 | By: Henry Beard Roy McKie Binding: Paperback Publisher: Workman Publishing ISBN: 0761117741 ISBN-13: 9780761117742 Released: 02 May 2000 RRP: Average Rating:  |
One brief example: BNC: Abbr. for British Naval Connector, a widely used bayonet style coaxial cable connector originallly designed for the wireless set on the Titanic. To join two sections of cable, a flimsy tin pin in the centre of a thin metal tube on the male end is jammed blindly into a circular socket with a microscopic centre hole on the female end, & then a rotating ring around the male end is tightened until its threads are stripped, bending the pin against the buffer surrounding the centre hole & mashing the metal tube, thus ensuring that no contact whatsoever is made.
A brilliant read.
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