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The History of Communications Industry during the past
100 Years
General
Information Sites
- Advertising
Age's History of TV Advertising
- Alexander
Graham Bell This site is an attempt to reconstruct, in
fine-grained detail, the path taken by Alexander Graham Bell, with
links to other inventors and ideas. Click on the buttons at the top
of the page to begin to explore this growing resource, whose initial
development was funded, inpart, by a grant from the History and Philosophy
of Science program of the National Science Foundation.
- Atwater
Kent Radio This web site is devoted to disseminating information
about Atwater Kent Radios and the man who created them.
- Broadcast
Pioneers Library of American Broadcasting by The University
of Maryland
- The
Farnsworth Chronicles "While the great minds
of science, financed by the biggest companies in the world, wrestled
with 19th century answers to a 20th century problem, Philo T. Farnsworth,
age 13, dreamed of trapping light in an empty jar and transmitting
it, one line at a time, on a magnetically deflected beam of electrons."
A biography of "The Father of Television"
- Friends
of Long Island Wireless History Page WELCOME to the Friends
of Long Island Wireless History HOME PAGE. It will be dedicated to
preserving the historic Sayville Wireless Station site and the establishment
of a museum.
- The
Hammond Museum of Radio Even as a young 16 year old Amateur
Operator, Fred Hammond began collecting early radio and wireless artifacts.
When in the early '70s, Hammond Manufacturing Company built a new
plant on Guelph's Curtiss Road, Fred made sure a 4,000 square foot
area was reserved to house the 'Hammond Museum of Radio' Now home
to over 1,000 radios and transmitters dating from the spark era up
to and including National's first solid state HRO500, the Museum has
evolved to become one of North America's premiere wireless museums.
- Jim's
Radio Room Featuring Broadcast Transmitter Facilities of
VOA, 700 WLW, WABC-77, RCI and other Standard Broadcast Stations with
almost 200 pictures, most with downloadable larger versions, animations
and VRML tours!
- Jeff
Miller's Broadcasting History Collection Articles on the
history of broadcasting, early lists of U. S. radio and TV stations,
and West Virginia broadcast history in particular can be found here.
- The
Museum of Broadcast History
Welcome to the Museum of Broadcast Communications. One of only two
broadcast museums in America, the MBC examines popular culture and
contemporary American history through the sights and sounds of television
and radio. Since its opening in 1987, the Museum of Broadcast Communications
has entertained thousands of visitors every year with unique, hands-on
exhibits, a wide array of broadcasting memorabilia, and an extensive
public archives collection of more than 60,000 radio and television
programs and commercials.
- The
Museum of Television and Radio
- NBC
Radio cir. 1930 This site is an on-line museum that deals
with the history of radio and television over a period of almost sixty
years. Its focus is the studio complex the National Broadcasting Company
operated in Chicago's Merchandise Mart from 1930 to 1989. You can
presently take a virtual tour of these facilities as they appeared
when the studios opened in the fall of 1930.
- Nipperscape
Nipper is perhaps the best-known and most loved advertising trademark.
In the United States, we know him as the "RCA dog." But he started
life in Bristol, England in 1884. Nipper was a mutt, part bull terrier
and a trace of fox terrier. When his master died he became the pet
of the Barraud brothers, Mark and Francis. At Francis Barraud's photographic
studio, Nipper would listen attentively to the old phonograph. One
day it occurred to Barraud that the dog might be waiting to hear his
master's voice. This inspired him to paint the oil (1895) of Nipper
and the gramophone, which is titled appropriately "His Master's Voice."
- Welcome
to the Obsolete Computer Museum
- Radio
Days information of use to collectors of old time radio
shows
- The
Radio History Society The Radio History Society's (RHS's)
aim is to create a world-class museum and library of radio and television
museum in the nation's capital.
- The
Media History Project: From the University of Colorado
- A
History of San Francisco Bay Area Broadcasting
- Surfing the Aether These pages chronicle some of the events,
inventions, and notable moments that made radio what it is today.
With a quick study of this history, you may discover some interesting
parallels between radio and the growth of the Internet.
- Telegraph
Lore The Morse system of telegraphy was invented by Samuel
Finley Breese Morse in the 1840s in the United States. "Morse Code"
is essentially a simple way to represent the letters of the alphabet
using patterns of long and short pulses. A unique pattern is assigned
to each character of the alphabet, as well as to the ten numerals.
These long and short pulses are translated into electrical signals
by an operator using a telegraph key, and the electrical signals are
translated back into the alphabetic characters by a skilled operator
at the distant receiving instrument. It has also been acknowledged
that Morse's partner Alfred Vail very likely assisted in the development
of the code and the instruments used to transmit and receive it.
- The
Telegraph Office A Tribute to Morse Telegraphy and Resource
for Wire and Wireless Telegraph Key Collectors and Historians
- Telegraph
& Scientific Instruments These WEB pages are dedicated
to the PRESERVATION of Telegraph History, Lore, and Instrumentation.
You will find an On-Line Cyber-Museum with (copyrighted) downloadable
illustrations showing Collections of Telegraph Instruments, Microphones,
and Radios, a Telegraph History and Bibliography, Telegraph Lore,
and Links to other Sites of interest.
- Exchange
Names - Telephone numbers used to begin with two letters,
which were an abbreviation for a word. For example, there was a Glenn
Miller song called PEnnsylvania 6-5000, and Liz Taylor made a movie
called BUtterfield-8. An exchange name is a word that is used to represent
the first two letters of a 7 digit telephone number (exchange names
have nothing to do with area codes or country codes). The first two
letters of the exchange name are the first two digits of the phone
number, when they are spelled out on the telephone dial or keypad.
So for example, the exchange name "SYcamore" means that the first
two numbers of the telephone number are "79", and SYcamore-4-3317
would be 794-3317. Here's links to the big lists of exchanges!
- Telephone
History When one thinks of an antique telephone, the image
of an old crank wall phone generally comes to mind. Since its invention
in 1876 the telephone evolved along with the technology of the time.
Not only was there an evolution in the instruments but many different
manufacturers produced various styles and a certain uniqueness to
their wall and desk telephones. The uniqueness of the old telephones
has become very attractive and many people have found these to be
interesting collectables. The pages below will provide links to the
history of the telephone and the histories of a number of current
telephone companies. In addition, information about antique telephones
and the Antique Telephone Collectors Association is provided.
- Transistor
History - The history of the transistor begins with the
dramatic scientific discoveries of the 1800's--scientists like Maxwell,
Hertz, Faraday, and Edison made it possible
to harness electricity for human uses. Inventors like Braun, Marconi,
Fleming, and DeForest applied this knowledge in the development of
useful electrical devices like radio.
- The
Nicola Tesla Home Page The Serbian-American inventor, electrical
engineer, and scientist. Born on July 9/10, 1856 in Smiljan, Lika
(Austria-Hungary) Died on January 7, 1943 in New York City, New York
(USA). Inventions: a telephone repeater, rotating magnetic field principle,
polyphase alternating-current system, induction motor, alternating-current
power transmission, Tesla coil transformer, wireless communication,
radio, fluorescent lights, and more than 700 other patents.
- Telephone
Museum Welcome to the electronic section of the Telephone
Museum in Hellerup.This Web Site aims to provide a glimpse into the
history of the telephone, whet the user's appetite and act as a mouthpiece
for all those who are interested
- The
Theremin Homepage The Theremin Invented in 1919 by Leon
Theremin (1896-1993), this unique instrument is still popular today
in experimental music circles. The theremin is played by waving one's
hands near two metal antennas: one for pitch and the other for volume.
The antennas vary the frequency of two oscillators. To create the
sound, a fixed oscillator is mixed with the variable pitch oscillator
and their difference (or beat frequency) is amplified.
- Tubes
to Go All about the tubes that glow in the dark!
- United
States Early Radio History United States Early Radio History
by Thomas H. White Following are a number of articles on United States
radio history written over the years, emphasizing the early AM broadcast
band.
- Virtual
Radio Museum Many radio broadcasters in the 30's moved
South Of The Border to avoid Broadcasting regulations and liability.
Dr. Brinkly was one of them. He was radio Surgeon of some note and
claimed to be the most learned Doctor in America. Dr Brinkly became
quite famous for his broadcasts and an unusual surgical practice of
transplanting goat gonads into human recipients. His radio station,
XERA was a home for faith healers, questionable patent medicines,
lawsuits, country music, controversy and great success. The names
have changed but the content remains the same in broadcasting today.
- Voices
out of the fog (History of radio in San Francisco). San Francisco was a great radio city in
the golden age of radio, rivalling New York, Los Angeles and Chicago
in its importance as a radio programming center. Why, then, is there
so little information available about those early years in the City
by the Bay? The radio broadcasting history buff will find only scraps
of information here and there. This web site was created to help fill
the gap. It consists of materials taken from a manuscript I wrote
in the 1970's, after two years' of intensive research while I attended
San Francisco State University in 1969-71. This material has never
been published except for a few articles, because it was not commercially
very viable as a book. But now, thanks to the Internet, it can be
made available to the general public -- not for profit, but for knowledge!
- 100
Years of Radio History of Radio
Individual Collector Sites
Old Radio Information Sites
Phonographs
Radio Clubs and Associations
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