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Welcome to the Electronic home of the Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation. We are a privately funded group. The Museum offices are located in the old Coury House in Historic Downtown Glendale in a section known as 'Catlin Court' Our Address is: Coury House / SMECC Normal hours are 12:00 to
3:00 Tuesday through Saturday We may be contacted via telephone Enjoy your visit here! Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC |
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Don Herbert, TV's 'Mr. Wizard,' Dies At 89Show Featured Household Experiments A Debt Is Owed By Many Of Us That Were Inspired By Him
More News As Avail - Ed Sharpe
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Help fund display cases, archival supplies etc. |
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...My Father Was Spock's First Commander.... My brother and I would kid each other about this.. actually Leonard Nimoy was in my father's AFRTS Reserve unit during the Korean war era. READ MORE>>> |
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Janet Napolitano Governor of Arizona and Ed Sharpe Director and Lead Archivist for SMECC at Bitzee Mama's Restaurant in downtown Glendale Arizona. I was fortunate to have some time to discuss science, technology and education with Janet at the breakfast table. Unknown to many, Janet coded in FORTRAN at Sandia High School in Albuquerque New Mexico in her younger days! |
PHX11 ,
the Phoenix government cable channel, required a JVC KY2000 and a
3/4 JVC U-matic portable recorder to portray the first equipment they used
to put City of Phoenix government activities on cable television
SMECC was able to assist them with the loan of equipment that is now on
display in the station lobby. PHX11 began in 1984 as the city of Phoenix's government access cable channel with a staff of four and five minutes of programming per week. Today, the award-winning PHX11 is one of the top local cable stations in the country, reaching an estimated 320,000 households throughout the Valley. It provides quality programs that educate, inform and entertain residents 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Visit PHX11 at: http://www.phoenix.gov/11/phx11.html
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Ed Sharpe of Glendale Arizona wins Rocky Mountain Emmy(R) Award for Breaking News/ Continuing Coverage CouryGraph
Productions Is The Museum Production Facility!
Photo: Jennifer Jones KPHO and President of the Rocky Mountain NATAS Chapter and Ed Sharpe of CouryGraph Productions/ Glendale Daily Planet / KKAT-IPTV with 2007 Rocky Mountain Emmy(R) Award for the production of "The Laura Graff Hit and Run Accident - Search For The Driver" .(Photo by Bette Sharpe)
"The Laura Graff Hit and Run Accident - Search For The Driver" . READ MORE |
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Former President, Actor and Voice
of Ronald Reagan and John F. Long in 1958 Phoenix Arizona -- Many photos! |
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Amherst Community Television History
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In Memoriam...James M. Early
Jim was a friend of the museum and a mentor to me during the formation of it back in the days it occupied some shared space with Computer Exchange Inc. in the old industrial part on Desert Cove in Phoenix Arizona. Jim wrote several articles and spent extensive time editing on Volume #2 and #3 of "VINTAGE ELECTRICS. His background at Bell Laboratories proved invaluable when we cataloged some of the more obscure artifacts in the K. D. Smith Collection. K. D. Was his first supervisor at Bell Laboratories. His words always possessed wisdom and humor, Jim we will miss hearing you... -Ed Sharpe, Archivist for SMECC
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See some books picked by the museum staff you will enjoy! EMPIRE OF THE AIR is also out now on DVD.
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Navy GF Series - ©Dave Stinson AB5S
See what airborne transmitters preceded the ARC-5 in those 'between the war' years. Help
solve the missing years of....
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Explore Some Early Areas of Burroughs Computer History Section - Help Add to it and Build it! We are researching Burroughs
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J.C. Bose at the Royal Institution, London, 1897
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John R. Pierce |
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Read about one of of J. R. Pierce's many accomplishments TELSTAR <click here!< ECHO <click here!< My Work With Vacuum Tubes At Bell Laboratories < click here!< Lucent Obit. Notice <click here!< Stanford Obit. Notice <click here!< Creative Thinking <click here!< |
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and... here is the sketch of the planned expansion....
Archivist Ed Sharpe near some of the
Heath HERO Jr.
Robot Joins the staff!
MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION Learn
about the
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Community, Activist and Early Art Video
People arose wielding half inch video cameras They sought to document unpublished truths... They wanted us to open our eyes...
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A SERVICE OF THIS WILL INFORM YOU ON Q&A ABOUT VIDEO TAPE COMMERCIALS NTA TELESTUDIOS LTD. TO TELL YOU: Editors Note: This Booklet Documents An Early Company That Produced Commercials for Agencies Outside the Network Environment - 1959/1960 |
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Videotape Recorders and Cameras
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The Videotape Recorder Turns 50Routine NAB preview event showcased revolutionary technology |
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MAC HISTORY!
MAC IS OVER 20 YEARS OLD! |
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The
Start of the G.E. Computer Department |
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Check
out our start of the REA section! |
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Barry Goldwater and Ed Sharpe Playing
With Radios!
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start here! The
Early Years of Winfield Salisbury!
Salisbury at the University of Iowa. Salisbury - The Lawrence Years Microwave Oven At Iowa State Fair |
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Engineer
Bob Snyder With the Microwave Oven'Works' Display he built for the museum. (Click for larger view) |
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Meet
Albert J. Yascavage, WW II Radio
operator!
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Photographs and Cards Click above to go visit Capt. Edwards... |
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Display Construction Update! Construction on the General
Electric Computer Display Help!
Recent WWII books being added to the collection!
Check out the history of KCRJ Jerome AZ. I will try to retrieve the photos that go with this.
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 Be sure to check out "The Vernon Furr Story", this is a
story I did back in 1990 WHEN SMECC was just SMEC
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Welcome to our collection of open source The days of
spending thousands for software to automate is over!
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Visit the old HP2000F/ 2000 Access timeshare system on display At SMECC! This system was originally bought by Maricopa Community Colleges and then when retired was run as a time share system in the early days at Computer Exchange Inc. that was located In Phoenix Arizona. Eventually this computer became a display artifact there when it was replaced by a HP 3000 system. Below is an old shot form the computer room at Computer Exchange Inc. Phoenix Arizona. This is right before we got the HP 3000 systems.
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Think about it... One thing all of us should consider; vintage electrical technology daily hits the land fills across America. Only if we make a dedicated effort, will the artifacts and literature of our technological history be preserved. It is up to all of us who know the history of an item to make sure that it will be kept secure for future scientists and engineers to study. We can not rely on the actions of our heirs to accomplish it, as they may not understand the implication that an artifact had on the development of a technology. It is up to you and me in the present life to accomplish this. |
We are always looking to buy books , paper, or
artifacts related to RADAR and RADAR Countermeasures to add to the
museum. Please contact us! Email here or 623-435-1522
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L Always looking for items for display, or literature to add to our reference library, drop a note to the archivist at:
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We are looking for any info relating to the McCarty Wireless Telephone Company. |
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"Who controls the past commands the future. Who commands the future conquers the past." -George Orwell
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LINC
The 'Coury House' built in the early
1940's
Once upon a time...
Valley West Mall also known 
A
Visit to WWII Radar
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be
useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some
difference that you have lived and lived well. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by
night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it
was vanity. But dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act
their dream with open eyes to make it possible." -T.E. Lawrence
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BIO Ed Sharpe
- Ed Sharpe
always has been passionate about technology, even as a young boy. "When I
was a kid, as my compatriots were out throwing dirt clods at each other, I was
building radios," says the 50-year-old archivist of the Southwest Museum of
Engineering, Communications and Computation. - As a
child, Sharpe soaked up as much information as he could about technology,
spending hours with adults who were knowledgeable about the field. Retirees,
in particular, proved to be incredible resources. "They
were the best because they had time on their hands," Sharpe says, "and
you could go by after school and pester those poor guys and they'd teach you
anything you wanted to learn." - Education
of the public on the history of technology is important. "By
understanding where we came from, we have a better understanding of how to go
forward," Sharpe says. - The Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation, in Glendale, occupies 2,000 square feet of the Coury House, include a cross-sectional history on RCA products such as radios and electron microscopes; a rural electrification display that shows how American farms became electrified; an office-automation display with phone switchboards and Dictaphone machines, military communications, radar and countermeasures; and an early computer display that has some of the first computers. - Originally
a smaller-scale museum was part, of
Computer Exchange Inc., a Phoenix business Sharpe once owned. "Every
day artifacts that depict the history of engineering and science hit the
landfill," he says. "We need to preserve our technological
heritage."
- Sharpe is a member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE), Independent Feature Project (IFP) (IFP/PHX), Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation (SMECC) member of the national Media Communications Association-International Association (MCAI) and other associations.
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Scoundrels use history to maintain a harsh economic and political system and their position in it.
-- 1973 by Roberta Kass (Miller) from the draft of radical software #6
