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The first predictions of radio
Long before an actual radio was made, the existence of radio was predicted. James Maxwell made the first predictions about radio in the 1860s, but it wasn’t known by this Read More »
An unusual radio alternative
If your radio has become locked and needs to be decoded, there’s no need to resort to drastic measures like this man did. While in stop-start traffic on the A46 Read More »
70 Million Cars Per Year
Around 70 million cars are produced each year around the world. That is around 191,781 per day or 133 per minute! The number of cars produced increases each year, as Read More »
Tubes to Transistors
Transistors were invented in 1947, but it wasn’t until 1955 that the first all transistor car radio was produced. Before transistors were invented, radios used vacuum tubes. Transistors were lighter Read More »
A Toyota Dashboard
This picture shows an attractive Toyota 2000GT dashboard with radio. The term dashboard did not originally relate to cars. The term was first used for the piece of wood or Read More »
Jaguar Radios decoded Automatically
It’s true that we can decode most of the Jaguar radios from the serial number found on the side of the unit, even if you are using one of the Read More »
Could your car radio stop working soon?
With Norway being the first country in the world to switch over to DAB digital radio in January of 2017, could we be the next ones to make the change? Read More »
A Nobel Prize for Radio
Guglielmo Marconi is credited as the inventor of radio, though the research and experimental work of a great number of people also contributed to this. Marconi developed the first apparatus Read More »
UK Driving Test
In 2016/17 the average pass rate for the people taking the UK practical driving test for the first time was around 47.1%. For taking the practical test in general the Read More »
A car that runs on coffee
A lot of people like a cup of coffee in the morning to help them get going, but did you know that coffee can also make a car run? In Read More »
