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Science on Saturday: Physics in the Service of Man: 4: The Six Parameters of P.A.T.

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Seven programmes showing how pure physics research is applied to achieve industrial progress.

One of the problems of telephone communications is how to send a number of messages simultaneously along a wire. P.A.T., the parametric artificial talking machine, has been developed by combined researches in phonetics and electronics at Edinburgh University.
(Shown in the 'Eye on Research' series on October 28, 1958)
'Science on Saturday' is compiled and arranged by: James McCloy

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Alan Rees
Compiled and arranged by:
James McCloy

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