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Bell Labs in New Jersey and the passive antennas used in Project Echo when they were working on early telecommunications satellites

Claude Shannon, the Bell Labs Scientist that Created the Information Revolution - various articles
Article on Claude Shannon in Quanta Magazine
- Article on Claude Shannon in the New Yorker

 

- Article on Claude Shannon from Bell Labs

"The Bit Player", a movie about Claude Shannon commissioned by the IEEE Information Soceity

 

25 Microchips That Shook the WorldIEEE Spectrum article that provided new functionality to consumers and the world (remember “Speak and Spell”?)

 

Mysterious Radio Bursts From Space, article discussing this phenomena which occurs roughly every 160 days

Book: "A Thread Across the Ocean" The heroic story of the transatlantic cable, by John Steele Gordon.

History Channel Series "The Engineering That Built the World"

Book: "The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television"
by Ivan A. Schwartz. A book about Farnsworth vs. Sarnoff

Discovery Channel programming "Engineering Catastrophes". A series primarily about civil engineering catastrophes.










INTERESTING ARTICLES

National Capital Radio & Television Museum Periodical Holdings

 

Old Amateur Radio Call Books for researching old calls and hams.  Later editions mainly only have zero call sign pages.  Older editions (1920s, etc. ) are complete with all call signs.  Note that not all years are available.

 

Titan Calling - how a Swedish engineer figured out how to fix a link problem on tje space probe that would have prevented getting vital information back on Saturn.

 

Pioneer Space Probes De-Acceleration Mystery Solved - Interesting article about the mystery of the slight de-acceleration and how it was solved with scientific detective work and good records keeping.