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Episode 14

The Repair Shop: Fixing Britain Series 1
Episode 14 of 15

Jay Blades revists three repairs 鈥� a cash register, a camera and a calculator - to show how they helped shape the modern digital world we enjoy today.

Jay Blades revisits three items from the predigital age that together have helped influence the microchip-driven technology that we take for granted today.

The episode begins with an analogue cash register owned by Judy Evans. Jay tells the story of how the first tills were designed to stop embezzling at an American saloon in the 19th century, and how they made it over to this side of the Atlantic. He also shows how these early versions paved the way for a piece of tech that survives to this day, despite the impact of decimalisation and the move to cash-free transactions.

The next item is a beautiful camera owned by the great-grandfather of Phil Jones during the First World War. It鈥檚 one of the pioneering devices that appeared at the turn of the century and laid the foundations for the cameras that are now so ubiquitous today. Jay uses archive to tell the story of pioneering war photographers and how cameras like this one laid the groundwork for today's digital photography.

Finally, an old-fashioned manual calculator brought in by Donald Creasy and his family. Jay charts how the humble lever-driven machine owned by Donald led to the calculators that we take for granted today.

44 minutes

Last on

Thu 20 Aug 2020 01:30
主播大秀 Two

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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:01

    T. Rex

    Twentieth Century Boy

  • 00:01

    T. Rex

    Twentieth Century Boy

  • 00:02

    Blur

    The Universal

  • 00:02

    Blur

    The Universal

  • 00:04

    The Ting Tings

    Fruit Machine

  • 00:17

    The Kinks

    Picture Book

  • 00:19

    Mark Ronson

    Apply Some Pressure

  • 00:23

    Duran Duran

    Girls On Film

  • 00:28

    Gary Numan

    Are Friends Electric?

    Performer: Tubeway Army.
  • 00:37

    Kraftwerk

    Computer Love (2009 Remastered Version)

Credits

Presenter Jay Blades
Series Producer Paula Fasht
Executive Producer David Sayer
Executive Producer Rob Butterfield
Executive Producer Emma Walsh
Production Company Ricochet Limited

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