[GreenKeys] Royal Institution Christmas Lectures: call for teleprinter

[Sam Hallas]

Gill (our esteemed moderator) forwarded to me  a request from the TV 
production company for a teleprinter for one of this year's lectures. 
The lectures have been going since the mid-1820s, sponsored by the Royal 
Institution to foster interest in science to school students. "Michael 
Faraday, a former Director of the Royal Institution, initiated the first 
Christmas Lecture series at a time when organised education for young 
people was scarce." Of recent years they have been televised daily 
between Christmas and New Year

http://www.rigb.org/rimain/events/christmaslectures.jsp

I advised the producers to contact several people in the UK who might 
have working machines for display, but was disappointed not to get any 
reply.

Tonight the lecture which used a teleprinter was broadcast in the UK. I 
am pleased to say that they had obtained a Creed 444 machine on loan 
from Amberley working museum, which was the recipient of the bulk of the 
former BT collection of telecomms artefacts and was one of my 
recommendations.

http://www.amberleymuseum.co.uk/index2.html
and
http://www.connected-earth.com/Daysout/index.htm

Thanks, Gill,

( I took loads of pictures at Amberley earlier in the year and will get 
round to posting the best on my web site eventually - some great 
telegraph stuff)

Sam Hallas