SFX Issue 183

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