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John Veerkamp, Western Mo

I can give you three answers, but I'll stick to a short one & wave goodbye.

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Dan Donaldson

Wooden speaker cone?

Not counting paper so no 

Not short wave if that's where headed. 

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Gary Smyth

The year was 1927, the maker was Atwater Kent. This was their first and perhaps the first commmercially available from anyone. But RCA, Stromberg-Carlson, and Zenith were there at or near the same time.

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Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

First to have AM and FM?

Tom

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Frederick Nelson

Atwater-Kent was known for their fine-furniture cabinets for their radios. That would suggest this might be one of their first such models.

A better guess would be that it was the first installed in a specific location, such as the White House.

Fred

Clear and sunny in Eastern Missouri

Not yet

Not what I'm looking for but

gary smyth

you are correct with the furniture aspect. They made radios that were meant to be placed prominently in well to do homes. They were expensive even by today's prices.

What made this radio interesting is that it was one of the first that allowed it to be placed with other good furniture. Now figure out why.

Monday answer

Gary Smyth

The answer is that this was the Atwater Kent 36 the first (one of the first?) radio that ran off of AC power. It was released because engineers finally got rid of the 60 cycle hum coming from AC. It was also one of the first that had a single dial for tuning. As mentioned before, RCA, Zenith and Stromberg-Carlson and others all launched similar features in 1927. Before that time, radios ran by way of wet batteries (similar to car batteries) which had a tendency to leak acid all over the floors and rugs. The batteries also had to be pulled out regularly and recharged. As to Tom�s answer, the closest I can find for AM/FM is it didn�t show until 1933 or 34.