Telecommunications began to take on special relevance in the 19th century with the invention of the telegraph, although ...

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 ...

Joseph Mitola wants to make radios smart. His concept of cognitive radio embodies the future of wireless communications. Passionate about wireless since he built his first radio at the age of 11, ...

Every year on 20 August, National Radio Day pays tribute to one of the world’s most powerful inventions. Before television screens, smartphones, or social media, radio was the lifeline that kept ...

Like many great inventions, radio had many fathers. But Guglielmo Marconi is generally regarded as the “inventor of radio”. Marconi, an Italian who lived in England, was the first to practically ...

Trevor Baylis, a tinkerer who turned to old-school technology in an effort to disseminate accurate information about AIDS through Africa, inventing a portable radio powered by hand cranking, died ...

The invention of radio communication spanned many decades of experimental investigation of radio waves, engineering and technical developments, and adaptation to signaling. According to Techwholesale, ...

Say “Tesla” and most people think “electric car.” Less commonly, they think of that vehicle’s eponym, Nikola Tesla, the inventor of the alternating current (and inspiration for the 2020 biopic that ...

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 ...