Other (public access) sites in my portfolio include:
www.deaf-research.org.uk A research resource for those investingating hearing impairment, usabusability and technology/Human computer interaction
A further research resource web-site will be placed on-line to cover the field of digital television accessibility and usability. The domain www.tvusability.org.uk is now online
www.usability-research.org.uk . This site is a research resource for those in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction
www.tvresearch.org.uk This TV research site has just gone online
tvhistory (URL tbc) will focus on the technical development of TV from the 1920s to the introduction of IPTV in 2005/6
www.deafened.co.uk My main site
www.deafenedproject.org (note new url)
www.deafenedsurvey.co.uk (currently down!)
information on my family: www.boksan-cullen.co.uk www.boksan-cullen.me.uk
My wife makes wonderful patchwork quilts: www.ivana-quilts.co.uk (will be uploaded on the 20th November 2006)
A web blog on interactive television will be launch in January 2007.
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Site planned for February 2007 Both my great Uncle and Grandfather were famous Scotland Yard detectives, it is hoped to launch a new site regarding famous cases that they were involved with from the Sydney Street Siege to the Brighton Police Corruption trial of the Chief Constable John Ridge in the 1950s.
www.boksan-cullen.co.uk, now online , this is our general family web site.
RECOMMENDED SITES REGARDING EARLY RADIO AND TELEVISION
Film & TV Website –good research base: http://www.timelapse.com/tvlink/
The British Film Institute: http://www.bfi.org.uk/
http://www.deafbroadcastingcouncil.org.uk/
For both those interested in television history and students needing some research resources , I can highly recommend Lee Schaeffer's (Pittsburgh) site. It has some very interesting features and links galore. Lee also has connections with KDKA, the first American TV broadcaster.
http://www.nb.net/~schaefer/tvt.html
http://www.vintage-radio.com
http://www.fredtheoyster.co.uk
British Vintage Wireless Society is a good starting point for early radio research:
http://www.bvws.org.uk
http://www.sptv.demon.co.uk/nbtv/
Edgar wrote many articles concerning valves the following two site may be of interest:
http://www.tubecollector.org/ virtual valve museum
http://www.r-type.org/static/museum.htm (national valve museum)
For anyone interested in early television and vintage radio this is a must see site: http://www.burdaleclose.freeserve.co.uk
http://users.skynet.be/telehor/eng/index.htm Denis Asseman's website is well worth a visit, it has a feast of photographs showing the finely engineered television receivers of the 1920s and 1930s. Although still under constrcution is is worth a visit and will be a useful resource in the future. There is also a Dutch/Flemish version at http://users.skynet.be/telehor/index.htm
Although the great John Logie Baird invented television which actually worked, many others contributed to its inception and development. Sam Peters suggests that www.earlytelevision.org is a good site; another: click which lists the best and worst early televsion siteswhich lists the best and worst early television sites
Another good site for information about Baird is http://www.bairdtelevision.com/
If you live in Sussex, you may like to attend one of the British Comouter Society's monthly lectures (9 months each year) Subjects in the past has included 3D Televsion by Dr Adrian Thomas and "Agile Programming in Digital Televsion" by Kirt Scotland of the BBC. http://www.bcssussex.org.uk/
The wireless is very important and many pioneers including larner began by experimenting with radio waves. The first televisions were often refered to al "seeing by wireless" or "radio pictures" . The folowing site is a mine of informationL Pittsburgh Antique Radio society page http://www.pittantiqueradios.org/
http://antiquewireless.org/
adventures in cybersound resource site
http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/phd3000.html
http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/index.html
2006 was the 150th anniverisary of the birth of NIKOLA TESLA , THE FATHER OF THE RADIO, AND MANY OTHER INVENTIONS/DISCOVERIES. Click here for a biogrpahy on this great man.
The TESLA MUSEUM WEBSITE
Aleksandar S. Marincic, D.Sc.
Nikola Tesla Museum
51 Proleterskih brigada Street
Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Also try the Tesla memorial Society of New York, USA http://www.teslasociety.com/index.html
http://www.radio-electronics.com/index.php A good site for both antique and modern radio technology information
RADIOFEEDS.co.uk - List of UK radio stations simultaneously broadcasting on the web - NEW: http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/
For enthusiasts building their own vintage radios: http://www.vintageradio.me.uk/
General TV research resource (and quite entertaining) www.researchtv.com
I am a member of the Information Technologies Research Group at the University of Brighton. This link will inform you of some of the research we are currently undertaking: www.brighton.ac.uk/cmis/itrg
INTERESTING SITES CONCERNING EARLY TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Edgar was employed for many years by the GPO engineering/telephones. The Telecom Heritiage Group was formed in 1986 with the aim of bringing together all those engaged in the study, preservation and collection of the heritage of communications
I can personally reccomend the connnected Earth website for all ages and interests in technology The Home page is http://www.connected-earth.com/index.cfm and is an inspirational website founded by BT plc.
Revised list will be added in December 2006. Any suggestions e-mail me on boksan-cullen@bcs.org
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