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Tube Portable Radio Gallery
These portable radios use vacuum tubes
instead of transistors. Tube portables are not a recent
innovation. The first portable with built-in
speaker was a 1924 Zenith. Their heyday came
after the development of small tubes with modest
power demands. The
sets shown here date from the late 1940s to
mid-1950s.
See other portables in our TransOceanic
and Transistor galleries.
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Admiral 5F21N |
Arvin 852P |
Emerson 558 |
Emerson 640 |
GE 601 |
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Motorola A1 |
Motorola 5P21N |
Motorola 51M1U |
Motorola 52L1A |
Motorola 55L2 |
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Motorola 69L11 |
Olympic 489 |
Packard Bell 4RB1 |
Philips LX444AB/01 |
RCA 94BP1 |
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RCA BX-57 |
RCA BX-6 |
RCA B-411 |
Schaub-Lorenz 9312 |
Sentinel 312-P |
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Trav-ler 5180 |
Westinghouse H-496P4 |
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