Inventor Name
Various
Repository
Antique Wireless Museum
Main Street
Holcomb, New York 14469
Physical Description
ca. 1500 items
Summary
Slide-tape shows on life of Guglielmo Marconi; founding of American Radio Relay League (A.R.R.L.) and early amateur radio; GOLDEN TWENTIES, on radio broadcasting; PIONEERS OF WIRELESS, on commercial trans-Atlantic radio stations of World War I era; AN AMERICAN INVENTOR, on life of Major Edwin H. Armstrong, inventor of FM, superheterodyne, etc.; TWENTY YEARS, equipment and programming of radio broadcasting, 1919-39; TRIP THROUGH THE A.W.A. RADIO MUSEUM; LAST TRIP OF H.M.S. QUEEN MARY, on her radio navigation equipment. 16mm. movies of laying cable under Atlantic Ocean, 1920's; END OF AN ERA, on last high-power commercial trans-Atlantic stations, 1950's; copies of newsreels of H.M.S. Titanic; and scenes of station WHAM, Rochester, c.1940. Also c.1000 35mm. slides of early radio stations, equipment, inventors, and personalities; two photo albums of station WHAM, 1923-52, and slide shows made from them; tape recordings of radio inventors, executives, and personalities, including Marconi, David Sarnoff, Owen D. Young, and many others; taped interviews with pioneer radio engineers and operators; and many photographs of early commercial, broadcast, and amateur radio stations and their equipment.