Tag: perham collection
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Perham Collection Creator Profile: Lee de Forest
Few individuals better represent the vicissitudes of invention than Lee de Forest, an ambitious experimenter and inventor with more than 300 patents, but whose business ventures often failed or became embroiled in litigation. Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on August 26, 1873, de Forest grew up at Talladega College, where his father served as president.…
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This is San Jose Calling Exhibit at City Hall
This is San Jose Calling! Celebrating 100 Years of Radio Broadcasting San Jose City Hall (June 4, 2009 to January 21, 2010) This exhibition, featuring artifacts from The Perham Collection of Early Electronics, and loans from Charles Herrold’s grandson Stephen True, celebrated the world’s first regularly scheduled broadcast station in San Jose, Herrold’s FN –…
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Thorn Mayes’ interviews on early radio now transcribed
Thorn Mayes, born April 19, 1903, graduated from the University of California in 1927 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He was an avid amateur radio operator, working W6AX, W9AX, 6BDQ, 6AX, K6BI, K2CE, and W1CX under the handle “Thorn.” His first 2-way wireless contact was in 1921, and he was member #229 of the…
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How we restored our Apple 1 to working condition…
…and then got Steve Wozniak to power it up for the first time! by Ralph Simpson, History San Jose volunteer The Apple 1 was first sold in May, 1976 and was the first personal computer as we recognize it today. Before the Apple 1, personal computers used toggle switches for input and lights or printers…
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CLIR grant work successfully completed at History San Jose
Staff and volunteers at the History San Jose Research Library and Archives have recently completed processing five manuscript collections from the Perham Collection of Early Electronics under a 2012 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources’ Cataloging Hidden Collections and Archives program. Series through item-level catalog records, as well as many digital images,…
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Jane Morgan Papers
Hello! My name is Beth Atlas. I was one of the student assistants working on processing the manuscript collections of the Perham Collection of Early Electronics in 2012 under a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. During my time at History San Jose, I processed the Jane Morgan Papers. Jane Morgan was…
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1924 Olympian Clarida Hunsberger, captured on film by Harold Elliott
As part of our year-long grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources to catalog five manuscript collections from the Perham Collection of Early Electronics, we’ve been processing the Harold F. Elliott Papers. Elliott was a 1916 Stanford University engineering graduate who did a significant amount of work with Federal Telegraph Company in Palo…
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Electrolysis, electric cars and electrons, oh my: the Perham History Files
Submitted by Catherine Mills, Project Archivist, History San Jose The Perham History Files are one of the five manuscript collections in the Perham Collection of Early Electronics that History San Jose promised to catalog and make available for researchers as part of our year-long Council of Library and Information Resources grant. The Perham History Files…
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Almaden Air Force Station: A serendipitous end to a five-year Journey
Headquarters of the 682nd Aircraft Control and Warning squadron during the Cold War, the Almaden Air Force Station was tasked 24 hours a day with protecting Central California from a Soviet threat that never arrived. Due to its relative remoteness, the facility served as a small community, encompassing 86 structures and nearly all activities, such…
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