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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 tony 'at' vintageradioworld.co.uk (replace the 'at' with @)
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Click HERE to inspect sample pages Click HERE for a convenient order form A full colour hardback book, featuring valve and transistor radios from 1920s-1970s
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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
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