Anyone with a passing knowledge of rock is aware of its origins back in the late 1940s and early 1950s when blues, rhythm and ...

The RCA CR-88 was a radio receiver made to work in top-secret government eavesdropping stations. As you might expect, these radios are top-of-the-line, performance-wise, at least when they are ...

September 28, 2024 • Charlie's Music Shop is an old-time radio program hosted by Charlie McMullen and featuring popular music and American standards from the 1940s and 50s.

The first guest asked to select the music, book and luxury item they would take to a lonely island was the comedian Vic Oliver, whose choices you can still find today on the DIDS website.

Rob Kavanagh, executive creative director at Oliver UK, sets the scene. “In the 1940s, radio and print reigned supreme," he ...

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A wristwatch popularized in the 1940s by the Dick Tracy comics. Tracy was a detective who had two-way radio communications to police headquarters via his famous watch, which was decades ahead of ...

Scotland’s population rose faster than at any time since the 1940s in the year up to mid-2023, according to official data. National Records of Scotland (NRS) figures put the country’s ...

The Montague Gold Mine on the outskirts of Dartmouth, N.S., is full of toxic waste from historical mining that ended in the 1940s. The mine produced more than two tonnes of gold in its day ...