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, ...

One hundred years after Marconi's trans-Atlantic wireless leap the event is re-enacted. Thunderer Squadron from Southampton will be sending a signal to Newfoundland. Thunderer Squadron The BBC is not ...

When you think of an old radio it’s possible you imagine a wooden-cased tube radio receiver as clustered around by a 1940s family anxious for news from the front, or maybe even a hefty 19-inch rack ...

Fessenden in his later years. Courtesy of the State Archives of North Carolina. While Guglielmo Marconi sent the first message by wireless in 1896, Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden saw greater ...