<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">One of the volunteers at the computer museum has been making short videos that describe an artifact. The videos are not too technical and only about 10 minutes long. For radio, it would be really great to do this about how radio works, then another about how a crystal radio works using one of the radios from the collection. This could go on forever adding an explanation of a particular radio or steam engine maybe once per month. This would also be a way to get some young computer adept volunteers interested in the museum.</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Jun 1, 2019, at 6:21 PM, Randall Snow via Thursday <<a href="mailto:thursday@newsm.org">thursday@newsm.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Everyone,<div><br></div><div>Chris has been gracious enough to volunteer as one of the speakers for the upcoming discussion evening for this month, on Wednesday the 19th. The topic is to be centered around electrical evaluation, repair, and tuning of an antique radio. Some discussion around the museum on Thursday got me to thinking about a parallel that could be developed into an exhibit for the museum. Perhaps someone else could explain the very basics of how radio works in the first place. Admittedly, this isn't my field. Chris gave me an overview of the radio stages and such, but still, from a layman's perspective, it doesn't tell me how it works. Could someone else come up with some diagrams, or something of the sort to spell it out in a simple method?</div><div><br></div><div>This all comes to mind as a benefit to our visitors too. Obviously we can't flesh out an exhibit in the next 19 days, but conceptually I think the museum could use something of this nature. We've had some discussions about who our visitors are, and what we need to be doing to interest them. Decades ago I'm sure many of the visitors were folks who had some knowledge of mechanics and radio. Hobbyists, engineers, enthusiasts, and people who worked in the respective fields. People today have less and less familiarity from their daily lives, and we're hoping to appeal to students. The short story is, we should start working on some exhibits that educate visitors on how the things in our collection work. Diagrams might help, perhaps there are YouTube videos out there already we could use or gather ideas from, and undoubtedly some physical demonstrations. We could start down the road for this particular Engaging Evening, and then continue it into something permanent.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">Randy Snow</font><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.snowfindings.com" target="_blank">Snow Findings Company</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.lovements.com" target="_blank">Lovements.com</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.newsm.org" target="_blank">New England Wireless and Steam Museum</a><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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