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The line "E.T. phone home" was ranked 15th on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes list, [145] and 48th on Premiere 's top movie quote list. [146] In 2005, it topped a Channel 4 poll in the UK of the 100 greatest family films, [ 147 ] and was listed by Time as one of the 100 best movies ever made.
20 Fenchurch Street is a commercial skyscraper in London that takes its name from its address on Fenchurch Street, in the historic City of London financial district. It has been nicknamed " The Walkie-Talkie " because of its distinctive shape, said to resemble a walkie-talkie handset. [ 4 ] Construction was completed in spring 2014, and the ...
This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part or full talking feature films made in the United States and Europe during the transition to sound, between 1926 and 1929. During this time a variety of recording systems were used, including sound on film formats such as Movietone and RCA Photophone , as well as sound on disc formats like ...
California Penal Code sections were in use by the Los Angeles Police Department as early as the 1940s, and these Hundred Code numbers are still used today instead of the corresponding ten-code. Generally these are given as two sets of numbers [ citation needed ] —"One Eighty-Seven" or "Fifty-One Fifty"—with a few exceptions such as "459 ...
Donald Lewes Hings, CM MBE (November 6, 1907 – February 25, 2004) was a Canadian inventor, born in Leicester, England. In 1937 [1] he created a portable radio signaling system for his employer CM&S, which he called a "packset", but which later became known as the "Walkie-Talkie". While Hings was filing a U.S. patent for the packset in Spokane ...
ACP 131. ACP-131 [1] is the controlling publication for the listing of Q codes and Z codes. It is published and revised from time to time by the Combined Communications Electronics Board (CCEB) countries: Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States. When the meanings of the codes contained in ACP-131 are translated into ...
The Q-code is a standardised collection of three-letter codes that each start with the letter "Q". It is an operating signal initially developed for commercial radiotelegraph communication and later adopted by other radio services, especially amateur radio. To distinguish the use of a Q-code transmitted as a question from the same Q-code ...
Walkie-talkie. Recreational, toy and amateur radio walkie-talkies. Assorted two-way FRS and GMRS walkie talkies with hand mic. A walkie-talkie, more formally known as a handheld transceiver ( HT ), is a hand-held, portable, two-way radio transceiver. Its development during the Second World War has been variously credited to Donald Hings, radio ...