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Carbide Battery Radio from 1930's
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07-04-2007, 11:36 AM
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
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