Before the second world war Radio was a revolution in mass-communication much like the internet today. Fortunes were made and lost, empires built, epic patent battles ensued, all of which resulted in ...

When he was growing up in the 1950s, the Pasadena appliance store owned by Mark Hilbert’s parents was the first in town to carry the RCA transistor radio. It was Hilbert’s job to unpack the radios, ...

The Zenith Z-1000 Stratosphere was Zeniths top of the line and marketed as a rich man’s radio. It sold for $750, which was higher than the average price of a new car in the mid 1930s. The Stratosphere ...