The last of my 3-part series from the Vintage Computer Festival on April 6, 2014 in Wall New Jersey is a quick run through of the Radio Technology Museum, part of the expansive InfoAge Science Center complex. This was near the end of the day, and I gave this place perhaps too sort shrift, it was jam packed with artifacts ranging from telegraphy to television. Here I condensed some highlights of the museum, and it is definitely worth a trip if you ever want to get out to the New Jersey coast for an afternoon. You can also visit the museum website for more info here - http://rtm.ar88.net/
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A museum near where I used to love has an RCA theremin.
Back when I was just a small kid an uncle had this early TV. Th cabnet was roughly 4 feet high and roughly 3 feet square the best I can recall. Right in the center about a foot or so down from the top there was a round crt about 8 inches in diameter. On the front was a mask that blocked out everything other than the actual video area. In the part of the tube that was blocked you could see the sync pulses and the "dead" as in no video that were used to get the horizontal and vertical timing right. There were enough big tubes on octal bases in that cabinet to actually provide a sizable amount of heating in the room too. Best I rember I dont thnk there was anything bigger than a single basic triad in any tube in there, other than the CRT
If there was anything in my life that I could say was the trigger thatt got me into electronics, it was that TV.. I just had to figure out how it worked, and as thy say, the rest is history..
i love old technologie. it locks like art. if i lock in my pc today is boring. tubes and incadasend licht bulbs much more interesting than semi conductors
Thanks for the follow Fran! You are awesome!
Info Age is indeed an impressive museum or radio and electronics history. Are you aware of the Sarnoff Collection that opened recently at The College of NJ? It contains the artifacts that used to be in the Sarnoff Museum at the RCA Research Labs in Princeton, along with some new additions.
Fran, your knowledge of these older technologies is quite amazing! Very impressed!. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so very much for posting this. I absolutely enjoyed it. I'm a broadcast journalism professor and you showed me things I have never seen before or even knew existed. 🙂
What an education!
Thank Fran: Love the old school stuff. Cheers Mark
O_O 20,000 watt tube
For what really is just a heartbeat of human history it's astonishing how fast technology advances. "For a dipt in to the future, far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be." -Tennyson
Now that was cool 🙂 Thanks Fran !
Thanks for the tour.Very interesting.