Old radios and TVs made by a former electronics large have gone on show within the metropolis the place it was as soon as one of many greatest employers.
had discovered Established in 1896 in a backyard shed in Cambridge More scientific devices have been made by William George Pye.
It moved to bigger premises and in 1922, started making receivers to show college students the basics of wi-fi, simply earlier than the BBC started each day radio broadcasts in November 1924.
Collector Mike Kemp stated that by the Thirties “half the homes in the country had a radio set”.
The firm quickly grew to become one of many largest employers in Cambridge.
After World War II, Pye went into the manufacture of tv units and TV gear, document gamers and had his personal document label which signed together with Lonnie Donegan, The Kinks and Status Quo.
The exhibition is on the Cambridge Museum of Technology and options wi-fi units from the early days of radio courting from 1922 to 1932.
With inputs from BBC
