[NJARC] Car radio history sources wanted

[JOE CRO]

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From: "amagoun" <amagoun at davidsarnoff.org>
To: "NJARC" <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:37 PM
Alex,
       "Radio News" magazine (a Gernsback publication) was also a big 
contributor of articles about auto radio, especially from the time period 
between 1929 and 1930. Have Chris contact me at my email address, and I'll 
be more than glad to share with him the little tidbits of information I know 
on the subject, and perhaps scans of articles in the aforementioned and 
other publications.

Best Regards,
                    Joe Cro N3IBX

PS: Just for fun: Chevrolet offered a sedan model of their 490 series in 
1922 as a car specifically made for picking up radio broadcasts! Their was 
also a Ford turned into a "Radio Flivver" in 1924, that was publicised in a 
issue of "QST" magazine that year.


Subject: [NJARC] Car radio history sources wanted


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> Chris McDonald, an IBM computer engineer turned graduate student of the 
> history of technology at
> Princeton U., is writing a paper on the application of radio to 
> automobiles.  He has visited the
> Library to go through our holdings of RCA Wireless Age, RCA News, and 
> Radio Age from 1929-1950 for
> RCA's take on pioneering the mass installation of automotive radios.
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> If any of you can point him to other text sources on- or off-line, he'd 
> much appreciate it, and you
> can join me in encouraging him to embrace the artifacts as well by joining 
> the NJARC.  Chris's email
> is  cmcdonal at princeton.edu.
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> thanks,
>
> Alex
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