Inquiry Unit
Radio
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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President Franklin Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats
Radio Inquiry Unit
Radio Inquiry Unit - Supporting Question 4 “While developing programs to help America emerge from the Great Depression, Roosevelt also needed to calm the fears and restore the confidence of Ameri…
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David Sarnoff Diary Entry, 3/26/1911
Radio Inquiry Unit
Radio Inquiry Unit - Supporting Question 2C "Page from David Sarnoff’s diary on board the Job Brothers’ sealhunting ship, the Beothic, in which he describes his relaying the dialogue between th…
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Biography of David Sarnoff
Radio Inquiry Unit
IEEE Biography of David Sarnoff Radio Inquiry Unit "Sarnoff was born on 27 February 1891, the oldest of five children, outside Minsk in imperial Russia. He and his family immigrated to the Unite…
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Photographs of David Sarnoff
Radio Inquiry Unit - Supporting Question 2
Radio Inquiry Unit - Supporting Question 2 David Sarnoff began his career at the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America as an office boy in 1906. He went on to become a trailblazer in the ra…
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Pericles’ Funeral Oration
Triremes Inquiry Unit
“Pericles' Funeral Oration,” in Thucydides (c.460/455-c.399 BCE), Peloponnesian War (Book 2.34-46) Triremes Inquiry Unit “This famous speech was given by the Athenian leader Pericles after…
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Triremes (Part Two)
Triremes Inquiry Unit
Historic narrative about the Greek Trireme reveals how this warship, a technological achievement of its time, played an important role in democracy and empire. Click here to download this video fro…
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Triremes (Part One)
Triremes Inquiry Unit
Story of the Greek Triremes and the engineering applications that made it the greatest warship of its time. Click here to download this video from the REACH Vimeo page.…
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“Lost At Sea”
Early Maritime Navigation Inquiry Unit
Teenagers venture out for a day of fishing and experience first hand the value of maritime navigational technology. Click here to download this video from the REACH Vimeo page. …
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Longitude
Early Maritime Navigation Inquiry Unit
Solving the Longitude problem was necessary to navigating the worlds oceans and opening the door to global trade. Click here to download this video from the REACH Vimeo page.…
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