Tuesday, October 2, 2012

All About Radio and Television

Here is the first picture of a foxhole radio I ever saw - from Jack Gould's All About Radio and Television, 1958. It's long since out of print but usually available at Amazon or eBay. It was still in many school libraries when I was a kid and inspired many science fair projects. It was the book that got me started on the foxhole radio project. Mr. Gould was the radio correspondent (later TV and radio) for the NY Times and wrote about these sets during the War. The book was reprinted in dozens of languages so I imagine kids all over the world were building these from the late 50s on. Foxhole radios still occasionally show up in science fairs.

This is the "pop culture" example of a foxhole radio that most folks remember, but there were many more...

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