#1937 RCA VICTOR RADIO PORTABLE#

After appropriating corporate radio patents to support the war effort, the US Departments of War and Navy sought to maintain state control of the radio industry in its aftermath. After the British cut or diverted GermanyвЂ™s submarine telegraph lines, wireless radio traffic increased exponentially on both sides of the front, becoming an important medium for relaying both strategic military messages and civilian news and entertainment. Although radio technology had been in development since the late nineteenth century, it wasnвЂ™t until World War I that it became an essential tool for communication. Vassos was also a key figure in the professionalization of industrial design in the early twentieth century he was a founding member of the Industrial Design Society of America in 1965 and served as its first Chairman of the Board.ДЄs the emergent field of industrial design was coming into its own, so, too, was the radio industry.

#1937 RCA VICTOR RADIO PORTABLE#

During his subsequent forty-three year tenure there he designed the firmвЂ™s first commercial television set, a solid state computer, and even an electron microscope in addition to an array of listening devices such as the RCA Victor Special portable phonograph. Perhaps his greatest legacy lies in the products he designed for the Radio Corporation of America after establishing its first in-house design department in 1933. Born in Romania, Vassos immigrated to Turkey and then to America, where he developed a diverse range of products including accordions, turnstiles, and shotguns.

Williams while its case and overall aesthetic were conceived by the prolific graphic and industrial designer John Vassos. This portable phonographвЂ™s mechanism was engineered by Alfred Weiland and Selden T. This sleek icon of American design embodies the simultaneous rise of listening technology and the streamline moderne style in the 1930s.

1937 rca victor radio