Radio Collection (#10)

How wireless beacons guide ships in the fog
The Marconi invention can determine distance of the ship from the beacon to steer the vessel into a Harbour during foggy weather

Radio equipment at Baden Powell House, London
Demonstration of radio equipment at Baden Powell House, South Kensington, London. The building was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1961. Date: circa 1960s

Film, wireless and gramophone in the home by G. H. Davis
Talkies a self-contained cinema, gramophone and radio-set for household use, mechanism of synchrophone. Date: 1931

Bonzo finds the bedtime story too much for him
Bonzo finds the bedtime story on the radio too much for him, and he bursts out crying. Date: 1923

Man listening to a radio
Man sitting in an armchair, listening to a large radio. Date: circa 1930s

RAF observer with wireless transmitter, WW1
An RAF observer with a wireless transmitter which allows him to keep in touch with British guns, on the Western Front in France during World War One. Date: circa 1918

Wireless cabin on a Zeppelin by G. H. Davis
How the night raiders talk -- the wireless cabin on a Zeppelin airship. Date: 1915

Britains acoustic shell by G. H. Davis
The acoustic shell: Britains ace killer of flying bombs during the Second World War. The British-invented radio proximity shell, which explodes itself when in lethal range of its target. 1945

Fuel for domestic appliances by G. H. Davis
Your fuel target: details that will help in planning economy during the Second World War, so that fuel rationing can be avoided

How wireless waves guide aeroplanes during bad visibility
Method of directing the pilots of aircraft flying to and from Croydon has been revolutioned by the Marconi directional visual beacon station erected at croydon. WWII

Bonzo gets the surprise of his life by George Studdy
Bonzo gets the surprise of his life -- Bonzo introduces himself to Radio Rex, the electric toy consisting of a dog who jumps abruptly from his kennel in response to any sharp sound acting on his

Bebe Daniels, American performer, writer and producer
Bebe Daniels (1901-1971), American film actress, singer, dancer, writer and producer. She began as a child performer in the Hollywood silent era, appeared in musicals

Hollywood Boulvevard - Hollywood, California, USA. Date: circa 1940

Tom Breneman, Radio Star and his family
Tom Breneman (1901-1948) - popular radio star and presenter of the show Breakfast in Hollywood - pictured with his family outside their Encino home. Date: circa 1945

Tom Breneman talking to Eddie Cantor - Radio Show
Tom Breneman (1901-1948) talking to Eddie Cantor (1892-1964) (American " illustrated song" performer, comedian, dancer, singer)

Tom Breneman with eldest guest to his radio show
Tom Breneman (1901-1948) presents a gift to the eldest guest featured during his popular radio show Breakfast in Hollywood, 105 1/2-year old Miss Sarah Van Dyke of Sacremento, California, USA

Tom Brenemans Restaurant, Hollywood, USA
Tom Brenemans Restaurant, located on Selma and Vine Street off Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, California, USA - opposite Radio City

Landing aircraft in fog by G. H. Davis
The dot and dash radio beam system of landing aircraft in fog: a method which prevented many accidents during the Second World War. Date: 1945

Tank manoeuvres controlled by radio-telephony by G. H. Davis
Annotated illustration showing a company-commander broadcasting his orders to his section-commanders by wireless. The tank in the foreground is seen cut away diagrammatically to show the driver

Jeek the puppy howls along to the radio
Jeek the mongrel puppy howls along to the radio on Christmas Day. Date: 1940

Advert for Pye Portable Radio 1930
Pye Portable Radio... what a world of difference that one word makes. Ask your radio dealer. He will tell you of the magnificent reputation of the Pye Portable

King George V broadcasting to the nation
King George V (1865 - 1936), pictured making notes at his desk, while waiting to make a wireless broadcast to the Empire. Date: 1935

Russian Wartime Mobile Radio Station
A Mobile radio station used by the Russians during the Russo-Japanese War (8 February 1904 5 September 1905). Date: circa 1904

CBS and NBC, Radio City, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, USA
CBS and NBC buildings, Radio City, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, California, USA. Date: circa 1930s

Radio Center, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, USA
Radio Center, Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, California, USA. Date: 20th century

Sunset and Vine Streets, Hollywood, California, USA. Date: 20th century

People in and around the Graf Zeppelin airship
People in and around the German Graf Zeppelin airship. Seen here is a close-up of the radio room window

Man and woman with radio equipment
A man and a woman sit with radio equipment, including earphones, clearly enjoying what they are hearing

Silent radio telephony on the battlefront 1943
Using a throat microphone and wireless silent speech transmitter, the soldier on patrol can report instructions back to base from under the noses of the enemy. Date: 1943

Amateur wireless hobbyists
Two amateur wireless hobbyists listening on their headphones

An advertisement for G. E. C. radios
A colour advertisement for a BC5442 G. C. E. radio. Date: 19th December 1951

Up the Bole! by William Heath Robinson
Curious disguise assumed by wireless enthusiast to escape payment of his licence. Please note: Credit must appear as Courtesy of the estate of Mrs J.C.Robinson/Pollinger Ltd/ILN/Mary Evans Date: 1925

RADIO RIO
Senor Bittencourt, the announcer of the radio station of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, greets his listeners each morning. accompanied by his handsome guitarists. Date: 1930s

Indonesian Radio
A broadcast from a wireless station in Bandoeng, Java, Indonesia. Date: 1930s

Advert for Burndept - Ethodyne wireless 1925
Ethodyne wireless reception, double doors open front, with slight adjustments of only two dials, the Ethodyne enables you to listen to station after station, both British and continental

Alex. Stef. Popoff
ALEXANDER STEFANOVICH POPOFF Russian physicist and electrical engineer, credited by the Russians with inventing radio, though others disagree. Date: 1859 - 1906

John Hays Hammond Jnr
JOHN HAYS HAMMOND American inventor of radio- controlled torpedoes and other useful weapons of mass destruction. Son of engineer of the same name. Date: 1888 - 1965

Radio-controlled model sailplane designed and built by t?
Radio-controlled model sailplane designed and built by the Low Speed Aerodynamics Research Association at the 1952 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at White Waltham Aerodeome on 15 June

Advertisement for Expanded Fittings furniture -- female model (Geraldine Hill) posing. 1959

Chicago, USA - Looking North on Michigan Boulevard, showing Michigan Boulevard Bridge and some of the tallest buildings in the city at this period

WW2 - Comic Postcard - Listening to Winston Churchill
Churchill: " We Shall never stop, never weary, and never give in." Old Lady to her military officer son/Grandson

Comic Postcard - Housewives Choice! A queue of young ladies excitedly wait their turn to meet their new pop music idol at the stage door. Date: circa 1950s

Lionel Barrymore - American Actor
Lionel Barrymore (1878-1954) - American Actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. Awarded an Oscar for his performance in A Free Soul (1931). Date: 1935

Young boy posing in his Christmas Martian Space Outfit
Young boy posing in his Christmas " Martian Space Outfit", complete with walkie talkie radio. Date: early 1950s

Soviet QSL card - plaque on Venus
A commemorative card from a Soviet Radio Station (a QSL card) commemorating the sending of a plaque bearing a portrait of Lenin to the Planet Venus

Leroy Randle Grumman (right), 1895-1982, co-founder and President of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, shows a group of radio commentators a scale model of a Grumman Wildcat fighter

Radio room aboard the Graf Zeppelin LZ 127
Radio room aboard the Graf Zeppelin, LZ 127

Handley Page Halifax VI RG815 Mercury
Handley Page Halifax VI, RG815, Mercury of the RAF Empire Radio School. September 1946. Date: 1946

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