Many people may have iPods and other similar music gadgets on their Christmas lists, but do you remember when you music was a bit less portable?
Harry Wood of Lansdale does.
He submitted this photo, with this narrative:
Before transistors, microchips and all the electronic consumer gadgets we have today, back in 1940 we had devices operated by vacuum tubes.
Pictured is a 1940 Philco console radio. This model could have graced many living rooms.
The radio pictured is still in playing condition.
Philco was famous for quality the world over, with the main factories in the Philadelphia, but also with manufacturing facilities on Church Road, now Station Square, in Lansdale.
They produced vacuum tubes, cathode ray tubes, transistors, auto radios and many other products.