It's still summer in Sydney (or is it?)

Good morning all (and especially those in the Northern Hemisphere still stuck in winter), The following letter appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald (Saturday 5 March 2016, p. 39) "Still summer in Sydney. It's hard not to be amused by the apparently genuine surprise expressed this past

Scans of early dialling books (was Re: Horary machine)

Yes, some of the books scanned by Google lack the diagrams, or the fold-outs. But you can get many of these titles from Internet Archive, which a far easier place to start than Google Books. Cheers, John John Pickard john.pick...@bigpond.com