Heavy and clumsy looking, but this makes for a really exciting collectable.
"Handie talkie", 1945
-click to enlarge-
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Portable communicator
Motorola these days is associated with cellular phones and funky tablets; but they have a long history at building gadgets: they invented car radios in the 1930's and they also invented the earliest personal communication devices: the hand-held "Handie-Talkie", during World War 2.
Heavy and clumsy looking, but this makes for a really exciting collectable.
"Handie talkie", 1945
-click to enlarge-
Heavy and clumsy looking, but this makes for a really exciting collectable.
"Handie talkie", 1945
-click to enlarge-
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