Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation

03/19/2025

The Yonkers Historical Society
invites you to its Annual Meeting on
Sunday, March 30th, 2025 at 1:00pm
in the Pincus Auditorium of the Grinton I. Will Library,
1500 Central Park Avenue, Yonkers.



This year’s featured program is about Yonkers resident and inventor
Edwin H. Armstrong
who developed the technology for today’s FM Radio. Our guest speaker is
Mr. Al Klase, Telecommunications Historian of The Radio Technology Museum at InfoAge.
This informative presentation will highlight the triumphs and tribulations of the brilliant inventor that Armstrong was. Learn how his developments led to technology that is used in our modern-day cell phones.

This event is open to YHS membership as well as all guests, students, and everyone interested in this fascinating story of American ingenuity.

[email protected]
(914) 961-8940

10/16/2023

A fascinating audio recording of John Bose, a contemporary of and assistant to the Major, is now available at https://www.armstrongmemorialfoundation.org/news/john-bose-interview.

Mary Ellen Tuthill recorded her interview with Bose in 1983 and recently resurrected the audio and also added a text transcript.

"Well, of course, I think, aside from Edison, he's probably one of America's greatest inventors."

Post date: October 16, 2023

12/18/2020

Born this day in 1890:

12/19/2018

Glad that the Foundation was able to provide financial support for this:

The Amateur Radio Club, in collaboration with the Columbia Space Initiative, built a successful satellite- tracking system. Featured News Article Info The Amateur Radio Club, in collaboration with the Columbia Space Initiative, built a successful

10/06/2018

In case you missed Thomas Kailath's lecture, here it is: http://www.ee.columbia.edu/process-making-breakthroughs-engineering

featuring Dr. Thomas Kailath Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus Stanford University Columbia University, Semptember 25th, 2018

08/22/2018

It is with great sadness that that we mention the passing of Gilbert Houck, on the 24th of July, of this year. Gil was a good friend of Major Armstrong, and he was also the nephew of the Major's associate, Harry Houck. Gil was also instrumental in our 2005 commemoration of Major Armstrong's 70th anniversary of the first public demonstration of wide band FM, at Alpine, N.J. Gil had made the frequency-determining crystals for the transmitter used at that event, and he also served as a panel member at both the Alpine event, and the following Armstrong commemoration at the Audio Engineering Society convention, in October of 2005.

He was a great man, and a real gentleman, as well, and was always there for us, when we had asked him for his help, as his knowledge of the Major's work was truly unique.

Gil was also the Secretary of the Radio Club of America, the Major's club, when it was located in New York City.

08/05/2018

Celebrating Armstrong’s Legacy and Invention of FM Radio Broadcasting

06/19/2018

The AMRF has awarded a grant to fund a joint project of the Columbia University Amateur Radio Club and Columbia Space Initiative to build a satellite earth station for automated tracking and communications with LEO satellites including the ISS.

Summer project CUARC Starts a Satellite Communications Project CUARC and Columbia Space Initiative are partnering this summer to design, build, and operate a mobile, 2-axis, tracking and communications platform capable of communicating with Amateur Radio Satellites. The final project for the summer....

12/18/2017

08/16/2017

Thanks to the efforts of Irving P. Herman, Edwin Howard Armstrong Professor of Applied Physics, this plaque now graces the lobby of Columbia University's Armstrong Hall

04/13/2017

For those unable to attend Jim Kurose's talk in person, see here: http://tiny.cc/i1giky

04/08/2017

https://goo.gl/photos/174mxEQB1WkFu41z6

35 new photos added to shared album