Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Communicating: The Pace of Technology (1985x4)

Fecha de emisión: Ene 09, 1986

Modern man needs to communicate quickly and over greater and greater distances. Since the invention of lasers and fibre-optics, spectacular feats of communication are now commonplace. In today's lecture Professor David Pye trys to make the world's longest phone call and to receive a signal live from Pioneer 10 as it heads out of the solar system.