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Radio/Wireless
- See displays of radio equipment in the Connecting Manchester gallery in the 1830 warehouse at the Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester
- Visit http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/radio1.htm for an introduction to how radio transmission and reception works technically.
- Visit http://www.rsgb.org/ for information about Amateur Radio in Great Britain – the site includes an on-line museum of Amateur Radio.
- Read Radio: The Life Story of a Technology, Brian Regal, Greenwood Press (2005), ISBN13: 9780313331671 ISBN10: 0313331677 to learn more about the history of radio - a technology which is fundamental to the operation of many of today’s technologies
- Visit http://www.rapidonline.com/netalogue/specs/70-0110e.pdf for details of a KS3/4 Radio project. The radio project has been written to introduce students to the popular subject of communication through radio. The project looks at tuning circuits along with modulation and signal amplification. The work is suitable for KS3/4 students. Emphasis has been placed on providing a means to a quality design outcome.