Frank Jagger, the literate lumberman
It’s Friday, so let’s look at a pretty picture. From the Albany Institute’s collection, this is a shot of the Frank A. Jagger, a lumber barge, somewhere in the the […]
It’s Friday, so let’s look at a pretty picture. From the Albany Institute’s collection, this is a shot of the Frank A. Jagger, a lumber barge, somewhere in the the […]
Light Beam Casts Chat 24 Miles in Adirondacks Broun, at Schenectady, Interviews Distant Scientist Schenectady, Nov. 22, 1932 — A group of scientists at Schenectady tonight talked with another group […]
The little problems of perfecting radio and creating trans-continental television signals weren’t the only things that General Electric’s Schenectady scientists were working on in the late 1920s. In 1929, they […]
A suprisingly short time after the first televised play was broadcast from one end of Schenectady to not quite the other, General Electric was able to report success in transcontinental […]
Buried in the details of the first longish-distance transmission of television into a home (albeit the home of its creator, Dr. E.F.W. Alexanderson) is the little matter of how the […]
Yesterday, Hoxsie shared a link about the re-creation of the pallophotophone, also known as the RCA photophone, which was developed in Schenectady (you may have heard of it – it’s […]
It always seems odd to think that when scientists were working on sending talking pictures by radio, having talking pictures in the theater was still a brand new thing. But […]
Since we were just speaking of Ernest Alexanderson’s contributions to radio and television, here’s the story of that first three-mile transmission, as published in the Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 14, […]
So, here’s a version of the 1928 song that was played in the first two-way radio communication between the United States and England, a piece of history for which Schenectady […]
1928: SCHENECTADY, Feb. 21–Radio broadcast listeners to-day heard for the first time a two-way radio telephone communication between the United States and England. They also heard the rebroadcast in the […]