Jan 19, 2026 · The University of Texas at El Paso originated as the Texas State School of Mines and Metallurgy in 1913. Several of its original buildings were modeled on the Potala Palace of Lhasa, Tibet.

Jul 20, 1998 · Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian physicist who invented a successful wireless telegraph (radio).

Jan 16, 2026 · From about 1920 to 1945, radio developed into the first electronic mass medium, monopolizing “the airwaves” and defining, along with newspapers, magazines, and motion pictures, …

The refugees first sought the protection of the Spanish fort El Paso del Norte (now Juarez, Mexico, across the river) and then moved to the present site to found Ysleta del Sur and build the mission …

From 1999 to 2001 Donaldson hosted a live Webcast (a broadcast over the World Wide Web), and from 2001 to 2004 he anchored a daily news program, The Sam Donaldson Show–Live in America, for …

It is located on the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte) opposite El Paso, Texas, U.S., with which it is connected by bridges. Formerly known as El Paso del Norte, it was renamed in 1888 for the Mexican …

Reginald Aubrey Fessenden was a Canadian radio pioneer who on Christmas Eve in 1906 broadcast the first program of music and voice ever transmitted over long distances.

The first practical wireless radio communication system was developed in Italy by Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi built on the mathematics of physicist James Clerk Maxwell and the experiments of both …

Jan 15, 2026 · After researching land-grant titles in Mexico City and Spain, Tijerina popularized the land-grant movement during the early 1960s on a daily radio program, The Voice of Justice, and in a …

Jan 15, 2026 · The first use of the word petroleum (literally “rock oil” from the Latin petra, “rock” or “stone,” and oleum, “oil”) is often attributed to a treatise published in 1556 by the German …