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Dubplate lathe4/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Once the war ended the business had been vastly expanded, with huge loans for new premises and the range had been savaged by bean counters at GPO, the GPO no longer wanted to know and sold the company off. Once the war broke out they were taken over by the GPO (Post Office - who did the research for computers etc - check out Bletchley Park - Code Breakers). In addition they then had to replace all the discs so far supplied to the BBC, they had to lay staff off, they had to take out finance in order to cover the replacement costs. Knowing this Watts with the chemist developed a further filtering process to re-filter the lacquer, to remove all particulate. ![]() So the BBC recommended a research chemist, who found that the noise was caused or they determined where the noise was coming from when they found out that the supplier of the lacquer had changed their filtering method, they were using sand. There were issues with the actual lacquer itself in 1938/39 when supplying discs to the BBC which he had been doing along with disc cutting machines from about 1933/34, noise levels had gone up. He had a number of issues, including carrying the gallon drums of lacquer on London's Underground or his former wife did, she had to disguise it. Making lacquer disks is not without it's dangers, I have just read a book on Cecil E Watts the pioneer of direct disc recording by Agnes Watts (his wife), it lacks content on the development of his cutting lathe and the lacquer discs that he developed between 19. I technically Majored in Comp Sci and Minored in Chemistry. ![]() Opcode66 wrote:I studied Chemistry for 3 years before changing majors to Computer Science. ![]()
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