Welcome to OneTubeRadio.com. This blog covers a variety of subjects, including radio history, Minnesota history, World War I, World War II, and scouting. Jump to 1922 Aeronautical Wedding Jump to Ye Old Mill at 100 Years Jump to Radio at the Minnesota State Fair Today, we offer these images of the Minnesota State Fair […]
A hundred years ago, a major hurricane hit the United States, leaving between 275-400 dead and $50 million in property damage. Adjusted for inflation, this made the storm the fourth costliest in U.S. history. The storm brought winds and heavy rains to the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, and Cuba. Like the deadly hurricane of […]
A hundred years ago today (September 21, 1914), the Calumet (Mich.) News carried an article entitled, “Communication Big Factor in Modern War Machinery,” which explained the technological developments in communications in use in modern warfare. The article runs down the developments in telegraph, telephone, and wireless in use in the war. One that caught my attention […]
One interesting footnote in Radio History can be found in Alfred Powell Morgan’s 1914 book Wireless Telegraph Construction for Amateurs. This is the Flame Audion detector, shown below: Morgan describes it thus: The simple but sensitive form of detector illustrated in Fig. 119 is not of practical value for commercial work, but is very interesting as […]