100. With the exact time the capital!

Exact time, friends! November 7, 1937, "speaking clock" earned in Moscow.

In this picture - the engineer DG Parshin, working on "talking for hours." It is they who in 1937 reported moskvcham current time. Now this number while a female voice says, not the speaker Emmanuel Tobias, recorded in 1937. Few details - under the cut.




Interestingly, the Service exact time worked before the advent of "speaking clock". Only calls Muscovites answered a telephone, they informed time, which shows their watches. Moscow telephone service subscribers exact time in 1937 reported the voice of Emmanuel Tobias. But after the war it was replaced by the voice of the announcer Olga Vysotsky, who could be heard until 1970.

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Sound device original system consists of an aluminum drum, which is labeled phonograms phrases hours and minutes, and pickup. Pickup minute changes its position every minute, and after 59 minutes returned to the original position, at the same time transferred to the next track pickup hours.



Later, in the seventies, there was a machine with a magnetic disk, and two circles, one of which was a clock on the other - minutes. German machine "Asman" reported time voice of Olga Fridenson.



In 1993 he switched to a digital format, this year the digital device to compile a word. Then the clock began to communicate and second voice Ludmila Veselova, which can be heard today. Even after her death.

"Talking Clock" earned November 7, 1937, as a gift for the celebration of the October Revolution of signalers Moscow. But the Soviet Union was not a pioneer, in 1933-unit analogue was introduced in London. There she worked on the British system developers, Shepherd's Bush, where soundtracks recorded on glass discs.





Source: geektimes.ru/post/241152/

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