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Many rural areas of the Midwest and South did not receive commercial power until the 1960s. Until that point, special radios were made to run on DC power. The earliest so-called "farm radios" used the "A", "B", and "C" batteries typical of 1920s radio sets; these farm radios were identical to those used in cities.
The earliest radio programs of the 1920s were largely unsponsored; radio stations were a service designed to sell radio receivers. In early 1922, American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) announced the beginning of advertisement-supported broadcasting on its owned stations, and plans for the development of the first radio network using its ...
A Philco 90 "cathedral" style radio, circa 1931. Although some households owned one or more sophisticated table radios or console models with shortwave and radio-phonograph combinations as early as the 1920s, table radios offered in various cabinet materials and designs at an assortment of prices from $10 to over $100 proliferated in the 1930s.
The Boy Scouts have kept the construction of a radio set in their program since the 1920s. A large number of prefabricated novelty items and simple kits could be found through the 1950s and 1960s, and many children with an interest in electronics built one. Building crystal radios was a craze in the 1920s, and again
However, some very early (c. 1928–1931) radio programs were on sets of 12-inch or even 10-inch (25 cm) 78 rpm discs, and some later (circa 1960–1990) syndicated radio programs were distributed on 12-inch 33 + 1 ⁄ 3 rpm microgroove vinyl discs visually indistinguishable from ordinary records except by their label information.
Luxury Is Calling. One man’s trash is very often another man’s treasure on eBay, which has been selling head-scratching items since 1995. But eBay is a place for a lot more than just cheap ...
Rare collectibles from the worlds of music and film, including gold rings owned by Elvis Presley and a letter written by Beach Boy Brian Wilson, will be up for auction this weekend. The "Artifacts ...
Popular models were the "Super Pee Wee" and "Catalin 281" known for being cheap economy sets. At the company's height in 1936, Detrola claimed to be "The sixth largest radio manufacturer in the United States" and had about 1,000 employees, and sales representatives in many cities and foreign countries. Detrola Model 579 (1946) radio, made of ...