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HowardMoon
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24/10/2011 12:32 am  

I love the Victoria & Albert Museum, for me it still rates as one of the most unique and interesting of any museum I have visited.

My only criticism is the 20th Century section seems a bit underwhelming. After the grandeur of the lower halls the modern area feels like a bit of an afterthought shoehorned into a forgotten recess.

Anyway, after a recent trip I spotted an object of shear design perfection. Enclosed at the bottom of a glass case sits this 1950's Pye radio designed by Robin Day.

It has a Dieter Rams aesthetic but with an added bit of warmth.

I want one of these.


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Robert Leach
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24/10/2011 1:04 am  

Aren't they Lovely?


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 SDR
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24/10/2011 1:07 am  

European radios
of that era (at least) had a feature rarely if ever seen in American radios: pre-sets, buttons with which to dial in the stations of one's choice -- very much as car radios have always had. I assume modern electronics make this a no-brainer -- but the mechanics are simple enough. I wonder why American consumers didn't insist on this simple essential of radio listening technology. Or am I wrong ?


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Robert Leach
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24/10/2011 1:31 am  

The buttons were
not for channels, but to switch between wavelengths -
AM, FM etc.
I'm too young to remember this of course, this information was passed down from past generations 😉


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fastfwd
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24/10/2011 1:39 am  

SDR
American radios had presets, too. These examples are from 1939, 1940, and 1946:


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