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Carbide Battery Radio from 1930's
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Bigdog,

Sorry to hear of your mother's passing. How great to have heard those stories while you still could.

As you can see from the Philco gallery, there were a lot of radios made for battery power only back then. I wish you luck tracking down one like your mother would have had.

There might have been electric miner's lamps back then, too. Maybe there were some that used a battery like the large, low voltage A battery of a radio.

John Honeycutt


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Carbide Battery Radio from 1930's - by bigdog - 07-01-2007, 05:38 PM
[No subject] - by Raleigh - 07-01-2007, 06:21 PM
Carbide Battery Radios - by bigdog - 07-03-2007, 12:46 PM
[No subject] - by Raleigh - 07-04-2007, 11:36 AM
Carbide Battery Radio - by bigdog - 07-05-2007, 01:39 PM



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