Wireless & Electricity

Active amateur radio station located on the first floor of the Massie building. The radio at the top left is a Swedish marine emergency quenched gap spark transmitter. In Scandanavia these spark rigs were legal into the nineteen sixties.

This museum has a large collection of mostly pre-1950 wireless equipment and documentation.

The Massie Station building was moved to the NEWSM from Point Judith, RI in 1983. The wireless library contains publications, primarily from 1880 to 1930, related to the history of wireless communication.

Wireless Equipment Collection