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This was fascinating, to this major nerd anyway. Imagine buying a radio receiver with 30 tubes, an 18" woofer, dual 12" woofers for the low-low price of $1500 in 1936?
Very impressive, especially for the time, I wonder if there are any left?
The 30s were a great decade for innovation: radar, television, tape recording and the helicopter, to name but a few inventions, all came from that period.
You were the neighborhood chick magnet if you had that in your parlor! I read that if a cell phone were constructed with tubes it would be the size of the Washington Monument.
At Pete's suggestion, I am adding this photo of a speaker system built by Harry Olson (in the 50's I presume) as seen at InDIYana 2018, another quest for the best. It was a 15" coaxial in a unique enclosure, as you can see.
You were the neighborhood chick magnet if you had that in your parlor! I read that if a cell phone were constructed with tubes it would be the size of the Washington Monument.
And work about 5 minutes before another tube needed replacing lol.
And work about 5 minutes before another tube needed replacing lol.
My dad bought a Zenith table radio in the late 1950s. It is stuck on KMOX (1120 AM) as the tuner mechanism crumbled over time. But turn it on and wait a few minutes, and you can still listen to Cardinal Baseball as they chase another pennant.
My dad bought a Zenith table radio in the late 1950s. It is stuck on KMOX (1120 AM) as the tuner mechanism crumbled over time. But turn it on and wait a few minutes, and you can still listen to Cardinal Baseball as they chase another pennant.
Still has the original tubes.
Some last a while, some don't. But one of the biggest headaches with early tube computers was the constant tube replacement.
Obviously that didn't work. I got a message that said the file was corrupted, so I 'll have to try another way of getting it here. I am at work, and that constricts me some. Maybe this evening if I get to it.
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