SFX Issue 183
Features
By Dave Golder
published None
June 2009
T-Time
A family tree of the T-1000
- T1: A digital phone connection protocol
- T2: A processor described as a “system on a chip”
- T3: A technology magazine
- T4: Channel 4’s weekend teen strand
- T5: A Volvo engine
- T6: A light bulb base, used for North American emergency exit lamps
- T7: An armoured car used by the US Army in the 1930s
- T9: A form of predictive text used on mobile phones
- T10: A Soviet military tank
- T11: A torpedo developed for German U-boats during World War II
- T12: A demolition bomb produced by the United States designed to create an earthquake like-effect
- T14: An assault tank used in World War II
- T15: A Russian nuclear fusion research reactor
- T19: A Soviet Union tank design of the interwar years
- T20: The first six-speed motorcycle to go into production in 1965
- T24: A drama society at the University of Kent at Canterbury
- T28: An Ericsson mobile phone
- T30: An MP3 music player
- T31: The first turboprop engine designed and built in the United States
- T35: A Sunbeam toaster (not in the Battlestar Galactica sense, sadly)
- T50: A Cannon SLR film camera
- T60: A Vox transistor bass amplifier used by Paul McCartney in the 1960s
- T70: A 1960s sports car
- T90: A Cray supercomputer
- T100: Toyota pickup truck
- T250: A thermal imager
- T300: A Kenworth truck
- T350: A tenor trombone
- T400: A triple-load washing machine
- T450: A pillowcase designed by Ralph Lauren
- T500: A type of thermostat
- T550: An acoustic guitar made by Wald
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Dave is a TV and film journalist who specializes in the science fiction and fantasy genres. He's written books about film posters and post-apocalypses, alongside writing for SFX Magazine for many years.
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