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| Fig. 301 -The living room has now a
new type of furniture: the radio receiver. |
In the later twenties radio communications either by telegraphy
or radiotelephony was consolidated. From early experimental
wireless transmissions, both by amateurs and commercial, requiring
a lot of technical knowledge, soon radio became a popular
attraction and so it gave birth to radio broadcasting.
While the piano, the phonograph or even a cuddly rocking chair
for a pleasant book reading were the furniture pieces of a
yesteryear living-room, the radio receiver enters home, becoming
now either an important piece of ornamentation as well as
for entertainment, shrinking the outside world just by a flick
of a switch. Fig 301
As aforementioned in chapter 3, the evolution of radio receiver
was commented in a generical way, considering basically its
circuit concept.
Therefore, around 1930, radio reached the point it became
part of everyday life and quickly a booming industry, requiring
the research and the development of advanced components, materials,
manufacturing technique, and finally the industrial design,
responsible for this new type of home appliance electro-mechnical
constructive trends.
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