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Broadcasting history: Further listening

The Internet has many videos to offer about radio broadcasting and receiver manufacturing
Here are some we think interesting and amusing!

Canada

  • Radio broadcasting in Canada in the 1940’s:

  • 75th anniversary of the CBC
  • Marcel Ouimet, the voice of the Normandy landing
  • First women war correspondents
  • Elizabeth II and her young sister Margaret broadcasting a message to all young people of the British Empire in 1940
  • Guy Mauffette, popular Quebec radio host

 

Radio manufacturing

  • Philips manufacturing in the Netherlands in the 1930’s
  • How radios are made
  • How vacuum tubes work
  • The transistor in 1953

 

Television

  • The future of television (1945)
  • Television from 1920 to 2020

 

Mobile telephones

  • A Bell movie on mobile telephones from the 1940’s
  • The first mobile telephone!

Space age, science-fiction and obsolete technologies

  • Futuristic scene from the movie Metroplis (1927) showing a videophone
  • The Tefifon recording system
  • A futuristic Westinghouse house
  • Space age designs
  • More space age receivers
  • Outer Limits show introduction (1966)
  • Mini retro radios

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