"Voice of Victory" (1944) showcases the development and significance of mobile radio communication in the U.S. Army during World War II. The film details the engineering challenges faced by the Signal ...

As U.S. television-makers showed off their new 1950 models last week, Chicago’s Hallicrafters Co., which is small in size but big in know-how, stole a march on the industry. It showed the first set ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Amateurs began making home radios to ...

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My interest in radio took hold in earnest about 1950 when I was a student at Melvindale High School. But I can trace its roots to June 6, 1944, D-Day, when, at a neighbor’s house, I heard General “Ike ...

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Robert F. Halligan, 64, retired president and chief executive of Hallicrafters Co., worked 17 years for the Chicago-based electronics firm, now part of Northrop Corp. Mass for Mr. Halligan, of Indian ...

The modern ham radio shack can take many forms. Some are shrines the “boat anchor” radios of old, named for their considerable weight. Others are simply a small, unassuming software-defined radio (SDR ...

During the 1950's and '60's, when the Hammarlund Manufacturing Company had a factory just west of Mars Hill College, the town could have been considered a world center of advanced electronic ...