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- Film ID:
- 1289.19
- Media URN:
- 42917
- Group:
- New pictorials
- Archive:
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 23/06/1947
- Sound:
- Sound
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration:
- 00:01:01:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:48:22:00 / 01:49:23:00
- Canister:
- NP 145
Unknown user says
"Mr Ross and Mr Smith" are Harry Ross and Ralph Smith.
Unknown user says
Yes, R.A.Smith and H.E.Ross of the British Interplanetary Society (still going strong -- see Facebook), for which this was a design study. I met them both, and Ralph inspired my own art. But what a pity the 'tag' above says 'science fiction'. It was not then, and is not today -- as Apollo proved! (The LM incorporated many features predicted by Smith and Ross.
Unknown user says
Is it possible to see the whole of this anywhere?
Martyn Jutsum says
Two great men of several at the British Interplanetary Society 'BIS' It seems shameful that journalist, AC Clarke still receives posthumous credit for a 'Wireless World' magazine article, reporting a paraphrased conversation he had with the actual designers of the original communications satellite; Smith & Ross. They told Clarke during a BIS meeting; inspiration to 99% of his sci-fi concepts, such as 'Childhood's End' & 'The Sentinel' from which '2001 A Space Odyssey' were conceived. Two of Clarke's best known book plots, were actually written by Ralph's young son, Ashtyn Hereward Smith, a future RAF/ NASA Aerospace Engineer. Anyone doubting these historic facts can visit the BIS in South-West London to see the plethora of pictorial and textual evidence that adorn its inner sanctums. ALL the drawings and texts describing the earliest orbital satellites were the works of BIS founding member R Smith, HRoss & J Edwards. Their works (texts and illustrations) predate any of AC…