There’s also the Sapper & Zanuso TS502 from 1964, which came in all sorts of bright colors. It’s very art deco and really looks towards the architecture of its time for inspiration. “There’s a wonderful skyscraper radio that dates back to the 1930s. They were tough but they could also be molded, reflecting a modern, streamlined approach to this new technology.”įor Trope, the changes in radio reflect not only advances in technology, but also the times, taking influence from architecture and art, as well as scientific developments. Philco produces the first of its 'Baby grand' designs of radio in the United. I got for my birthday around 1964 a 6 transistor radio that was AM only with like 2 inch speaker.
20 December The Icelandic national broadcasting service Rkistvarpi (RV) begins regular transmissions.
SMALLEST TRANSISTOR RADIOS OF 1930 FULL
But by the 1930s, new materials like plastics really played a part. The country's most powerful medium-wave station to date, it enters full service with programming from Sddeutscher Rundfunk on 20 December 1930. “When they first started they were viewed more in terms of available materials, often in wooden cases, looking back to a historicist style. “Tabletop radios and larger pieces really had to work within interiors, they had to become part of the environment.”Īs times moved on, the look and size of radios changed dramatically with new developments in materials and electronics. Generally, the most collectable and historic transistor radios are those made in Japan from 1956 to 1963 and America from 1955-60. From the offset, the look of a radio was as important as the information they brought into people’s living rooms: “Aside from being just a broadcast system, radio had to have an appeal to the domestic market, because it was used in people’s homes,” says Trope.
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