THE GREAT MULLARD MAGIC BLOG

We hear lots of chuffering about  magnetic loops - "My Mazzoni is bigger than your Wellbrook!"  Then there's the stealth aerial camp of thought. However, in 1926 they had the right idea, just look at these ideas for aerials or antennae if you prefer: -

I just love this RCA advertisement, dating from 1965 proclaiming that a new kind of transistor will help man land on the moon.  Did transistors play a part in the space race and when did the first transistor go into space I hear you muse, well, I think I can tell you a little bit about this. As a consequence of  the launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957, people around the globe heard Sputnik’s unassuming beep beep for 21 days, as this first-ever satellite orbited Earth. And they were riveted. It was over their heads and now they knew how chicken-licken had...

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I was thrilled today to be contacted by Arthur, all the way from Australia who shared his memories  from 67 years ago about his dad's Dalston radio shop, Tiny for Radio and the tribulations of the shop Mullard High Speed Valve Tester (MHSVT) which I can now share with you: - We used Mullard valve testers for years and years, replacing them as they became worn out or superseded. I don’t remember the version numbers, but I would think the pictures that you show were identical to what I remember. We also had AVO valve testers, but although we still...

Harold Leak (HJL)  had a thing about aluminium and why not indeed as he was a true alchemist in his ability to turn aluminium into gold. Harold's genius led us to the Leak Sandwich Speaker where the cone of the woofer was manufactured by sandwiching two cones of aluminium with an elastopolymer filling to create a very rigid cone.     This speaker technology was first marketed in 1961 and continued in various iterations until 1975 receiving great acclaim from many audiophiles and broadcast monitor users alike, for me though, I found the sound they produced both chesty and brittle, there...