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Bakelite Radios: A Fully Illustrated Guide For The Bakelite Radio Enthusiast

Author Robert Hawes

Format Hardcover

Publisher Chartwell Books

Category Collecting and Price Guides

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Bakelite Radios begins its story more than 100 years ago, when radio was a scientific toy, soon to be disguised in elaborate cabinets in the late nineteenth-century living rooms as it entered into domestic use. As production techniques developed, manufacturers dreamed of a material that would replace wood with its necessity for assenbly in bits and pieces, staining and polishing. Bakelite was the dream come true: an attractive material to could be made to resemble wood, but had all the properties of the new plastics. Now radio cabinets could be turned out like jello from a mold, and designers and craftsmen had the freedom to turn radio cabinets into an art from their own right.

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Robert Hawes

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Publisher: Chartwell Books
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780785803898

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Bakelite Radios: A Fully Illustrated Guide For The Bakelite Radio Enthusiast

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