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I wonder if 60 guineas then was really equivalent to £11,000 today? I
make that an average inflation rate of 239% a year!

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:11:38 +0100, Java Jive wrote:

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"Java Jive" wrote in message
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I wonder if 60 guineas then was really equivalent to £11,000 today? I
make that an average inflation rate of 239% a year!


According to google 60gns (£63) back then would work out at around £2,300 in
today's money, not £11,000..

Oldest UK television discovered
 

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In message , Java Jive
writes
Get ready for a thread of misty-eyed nostalgia ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8159406.stm
What rubbish, Logie-Baird didn't invent the TV, it was an effort by both
EMI and RCA to create the first camera tube, which I believe was called
the Emiscope.
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Clive

Oldest UK television discovered
 

That certainly sounds more reasonable, but it's still an average of
50% pa! As I've lived through 58 of the intervening 73 years, and
don't remember inflation ever even reaching 50%, even during the Heath
government, I still think something must be wrong.

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:38:35 +0100, "Ivan"
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According to google 60gns (£63) back then would work out at around £2,300 in
today's money, not £11,000..

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"Clive" wrote in message
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In message , Java Jive
writes
Get ready for a thread of misty-eyed nostalgia ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8159406.stm
What rubbish, Logie-Baird didn't invent the TV, it was an effort by both
EMI and RCA to create the first camera tube, which I believe was called
the Emiscope.

Where does it say that Yogi Bear invented TV?

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Max Demian

Oldest UK television discovered
 

"Max Demian" wrote in message
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"Clive" wrote in message
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In message , Java Jive
writes
Get ready for a thread of misty-eyed nostalgia ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8159406.stm
What rubbish, Logie-Baird didn't invent the TV, it was an effort by both
EMI and RCA to create the first camera tube, which I believe was called
the Emiscope.


From my T&A post
'The competition was set up by Digital UK and Iain Logie Baird, television
curator at the National Media Museum and grandson of the inventor of TV,
John Logie Baird.'

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David

FREESAT HD as it is now it is a joke.

Oldest UK television discovered
 

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:38:35 +0100, "Ivan"
wrote:
"Java Jive" wrote in message
.. .

I wonder if 60 guineas then was really equivalent to £11,000 today? I
make that an average inflation rate of 239% a year!

According to google 60gns (£63) back then would work out at around £2,300 in
today's money, not £11,000..

It depends which measure of inflation you use.

We usually think of inflation relative to prices, however wage
inflation, for example, tends to increase at a faster pace.

According to http://www.measuringworth.com/ukcompare/ a wage of 60
guinea in 1936 is equivalent to one of £11,635 today.
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Martin Jay

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David said the following on 21/07/2009 11:13:


"Max Demian" wrote in message
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"Clive" wrote in message
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In message , Java Jive
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Get ready for a thread of misty-eyed nostalgia ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8159406.stm
What rubbish, Logie-Baird didn't invent the TV, it was an effort by
both EMI and RCA to create the first camera tube, which I believe was
called the Emiscope.


From my T&A post
'The competition was set up by Digital UK and Iain Logie Baird,
television curator at the National Media Museum and grandson of the
inventor of TV, John Logie Baird.'

He chucked it in when the first images were of a man walking across
screen pointing to camera and uttering the immortal lines "Have you
been injured in an accident at work..."