Reply to post: Re: All sounds very plausible...

Hell hath no fury like a radar engineer scorned

Lotaresco

Re: All sounds very plausible...

"The square flash cubes that rotated were called Magicubes. They didn’t use an electric current to fire"

There were two types of flash cube, electrical and mechanical fired. The mechanical ones were the later version. Here's a photo of a Westinghouse pack of flashcubes that were electrically fired. Note that they are marked "Use with battery operated cameras".

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