Antique radio receivers retain a significant charm, and though they do not carry huge value today they were often extremely high quality items that would have represented a significant investment for ...

Philco was a common household brand for many years. The company started in 1892, making street lights. Then they pivoted to batteries. This was big business when early radios were all battery-operated ...

Question: Enclosed are photos of a Philco bar and radio Model 510-37-650 and some original glassware that came with it. The barware set is incomplete and I cannot find replacements. Please provide ...

Today’s Historical Treasure from the Vigo County Historical Society Museum is a Philco portable radio from the 1930s. The radio has a wooden case and a beautiful Art Deco dial with the word Transitone ...

Philco's Mystery Control (1939) was a battery-operated radio transmitter, so it didn't have to be in the same room as the radio it was controlling. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has ...

When, in 1927, RCA evolved a new radio tube which needed no storagebattery, Philadelphia Storage Battery Co. (Philco), faced with disaster, decided to make radios itself. Under earnest President James ...