Continue on the historical journey of the radio industry with historian Alex Magoun as he goes back in time and shares how engineers and scientists improved wireless telegraphy from Morse code to the …
Listen in as radio expert Al Klase of the New Jersey Antique Radio Club explains the effects radio had on society and culture in the 1920s and watch as he demonstrates and tunes in a station on an aut…
This video explores the beginnings of broadcast radio in the home, thanks to Pittsburgh’s KDKA radio station and Westinghouse, which made radio receivers. The electromagnetic “magic” found in sm…
Like game consoles and smartphones today, radios in the 1920s were expensive. Fortunately for teens back then, they could build radio receivers using cheap parts found at home and hardware stores. Wat…
Historic insights into unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), from the Civil War through to today. See how aerial balloons were an integral part of early UAV or drone history and follow the technological p…
This historic narrative about the Greek Trireme reveals how this warship, a technological achievement of its time, played an important role in democracy and empire.
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Story of the Greek Triremes and the engineering applications that made it the greatest warship of its time.
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Teenagers venture out for a day of fishing and experience firsthand the value of maritime navigational technology.
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Solving the Longitude problem was necessary to navigating the world's oceans and opening the door to global trade.
Early Maritime Navigation Inquiry Unit
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The video explains the important relationship of maritime navigational technologies in regards to global trade from the past through to today.
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