If you’ve ever built a crystal radio, there’s something magical about being able to pull voices and music from far away out of thin air. If you haven’t built one, maybe you should while there’s still ...

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 ...

When we think of a spark gap radio transmitter, most of us immediately imagine an early twentieth century ship’s radio room or similar. Most of us know these transmitters as the first radio systems, ...

Beaty Rubens’s study of the impact of early radio broadcasts in Britain is full of fascinating and often poignant detail One hundred years ago this summer, from high above Daventry in Northamptonshire ...