Wednesday Night Lecture Series
2025
A Tour of the SPARC Museum in British Columbia
(Brian Belanger – July 9, 2025)
Television’s Longest Remote: July 20, 1969 – Live From The Moon
(James O’Neal – May 14, 2025)
Fibber McGee and Molly: More Corn than Iowa and Nebraska Produce in a Year
(Brian Belanger – April 9, 2025)
TV’s Greatest Spinoff: The Honeymooners
(John Anderson – March 12, 2025)
Survival Radios
(Richard Colarco – February 12, 2025)
I Love Lucy
(John Anderson – January 8, 2025)
2024
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMF)
(Richard Colarco – December 11, 2024)
All About Getters: Vacuuming Out Vacuum Tubes
(Brian Belanger – November 13, 2024)
Pioneers of Children’s Television
(John Anderson – October 9, 2024)
Amateur Radio on the Eastern Shore in the Storm of 1933, and Popular Receivers of the Period
(R. Neill Carey – September 17, 2024)
Hugo Gernsbeck
(Richard Colarco – August 21, 2024)
A History of A.H. Grebe and Company
(Brian Belanger – July 17, 2024)
A History of Emerson
(Brian Belanger – July 3, 2024)
History of the Vacuum Tube
(Richard Colarco – June 19, 2024)
The Fandom of the Opera: How the Audience for a Centuries Old Art Form Helped Create Radio, Television, and More
(Mark Schubin, June 5, 2024)
History of Shortwave Broadcasting
(Brian Belanger, May 22, 2024)
Jack Thompson and the National Radio Institute (Part 3)
(Brian Belanger, May 8, 2024)
Jack Thompson and the National Radio Institute (Part 2)
(Brian Belanger, April 24, 2024)
Jack Thompson and the National Radio Institute (Part 1)
(Brian Belanger, April 10, 2024)
Radio Navigation
(Richard Colarco, March 27, 2024)
Delco & 32-Volt Farm Radios – 2024 Version
(Robert Lozier, February 24, 2024)
A Television Interview with Ludwell Sibley about Communications History
(Brian Belanger, February 14, 2024)
A History of the Atwater Kent Manufacturing Company
(Brian Belanger, January 31, 2024)
Pioneer Station KDKA’s Centennial: 100 Years of Entertainment Broadcasting
(Dave Rossetti, January 17, 2024)
History of the Radiobar Company of Los Angeles, CA
(Steve Hansman, January 3, 2024)
2023
Communications Using Amateur Radio Satellites
(Richard Colarco – December 20, 2023)
TV-DX and the Technology We Used
(Robert Lozier – December 6, 2023)
National HROs and HRO Clones
(Brian Harrison – November 22, 2023)
Ghost Signals – Woodpecker Hunting and Other Diversions
(Richard Colarco – November 8, 2023)
Behind the Scenes at a TV Station
(Bob Feldman – October 25, 2023)
Kinescope Recording: A Primer
(James O’Neal – October 11, 2023)
Nicola Tesla and Radio
(Brian Belanger – September 27, 2023)
Subsidiary Communications Authorization (SCA)
(Richard Colarco – September 12, 2023)
Encryption
(Richard Colarco – August 30, 2023)
Connecting the Early Television Stations
(James O’Neal – August 16, 2023)
Amateur Radio on the Eastern Shore in the Storm of 1933
(R. Neill Carey – August 2, 2023)
CONELRAD
(Brian Belanger – July 19, 2023)
John Sargrove and his Marvelous E.C.M.E.
(Robert Lozier – July 5, 2023)
Radio Shopping in Baltimore in 1926
(Steve Hansman – June 21, 2023)
Radio Astronomy
(Richard Colarco – June 7, 2023)
The Hunt For Enemy Radio Technology in WWII
(Brian Harrison – May 24, 2023)
Radios and the Disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan
(Brian Harrison – May 10, 2024)
The History of Magnavox
(Robert Lozier – April 26, 2023)
Radio and the Filming of Across the Pacific
(Brian Harrison – April 12, 2023)
Build it Yourself and Save: A History of Electronic Kit Building
(Brian Belanger – March 29, 2023)
Radios and Railroads
(Richard Colarco – March 1, 2023)
History of Batteries
(Robert Lozier – February 15, 2023)
The History of Crosley
(Brian Belanger – February 1, 2023)
The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence
(Richard Colarco – January 18, 2023)
Making Radios Sexy
(John Okolowicz – January 4, 2023)
2022
Automobile Radios
(Dave Rosetti – December 21, 2022)
Introduction to the Global Positioning System
(Richard Colarco – November 23, 2022)
A Visit to the New England Museum of Wireless and Steam in East Greenwich, RI
(Brian Belanger – November 9, 2022)
The Development of Hi-fi Audio (Part 2)
(Randy Warren – October 19, 2022)
Hugo C. Leuteritz and the Radios of Pan American Airways
(Brian Harrison – October 5, 2022)
General Electric and Radio
(Brian Belanger – September 21, 2022)
History of the National Radio Institute
(Brian Belanger – September , 2022)
Introduction to Satellite Communications
(Richard Colarco – August 10, 2022)
History of Output Tranformerless Tube Amplifiers (OTL)
(David Berning – July 2, 2022)
The Influence of Women in Radio: A Brief Introduction
(Domi Sanchez – July 13, 2022)
National “Moving Coil” Communications Receivers 1936-1949
(Brian Harrison – June 29, 2022)
The Development of Hi-fi Audio (Part 2)
(Randy Warren – June 15, 2022)
The (Missing) Radios of the U-505
(Brian Harrison – June 1 2022)
A History of RCA: The Radio Corporation of America
(Brian Belanger – May 18, 2022)
Short Wave Listening
(Richard Colarco – May 4, 2022)
A History of Philco
(Brian Belanger – April 21, 2022)
WWII Radio News and “The Murrow Boys”
(Brian Belanger – April 6, 2022)
2021
Setting the Scene for the War of the Worlds Broadcast
(Brian Belanger – November 17, 2021)
Delco and 32-Volt Farm Radios
(Robert Lozier – May 19, 2021)
Philco Video
(Brian Belanger – May 5, 2021)
TV-DX and the Technology We Used
(Robert Lozier – April 7, 2021)
2020
Patrolling the Ether: The FCC’s Radio Intelligence
(Brian Harrison – December 16, 2020)
Television in the 1920s
(Brian Belanger – April 22, 2020)