The U.K. has a long and lasting history of pirate radio stations. These are stations that were set up on ships and broadcast from international waters. The BBC had a monopoly on the airwaves in the ...

Walk into a nondescript building in Alameda – which happens to have once been the first telephone exchange on the island, circa 1900 – and you’ll find yourself plunged into an electronic wonderland of ...

Rethinking radio / Michele Hilmes -- Radio in the Great Depression: promotional culture, public service, and propaganda / Kate Lacey -- Critical reception: public intellectuals decry Depression-Era ...

There have been many books about Radio Caroline, the ship-based “pirate” radio station that brought 1960s pop music to Britons at a time where they couldn’t hear it anywhere else. But the new book, ...

Series 100 consists of material pertaining to the history of radio work in the U.S. Navy. It contains history and general description of systems, apparatus, and usages. There are specific descriptions ...

Thanks largely to radio, no public figure had ever seemed quite so close to so many citizens as Franklin Roosevelt. Reporting the death of the President who made his own radio history, radio, too, ...

In the 1890s, Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi left a lasting legacy when he sent a wireless telegraph message via Morse Code to a recipient. By the turn of the 1900s, Marconi’s innovation would ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. >> Walk into a nondescript building in Alameda, Calif., — which happens to have once been the first telephone exchange on the island, circa 1900 — and you’ll find yourself plunged ...

A game-changing development in 1892, radio is still a tool for innovation in the digital era. As one of sound’s biggest proponents, Sonos put together an intriguing infographic that tracks the ...