This week I have a blast from the past from RadioShack, a brand that needs no introduction. RadioShack stores once graced most every shopping ...

Vintage phonographs, radios and records are the subject of a new exhibit at the Heritage Museum in downtown Houston. The exhibit chronicles the transition of recorded sound through the twentieth ...

Radios were a pivotal 20th century phenomenon. Developed initially for wireless telegraphy, they carried voice and music after 1920. Although radios faded in home status as television took hold in the ...

When it comes to electronics, manufacturers strive to incorporate more modern elements into their products — casings become more lightweight, components become more streamlined, and designs become ...

In contrast to most modern builds we see on Hackaday, vintage radios are fairly simple – mainly turret-board builds with a transformer, resistors, capacitors, coil and tubes. The main issues in any ...

A.bsolument turns your dusty old radio into a Bluetooth beauty with French savoir-faire—because even your granny’s relic deserves to sound magnifique, not like a cheap baguette crunch. I’m currently ...

Radio contact with Voyager 2. Setting up office background music with FM radio. Building a QRP ham radio. Radio is our oldest electronic technology. Spark gap got it going, but it was the vacuum tube ...

TV and radio repairman Floyd Cox in front of his VW service van, pictured with his canine assistant in the passenger seat. With the advent of KDKA, the first licensed station broadcasting to the ...

Last month we looked at Marconi and his pioneering work in the advancement of wireless communications. In the early days of radio, prior to government regulation, anyone with the knowledge could build ...