Drawing on a wealth of personal accounts found in magazines, newsletters, and trade journals, historian Kristen Haring provides an inside...
History
Mysterious letters and numbers etched into the wall of a sealed-off, fifth-floor room in the Clayton University Center at Packer Hall are...
You might think of the smartwatch era as beginning with Apple, relatively recently. Or, you might think back to those...
KPH, established in California in 1913, will exchange messages with Morse code enthusiasts around the world On July 12, 1999,...
Like many of us, had a lot of electronic toys growing up. In a video you can watch below, he...
You have an old radio — in the case of , a Stromberg Carlson — and it needs new knobs....
Doing electronics in the 1910s was rather rough, with the radio probably the pinnacle of hi-tech. Despite this, with some...
Gisborne amateur radio operator Ivan O’Meara was making waves 100 years ago when he made the first radio contact across...
“I’m in awe. I still haven't gotten accustomed to it. I’m just in complete awe. I’m overwhelmed. I can’t really...
Amateur radio enthusiasts gathered on Wednesday to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi was a...
World Amateur Radio Day, also known as International Amateur Radio Day is celebrated on 18 April, every year. The day...
The National Museum of Broadcasting will be honoring Pittsburgh inventor and broadcasting pioneer Frank Conrad to mark his 150th birthday...
If necessity is the mother of invention, nostalgia must be its stepmother, or its aunt at the very least. The...
Every 26 months, Earth and Mars come tantalizingly close by virtue of their relative orbits. The closest they’ve been in...
We are always fascinated when someone can take something and extend it in a clever way without changing the original...
These days, paying for TV programming is a fact of life. You pay your cable company or some streaming service...
The 46-year-old probe, which flew by Jupiter and Saturn in its youth and inspired earthlings with images of the planet...
Sometimes, you can’t help but wonder how some things got their name. Porcupines. Balloons. Ham radio. What do you even...
From its inception as a humble mail-order business catering to radio aficionados to its zenith as a global electronics giant,...
A homeowner has been left baffled after he came across a mysterious electrical box in a brickwork crawl space under his...
For those of us who remember Radio Shack as more than just an overpriced cell phone store, a lot of...
Radio Shack had a long history of buying things overseas, having their name slapped on them, and selling them in...
Did you know? The Eiffel Tower was supposed to be dismantled after 20 years. Fortunately, things didn’t happen that way,...
...Back in 1970, a man named Hugo Doyle Owens was at a crossroads. Born and raised in Scottsboro, Owens had...
In 1982, a World’s Fair was held in Knoxville Tennessee. Dubbed the “Energy Exposition”, there was a full six months...
