It always seems odd to think that when scientists were working on sending talking pictures by radio, having talking pictures in the theater was still a brand new thing. But […]

Since we were just speaking of Ernest Alexanderson’s contributions to radio and television, here’s the story of that first three-mile transmission, as published in the Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 14, […]

So, here’s a version of the 1928 song that was played in the first two-way radio communication between the United States and England, a piece of history for which Schenectady […]

1928: SCHENECTADY, Feb. 21–Radio broadcast listeners to-day heard for the first time a two-way radio telephone communication between the United States and England. They also heard the rebroadcast in the […]

Imagine a world in which the only long-distance communications were coded telegraph or the very expensive, one-to-one medium of long-distance telephone. No music from another town was ever heard unless […]

While we’re on the topic, a little more about Ernst F.W. Alexanderson, who today is primarily remembered for his early role in the development of television. In fact, his home […]

After the return of Verner Alexanderson, kidnapped son of Schenectady radio scientist Dr. E.F.W. Alexanderson, it appeared that the kidnappers had vanished into Canada. Apparently, police never stopped looking for […]

It would only be three days after the 1923 kidnapping of Verner Alexanderson from his Schenectady home, and his father’s first-ever radio broadcast plea for help, that Verner would be […]

Hoxsie wouldn’t want to leave you with the impression that Schenectady had all the crime in the tri-cities in the early decades of the last century. Far from it. But […]

Schenectady police continued to work the case of the mysterious torso that was discovered in the Mohawk River in the summer of 1914. (Her head turned up on the Fourth […]