Radio Scavenger Hunt


All about Radio - The Hunt!



1. Print the scavenger questions. Once the questions have loaded, select File - Print and retrieve them from the printer.

2. Use the following sites to help answer the questions.

  • The Bellingham Antique Radio Museum
  • Explore the history of radio and broadcasting! An excellent site!
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    100 years of Radio

  • Guglielmo Marconi is the main focus of this site.

  • Thomas Edison as a Scientist and Inventor

  • In his lifetime, Edison patented 1,093 inventions, earning him the nickname "The Wizard of Menlo Park."

  • Alexander Graham Bell

  • The Alexander Graham Bell family collection brings together a wide range of documents accumulated by Dr. Bell and his family during their time in Baddeck, Nova Scotia. The Alexander Graham Bell institute has developed a comprehensive index of these materials. This index, with online access to several components of the Bell collection, can be accessed using the World Wide Web.

  • Paris Pages; Musee de Radio - France

  • The Museum of the History of Radio and Television traces the history of those media from its very origins, including the 1793 Chappe telegraph, and crystal receivers. There are also exhibits featuring research by Maxwell, Hertz, Branly, Popov, Marconi, and Lee de Forest.
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    Science Friday - THE SCIENCE OF RADIO

  • National Public Radio, using REAL AUDIO will help explain how a radio works and the latest technology used for transmitting and receiving radio waves? The computer you are using will have to have Real Audio loaded in order to get this information. Click on the Real Audio icon below to go and download it. The first half hour of the program is dedicated to Computers in Education, so you will need to slide the dial to the mid point and listen in. It will last 1/2 hour.
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    Making Waves

  • An account of how Marconi sent radio signals from Cornwall across the Atlantic to Newfoundland.

  • Radio Experiments!

     

    Build a Crystal Radio Receiver.

    Build a Foxhole Radio.


  • The Future!?

  • 1. Download the following program. This will allow you to play audio LIVE!


    2. Check out some of the sources available for Real Audio.








    References


    Math, Irwin, Morse, Marconi and You, Charles Scribner's sons, New York, 1979.

    Nahin, Paul J., The Science of Radio, American Institute of Physics Press, Woodbury, New York, 1996.

    Radio, Grolier Encyclopedia, Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc., 1992.

    Schultz, Robert F., Useful Science Projects...from Edison, Edison Electric Institute, Washington D.C., 1991.


    Questions and comments can be sent to:

    Bob Phelps
    or
    Steve Wignall
    or
    Craig Williams