Auditorium set up for the banquet

Lloyd's North Pole & Southern train around the Christmas tree.

Roger VanMaasdam playing the piano

Fred Crews showing speakers, The one on the left has a patent date of 1916 which most experts think is too early for a permanent- magnet cone type speaker.

Lloyd's Musical Erector set which played a short record with sound effects to go with the ferris wheel and locomotives

Jack Woodrum showing a couple of early restored automobile radios.

Jack Woodrum's "Picture Speaker"

Geoff with his English Gecophone radio receiver

Ed Verner with Waters Conley Co. Wind-up portable Phono. It uses a mechanical linkage from the needle to the speaker cone to reproduce the sound and a bellcrank type mechanism to allow the tone arm to raise up and down and to pivot and still transfer the movement to the cone.

Portable Sony tape recorder shown by Ed Verner that used about a dozen "C" and "D" cells to operate.

Dwight Smith showing a GE Model 250 portable radio from the late 40 's. It has been well taken care of and was donated to the Museum by a gentleman he had just met from West Chicago, IL. This was the donor's first radio after graduating from high school.

Dwight Smith showing his 1919 Edison Diamond Disc player Model C-250, "Official Laboratory Model". This was a top of the line model with a larger cone and double spring motor.