Woman lying on big radio at convention 1923

A model, Rosalie Deneve, lying on top of a large mock-up of a radio receiver at a 1923 radio convention. Exhibit by Adams-Morgan Co.promoting their Paragon line of receivers at the 3rd Annual Convention of the 2nd Radio District, held at Hotel Pennsylvania, New York City, March 1-3, 1923. Radio broadcasting sprang up spontaneously in the US in 1920, igniting a "radio craze" among a Roaring 20s public fascinated by this new high-tech entertainment. The first commercial vacuum tube receivers like this one came out in 1920, made possible by a market-sharing and patent cross-licensing agreement brokered in 1919 by the US government between corporate giants Westinghouse, General Electric, AT&T, United Fruit, and RCA. Tuned radio frequency (TRF) receivers like this had multiple tuned circuits (two big knobs, center) which had to be tuned in tandem to bring in a station. Caption:"Rosalie Deneve, of New York, listening in on the huge Paragon set at the Second Annual Convention.

Date

1923-03-03

Photographer / author

Picture credit to Underwood and Underwood

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

image

Original size

1,213 × 937 pixels

Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 159296.