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	Tommy Flowers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Flowers was born in London and, after an apprenticeship in mechanical engineering, he earned a degree in Electrical engineering at the University of London before joining the telecommunications branch of the General Post Office (GPO) in 1926, moving to work at their research station at Dollis Hill in 1930.
		After the war, Flowers returned to the Post Office Research Station where he was Head of the Switching Division.
		During the War, Flowers was asked to join the codebreaking efforts at Bletchley Park, and it was he who proposed solving the problems of the Heath Robinson machine by using an electronic system using valves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tommy_Flowers

	1946 - 1959
		was nationalised on 1 January by the Treasury’s purchase of the company’s shares, and by the Post Office’s acquisition of the company’s telecommunications assets in Britain (with the exception of its telegraph cables and terminal station at Porthcurno), including the return of the wireless stations previously leased to the company in 1929.
		At the same time, the radio beam stations leased to Cable and Wireless were returned to the Post Office.
		The last Post Office inland morse telegraph circuit was recovered from between Barra and South Uist in the Outer Hebrides.
	www.bt.com /archives/history/19461959.htm

	Länsstyrelsen i Västerbotten - Vindelfjällen Research Station
		The research station, which was officially opened by the Swedish King Carl Gustav and Queen Silvia in 1994, was built and furnished using natural materials.
		The research station is a centre for both Swedish and foreign researchers and lies in the middle of Ammarnäs, close to shops, hotels and ski slopes.
		The station consists of a main building with an area of 600 square meters on two floors with 17 double rooms, a dining hall/conference room, 5 well equipped laboratories, self-catering facilities, a washing and drying room for clothes and an outhouse with a sauna.
	www.ac.lst.se /en/vindelfjallenresearchstation

	James Ellis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He studied physics at Imperial College London, and subsequently worked at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill.
		Ellis was born in Australia, although he was conceived in Britain and grew up in London.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Ellis

	VUMC Post Office Station 17 - Building Street Numbers
		Departments in these buildings receive their U.S. mail directly from one of the U.S. Post Office stations in Vanderbilt area.
		The Post Office's campus zip is (2635), for instance, so our complete U.S. ip is 37232-2635.
		The chart below shows which of the buildings housing Medical Center activities fall under which post office:
	www.mc.vanderbilt.edu /copypost/bldgstreet.htm

	HOT AIR: Postal Experiments
		Upon pickup at the station, the clerk and supervisor consulted a book of postage regulations together for 2 minutes and 40 seconds before deciding on additional postage fee to assess.
		The ski was slipped into a bin of postage that was being loaded into a truck behind a station (a collaborating staff member created a verbal disturbance up the street to momentarily distract postal workersÕ attention).
		Our research staff began the project by obtaining and reviewing relevant information on USPS regulations and discussing, in a limited and very hypothetical manner, the planned project with USPS 800 number personnel.
	www.improbable.com /airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i4/postal-6-4.html

	Dollis Hill biography .ms
		The code-breaking Colossus computer, used at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, was built at the Post Office Research Station in Dollis Hill by a team lead by Tommy Flowers.
		The station closed at the end of the 1970s.
		The fictional Dollis Hill Football Club features occasionally in the British satirical magazine Private Eye, and Dollis Hill tube station, although real, is frequently played in spoof radio panel game Mornington Crescent.
	dollis-hill.biography.ms

	History of the United States Post Office
		The Post Office Department of the Confederate States of America was established on February 21, 1861, by an Act of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States.
		The customer had to take a letter to the post office to mail it, and the addressee had to pick up the letter at the post office, Unless he or she lived in one of about 40 big cities where a carrier would deliver it to the home address for an extra penny or two.
		Although funds were appropriated a month before he left office in 1893, subsequent Postmasters general dragged their feet on inaugurating the new service so that it was 1896 before the first experimental rural delivery routes began in West Virginia, with carriers working out of post offices in Charlestown, Halltown, and Uvilla.
	www.ceol.com /vvpo/history.html

	75 Degrees South
		It will be the sixth research station built on the Brunt Ice Shelf and is designed to replace the current base.
		Once the new station is up and running, Halley V will be completely dismantled in order to comply with the strict environmental rules of the Antarctic Treaty.
		By combining the science platforms and summer accommodation with the main living area the station is more compact and should make it a more sociable place in the summer.
	simonc.f2o.org /south

	Project for Public Spaces (PPS) Great Park Places: Post Office Square
		The development of the Park at Post Office Square began in the early 1980s when the real-estate market was booming in downtown Boston and development space was at a premium.
		Friends of Post Office Square consulted with the Parks Department and the Boston Greenspace Alliance, a consortium of open-space advocates, and decided to build a parking structure underground with a park above it.
		Along with the right to a monthly parking space, the purchase arrangement with Friends of Post Office Square included a cumulative 8% dividend to be paid to shareholders when debt relief is complete.
	www.pps.org /upo/greatplaces/one?public_place_id=20

	The Computer Journal, Volume 10, Issue 3, pp. 256-264: Abstract.
		Post Office Research Station, Brook Road, Dollis Hill, London, UK
		This is a critical step in a research programme aimed at automatically finding suitable systems of features for recognizing hand-printed and cursively written characters.
		In a simplified problem, it is found that appropriate pairs of parts are chosen automatically when a purely algebraic technique is used for inferring the similarities of unknown to known patterns.
	www.oup.co.uk /computer_journal/hdb/Volume_10/Issue_03/100256.sgm.abs.html

	SORS Smithsonian Fellowships
		The Office of Fellowships and Grants offers awards to Native Americans who are formally or informally related to a Native American community to undertake individually designed research projects related to Native American topics and using Native American resources at the Smithsonian.
		Ongoing research programs include the systematics, ecology, and functional morphology of algae; life histories of meiofaunal organisms, sipunculans, polychaetes, and gastropods; ecology of foraminiferans; systematics, reproduction, and ecology of several groups of echinoderms and crustacea; studies of nutrient recycling, and invertebrate parasite-host interactions.
		A research and travel allowance will be made available to cover additional costs of spending up to one third of the fellowship tenure away from the Smithsonian, if appropriate and necessary, but not at the fellow's home institution.
	www.si.edu /ofg/fell.htm

	Tommy Flowers; Unsung Hero - Humble Beginnings
		He obtained his degree in Electronic Engineering, and went to work for the Post Office (then in charge of telecommunications as well).
		It didn't take Flowers long to notice that the endless combinations involved in these codes called for a switching system very similar to what he had been working on with the Post Office.
		He was, however, a respected electronic engineer, and when war broke out he was drafted in to Bletchley to help out, as the academics led by Turing first roughed out plans for a "computer".
	wwwusers.brookes.ac.uk /03088589/humble.htm

	Real Estate Weekly: A new Penn Station in an old post office
		The building -- undoubtedly the most high-profile post office in the United States, open 24-7, 365 days a year, was originally built in 1914 (just four years after the original Penn Station).
		Unlike the current Penn Station that is dominated by fast food joints and other low-end amenities, the new space will allow a variety of retailers to take advantage of the lucrative station in an arrangement similar to Grand Central Terminal.
		The demolition of Penn Station in 1965 -- "the great act of vandalism in the history of the city," according to Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan -- was a low point for preservation in this city.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3601/is_15_47/ai_67837155

	National Postal Museum
		Explore Cuba's postal and aviation history in an ongoing research and exhibition effort to study and bring to the public an important research resource for the cultural history of Cuba, the Roberto Pichs collection of Cuban postage stamps.
		] Included in the exhibition are items collected from New York City's Church Street Post Office.
		Parcel post service began on January 1, 1913 and was an instant success.
	www.postalmuseum.si.edu /exhibits/2_exhibits.html

	The Washington Note Archives
		Based on the post from Standa, the president is responsible for the repaying the Army for a box of paper clips that was stolen from the supply depot today.
		Posted by: Bill Johnson at October 29, 2004 03:37 PM Rule #1: Do not try and slam my or any other post with weak drivel because you look like a complete fool.
		No one in the 82d is "stationed in Germany." I have a son who's platoon sergrant up there and he is quite adamant in denouncing this.
	www.thewashingtonnote.com /archives/000143.html

	Optoelectronics Research Centre :: The Optical Fibre Group at Southampton, 1966-1988
		Experimental work was not to begin for another year because the contract supporting the research, whilst agreed in principle in early 1966, was not to provide any hard cash until January 1968, and the author was on sabbatical leave in the USA during the academic year 1966/67.
		He said he was in charge of optical communications research at the time and his materials experts had informed him that it would not be possible to reduce material losses to the level required for long-distance transmission.
		Whilst this research was underway consideration was given to the very necessary question of what kind of transmission path might be suitable at optical frequencies.
	www.orc.soton.ac.uk /about/earlydays/ofg.php

	McGill research centres continued
		Research at the CPM has therefore both technological and basic scientific aspects, and involves both experimental and theoretical investigation.
		Its goal is to promote the execution and dissemination of the best possible research on issues central to organizations, especially the formation of strategic direction, the coordination of organizational activities, and the relationship between organizations and society.
		Current research in the Centre for Research in Neuroscience is concerned with a variety of neuroscientific areas.
	www.mcgill.ca /researchoffice/units/continued

	Subterranea Britannica: Research Study Group: Sites: Dollis Hill
		DOLLIS HILL The Research Station In 1914 the first steps were taken towards establishing a research branch of the Post Office's Engineering Department on the crest of the Dollis Hill ridge; and the first workshops were set up here in 1921.
		Following closure of Post Office Research Station, in the mid 1990's the site was sold to a property developer who converted the Research Station into luxury flats with a new housing estate on the rest of the site.
		Staff could use the Post Office canteen for meals and had living and sleeping accommodation in Neville's Court, where about thirty NCOs and men were quartered so as to allow a 24-hour guard over the whole complex to be maintained.
	www.subbrit.org.uk /rsg/sites/d/dollis_hill

	Dollis Hill, district in the London Borough of Brent
		In 1933 the General Post Office Research Station was built at Dollis Hill.
		The Research Station closed at the end of the 1970s and the site was developed for light industry and later for housing.
		In the late 1930s the Government, anticipating the bombing of London at the outbreak of the war, built and underground bunker for the War Cabinet in the GOP's Research Station grounds.
	www.brent-heritage.co.uk /dollis_hill.htm

	Tallil’s post office delivers
		Mail is delivered daily to the Air Force's post office, and a 10-person team works seven days a week to make sure letters and packages get to their intended recipients.
		The post office has come a long way since it opened and continually tackles challenges to offer many of the same services airmen might find at home.
		While the post office has many of the services available at home, postal workers here deal in cash-only transactions and do not sell money orders, Thomas said.
	www.af.mil /news/story.asp?storyID=123005263

	HSJ: Visiting HSJ: Coyote Community Post Office
		Coyote Post Office was more than a mail depot, it was a community center where time seemed frozen.
		Because Coyote Post Office symbolizes communication in the Santa Clara Valley, the interior building exhibit is divided into two separate sections.
		From its establishment in 1862 until 1882, Coyote Post Office was called Burnett Post Office after the surrounding township.
	www.historysanjose.org /visiting_hsj/buildings/history_park/post_office.html

	Wireless Internet Post Office: Project proposal: International Development Research Centre
		The research project objectives are to solve the multitude of technical and system design issues that define a Wireless Internet Post Office (WIPO) capable of delivering digital access to the widest possible population at the lowest usage and capital cost.
		The research output will be a complete “how to” guide, posted on a publicly accessible web site, that small companies, universities and governments can use to build and deploy a wireless infrastructure to deliver simple but essential digital communication to millions of people across the Asia-Pacific.
		The majority of the research work is the design of an end-to-end system that delivers text messaging in the most economical, robust, practical and appropriate way for the largest population possible.
	www.idrc.ca /en/ev-61529-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

	VUMC Post Office Station 17 - Abbreviations
		However, if you are in one of the buildings which receives U.S. mail from your local U.S. Post Office (for a reference list click here), or if your address will be used by patients or other non-VUMC personnel who visit your office, you should consider spelling out the building name instead.
		Some other abbreviations, for buildings outside the Medical Center or pertaining to organizational units, are not so well-recognized but may occasionally be seen.
		Most VUMC buildings have abbreviations which are commonly understood at Vanderbilt.
	www.mc.vanderbilt.edu /copypost/poabbrev.htm

	US Long Term Ecological Research Network - Home
		The LTER Network offers the broader environmental biology research community, including students and foreign scientists, the opportunity to use the sites for both long-and short-term projects appropriate to individual sites, a group of sites, or the Network as a whole.
		The National Science Foundation established the LTER program in 1980 to support research on long-term ecological phenomena in the United States.
		The Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network is a collaborative effort involving more than 1800 scientists and students investigating ecological processes over long temporal and broad spatial scales.
	lternet.edu

	Willesden Local History Society
		It gathers together of primary and secondary references to the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill where the author worked from 1954 to 1977, and its now famous underground bunker.
		Much of the research work for this booklet was carried out to support an exhibition on the Research Station at the Grange Museum Neasden.
		In addition to the life story, (which was difficult to research), the Wood Collection, all 150 volumes, has been examined and a new contents list compiled.
	www.london-northwest.com /sites/wlhs/books.htm

	Department of Computer Science San Jose State University > Spring 2004 Colloquium
		Colossus, the first electronic digital computer, was built by Tommy Flowers at the General Post Office Research Station in Dollis Hill, London.
		The department office is normally open from 8:00 a.m.
		The Department office is in 208 MacQuarrie Hall,
	www.cs.sjsu.edu /colloquium/Spring04.shtml?a1

	ian.asp
		Ian joined the then Post Office Research Station in 1968 after graduating from University College London and spent his initial career within the Millimetric Waveguide Division, obtaining a PhD in 1975 for work on IMPATT diode oscillators.
		Professor Ian Groves was appointed Visiting Professor at the Centre for Telecommunications Research, King’s College, London following a career of some 32 years in the telecommunications industry.
		In 1980 he was appointed to lead the development of the first electronic telephone instruments specifically for the BT product range and held personal responsibility for speech transmission issues associated with customer premises equipment.
	www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk /members/ian.asp

	The Island of Balta
		The budget office also estimated that deficits for the decade ending in 2013 would total nearly $2.4 trillion.
		Of course, the rest of the article deals with the ol' electronic voting systems thingy which is a bundle of posts in itself.
		Robert McNamara, the former "Whiz Kid" who was Secretary of Defense during pretty much the entire force buildup in Vietnam chimed in on the Iraq war with this to say.
	balta.blogspot.com /2004_01_01_balta_archive.html

	Trangie, NSW - Daily Weather Observations
		If you are after long-term averages relevant to Trangie, New South Wales, look at the tables for Trangie Post Office, Trangie Research Station AWS, Wellington Research Centre or Peak Hill Post Office.
		Observations were drawn from Trangie Research Station AWS {station 051049}.
		The closest station with sunshine observations is at Wellington, about 100km to the southeast.
	www.bom.gov.au /climate/dwo/IDCJDW2136.latest.shtml

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