Patton & Hall Shoes
When this ad ran in 1921, Schenectady’s Patton & Hall shoes was a thriving business, with additional stores in Amsterdam and Saratoga. The company occupied a large building on State […]
When this ad ran in 1921, Schenectady’s Patton & Hall shoes was a thriving business, with additional stores in Amsterdam and Saratoga. The company occupied a large building on State […]
Perhaps the first version of a carphone? In 1921, General Electric successfully used carrier current communication, which transmits a low power AM signal through alternating current lines, to communicate from […]
A curious item from almost exactly 101 years ago, in the Detroit Free Press: BLIND GIRL WILL NOT WORK IN SCHENECTADY John Macy, With Whose Family She Lives, Resigns His […]
As we mentioned yesterday, in 1927 the suburbs of Albany were starting to boom. Veeder Realty was pushing two new developments, Birchwood Park and Hampton Manor. Birchwood Park was between […]
So in 1958, my grandfather’s short-lived drive-in restaurant in Aqueduct apparently featured a jukebox, as just about any respectable diner of the day would have have done. He apparently rented […]
Light Beam Casts Chat 24 Miles in Adirondacks Broun, at Schenectady, Interviews Distant Scientist Schenectady, Nov. 22, 1932 — A group of scientists at Schenectady tonight talked with another group […]
The little problems of perfecting radio and creating trans-continental television signals weren’t the only things that General Electric’s Schenectady scientists were working on in the late 1920s. In 1929, they […]
A suprisingly short time after the first televised play was broadcast from one end of Schenectady to not quite the other, General Electric was able to report success in transcontinental […]
Buried in the details of the first longish-distance transmission of television into a home (albeit the home of its creator, Dr. E.F.W. Alexanderson) is the little matter of how the […]
Yesterday, Hoxsie shared a link about the re-creation of the pallophotophone, also known as the RCA photophone, which was developed in Schenectady (you may have heard of it – it’s […]