Posts Tagged ‘Family’

All Geared up for Christmas!

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

It’s the last day of work, there’s snow on the ground and I’m actually looking forward to tomorrow!  It’s going to to be the first time I’ve spent a Christmas with Amy and we’re cooking our own Christmas dinner (which should be interesting).

I’ve finally got all the presents sorted out and I just need to wrap them.  Amy has wrapped everything because for some reason she seems to enjoy it.  She wasn’t interested in my idea of getting her to wrap her own presents I bought her, so I guess I’ll have to do that tonight :-)

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“The Scientist”

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

I found the patents for two of my Grandad’s (Frank Fox) inventions.  The first one is for a device similar to the Rubik’s cube, but my Grandad filed for the patent in 1970, quite a few years before Rubik.

This patent can be found here:  GB1344259A – Spherical 2×2x2

The second was for “The Box”, which was effectively a very powerful graphic equaliser, which measured the volume and depth of sound.  I can’t really do it justice from my poor explanation of it.  Granada Studios purchased a few to help them get the sound levels correct when recording Coronation Street.

Here’s his patent:  GB2134687A – The Box