Flamephone on The Antiques Roadshow

[physicist]

I found a bit more info on the inventor here:-
https://www.waterbird.org.uk/people/john-kitchen/
https://www.cumbrianlives.org.uk/lives/ ... tchen.html

also a patent drawing of the flamephone here:-
https://grammophon-platten.de/e107_plug ... .php?34634

[Steve]

For anyone else like me who finds AR a little nauseating and just wants to find the clip about the Flamephone (curiously not even its name is mentioned by the "expert"), it starts at 48.37 but please beware it is an unconscionably brief mention for something so astonishingly rare, in such amazing condition and baffling strange and dangerous at the same time!

Clearly the editors and experts have little to no interest in gramophones (like the trade in general), as also evidenced by its omission from the preview of articles coming up in the episode, shown at the beginning. Oh well.

[jamiegramo]

The photos I uploaded, such as they are, show the only angles that were shown on television so there’s not much else to be learned from viewing the clip.

The machine is not shown fully assembled for use with gas.