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  • Where Pluto Crossed the Path
    John Farthing / Tim Wander
    Operation Pluto - Pipe Lines Under The Ocean - was a highly ambitious engineering project to design, develop and construct undersea pipelines and huge pumping stations. These would pump petroleum fuel under the English Channel to support Operation OVERLORD, the Allied invasion of Normandy commencing on 6th June 1944.The route that PLUTO took across the Isle of Wight started at ...
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    26,96 €

  • The Ghosts of Northwood House
    Tim Wander
    In truth I do not know if ghosts exist. If they do, I do not know what they are... is not a very auspicious start to a book grandly entitled 'The Ghosts of Northwood House'. The Historian Nikolaus Pevsner wrote that Northwood House: 'Is a strange house outside and stranger within.' He may be right. At Northwood House over many long and sometimes very cold evenin...
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    19,08 €

  • Culver Cliff and the Isle of Wight at War
    Tim Wander
    Defending the Realm - The Electronic Warfare Battle on Culver Cliff during WW2 During most of the Second World War the Isle of Wight was essentially a closed military camp supporting over 30 anti-aircraft batteries to protect Southampton and Portsmouth dockyards and an arsenal of coastal firepower to defend the Solent and the Island from Invasion.It was a perilous time when the...
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    37,42 €

  • Guglielmo Marconi
    Tim Wander
    This is the detailed story of Marconi’s intense, five year struggle to develop a reliable and practical wireless communication system. It was a constant search for distance and reliability, often in the face of appalling weather.Step by step he overcame countless technical difficulties, battling seemingly insurmountable problems of physics and engineering as his embryonic syste...
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    51,69 €

  • Marconi on the Isle of Wight
    Tim Wander
    In November 1897, a twenty-three year old Italian inventor visited the Royal Needles Hotel that overlooked Alum Bay on the west coast of the Isle of Wight. The young Guglielmo Marconi’s proposal to rent rooms to perform his ’experiments’ over the deserted winter months was warmly welcomed by the hotels proprietors. Marconi used some of the working capital of his newly formed Wi...
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    23,49 €

  • 2mt Writtle - The Birth of British Broadcasting
    Tim Wander
    This book charts the struggle to achieve a national radio broadcasting service in Britain after World War 1. It starts with young wireless engineers struggling to develop radio systems capable of transmitting speech to aircraft during the war. It then follows those same engineers for the next five years, and details their early experimental broadcasts from the Marconi New Stree...
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    36,75 €