What is an antique radio?

Antique radio is a technological relic from the first years of the design of the radio receiver. They are highly collectible and usually include vacuum pipe designs, made before World War II and transistor models made before 1959. However, these criteria differ from collectors to collectors.

Radio operates by sending electromagnetic waves that are accepted as a signal. Two types of antique radio receivers are vacuum tubes and transistors. The vacuum tube radio uses tubes to create an electrical signal and to amplify the sound. In the mid -1950s, they were replaced by transistor radios, which were cheaper and, generally speaking, more reliable.

In the 1920s, there were few commercial radios available, and many turned to create their own home radio. Antique radio from this period is likely to be home. Crystal radio was a popular version, one of the simplest assembly and required only a few simplyChých parts. During World War II, Foxholradia, which was illegally from any available materials, has gained popularity.

After the radio was firmly established as one of the primary sources of information and home entertainment, commercial radios were available for almost any budget. The rich could afford to buy a large wooden console. This antique radio, designed as large and flashy, doubled as a piece of furniture at the end of the 1930s and 1940s.

individuals with limited budget and household space could buy the highest radio tables. They were smaller than the radios of the consoles and were usually placed on top of other pieces of furniture or inside. The regular form of the table was wider than it was tall, and the listener could move the radio from room to room. One table top radio, called tombstone, was higher than wide and resembled the shape of the tombstone. Top Top Top Radio -Like KThe attraction is characterized by its rounded peak.

early forms of plastic such as bakelite were used in the design of radio and forming in the 30s and 40s of the 20th century. Incorporating the plastic into the radio structure was slightly simpler and cheaper than the use of wood or metal. Thermoplasty, which was introduced in the 1950s, helped create smaller and more affordable radios. This material could be slightly colored, look semitransparent and be formed with greater ease, allowing more complex patterns.

While vacuum radios provided the population a reasonable and available access to radio, they had some disadvantages. Vacuum radios took a long time to warm up, lacked portability outside the household and became unreliable if it was slightly damaged. Transistor radios were invented in 1949 and introduced to the public in 1954. These radios use the transistor instead of vacuum tubes for amplification and supply of electrical signal. Transistor radio offered portability, reliability and immediate PRiver to the radio.

Transistor radios are less sought by antique radio collectors. The discovery of the antique vacuum tube radio in the work condition or on the one can be repaired by the work condition is much more rare and more valuable. Many also prefer the sound produced by high -quality vacuum tube radio.