# About the museum

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# About the museum

World Radio Now is building a free, independent online exhibition about radio history and culture. We interpret public collection records and link to the institutions that care for the originals. Digital illustrations on this site are explanations, not claims that we own the objects.

## Free admission · No account needed

An independent public-learning project: free to visit, with no registration or paywall.

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## Sources checked

We identify sources, distinguish recollections from documented facts, record substantive corrections and respect each item’s reuse conditions. AI-assisted editorial text is checked against the cited sources. Contributions are reviewed before publication.

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## Sources & further reading

[Nobel Prize · Guglielmo Marconi biography](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1909/marconi/biographical/)

[Science Museum Group · Y2008.56](https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8414466/cats-whisker-crystal-radio)

[Science Museum · 2LO, London Broadcasting Station](https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/this-is-2lo-london-broadcasting-station-calling/)

[Imperial War Museums · Sound 15003](https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80014599)

[Smithsonian · Regency Model TR-1, 1984.0040.01](https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_713528)

[World Radio Now · Directory sources](https://worldradionow.top/about/)

[Science Museum · Cooke & Wheatstone, 1837](https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/revealing-the-real-cooke-and-wheatstone-telegraph-dial/)

[Deutsches Museum · Hertz instruments, 1886–1888](https://www.deutsches-museum.de/museumsinsel/ausstellung/physik)

[ITU-R · M.1677-1 International Morse code](https://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-M.1677-1-200910-I/)

[ITU · Radio conferences and safety at sea](https://www.itu.int/en/history/pages/itushistory-page-2.aspx)

[IEEE REACH · Armstrong and FM](https://reach.ieee.org/multimedia/edwin-h-armstrong-radio-pioneer-fm-radio-and-the-later-years/)

[NASA History · Sputnik, 4 October 1957](https://www.nasa.gov/history/65-years-ago-sputnik-ushers-in-the-space-age/)

[Nobel Prize · Marconi & Braun, 1909](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1909/summary/)

Original interpretive illustration, not an archival photograph.

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## Sources & further reading

- [Signals without a wire](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1909/marconi/biographical/)
- [Listening through a crystal](https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8414466/cats-whisker-crystal-radio)
- [2LO: a voice from London](https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/this-is-2lo-london-broadcasting-station-calling/)
- [The contested airwaves](https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80014599)
- [A radio you could carry](https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_713528)
- [The world is still on air](https://worldradionow.top/about/)
- [Who invented the telegraph?](https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/revealing-the-real-cooke-and-wheatstone-telegraph-dial/)
- [Who discovered radio waves?](https://www.deutsches-museum.de/museumsinsel/ausstellung/physik)
- [Morse: a language of timing](https://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-M.1677-1-200910-I/)
- [Titanic and listening for distress](https://www.itu.int/en/history/pages/itushistory-page-2.aspx)
- [FM: changing how a signal carries sound](https://reach.ieee.org/multimedia/edwin-h-armstrong-radio-pioneer-fm-radio-and-the-later-years/)
- [Sputnik: a signal heard around the world](https://www.nasa.gov/history/65-years-ago-sputnik-ushers-in-the-space-age/)
- [Who invented the radio receiver?](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1909/summary/)