The center can hold– if you use a spindle adaptor! Continue Reading
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“Mirror Mirror…”: Art, Technology, and RCA
Art, technology, and science collided in the 1960s with an innovative art collaboration between Earl Reiback and RCA Continue Reading
Item of the Week | Collection of Non-Magnetic Tweezers
It’s tweezer time! Continue Reading
Item of the Week: United Transformer Corporation A-10 Transformers
An unassuming catalog entry leads to an archival treasure hunt for more information Continue Reading
Item of the Week: The Townley Radio
What do you do when you lose a tuning knob on your radio? Replace it with a bottle cap, of course! Continue Reading
Object of the Week: Edison Diamond Disc
To flatten or not to flatten? How did Edison answer that question? Learn all about it with our newest blog post on the Edison Diamond disc. Continue Reading
Item of the Week | RCA UX-199 tube
What happens when the radio craze gets mixed up with a production line mistake? You get the UX-199, a popular general purpose vacuum tubes in the 1920s. Continue Reading
Item of the Week: COSMAC ELF
Way before there was a Raspberry Pi, there was the COSMAC Elf, a micro computer with a micro price tag. Continue Reading
Heart of Cold: Keeping Cool With the RCA Air Conditioner
Why did it take so long for air conditioning to enter the American home? An analysis of RCA’s AC advertisements gives one suggestion. Continue Reading
Object of the Week | RCA Model 103 Loudspeaker
Radio, radio in the hall, what’s the fairest speaker of them all? Continue Reading