So the other night, Elizabeth finds a deal on an old radio on a local Facebook buy/sell/trade page and makes arrangements to pick it up the next day. Because she is awesome like that. Upon bringing the bargain home, I gave it a quick look-see. It turns out to be a 1937 Silvertone model 4419. Silvertone was… Continue reading Farm Radio
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Monkey Messages
Ever since Samuel Morse tapped out his famous “What hath god wrought.” message in 1844 on the primitive code key he devised others have tried to improve upon each element of the system. This resulted, by the time the last major telegraph offices were shuttered well over a hundred years later, in a multitude of different key… Continue reading Monkey Messages