Comments on: Build this Basketball Scoreboard for your Gym (Jan, 1933)

By: tim & lee

tim & lee — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:30:32 +0000

Hi
We are engineering students from Milton Keynes College doing a project. We need to a circuit diagram for 4 individual control panel’s, for 4 individual score boards, for 4 teams. The panel’s each need 4 buttons: +5 -5 +10 -10. Also the display for the scoring system is to be 7 segments of 100mm high, and 50mm wide. If you have this information please feel free to email it to me at ellaaustin111@hotmail.co.uk or risbridger4472@hotmail.co.uk

Many thanks

Tim and Lee

By: Feedgelmmig

Feedgelmmig — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:50:59 +0000

Hello.
http://vokl2.net/2357/

Bye.

By: Al Bear

Al Bear — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:26:08 +0000

VSE, here you go. Read em’ and weep. The earliest 7 segment display was patented in 1908 —> http://tinyurl.com/5gvesf

US Patent 974,943 by inventor, FW Wood illuminated announcement and display signal.

I was floored when I saw this in 2005. Notice the number “4″ was different than today? but 97% is modern! it sure was ahead of it’s time!

Al Bear

By: vse

vse — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:15:18 +0000

Now this is really something I always wanted to resarch (honestly): when *did* someone (or do we even actually know her/his name?) come up with the idea of the seven segment display for numbers? I saw my first display like this in the early 70s and inmmediately wondered who had come up with this. Now this is the earliest mentioning of a display of this kind I have seen until now: 1933! Anybody know any even earlier record?

By: K!P

K!P — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:14:03 +0000

i think they mean you should use colors, because real wires dont say that neat as a diagram.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:08:04 +0000

“color code makes hook up easy”… isn’t this a black on white publication ?