{"id":29223,"date":"2017-11-18T06:53:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T10:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=29223"},"modified":"2017-11-18T06:53:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T10:53:04","slug":"new-crosley-exhibit-at-voa-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/new-crosley-exhibit-at-voa-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"New Crosley Exhibit at VOA Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dave, who shares this article by John Kieswetter at WVXU<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Maybe you have one of those refrigerators with a TV screen built into the door\u2026 Or you like reading news stories from TV\/radio stations on your tablet or phone\u2026<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Well, WLW-AM founder and Cincinnati industrialist Powel Crosley Jr. was way ahead of you. W-A-Y ahead of you.<\/p>\n

Just look around at the new Powel Crosley Jr. exhibit some weekend at the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting on Tylersville Road in West Chester Township. (For the first time, the museum is open 1-4 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday, instead of just once a month.)<\/p>\n

In the late 1930s \u2013 80 years ago, before the advent of television \u2013 Crosley manufactured Shelvador refrigerators with an AM radio in the door. His Shelvador was unique too \u2013 he bought the patent to have the only refrigerator with shelves on the door for years. The VOA has a Model No. 1 Shelvador which needs to be restored before put in the display.<\/p>\n

In 1939, Crosley marketed the “Reado,” essentially a home facsimile machine that printed out news, weather and sports on a scroll about the width of toilet paper.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Continue reading the full article at WVXU.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave, who shares this article by John Kieswetter at WVXU: Maybe you have one of those refrigerators with a TV screen built into the door\u2026 Or you like reading news stories from TV\/radio stations on your tablet or phone\u2026 Well, WLW-AM founder and Cincinnati industrialist Powel Crosley Jr. was 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