"Bruce" wrote in message
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Stephen Howard wrote:
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:56:37 -0000, "handy-andy"
wrote:

Anyone have any idea of any good uk model making magazines &/or
newsgroups. Thanks for looking.


Model Engineers Workshop ( aka MEW ) used to be a decent mag, and
uk.rec.models.engineering is a useful newsgroup.

For some reason that name triggered a long-forgotten memory of "Practical
Mechanics", a monthly magazine edited by FJ Camm in the 1950s. The same
chap edited "Practical Wireless", "Practical Television" etc. ISTR that in
one of those magazines appeared a long-running series of articles by the
Flat Earth Society which triggered my interest in mathematics.

And you jogged my memory and sent me scurrying to my book shelf. Sure
enough there was a copy of "The News Chronicle Encyclopaedia of Popular
Mechanics" by the same F.J.Camm who, according to the foreword he penned was
editor of both "Practical Mechanics" and "Practical Wireless". You can
judge its age by the name of the first section - "Accumulators". There is
also a section on television which describes Mr Baird's state of the art
system with spinning perforated discs that is currently being tested by the
BBC.
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Keith Willcocks
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