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Encyclopedia > Historical Electronics Museum

The Historical Electronics Museum loacated in Linthicum, Maryland, displays the history of the United States defense electronics. Linthicum is a census-designated place (CDP) and an unincorporated community in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. ...

Contents

Displays

  • Telegraph and radio
  • Radar and satellites
  • Static and interactive displays
  • Research and lending library that is open to the general public, with holdings that focus on all aspects of electronics history.
  • Complete amateur radio station, W3HEM/W3GR, fully equipped with vintage and modern communications systems.

Telegraphy (from the Greek words tele = far away and grapho = write) is the long distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters, originally over wire. ... This long range radar antenna, known as ALTAIR, is used to detect and track space objects in conjunction with ABM testing at the Ronald Reagan Test Site on the Kwajalein atoll. ... For other uses, please see Satellite (disambiguation) A satellite is an object that orbits another object (known as its primary). ... Amateur radio station with modern solid-state transceiver featuring LCD display and DSP capabilities Amateur radio, often called Ham radio, is a hobby enjoyed by about six million people[1] throughout the world. ...

Galleries

The Historical Electronics Museum is organized into twelve related exhibit galleries:

  • Fundamentals Gallery
  • Communications Gallery
  • Early Radar Gallery
  • Cold War Radar Gallery
  • Modern Radar Gallery
  • Countermeasures Gallery
  • Under Seas Gallery
  • Electro-optical Gallery
  • Space Sensor Gallery
  • Past Gallery
  • Web Gallery
  • WWII Radar Kiosk

For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation). ... A countermeasure is a system (usually for a military application) designed to prevent weapons from acquiring and/or destroying a target. ...

Events

  • RobotFest - held at the museum annually

External links

  • The Historical Electronics Museum


 

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