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Columbia A118, 78RPM "Liberty Bell March" played by the Columbia Band.

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Magic Eyes [2742x4032 - 720KB]

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The [RCA] Radiotron Designer's Handbook, 4th Edition

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FC's Fluorescent Magic Eye Tubes

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How Radio Works 1943 [10:28]

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Philco All-Transistor [4032x3024 - 1.42MB]

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That's how we did it back then. [517x518 - 435KB]

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Picked these beauties up today. [4032x3024 - 4.39MB]

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Vintage Technology: Vacuum Tubes 1943 Training Film (The TRIODE) Signal Corps Army Air Force Radio [13:50]

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Computers made Morse Code easy. [3024x4032 - 779KB]

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$900 (adjusted) in 1938 vs. $900 today. [1600x1908 - 383KB]

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The business end of the pumpjack. [0:11]

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" Potted And Printed Circuits " 1950s Electronics Instructional Film --- Video(24:03)

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Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone (2014)

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These old-school ball bearing potentiometers. [1500x2000 - 290KB]

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The UK's last aerial ropeway uses no power, moves 300 tonnes a day, and will be gone by 2036. [05:27]

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Inside the guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile

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The Heathkit EK-1 looks absolutely adorable next to it's big brother. [2803x1984 - 448KB]

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A look inside the chips that powered the landmark Polaroid SX-70 instant camera

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This is going to take some work to clean.

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"Space age electronics": Inside a GE thin-film paperweight from the 1960s

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A single plate selenium rectifier.

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Last Call for Landlines - Hackster.io

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The Kaypro 2X+88 CP/M Computer [4032x3024 - 1.83MB]

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Electron microscope slow-motion video of vinyl LP [09:40]

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