Outdated radios and TVs made by a former electronics large have gone on show within the metropolis the place it was as soon as one of many greatest employers.
Pye was founded in a garden shed in Cambridge in 1896 by William George Pye and made scientific devices.
It moved to bigger premises and, in 1922, started making receivers for instructing college students the rudiments of wi-fi – simply earlier than the BBC began day by day radio broadcasts in November 1924.
Collector Mike Kemp mentioned by the Thirties “half the properties within the nation had a hi fi”.
The corporate rapidly grew to become one of many greatest employers in Cambridge.
After the Second World Warfare, Pye moved into manufacturing tv units and TV gear, document gamers and had its personal document label that signed acts together with Lonnie Donegan, The Kinks and Standing Quo.
The exhibition is at the Cambridge Technology Museum and options wi-fi units from the early days of radio courting from 1922 to 1932.
