The NRI and other radio correspondence schools experienced a boom in enrollment following WWII, when veteran’s education benefits would pay for the courses. By the mid-1950s, annual enrollment ...

Instructables user [knife141] enjoys restoring vintage electronics in his spare time, especially old radios. AM radios tend to pique his curiosity the most, and in this tutorial, he discusses the r… ...

Audio, video and paper libraries, along with an extensive collection of schematics, are also available for research. The museum is located at 115 Pierson Ln in Windsor.

The radio is simplicity itself, built on a wooden substrate with a very basic coil and capacitor tuned circuit. The model VC-1000 appears to be about 60 years old, and back then, it cost $5.

This video showcases the restoration of an old vintage radio, turning discarded equipment into a fully functioning piece of history. With years of neglect and damage, the radio undergoes a ...

Every vintage consumer radio, be it standard broadcast or shortwave, up to WWII, received amplitude modulated signals. Nowadays, AM broadcast stations are associated with lower quality audio, but ...

(Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut, 115 Pierson Lane, Windsor, CT) The home of the largest collection of early radios in the U.S. Founded in 1990 by John Ellsworth, the Radio ...

Do You Remember: Vintage Radios Aug 1, 2011 1:00 AM, By Erin Shipps, senior associate editor, with special guest Joseph Kreiss It was called the “Golden Age of Radio” in the 1940s and 1950s. Although ...

If modern black-box electronics don't go well with the more timeless decor of your home, perhaps it's time to camouflage them. In this case, that means turning a vintage radio into a modern Wi-Fi ...