THE GREAT MULLARD MAGIC BLOG

The early 1950s to the late 60's were a period when many British manufacturers (there's a novelty....) made semiconductors.   Have you ever wondered how these minute curved surfaced items were indelibly marked? Well, Rejafix made the printing machinery.  Rejafix, also known as Mark-O-Print was started by the Edels family in August 1947 and soldiered on until 1992.

  How I giggled in this woke age about potential jinks and japes one could have come up with as this 1934 article shows..   I particularly liked the electrocution game and may well try this on my Mother in Law this Christmas. The old days were the good days! Merry Christmas to one and all!

Well, our vintage plastic Christmas tree has disintegrated due to UV attack and sales have been slim this past year so however will I replace it.  I had an idea, and as I am passionate about the environment, I recycled our unplayed Barry Manilow, Val Doonican and Mrs Mills records into this fetching  vinyl themed Christmas Tree.  Greta will be proud of me and so will Uri Geller as I will try sharpening BIC disposable razors in its splendorous pyramid-ness  over the Yuletide season Ho, ho, ho, bah- humbug, ow much, capacitors.      

  Are children so naive and gullible today that they think a kangaroo has more nouse than some Radio Amateurs ( and better table manners too)?  Where did this random thought come from, well, if you are chap or lady of a certain age you will remember watching Skippy The Bush Kangaroo and singing along to Eric Jupp's banjo ditty:-  Skippy was a hell of a marsupial and was a female eastern grey kangaroo, who was the star of the Skippy The Bush Kangaroo series of which 91 episodes were filmed then first shown between 1967 and 1969.  Skippy is...

Indeed there were!    Rohde and Schwarz, that paragon of exquisite German engineering and I am fortunate enough to own one of their EK-07 receivers and a CAQ small clock frequency standard. The company was founded by  Lothar Rohde and Hermann Schwarz after their university days as post docs in  Jena.   In August 1933, the Physikalisch-Technisches Entwicklungslabor Dr. Rohde & Dr. Schwarz (known as PTE) started in business.  The fledgling business grew such that in 1937, the small laboratory moved into a former bakery on Tassiloplatz, in Munich.   From just two young  PhD engineers, the copmpany now employed 35 workers and offered 24 different...