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The Commons copy is catalogued as 1 September; the date of that copy remains to be reconciled."},{"id":"japan-1945","date":"1945-08-15","speaker":"Emperor Shōwa · 昭和天皇","language":"ja","archive":"Wikimedia Commons · Imperial Rescript","source":"https://www.kunaicho.go.jp/kunaicho/koho/taisenkankei/syusen/syusen.html","audio":["https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Imperial_Rescript_on_the_Termination_of_the_War.ogg"],"duration":276,"theme":"war","title":"Japan: the war-ending broadcast","context":null},{"id":"korea-1950","date":"1950-07-19","speaker":"Harry S. Truman","language":"en","archive":"Harry S. 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NASA’s collection preserves this signal associated with the satellite launched in 1957."},{"id":"apollo8-1968","date":"1968-12-24","speaker":"Apollo 8 crew · Frank Borman","language":"en","theme":"space","archive":"NASA · Historical Sounds · Merry Christmas","source":"https://www.nasa.gov/historical-sounds/","audio":["/museum-assets/apollo8-1968.mp3"],"title":"Apollo 8: a Christmas greeting","context":"A short greeting from lunar orbit in December 1968, not the complete Christmas Eve broadcast."},{"id":"eagle-1969","date":"1969-07-20 UTC","speaker":"Neil Armstrong","language":"en","theme":"space","archive":"NASA · Historical Sounds · Eagle has landed","source":"https://www.nasa.gov/historical-sounds/","audio":["/museum-assets/eagle-1969.mp3"],"title":"Apollo 11: the Eagle has landed","context":"The landing report on 20 July 1969 UTC, before the first steps heard in the other Apollo 11 recording."},{"id":"apollo13-1970","date":"1970-04-14 UTC","speaker":"Apollo 13 crew & Mission Control","language":"en","theme":"space","archive":"NASA · Historical Sounds · Houston, we have had a problem","source":"https://www.nasa.gov/historical-sounds/","audio":["/museum-assets/apollo13-1970.mp3"],"title":"Apollo 13: reporting a problem","context":"Spacecraft and ground control exchange during the emergency. The event was 14 April UTC, still 13 April in the United States."}],"url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/","exhibits":[{"slug":"wireless-signals","date":"1895","chapter":1,"art":"spark","source":"https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1909/marconi/biographical/","sourceName":"Nobel Prize · Guglielmo Marconi biography","country":"IT","title":"Signals without a wire","text":"Marconi experimented with wireless signals in 1895. Explore the step from laboratory work to communication over distance; wireless telegraphy and spoken broadcasting are different stages of this story.","url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/exhibits/wireless-signals/"},{"slug":"crystal-listening","date":"1920–1925","chapter":2,"art":"crystal","source":"https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8414466/cats-whisker-crystal-radio","sourceName":"Science Museum Group · Y2008.56","country":"GB","title":"Listening through a crystal","text":"This Science Museum Group record describes a crystal receiver made in Manchester around 1920–1925. A small object opens a question: how much skill did early listening require?","url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/exhibits/crystal-listening/"},{"slug":"2lo-london","date":"1922","chapter":2,"art":"tower","source":"https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/this-is-2lo-london-broadcasting-station-calling/","sourceName":"Science Museum · 2LO, London Broadcasting Station","country":"GB","title":"2LO: a voice from London","text":"The Science Museum dates the first BBC broadcast from 2LO to 14 November 1922. A transmitter helps us connect technical equipment with the growth of regular programmes.","url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/exhibits/2lo-london/"},{"slug":"wartime-airwaves","date":"1939–1945","chapter":3,"art":"microphone","source":"https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80014599","sourceName":"Imperial War Museums · Sound 15003","country":"DE","title":"The contested airwaves","text":"IWM preserves a recording associated with Deutscher Freiheitssender 29.8 from 3 October 1939. Examine who made a broadcast, its audience and purpose before treating its message as evidence.","url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/exhibits/wartime-airwaves/"},{"slug":"pocket-radio","date":"1954","chapter":4,"art":"transistor","source":"https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_713528","sourceName":"Smithsonian · Regency Model TR-1, 1984.0040.01","country":"US","title":"A radio you could carry","text":"The Smithsonian records the Regency TR-1 as a 1954 transistor radio. Portability invites us to consider how a shared household activity could become a more personal listening experience.","url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/exhibits/pocket-radio/"},{"slug":"listening-today","date":"2026","chapter":4,"art":"online","source":"https://worldradionow.top/about/","sourceName":"World Radio Now · Directory sources","country":"","title":"The world is still on air","text":"Today, World Radio Now links listeners to public station streams. Compare the experience with earlier receivers: the path to a programme changes, while voices, music and local identity remain worth exploring.","url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/exhibits/listening-today/"},{"slug":"electric-telegraph","date":"1837–1844","chapter":1,"art":"telegraph","country":"GB","source":"https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/revealing-the-real-cooke-and-wheatstone-telegraph-dial/","sourceName":"Science Museum · Cooke & Wheatstone, 1837","extraSources":[{"title":"Library of Congress · Morse to Vail, 24 May 1844","url":"https://www.loc.gov/item/mcc.019/"}],"lab":true,"title":"Who invented the telegraph?","text":"Several systems developed along different paths. Cooke and Wheatstone demonstrated a needle telegraph in Britain in 1837. Morse and Vail demonstrated their coded system between Washington and Baltimore in 1844. A key closes an electrical circuit; the receiver detects the changing current.","question":"How can an electrical pulse stand for a letter?","url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/exhibits/electric-telegraph/"},{"slug":"maxwell-hertz-radio-waves","date":"1865–1888","chapter":1,"art":"waves","country":"DE","source":"https://www.deutsches-museum.de/museumsinsel/ausstellung/physik","sourceName":"Deutsches Museum · Hertz instruments, 1886–1888","extraSources":[{"title":"Smithsonian Libraries · Maxwell, 1865","url":"https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/dynamicaltheoryo00maxw"}],"title":"Who discovered radio waves?","text":"Radio waves are a natural phenomenon. Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory, published in 1865, and Hertz’s experiments in the 1880s are different steps: prediction and experimental demonstration. Practical wireless communication came later.","question":"What is the difference between a scientific discovery and an invention?","url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/exhibits/maxwell-hertz-radio-waves/"},{"slug":"morse-code","date":"1844 →","chapter":1,"art":"morse","country":"US","source":"https://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-M.1677-1-200910-I/","sourceName":"ITU-R · M.1677-1 International Morse code","extraSources":[{"title":"Library of Congress · The 1844 message","url":"https://www.loc.gov/item/mcc.019/"}],"lab":true,"title":"Morse: a language of timing","text":"Short and long signals represent letters and numbers. Morse and Vail’s early American system differs from the modern International Morse code used in our game. ITU specifies both the signals and their spacing.","question":"Why does the silence between signals carry information?","url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/exhibits/morse-code/"},{"slug":"titanic-wireless-safety","date":"1912","chapter":1,"art":"ship","country":"GB","source":"https://www.itu.int/en/history/pages/itushistory-page-2.aspx","sourceName":"ITU · Radio conferences and safety at sea","title":"Titanic and listening for distress","text":"The 1912 disaster exposed weaknesses in wireless watchkeeping and coordination. ITU’s account connects it with further international radio safety measures. Written messages and later sound recreations are different kinds of evidence; no Titanic transmission is presented here as an original audio recording.","question":"Why does a receiver need someone listening?","url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/exhibits/titanic-wireless-safety/"},{"slug":"fm-radio","date":"1930s","chapter":2,"art":"fm","country":"US","source":"https://reach.ieee.org/multimedia/edwin-h-armstrong-radio-pioneer-fm-radio-and-the-later-years/","sourceName":"IEEE REACH · Armstrong and FM","extraSources":[{"title":"Smithsonian · Armstrong papers","url":"https://www.si.edu/object/edwin-h-armstrong-papers:siris_sil_1100910"}],"title":"FM: changing how a signal carries sound","text":"Edwin Armstrong’s work on frequency modulation in the 1930s addressed interference in radio reception. FM varies the frequency of a carrier; AM varies its amplitude. Internet streaming delivers encoded audio through a different network.","question":"What changes between an FM receiver and a browser player?","url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/exhibits/fm-radio/"},{"slug":"sputnik-radio-signal","date":"1957","chapter":4,"art":"satellite","country":"RU","source":"https://www.nasa.gov/history/65-years-ago-sputnik-ushers-in-the-space-age/","sourceName":"NASA History · Sputnik, 4 October 1957","sound":"sputnik-1957","title":"Sputnik: a signal heard around the world","text":"The Soviet Union launched Sputnik on 4 October 1957. Its radio beacon could be monitored by radio enthusiasts. The archive sound is a signal, not a voice or a studio programme.","question":"What can a repeating signal tell its listener?","url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/exhibits/sputnik-radio-signal/"},{"slug":"who-invented-the-radio","date":"1909","chapter":2,"art":"crystal","country":"IT","source":"https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1909/summary/","sourceName":"Nobel Prize · Marconi & Braun, 1909","extraSources":[{"title":"Science Museum · Crystal receiver","url":"https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8414466/cats-whisker-crystal-radio"}],"title":"Who invented the radio receiver?","text":"There is no single inventor behind every part of a radio. Wave theory, experiments, detectors, tuning and amplification developed through different contributions. Marconi and Braun shared the 1909 Nobel Prize for work on wireless telegraphy. A telegraph signal is not yet a spoken radio programme, and a receiver is not the same object as a transmitter.","question":"Which parts turn an invisible wave into a sound you can hear?","url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/exhibits/who-invented-the-radio/"}],"articles":[{"id":"5f3533a5-4652-47b4-bed5-a477a0c5ead0","lang":"en","slug":"from-2lo-to-the-world-a-century-of-the-bbc","title":"From 2LO to the World: A Century of the BBC","summary":"How a crackly voice from a London rooftop in 1922 became the world's most trusted broadcaster — from 2LO to the Empire Service to today.","author":"World Radio Now","category":"history","sources":[],"cover_url":"/museum/media/4538bdce-cde1-4657-81f5-b11a4287cc96.webp","image_credit":"Original interpretive illustration: the 2LO studio, London, 1922.","related_country":"","review_status":"reviewed","created_at":"2026-10-19T13:42:26.541Z","updated_at":"2026-10-19T13:42:26.541Z","published_at":"2026-10-19T13:42:26.541Z","url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/articles/from-2lo-to-the-world-a-century-of-the-bbc/","markdown_url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/articles/from-2lo-to-the-world-a-century-of-the-bbc/index.md"},{"id":"afd6be32-107a-13db-5c30-86eb3e8ac7c1","lang":"en","slug":"sputnik-beeps-and-listeners-on-earth","title":"Sputnik: what a repeating signal could mean to a listener","summary":"A small radio beacon made an orbiting satellite audible from Earth. Its beeps differ from both speech and a broadcast programme.","author":"World Radio Now","category":"history","sources":[{"title":"NASA History: Sputnik ushers in the space age","url":"https://www.nasa.gov/history/65-years-ago-sputnik-ushers-in-the-space-age/"},{"title":"NASA Historical Sounds: Sputnik beep","url":"https://www.nasa.gov/historical-sounds/"}],"cover_url":"","image_credit":"","related_country":"RU","review_status":"reviewed","created_at":"2026-10-19T12:58:04.128Z","updated_at":"2026-10-19T12:58:04.128Z","published_at":"2026-10-19T12:58:04.128Z","url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/articles/sputnik-beeps-and-listeners-on-earth/","markdown_url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/articles/sputnik-beeps-and-listeners-on-earth/index.md"},{"id":"aecf1c79-af99-c3ae-b4f2-3b9b54ddac22","lang":"en","slug":"titanic-wireless-listening-and-safety","title":"Titanic: why having wireless was not enough","summary":"The 1912 disaster connects communication equipment with the human and institutional work of listening for distress.","author":"World Radio Now","category":"history","sources":[{"title":"ITU history: radio conferences and safety at sea","url":"https://www.itu.int/en/history/pages/itushistory-page-2.aspx"},{"title":"ITU: radiocommunications for keeping ships and people safe at sea","url":"https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/backgrounders/Pages/Radiocommunications-for-keeping-ships-and-people-safe-at-sea.aspx"}],"cover_url":"","image_credit":"","related_country":"GB","review_status":"reviewed","created_at":"2026-10-19T12:58:04.128Z","updated_at":"2026-10-19T12:58:04.128Z","published_at":"2026-10-19T12:58:04.128Z","url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/articles/titanic-wireless-listening-and-safety/","markdown_url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/articles/titanic-wireless-listening-and-safety/index.md"},{"id":"9112a260-9abf-f072-e937-e3af74e73cd3","lang":"en","slug":"maxwell-hertz-radio-waves-not-an-invention","title":"Radio waves were discovered, not invented","summary":"Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory and Hertz’s experiments answer different questions from the invention of a receiving set.","author":"World Radio Now","category":"history","sources":[{"title":"Smithsonian Libraries: Maxwell, A dynamical theory of the electromagnetic field, 1865","url":"https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/dynamicaltheoryo00maxw"},{"title":"Deutsches Museum: Hertz experimental instruments","url":"https://www.deutsches-museum.de/museumsinsel/ausstellung/physik"}],"cover_url":"","image_credit":"","related_country":"DE","review_status":"reviewed","created_at":"2026-10-19T12:58:04.128Z","updated_at":"2026-10-19T12:58:04.128Z","published_at":"2026-10-19T12:58:04.128Z","url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/articles/maxwell-hertz-radio-waves-not-an-invention/","markdown_url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/articles/maxwell-hertz-radio-waves-not-an-invention/index.md"},{"id":"8d1a80dc-30f7-bcb2-444a-3afdd5312957","lang":"en","slug":"electric-telegraph-how-the-key-works","title":"How a telegraph key turns a circuit into a message","summary":"A simple electrical circuit explains the key, but different telegraph systems used different ways to represent information.","author":"World Radio Now","category":"technology","sources":[{"title":"Science Museum: the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph dial","url":"https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/revealing-the-real-cooke-and-wheatstone-telegraph-dial/"},{"title":"Library of Congress: Morse to Vail, 24 May 1844","url":"https://www.loc.gov/item/mcc.019/"}],"cover_url":"","image_credit":"","related_country":"GB","review_status":"reviewed","created_at":"2026-10-19T12:58:04.128Z","updated_at":"2026-10-19T12:58:04.128Z","published_at":"2026-10-19T12:58:04.128Z","url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/articles/electric-telegraph-how-the-key-works/","markdown_url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/articles/electric-telegraph-how-the-key-works/index.md"},{"id":"82c2dba1-75e6-517b-c019-a6d0e4ab773f","lang":"en","slug":"morse-code-why-the-silence-matters","title":"Morse code: why the silence matters as much as the beep","summary":"Dots and dashes are only part of the system. Spacing tells a listener where a character or word ends.","author":"World Radio Now","category":"technology","sources":[{"title":"ITU-R M.1677-1: International Morse code","url":"https://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-M.1677-1-200910-I/"},{"title":"Library of Congress: the 1844 Morse message","url":"https://www.loc.gov/item/mcc.019/"}],"cover_url":"","image_credit":"","related_country":"US","review_status":"reviewed","created_at":"2026-10-19T12:58:04.128Z","updated_at":"2026-10-19T12:58:04.128Z","published_at":"2026-10-19T12:58:04.128Z","url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/articles/morse-code-why-the-silence-matters/","markdown_url":"https://worldradionow.top/museum/articles/morse-code-why-the-silence-matters/index.md"},{"id":"2fedc62b-9529-e66c-2316-75fedd9c0c78","lang":"en","slug":"armstrong-fm-am-and-internet-radio","title":"AM, FM and internet radio: three different signal paths","summary":"Armstrong’s frequency modulation work helps explain why a station’s programme and its delivery method are different things.","author":"World Radio Now","category":"technology","sources":[{"title":"IEEE REACH: Edwin H. 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Start by asking which radio","summary":"A radio receiver, a wireless telegraph and a broadcasting service have different histories. The invention question becomes clearer when we separate them.","author":"World Radio Now","category":"history","sources":[{"title":"Nobel Prize in Physics 1909: Marconi and Braun","url":"https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1909/summary/"},{"title":"Science Museum Group: crystal receiver, around 1920–1925","url":"https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8414466/cats-whisker-crystal-radio"},{"title":"Deutsches Museum: physics, including Hertz 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