Early Radio

Early Radio http://www.hidden-knowledge.com/mkpix.org/blogs/early_radio/ Words and pictures about the early days of Radio: broadcasting; listening; amateur, commercial, and military communication. en-us Copyright 2008 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:41:40 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Personal Artifacts of the ARRL

He's selling it now on eBay, and currently it's fairly cheap; but the auction ends soon. ]]> http://www.hidden-knowledge.com/mkpix.org/blogs/early_radio/2008/07/personal-artifacts-of-the-arrl.html http://www.hidden-knowledge.com/mkpix.org/blogs/early_radio/2008/07/personal-artifacts-of-the-arrl.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:41:40 -0800 Poulsen Arc Radiophone Transmitter Another image from Goldsmith's 1918 book.

You can buy a copy of the Goldsmith book for yourself.

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From Alfred N. Goldsmith, "Radio Telephony" (Wireless Press; 1918). It's the "Berliner-Poulsen 3KW Arc Radiophone Station." Click for larger.]]> http://www.hidden-knowledge.com/mkpix.org/blogs/early_radio/2007/10/some-extremely-early-radio.html http://www.hidden-knowledge.com/mkpix.org/blogs/early_radio/2007/10/some-extremely-early-radio.html Mon, 22 Oct 2007 20:51:50 -0800 Hugo Gernsback and the Electro Importing Company

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Have your teenaged friends over for a dance party, right in your own living room! Mom will feed the hungry crowd, and Dad will try to read his newspaper, but won't be able to resist tapping his toe to the music.

Special thanks to Radio material collector Steve Davis, for these images from his collection. [We Photoshopped them a bit to restore them to their original state.] Steve adds, "This Sears catalog was the first Sears radio-specific catalog, family and socially oriented. Earlier catalogs were electrical appliance catalogs, with radios in them." For more Radio material, try the MagazineArt.org site.

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