radio history

Need to send a message to a friend 50 miles away? Today, you’ve got plenty of options—whether it’s SMS, email,…

The U.S. Agency for Global Media, a government-run news company that traces its roots to the first Cold War, has…

Never say never. Thomas Edison was both a great inventor and an amusing prognosticator. But nobody, no matter how…

This TV set was the futuristic vision of illustrator Frank R. Paul in 1922. And I absolutely love it.

If you’ve seen any old gangster movies, you’re probably familiar with the phrase: “Calling all cars, calling all…

The hand-cranked radio allows people in remote communities to have access to modern broadcasting—all without needing…

In the 1930s, audio tech nerds were tinkering with everything. The most futuristic model homes of the day were wired…

New technology is scary. Just ask the people who think that their illnesses are caused by wifi. But blaming…

Throughout the 20th century, radio nerds were trying to figure out how to build the perfect headphones. Over-the-ear…

For today's edition of There's Nothing New Under The Sun™, we have a radio engineer who experimented with creating…

Many people are convinced that wearable tech will revolutionize our relationship with technology in the coming…

Each generation seems to think that it's the first to imagine radical change in the newspaper industry. The…

By the late 1930s the vast majority of American households had a radio. So how were radio manufacturers supposed…

Do you find yourself obsessing over the latest tech? Does owning the newest model smartphone or tablet feel like a…

Josephine Daskam Bacon was an author known for her adventure serials that featured female protagonists. But in 1929,…

"What for example could be staler than to-morrow morning's newspaper account of a prize-fight or political…

In 1939 Radio-Craft magazine wrote a series of articles promising that they would build a home of the future in…

Some day a President of the United States may be elected “electronically.” This sentence wouldn’t look out of place…

We often think of subscription radio in the U.S. as a fairly new idea. But back in the 1940s, one company was trying…

If you lived on the small Southern California island of Catalina at the turn of the century, news was hard to come…