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Electric Lighting Inquiry Unit
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Promotional literature for the Westinghouse Electric Co. Download PDF Visit Source…
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"Lewis Howard Latimer (1848-1928)...attended only grade school, and the remainder of his education was self-taught...He had a fabulous appetite for reading, drawing, and learning in general. In 1880, …
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Electric Lighting Inquiry Unit
Hertha Marks Ayrton was a British engineer, mathematician, physicist and inventor. She was the first woman elected member of The Institution of Electrical Engineers (London) 1899, the first woman to r…
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Electric Lighting Inquiry Unit
An advertisement for sign lighting from Edison Lamp Works of General Electric Company. Download PDF Visit Source…
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An article by John Humphrey detailing the quality of life without electricity following Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Download PDF Visit Source…
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Radio Inquiry Unit
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…
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Radio Inquiry Unit
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…
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The invention of wireless telegraphy-radio-at the end of the 19th century by Marconi and others made it possible to communicate with anyone, anywhere, around the globe. It soon became apparent, howeve…
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Radio Inquiry Unit
Radio Inquiry Unit - Staging the Question RCA instruction book and catalog, 1922, David Sarnoff Library Download PDF…
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Radio Inquiry Unit – Classroom Activity Listen to the Lone Ranger radio show from the 1930’s found on archive.org. Just click on the play button below to listen or use the “Visit Source” butt…
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