THE GREAT MULLARD MAGIC BLOG

Some of you may know that Mrs Mullard Magic and I celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary a couple of weeks ago.   The 35th wedding anniversary keepsake is traditionally coral so I bought her a fish tank ornament as an interesting alternative.    She seemed totally nonplussed and hasn't spoken to me since so I am thinking of getting in her good books by buying her yet another present, this time to celebrate Morse Code Day which  is celebrated on April 27th each year to honour the birth on that day in 1791 of Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph and the...

This photo says it all, a TV with nothing on.... at least the other subject in this photo has something on though. I honestly wonder what the first General Manager of the British Broadcasting Company, BBC, John Reith, 1st Baron Reith, GCVO, GBE, PC would make of today's terrestrial TV?  That said, during WW1, Reith volunteered for the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) being commissioned as a Lieutenant - he served at Loos so a clue may be there as to the train of his possible thoughts....

Just feast your eyes on this Mullard advertisement from 1946.   Mrs Futura looking at a thin screen TV, may we presume this to be an LCD one even?  As we all know, the first wall-mountable TV used LCD technology and was introduced by Sharp Corporation in 1991 and was a whopping picture frame size of 8 inches, followed a year later by a 17 inch model.   Amazing that Mullard predicted this some 45+ years ago! But that's not all, she is speaking in an Alexa-esque manner to the TV intent on ordering roses. All predicted by Mullard some 68...

Captive carry, there's a phrase typically ued to describe the testing of aerodynamics and separation for externally mounted air launched weapons.   However, I smirked at this patent proposed device for use with dogs - it certainly gets the thumbs up ( well if he had thumbs!!!) from our cat Zolitron.  I smirked even more at this contraption suited for the carriage of children, eminently applicable to an acquaintence's  two "shittle lits" - she was a teacher and her "freedom expresssive" (-out of control) progeny drove a door handle into our previously pristine Smeg fridge sans apology.  Curiously they never visited...

Saucy seaside postcards were once a mainstay of British life during summer, but are rarely seen in the 21st century.  In an age of instant communication, it is easy to forget that sending a postcard to friends and relatives was a ritual for holidaymakers.  Postcards made their first appearance in Britain in 1870. They were plain with an imprinted halfpenny stamp on the front, half the price of sending a letter. With the address going on the front and the message on the back they were a great success, with over 75 million sent in Britain in 1871, rising to...