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Bakelite

I am not sure how to fix this, Bakelite is a thermoseting plastic, which means it won't melt! BUT it is Very Brittle. It is also Opaque.

The picture at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Radio_Diora_Pionier_U2_1.jpg actually looks more like bakelite than wood, but I can't tell for sure.

Thermoplastic did sometimes melt. Many of the thermoplastics are semitransparent. cmacd 15:03, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Section on moving iron speakers split off to its own article
References would be good
Replace 1958 radio pic with typical pre-war homemade rad pic.
Perhaps add a few more sylish radio pics dotted around the article
Add (links to) sound recordings of moving iron and inductor dynamic speakers, and perhaps a 20s/30s radio
Not sure whether to split warm up times off
There are various related wiki articles that need reading and interacting with

Recordings

Would be nice to add a recording of some early speakers/sets. Question is what could be played in such a recording without there being a copyright problem?

What is PAT? and HT?

The acronyms PAT and HT appear in this article, but if you click on either of them, there are quite a few things each might mean, and I was not able to figure out which were correct. Note: I am American, and I suspect PAT might be a regional TLA the UK, since words like aerial are also used in the article. Maybe someone who knows what these abbreviations mean can expand them for a wider audience. Thanks! CosineKitty (talk) 02:01, 11 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Can anyone inform me as to the value of a British-Thompson-Houstan crystal set Model c Form a

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 ==What is PAT? and HT?==
 The acronyms [[PAT]] and [[HT]] appear in this article, but if you click on either of them, there are quite a few things each might mean, and I was not able to figure out which were correct.  Note: I am American, and I suspect PAT might be a regional [[Three-letter acronym|TLA]] the UK, since words like ''aerial'' are also used in the article.  Maybe someone who knows what these abbreviations mean can expand them for a wider audience.  Thanks!  [[User:CosineKitty|CosineKitty]] ([[User talk:CosineKitty|talk]]) 02:01, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
+Can anyone inform me as to the value of a British-Thompson-Houstan crystal set Model c Form a