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28/07/2024

Here is why www.worldradiohistory.com exists: Libraries and collections are rapidly disposing of less-used publications. Most go into the dumpster, while some are sold to eBay merchants.

This is the "Dedication Card" from a huge collection of Westinghouse's "Engineer" magazine. An individual who was part of that magazine's crew had his set bound and donated to a library.

Recently, the library sold them to an online reseller. I bought them..

26/07/2024

Wonderful magazine cover art from 1935

04/07/2024

Cover from 1929 RASCO radio parts and supplies catalog. This is a big 114 pages with listings and illustrations of state of the art radio parts and supplies from the late 20's... 1920's of course!

See it athttps://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Early-Radio-Assorted/Rasco-Radio-Parts-1929-Catalog-No-19.pdf

30/06/2024

It apparently took four guys in suits to operate a radio receiver in 1922!

30/06/2024

When a motor oil company ran a radio station (so many early stations were the voice of their owner).

26/06/2024

When you had to insert labels into your radio's push buttons.

26/06/2024

A 1941 picture from the Commercial Appeall newspaper's WMC in Memphis.

26/06/2024

WAPI in Birmingham was one of many stations with a country "jamboree" show on the weekend. Here is the cover from a 1946 booklet (which you can now see at www.WorldRadioHistory.Com in the station albums section

20/06/2024

What place on the planet is 100,000 miles away? (From an eBay listing)

11/06/2024

Ad for a steel company during WW II

06/06/2024

Here is what you get for $250,000 on eBay... that you can get for free on www.WorldRadioHistory.com

04/06/2024

Selling radio sets in the 1920's...

29/05/2024

Early radio log, dial-style. Note that the dial is "high to low" which is unusual.

25/03/2024

Beautiful Art Deco style radio handbook cover from Australia from 1936.

04/03/2024

When a microphone that could cover up to 10,000 cps was a "major improvement" (From Columbus, Ohio "Radio Dial" ember 10, 1931)

27/02/2024

1953: Frank Sinatra and Nelson Riddle in the Capitol Records studio.

26/02/2024

Programming for New York City: 1932

26/02/2024

How to install a car radio: 1932

24/12/2023

WLW's 300 foot towers in 1928! At that time, most stations used a pair of towers with a center-loaded "Flat Top" antenna hung between them.

24/12/2023

Christmas greetings: 1929 from Crosley, the radio manufacturer and opertor of WLW in Cincinnati.

24/12/2023

03/12/2023

A radio technician school's brochure from 1937. Nice Blaw-Knox antenna!

03/12/2023

When radio was truly important!

25/08/2023

Going to NAB in New York

25/08/2023

Going to New York to the NAB:

25/08/2023

We'll be at the NAB in New York:

18/07/2023

From a 1946 WNAX, Yankton, SD booklet: the numbers in each county represent mail to the station from at least 8 states!

The station says, "You will note that the cover consists of a map
of the major portion of the WNAX listening territory
and is composed of Minnesota, Iowa, North
Dakota, South « Dakota, Nebraska, parts of Montana,
Wyoming and Wisconsin. The figures inside
of each county represent the number of letters
which we have received from you and others
of our good friends from within this territory in
1945. Over 560,000 of them!"

18/07/2023

One of my favorite covers from the Westinghouse Engineer magazine Westinghouse Engineer

15/05/2023

What did a complete service of an electronic device cost in 1938? Here is a detailed bill!

05/05/2023

"In the near future you will be buying a radio..." Direct mail piece from almost 100 years ago!