Curators’ Tour: Unseen Signals

Join IEEE curators and historians Alex Magoun and Daniel Jon Mitchell for a behind-the-scenes highlights tour of their exhibit, “Unseen Signals: E. Howard Armstrong’s Radio Revolution”

Learn how they obtained rare and unique artifacts to tell the story of America’s greatest radio inventor, Major E. Howard Armstrong, and the wireless world that he and many other researchers, entrepreneurs, and listeners created over the course of the 20th century.

Dr. Magoun is outreach historian for IEEE. He has published, lectured, and been interviewed for History’s Greatest of All Time with Peyton Manning on the histories of consumer electronics and wireless communications. Before joining IEEE’s History Center, he directed the David Sarnoff Library at RCA’s former laboratories in Princeton.

Dr. Mitchell is senior historian for IEEE and staff program lead for the IEEE Global Museum. Originally from the UK, he has taught, researched and published on the history of physics in Hong Kong, Germany, and now America. Before joining IEEE’s History Center, he directed the Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia.

IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. The IEEE Global Museum presented by the IEEE History Center brings traveling exhibits to IEEE members and the public to promote an understanding of electrotechnology and its impact on society.

Program includes Museum admission. Free for NMIH and IEEE Members. Registration required HERE.