#history of radio

[newhistorybooks]

"Sensitively telling stories from both ends of the receiver, this brilliant, absorbing book is not only a panoramic history of postwar Czechoslovakia and its place in the world, but also an extraordinary study of what history, in all its complexity, sounds like. Red Tape is essential reading in radio history, sound studies, and Cold War studies alike."

[classickatze]

[twistingcells]

Sony CF-5950 tape recorder/receiver (1976)

[katabay]

THERE AIN'T NO ATLAS, KID. NEVER WAS.

if you peel him back far enough, there's nothing but a pile of theater masks

like, it's really fun how fontaine starts spiralling out the closer jack gets to him in the final arc of the game and returns to appropriating the image of family (the fake family in the beginning, the flawed father position later) to try and appeal to jack in some way but it's like. buddy. baby. you already took off your mask. anything you try and put on after this is going to come across as cheap and desperate. the magic is gone! and personally? I'm hooting and hollering

⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app / insta

[humanoidhistory]

Radio Shack's TRS-80 computer, released in 1977.

[dronescapesvideos]

Sgt. Arthur L. Smith, Radio Gunner of B-17 "Our Gang", Takes A Look At At The Machine Gun Before A Mission. England, 1943. ➤➤ B-17 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/F03u5GrIuk4

[sovietpostcards]

An amateur radio operator, student of the Moscow Aviation Institute, V. Popryanin at the radio receiver of his own design. Photo by Filimonov (Moscow, April 1951).

[natabuggie]

yall really ate up my last alastor meme so maybe u guys will like this one too

[reality-detective]

* * * History Lesson * * *

A 16-year-old Italian boy named Antonio Pasin immigrated to America from Europe at the start of the 20th century. A skilled carpenter, Pasin headed to Chicago and began building little red wagons out of stamped metal. By 1923, he had saved enough money to create the Liberty Coaster Company, and he began mass-producing the wagon for just under $3. He named it the "Radio Flyer" in homage to two of his favorite inventions of the time: the radio and the airplane.

The Original Little Red Wagon became an icon of childhood, used to pull kid siblings, to deliver newspapers, to race down hills with that funky reverse-handle steering. 🤔

[antlerx-art]

Ecstasy of “Saint” Alastor 🛐

the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini reminded me a lot of Lucifer and Nun Alastor so…

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

LL Cool J released his debut album Radio November 18, 1985

[rabbitcruiser]

Radio City Music Hall, “Showplace of the Nation”, opened in New York City on December 27, 1932.  

[twistingcells]

Nytech CA-252 amplifier and CT-206 tuner (1987)

[newvegascowboy]

Ok so i personally believe that interstate trade in the wasteland is alive and well, especially along the coasts, but there HAS to be some like. Linguistic weirdness happening in the wasteland. With radio communication, I'm sure there's a "standard english" that prevents a lot of people from getting tooooo granular of a dialect, but it doesn't take that long for languages to change, really. Where are the pidgin languages? The new expressions? The funny sayings? The things that no vault dweller would understand because they come from an entirely different culture?

You'd probably have a lot of languages that are related, like the romance languages, or even Esperanto, where someone can parse the meaning even if they aren't a native speaker. Lots of English/Spanish variants of course, but can you imagine giving the Appalachian dialect 200 years to marinate? Cajun? Minnesotan?? The people in the Commonwealth should be speaking like theyre from another planet. The sole survivor is talking like a Jane Austen novel, unable to comprehend the words a Bostonian mind has had 200 years to come up with.

[wiiildflowerrr]

27 June 2024

[humanoidhistory]

Baby with radio headset, Hungary, 1929.