Collectors are tuning in to novelty transistor radios disguised and designed in a variety of shapes ranging from food to fruit to figures to faces. Some were made in the images of suggestively posed ...

Elegant wood-encased tube radios that look like antique furniture. Plastic-encased transistors that mimic cigarette packs, Coke bottles, measuring tapes and spray cans of WD-40 along with so many ...

Last time we talked about vacuum tube radios from the 1920s and 1930s with cabinets that were designed as furniture or everyday items around the house such as tables or clocks. In this article we will ...

Radio broadcasting started in 1920 with the report by KDKA of Pittsburgh on the Harding-Cox presidential election returns. The first receiving radios were made under an agreement with Howard Armstrong ...

Old and antique radios are fascinating to collect. Many intriguing novelty types do not resemble radios at all but rather some item or object they were made to represent. Some were made to conceal ...