When we think of a spark gap radio transmitter, most of us immediately imagine an early twentieth century ship’s radio room or similar. Most of us know these transmitters as the first radio systems, ...

Last month we looked at Marconi and his pioneering work in the advancement of wireless communications. In the early days of radio, prior to government regulation, anyone with the knowledge could build ...

The earliest radio stations I remember in Chattanooga were WDOD (1310, CBS) and WAPO (1150, NBC). WDOD hearkened back to the start of commercial broadcasting in the U.S., 1925, but I think WDOD is the ...

Beaty Rubens’s study of the impact of early radio broadcasts in Britain is full of fascinating and often poignant detail One hundred years ago this summer, from high above Daventry in Northamptonshire ...

It was an odd and stilted moment in 1974 as Mike Jones sat eating lunch with his father, Allen Jones, at the Ingomar Club in Eureka. William B. Smullin was walking by, stopped at their table and ...