Last month we looked at radio cabinetry. This month we take a look at one of its examples, a 1929 RCA Radiola 46 in a high boy console. David Sarnoff (*1), a Belarusian born immigrant, led the Radio ...

America has long had a strange ambivalence towards quality. In electronics, the elements of quality’s triple crown — performance, perks and price — are in constant contention. We always want more, for ...

Last week, I wrote about the state of the art in radio: Software-defined radios, which use software to do the job that mechanical parts do in older radios. Most, if not all, modern designs incorporate ...

[Mr. Carlson] has a really beautiful old 1949-era radio to restore and you can watch him do it in a comprehensive video, below. We aren’t sure what we were more amused by: the odd speaker that looks ...

Their ingenuity probably spared you from watching people eat worms on "Fear Factor'' in black and white. In March 1954, RCA rolled out the world's first mass-produced color TV set, unveiling a product ...

Philo T. Farnsworth is now generally considered to be the inventor of the television. But he was prevented from realizing the windfall that should have resulted due to patent litigation brought by the ...

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

RCA Radiotron type UX-200 triode. Plastic 4-pin base with S-shaped glass envelope. A 4-pin triode detector, filament volts: 5, filament amps: 1, plate voltage: 15-25. Reference: Tyne, "Saga of the ...

On December 1, 1954, the RCA 21-CT-55 goes on sale in the USA. Its 53-centimetre (21-inch) picture tube makes it the world's first color TV with a screen diagonal that is halfway suitable for a living ...