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Gallery - Equipment - Radios
Radios and some ancillary equipment used with early radios Phonographs were important in the early radio era and are also shown.
Airline Farm Battery set, 1940s
Glass 6 volt storage battery case, c. 1924. The 6 volt acid storage battery had the potential for leaking acid and doing considerable damage to indoor furnishings. The glass battery case was a protective measure
Brunsiwck Radiola Panatrope, 1924
Connecticut Telephone Sodion DR-6 radio and original matching Connecticut Telephone headphones.
Crosley 4-29, a compact battery set, 1926
Daven 3-stage audio amplifier with Daven's own MU6 and MU20 tubes, 1926. Could be used to amplifer a simple radio set and was also popular for experimentation with early mechanical television systems, c. 1927.
Edison Standard phonograph, c. 1910
Emerson 7 747 portable transistor radio, c 1956
Manufacturerd just before the October 1929 Stock Market Crash, this ERLA console was an extremely expensive and elegant set.
Howe very small crystal set, c. 1923
Airline (Montgomery Ward) battery set, c. 1925
Pooley was a major furniture manufacturer who developed a line of cabinets fitted to various radios manufactured by Atwater Kent. This cabinet, c. 1927, was made to hold an AK Model 20 (compact) which sat atop. The left door covered compartment for batteries and the right covered a built-in speaker. The sliding tray provided a paper area to make notes on the dial settings for given radio stations.
Radiola 103 "tapestry" speaker, 1927.
Victor E phonograph, c. 1903
Magnavox Type A 1 tube amplifier with Magnavox A tube
Crosley Playtime Grandmother clock radio 1931
The Connecticut Sodion DR-6 used a propriety "sodion" tube which used sodium in the evacuated bulb. The Sodium S13 and S21 tubes used in the DR-6 were unique and are now quite rare.
