Early Radio tag:www.hidden-knowledge.com,2007-10-01:/mkpix.org/blogs/early_radio//6 2008-07-05T22:58:18Z Words and pictures about the early days of Radio: broadcasting; listening; amateur, commercial, and military communication. Movable Type Publishing Platform 4.01 Personal Artifacts of the ARRL tag:www.hidden-knowledge.com,2008:/mkpix.org/blogs/early_radio//6.27 2008-07-05T22:41:40Z 2008-07-05T22:58:18Z Steve Davis, who has sent dozens of cover scans to me for the magazineart.org website, included a duplicate with a note that it was signed by, and apparently belonged to, F. E. Handy, one of the early big cheeses of... Mike
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He's selling it now on eBay, and currently it's fairly cheap; but the auction ends soon. ]]> Poulsen Arc Radiophone Transmitter tag:www.hidden-knowledge.com,2007:/mkpix.org/blogs/early_radio//6.23 2007-12-31T20:28:33Z 2007-12-31T20:36:51Z Mike Another image from Goldsmith's 1918 book.  DanishPoulsenArcRadiophone.jpg
You can buy a copy of the Goldsmith book for yourself.

]]> Two Guides for Radio Constructors, Circa 1925 tag:www.hidden-knowledge.com,2007:/mkpix.org/blogs/early_radio//6.19 2007-11-30T20:22:56Z 2007-11-30T20:30:16Z From Steve Davis, photoshopped for clarity:... Mike
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]]> Some Extremely Early Radio tag:www.hidden-knowledge.com,2007:/mkpix.org/blogs/early_radio//6.14 2007-10-23T03:51:50Z 2007-10-23T03:55:05Z From Alfred N. Goldsmith, "Radio Telephony" (Wireless Press; 1918). It's the "Berliner-Poulsen 3KW Arc Radiophone Station." Click for larger.... Mike p032-Berliner-Poulsen-3kwAr.jpg

From Alfred N. Goldsmith, "Radio Telephony" (Wireless Press; 1918). It's the "Berliner-Poulsen 3KW Arc Radiophone Station." Click for larger.]]> Hugo Gernsback and the Electro Importing Company tag:www.hidden-knowledge.com,2007:/mkpix.org/blogs/early_radio//6.13 2007-10-06T01:04:30Z 2007-10-06T01:11:55Z A recent immigrant from Luxembourg, Hugo Gernsbacher started a company to import European electrical and radio parts to sell to American enthusiasts. Soon he found himself publishing not just a catalog, but a magazine called MODERN ELECTRICS. Not surprisingly, EIC... Mike
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ElectroImportingAd-ModernElectrics1910-04p2.jpg]]> The World Changed tag:www.hidden-knowledge.com,2007:/mkpix.org/blogs/early_radio//6.12 2007-10-02T18:02:33Z 2007-11-30T22:25:43Z When radio became popular in the middle of the 1920's, the world changed. Staid marketers like Sears, Roebuck latched onto the new trend and remade themselves as the foremost purveyors of the new fad. Have your teenaged friends over for... Mike When radio became popular in the middle of the 1920's, the world changed. Staid marketers like Sears, Roebuck latched onto the new trend and remade themselves as the foremost purveyors of the new fad.


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Have your teenaged friends over for a dance party, right in your own living room! Mom will feed the hungry crowd, and Dad will try to read his newspaper, but won't be able to resist tapping his toe to the music.
 
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Special thanks to Radio material collector Steve Davis, for these images from his collection. [We Photoshopped them a bit to restore them to their original state.] Steve adds, "This Sears catalog was the first Sears radio-specific catalog, family and socially oriented. Earlier catalogs were electrical appliance catalogs, with radios in them." For more Radio material, try the MagazineArt.org site.



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