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VINTAGE RADIO WORLD - SUMMARY OF CROWOOD BOOK

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the contents of 'VINTAGE RADIOS (Crowood Collector's Series)' described
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CONTENTS IN BRIEF:

Fully illustrated with hundreds of new colour images and with period advertisements and historic photographs. 

Sections include

How it all began - The 1920s, radio for all - Radio comes of age - A time of austerity - Britain recovers - Into the transistor years - Basic principles - The invention and development of the valve - Loudspeakers - The story behind some famous names - Safety - Obtaining vintage receivers - Collecting radio related equipment and ephemera - External care of vintage radios - American and Canadian receivers - European and imported receivers - plus post script, appendices, index and glossary. 

ALSO features on Who invented radio - Lodge and the mystery of transmission - Art Deco and Modernism - 1930s Germany, the Volksempfanger era - Competition for the BBC - Practical Wireless, the radio hobbyist's favourite magazine - Unusual materials for radio cabinets - The remarkable F.J. Camm -Ekco and Bakelite - How Bakelite cabinets were made - Ekco and the radio designers 

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A full colour hardback book, featuring valve and transistor radios from 1920s-1970s

 

208 packed colour pages, excellent pictures, beautiful presentation and general quality. Just the thing for the armchair enthusiast! Makes a lovely and unusual gift, too. The book is available from this website at £19.95 plus £3.95 p&p IN UK. Overseas orders, please email for postal rate and please note, ONLY PAYMENT BY PAYPAL IS ACCEPTABLE FOR EXTRA-UK ORDERs: WE CANNOT PROCESS NON-BRITISH CHEQUES OR CURRENCY. If ordering by the link above, please ensure that you supply your full postal address and postcode, either by adding it as a message on the Paypal invoice request email or by emailing it separately to us. 

ISBN 978-1-86126-949-2

 

VINTAGE RADIO WORLD