We're both from the UK, that practice was before my working life I'd say. What era of decades did that occur would you say in UK and in what industries/jobs? It's interesting! I feel that in politics it was a thing that continued on into later years.
Was still happening into the late 1990s. It really depended on the culture at the company. In 2004 I went to work for a place where they'd only just stopped smoking in the office the year before.
I am too old to remember what type of crank gramophone (with metal/bamboo needles) that my grandfather used.
Is it no longer? Asking as a University professor.
I worked at a UK university in the 80s. I was tickled, when I joined, to find that the (small) campus centre had three separate pubs: one for students, one for faculty, and one that would serve all and sundry. All three taps were always quite busy midday.
No Way?
Really?
The first indoor smoking ban in the US was 1994 (Utah). You could still smoke on (some) planes until 2000. These social-turned-legal restrictions are quite recent. I'd be surprised if there weren't still states where you can smoke in the workplace.No Way?
Up to the mid-80s, smoking (cigarettes) was permissible in some US companies. Especially for those with high stress environments.
That's Max Wall. He was a comedian. Quite famous back in the dayWhat is this? Seriously, I don't get the point? Is it just a goofy man signaling..something. It looks totally crazy. It must be some English joke, that only an Englishman would understand. Something that completely escapes me:
Or is it as simple as just a goofy man (a clown?) thrown into the picture to lighten the mood?
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When girls are thrown in the ads, it's a different matter. You get what it's alluding to.
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I think we might have been at the same place, at the same time.
Wow, I didn't realize Hugo Gernsback was a radio guy; I guess I should have. Thanks for posting this!
I had not noticed that...he was quite a legend indeed.
I went to Uni in the UK in the 90's as a student and drinking was really a big part of the culture of student life! Yeah, so it survived for the students at least, not sure the professors!
I had one who was always sipping from his coffee cup. Tutorials would run over by half and hour as he got progressively more drunk and rambled on.
| Format | Diameter | Common speed | Typical runtime/side (good quality) | Max runtime/side (with trade-offs) | Typical weight |
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| Format | Diameter | Common speed | Typical runtime/side (good quality) | Max runtime/side (with trade-offs) | Typical weight |
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| Tiny Vinyl | 4 in | 33⅓ rpm | up to ~4 min | 4 min (format cap) | ~15 g |
| 7-inch single | 7 in | 45 rpm (most common) | ~3–4 min | ~4.5–5 min at 45 rpm; up to ~6–7 min at 33⅓ rpm with lower quality | ~45–70 g |
| 12-inch LP (album) | 12 in | 33⅓ rpm | ~18–22 min | up to ~25 min with lower volume/fidelity | ~140 g typical (also 150 g/180 g) |
