Thank you to the San Jose Mercury News for this wonderful link--to a 1930s newspaper ad promoting a set of National Union Radio Tubes as a gift for the whole family. Over on Vintage Ad Browser, I also liked the 1968 ministereo and the 1977 Tummy Television--remarkably prescient; it looks like how my family watches TV today on a laptop.
Tekla S. Perry is a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., she's been covering the people, companies, and technology that make Silicon Valley a special place for more than 40 years. An IEEE member, she holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Michigan State University.
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