American Museum of Radio and Electricity http://www.amre.us/ AMRE offers an exciting and educational experience for audiences of all ages.   Compelling, interactive exhibits spanning four centuries of scientific achievement and cultural heritage are featured in a world-class collection of unique objects.   The American Museum of Radio and Electricity displays the inventions and innovations that changed the course of human history. Andy Valve's Website http://members.lycos.co.uk/andyvalve/index.htm A site dedicated to the restoration of old electrical and electronic technology. Antique Wireless Association http://www.antiquewireless.org/ AWA is an organization of some 2,000 members linked by a common interest in the history of electrical and electronic communications. AWA members come from all walks of life and our ranks include teenagers, octogenarians, and beyond in both directions. At one of our meets, you might find yourself shaking hands with a retired broadcast executive or military electronics specialist, an engineer in a high-tech electronics firm, or an eager young man looking for advice on restoring his first radio. Broadcast Archive http://www.oldradio.com/ We have used many sources, including FCC files, university lecturers, historical publications and more, and have tried to be as accurate as possible, not repeating many of the myths of the industry (such as the Uncle Don Story) nor histories "manufactured" by promotion departments. Chicago Television http://www.chicagotelevision.com/ Although this site relates specifically to the Chicago television market, it contains an enormous amount of information about the early history of broadcast (VHF and UHF) subscription television systems.   Many of these systems were constructed in response to the competitive threat posed by cable television. Chuck Pharis Video http://www.pharis-video.com/ I have built a television camera museum on the back of my house. I will display all my (155)+ cameras there, and also have a place to restore them. I will take photos of all my cameras, and display them here. Early Photography Sound & 405-Line TV http://www.jdwn.freeserve.co.uk/eps405tv/index.htm Welcome to the world of vintage audio and visual media which covers the century from 1856 to 1956, a period which has seen the greatest technological innovations in this field. Here are a small selection of the landmarks in the of audio and visual media during this time. Early Television Foundation and Museum Website http://www.earlytelevision.org/ Over 150 TV sets are on display in a 4200 square foot area. Displays include mechanical TVs from the 1920s and 30s; prewar British sets from 1936-39; prewar American sets from 1939-41; postwar sets from 1945-58; and early color sets from 1953-57. Many of these sets are working. We also have a working 60 line flying spot scanner TV camera. Visitors can see their friends, as they would have appeared on mechanical television in 1930. FM Broadcasting Chronology http://jeff560.tripod.com/chronofm.html This page shows some of the events in the early history of FM broadcasting in the United States. Note that apex stations referred to on this page used amplitude modulation on VHF frequencies; many of them evolved into FM stations. For dates involving the earliest stations, see also the "earliest FM stations" page at this website. History of Television http://www.bookrags.com/wiki/History_of_television The History of television technology can be divided along two lines: those developments that depended upon both mechanical and electronic principles, and those which are purely electronic.   From the latter descended all modern televisions, but these would not have been possible without discoveries and insights from the mechanical systems.   (Ed note: lots of annoying ads). History TV dot net -- TV History Through Visual Images http://historytv.net/ HistoryTV.net where you will find the earliest photograph collection of experimental television. The collection begins with the 1929 Felix the Cat broadcast image of a paper mache likeness ... You can also view television inventor, Dr. V. K. Zworykin's personal photographs from 1932 which show the first TV screen images of Baseball, Football and even Mickey Mouse. Microwave Radio and Coaxial Cable Networks of the Bell System http://long-lines.net/ A huge collection of images and publications documenting the history of the AT&T Long Lines Department, before and since the breakup of AT&T in 1984. Museum Broadcast Communications http://www.museum.tv/ Our mission is to collect, preserve, and present historic and contemporary radio and television content as well as educate, inform, and entertain through our archives, public programs, screenings, exhibits, publications and online access to our resources. Order of the Iron Test Pattern http://www.oitp.org/ Through snow and glitches, dropouts, ghosts and now cliff-effect, we survive -- undaunted. Dedicated to "hanging in" under all circumstances, we unsung heroes of the broadcast and cable industries are on the working end of the "show-must-go-on" button -- even if it means using our own finger in place of the fuse (ouch!). Paley Center for Media http://www.paleycenter.org/index.htm The Paley Center for Media, with locations in New York and Los Angeles, leads the discussion about the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms for the professional community and media-interested public. Drawing upon its curatorial expertise, an international collection, and close relationships with the leaders of the media community, the Paley Center examines the intersections between media and society. Philo T. Farnsworth: The Boy Who Invented The Future http://www.farnovision.com/ While the great minds of science, financed by the biggest companies in the world, wrestled with 19th century answers to a 20th century problem, Philo T. Farnsworth, age 14, dreamed of trapping light in an empty jar and transmitting it, one line at a time, on a magnetically deflected beam of electrons. RadioDXer http://www.geocities.com/radiojunkie1/index2.html The main purpose of this site is to provide a special library of educational information, regarding radio and television broadcast history in a friendly yet informative setting. Since November of 1997, this website has had thousands of hits and has received numerous entries and accolades from many fellow broadcast historians and hobbyists alike. Radiomuseum http://www.radiomuseum.org/ A collection of antique radios, public address equipment, and even a few early cable TV boosters contributed by antique-equipment hobbyists. Saving History From The Dumpster http://www.hallikainen.org/BroadcastHistory/ These pages are dedicated to preserving a historical record of broadcast equipment. Others are doing an excellent job in recording other aspects of the history of broadcasting. As we find them, we'll add links to them. This site consists of scanned manuals and catalogs of broadcast equipment. In October 2005, the site was changed from hand coded HTML to a wiki so you can now edit pages, add pages, add scans, etc. Stay Tuned: Crystal Radio & Tube Radios http://www.crystalradio.net/ Crystal Radios, Crystal Set, Crystal Sets, Catswiskers, Science Fair Crystal Radios, and much more!   Dedicated to the preservation, experimentation, and advancement of crystal radios. Television History - The First 75 Years http://www.tvhistory.tv/index.html One of the greatest 20th century inventions. Learn about the history of TV-set design, development and marketing.Photographs of television sets from around the world, year-by-year links to important facts, magazine covers and advertising. TV Boxes VHF signal boosters and UHF converters http://www.tv-boxes.com/ Television got its start in the U.S. in the Big Cities.   In the late '40s and early '50s, unless you lived in or near New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, or one of the other major population centers, TV reception was likely to be an iffy thing.   There were only about 100 TV stations in the entire US.   People put up big rotatable antennas to capture the weak signals from 50 or 100 miles away, and augmented the tuners in their TV sets with signal boosters. UHF-TV Morgue http://www.geocities.com/radiojunkie1/morgue.html These were the stations that were victims of the times, by being too far ahead of it. May they rest in peace. Video Preservation Website http://videopreservation.stanford.edu/ The purpose of this site is to encourage the preservation of historic video using the mature technology of digital capture [video capture cards], to create individual video files, which would be stored on mass storage media such as hard drives (HDD) or data tape (DT). The individual video files created can be copied without loss -- forever. As with all computer equipment, the storage media must replaced when (a) system components begin to fail with age or (b) the technology advances. The digital files would be migrated to new storage with no loss due to recapture, noise, haste, error or budget restrictions.