wind Cries Mary

Kathy Etchingham has said that many of the Dylanesque lyrics describe the test card that appeared at the end of BBC television transmissions at that time.

Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia

Automatic transmissions - The plant produces 5 speed automatic transmissions for the Toyota Camry, Solara, Sienna and Lexus RX 330.

Unsafe at Any Speed

Early automatic transmissions, including GM's Hydra-Matic, Packard's Ultramatic, and Borg Warner's automatic used by a number of independent manufacturers (Rambler, Studebaker) used a pattern of "P N D L R", which put Reverse at the bottom of the quadrant, next to Low.

Volkswagen Golf Mk6

The Mk6 is available in Chile with the 1.6 L Petrol engine (101 hp) both in five-speed manual and seven-speed DSG transmissions.

Wireless Monitoring Organisation

The Wireless Monitoring Organisation(WMO), setup in 1952, is responsible for monitoring all wireless transmissions and is essentially the eyes and ears of the Wireless Planning & Coordination Wing (WPC) in the Ministry of Communications & IT of the Government of India.

ZF 9HP transmission

Land Rover & Jeep will demonstrate the world's first nine-speed automatic transmissions for a passenger car at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show.


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