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Monday, March 24, 2025

This week will mark the March 22, 1895 anniversary of the Lumière brothers' Paris premiere of Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory ...

Monday, March 25, 2024

This week marks a big moment in television history ....

Monday, March 13, 2023

On March 13 in 1882, the English photographer Eadweard J. Muybridge ...

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

We're saying "love" the modern way today with a Valentine's Day radiogram post ...

Friday, January 6, 2023

On this date, January 9th, in 1951, Zenith Radio Corporation ...

Wednesday, December 7, 2022

sts this #WorkerWednesday are the women of the Sperry Gyroscope Company ...

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Today's #TechTuesday post features Mary Elizabeth Hallock Greenewalt

Monday, November 14, 2022

We're starting off a new week with this atmospheric photograph of the Cape Henlopen Lighthouse ...

Thursday, October 20, 2022

On this date in 1906, inventor and electronics pioneer ...

Monday, July 25, 2022

On this date, July 25, in 1946 the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering completed work on ....

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

We're bringing the "mysteries of electrical action" to light ...

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Today's #TechTuesday brings us the beauty of color in monochrome ...

Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Here's a quick #TechTuesday treat ....

Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Let's take it easy this #TechTuesday with this 1951 advertisement ...

Thursday, March 10, 2022

On this date in 1876, Alexander Graham Bell conveyed the now-famous line ...

Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Today's #WorkerWednesday post has us joining T. A. Morgan, president of the Sperry Corporation ...

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

You have to see it to believe it ....

Monday, January 31, 2022

In 1875, the inventors, photographers, photochemists, and brothers ...

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Hagley Library will be closed on November 25th and 26th ...

Tuesday, November 2, 2021

We’re bringing you a quality tube this #TechTuesday ...

Thursday, October 21, 2021

Talk about a bright idea ...

Tuesday, October 19, 2021

Built like a skyscraper!

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

On this date in 1860 ...

Thursday, June 17, 2021

It's a *little* late to arrange for a Radiogram (a portmanteau of radio telegram), but a telephone call would be nice ...

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

On this date, June 2, in 1940, over 160,000 people gathered in Philadelphia’s Municipal Stadium for Cardinal Dennis Joseph Dougherty’s Golden Jubilee Mass...

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

We're wishing a .... .- .--. .--. -.-- / -... .. .-. - .... -.. .- -.-- today to Samuel Finley Breese Morse ...

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

As anyone who knows me can tell you this #TechTuesday ...

Thursday, March 18, 2021

March has been delivering both lion and lamb this week at the...

Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Today's #TechTuesday brings us a Pallo-Photo-Phone, a device...

Tuesday, March 9, 2021

In 1924, Colonel J. (John) Victor Dallin (1897-1991)founded...

Thursday, February 18, 2021

National Battery Day was established around the year 2000 on the...

Monday, February 15, 2021

We're observing ENIAC day today and the people that made IT...

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

This #TechTuesday, we're taking a look at your friend and mine,...

Monday, January 25, 2021

On this date, January 25, in 1915, Alexander Graham Bell...

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

On this date in 1883, the first electric lighting system used...

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

We're posting this photograph from June, 1957 today in...

Tuesday, December 8, 2020

Today's #TechTuesday invention is a solar engine from the 1907...

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

We're enjoying a truly modern #TechTuesday with the world's...

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Whatever your Thanksgiving looks like this year...

Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Today's #TechTuesday post comes from a February 1941 issue...

Monday, November 23, 2020

On this day in 1899, San Francisco's Palais Royale...

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

On this date in 1963, Bell Telephone began offering the world's...

Monday, November 9, 2020

On this day, November 9, in 1906, Theodore Roosevelt...

Thursday, October 15, 2020

Thomas Edison's Edison Electric Light Company began operations...

Tuesday, October 13, 2020

The second Tuesday in October is Ada Lovelace Day...