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I make reproduction batteries for tube and transistor portable radios, and I just have finished next year's cover. Girl and hand are originally from a 1949 Ginger Ale advertisement. Had a fun time melding those fingers around that B battery. I'll throw in a few other pages if anyone's interested.

I've had many of these little RCA radios come and go in my collection, but this one's a keeper. This is one of the first "personal" radios, smallest that anyone could build at the time. It's also one of the first to use miniature tubes. Here's what arrived in the mail: Original 1940 vintage...

I build replica batteries for old portable radios, and while scanning through a 1946 Philco battery catalog, I found this item. Freezers had built-in power-outage alarms back then? Bill

Just saw the thread in the archives section. And I'm not sure if I posted this in the right section--technically it uses old parts, but the computer-controlled interface could put it in the modern category. I was just thinking--wouldn't it be great to add a touch-screen interface and mount it...