One enjoyable way to pass a little time is to flip through vintage periodicals. Each page is a window into the past that allows you to see how people lived.
This ad shows a radio phonograph selling for $81.88. That was a lot of money for the time. You couldn't buy anything like this made today at any price.
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1922 ad for a radio hand microphone |
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1923 Morkrum lightweight keyboard control designed for transmitting radio teletype from an airplane |
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1923 Magnavox Radio Ad |
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1925 Western Electric Speaker Ad |
Good DX and 73,
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