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  1. 1chan1: used to ring the exchange operator, a real person, to settle a dispute over the time.❤Operators had been trained to check the exchange clock on the wall and say ‘The time, by the exchange clock, is…’ but this was not precise to the second and operators could not always answer when the caller wanted. So, it was decided that there should be telephone number people could ring to be given the correct, accurate time. The Post Office had a long history of helping people set their clocks from the days when many towns still operated on local time before the railways arrived, which made it essential for everywhere to be operated on a standardised Greenwich Mean Time. Before that, when it was midday in London it might have been only 11:49 a.m. in Bristol. Apparently when the mail coach would arrive villagers would gather around the coachman to get the political gossip and train drivers would announce what the time was according to their timepieces, which had been set in London. This custom is thought to be where the phrase ‘passing the time of day’ originated. The Golden Voice The first voice of the Speaking Clock was London telephonist Ethel (also known as Jane) Cain who was selected from a pool of 15,000 telephone operators who worked for the GPO in a nationwide competition to find the ‘golden voice’. The judges were poet laureate John Masefield, actress Dame Sybil Thorndike and chief BBC announcer Stuart Hibberd and Ethel was awarded the princely sum of 10 Guineas (the equivalent of £10.50 today) for her work. Both the service and Miss Cain became an instant hit – people wanting to know the time were no longer clogging up the telephone lines calling just to ask the operator the time and Cain’s crisp pronunciation, particularly of the word ‘precisely’ (used at the start of each new minute), proved popular. In its first year of operation the service logged around 13 million calls, that’s over 35,000 a day!❤Accurate to one tenth of a second The accuracy of the clock was calibrated and corrected by referencing to a time signal from the Royal Greenwich Observatory, broadcast by Rugby Radio Station. Time announcements were made by playing short, recorded phrases or words in the correct sequence, giving the Greenwich time correct to one-tenth of a second. The original mechanism consisted of an array of motors, glass discs, photocells and valves, taking up the floorspace of a small room and the message was recorded optically onto the glass discs and replayed, rather like a film soundtrack. Two speaking clock machines were made, in case of breakdown. In comparison, the current digital Speaking Clock (first introduced in 1984), with built-in crystal oscillator and microprocessor logic control has no moving parts at all, occupies no more space than a small suitcase and is assured to be accurate to five thousandths of a second. The current source of UK time is provided, but not monitored, by the atomic clock signals provided by the National Physical Laboratory. Yet, the initial equipment, for those days, represented state of the art cutting edge technology; an automated system that was ahead of its time.❤TIM Initially, the service was only available in the London directory area from the Holborn Exchange, but was rolled out nationwide in 1942. If you lived in one of the major UK cities – London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool or Manchester – you would obtain the service by dialling the letters TIM, which corresponded to the digits 846 on a dial phone, whereas other areas dialled 952. Engineers had conceived TIM as a shorthand for time, but it wasn’t long before the service colloquially became known as ‘Tim’.❤The Tomorrow People is a British children's science fiction television series created by Roger Price. Produced by Thames Television for the ITV Network, the series first ran from 30 April 1973 to 19 February 1979. The theme music was composed by Australian music composer, Dudley Simpson, who composed music for two BBC science fiction dramas, Doctor Who and Blake's 7. In 1992, after having much success with running episod es of the original series in America, Nickelodeon requested Price and Thames Television for a new version to be piloted and filmed at Nickelodeon Studios Florida in April 1992, with Price acting as executive producer. This version used the same basic premise as the original series with some changes, and ran until 8 March 1995. A series of audio plays using the original concept and characters was produced by Big Finish Productions between 2001 and 2007. In 2013, an American remake of the show premiered on The CW.❤A group of teens with psychic and other paranormal abilities use their special gifts to battle evil. ❤The Tomorrow People are the next stage of human evolution. They can teleport, communicate by telepathy, heal with the power of thought and they are unable to kill or harm any living creature. Aided by a mysterious and ancient spacecraft buried in the sand of a Pacific island, the... Read all Creator Roger Damon Price Stars Kristian Schmid❤The Tomorrow People are British teens who have special powers. They can communicate to each other using telepathy. They can also transport themselves (they call it "Jaunting"). With the help of Tim their talking computer they battle the bad people of earth and space. And my nation is in shreds and tatter row bust your a retarded fuckwhit me watch you back gove youraturd. Shivenskophff 12 n 12 is twenty four X shut your clap trap and watch that door don't hit you in the back on the wayout. Farout of my sight. Man makes my flesh crawls.
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