When we first saw this 1944 US Office of Education film about hand soldering, we figured it might still have...
History
Rossville, Georgia, on the border with Tennessee, doesn’t look like a tech town. It’s the kind of place where homey...
With a UHF antenna, it is easy to rotate a directional antenna to find the bearing to a transmitter. But...
Some of the daily normalities of life in the Cold War seem a little surreal from our perspective in 2023,...
In the 1950s, computers were, for the most part, ponderous machines. But one machine offered a glimpse of the future....
Even if you didn’t own a TRS-80, the widespread footprint of Radio Shack in malls meant that if you are...
W8LT is the call sign for the Amateur Radio and RF Club at The Ohio State University (OSU). The university...
For those who have a passion for vintage hardware, whether it be a classic computer or a war-surplus ham radio...
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Imagine you’re an amateur radio operator in the 70s for a moment. You’ve just...
Marconi Was Here! is an international amateur radio award organised by ARI Fidenza Radio Club. The main objective of the award...
Former astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew into space on Apollo 7, the first flight with crew in NASA’s Apollo Program,...
If you’ve got a military buddy, you may have heard him spell something out using whole words that begin with...
ON THE NIGHT of September 11, 1997, the phone lines on the Coast to Coast AM radio show were open and unscreened,...
Plugging in something like an antique radio to see if it works is a good way to have a bad...
With the rise in voice-driven virtual assistants over the years, the sight of people talking to various electrical devices in...
Throughout the 80s and 90s, you couldn’t swing a stapler around any size office without hitting a fax machine. But...
As far as interesting problems go, few can really compete with the perennial question: “Are we alone?” The need to...
The Wales Millennium Centre is hosting a 360 degree virtual reality experience inspired by the wireless signals Marconi and Kemp exchanged between...
It’s a skill that radio amateurs pick up over years but which it sometimes comes as a surprise to find...
Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe (TSCW) was awarded the Save America’s Treasures (SAT) grant of $500,000 from the National Parks...
As much as some companies like Google are willing to let their cloud-based game services like Stadia perish on the vine,...
The Internet Archive is aiming to build up a new library of old content. It's expanding beyond Flash games and animations, movies, books and (of...
In the late 1950s television networks ruled the airwaves from 7 to 11 PM, but outside of that timeslot television...
To call a vintage computing enthusiast would be an understatement. Who else would add the ability to control and address multiple VGA monitors...
It's been a while since I looked up the word 'patriotic'. Depending on which dictionary definition you use it could...
