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Tag Archives: Radio
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
Public Lecture | The Hams Can
Join us at the Sarnoff on Sunday, August 12, 1:30-2:30pm for a public lecture about the role of ham radio operators in a fated 1921 boxing match. Continue Reading
Object of the Week: RCA RZG-105Z radio
Taking radio to-go Continue Reading
Temporary Exhibit | RCA Radios Through the Ages
Radio Through the Ages: a temporary exhibit for World Radio Day Visit the Sarnoff Collection on Sunday, Feb.18 at 1:30 for a guided tour of Empire of the Air: RCA Radio in the 20th Century, a temporary exhibit for World Radio Day. Come to learn about the progression of radio technology through the ages,… Continue Reading
Public Lecture | The Battle of the Century: RCA and the Dawn of the Wireless Age
How did radio come to be a mainstay in American homes? In the early 1920s, this new technology was the realm of fringe amateur build-it-yourselfers, but by the end of that decade, radios were standard household commodity. Learn how a fated boxing match and a massive publicity campaign revolutionized the way people lived and learned… Continue Reading
Upcoming Event: War of the Worlds
Come to the Sarnoff Collection on Sunday, October 29, 2017 at 1:30 pm to hear Orson Welles’s iconic radio play, War of the Worlds just like its first listeners would have heard it– from the speakers of a 1936 RCA radio! Continue Reading
Object of the Week: RCA “Magic Eye” 6E5 Vacuum Tube
Look into my (magic) eye… Continue Reading
Item of the Week: Aeriola Senior Receiver Radio
The dream of a radio music box in every home Continue Reading