This advertisement appeared in Life Magazine 75 years ago today, March 18, 1940.

It features the General Electric model HJ-1205 console, a twelve-tube model including a tuning eye tube. It features three bands, standard broadcast and two short wave bands, 2.3-7 and 7-22 MHz. It also have eight pushbuttons which can be preset to broadcast stations. The promised “golden tone” is delivered by dual speakers, the larger of which is 12 inches. Pictures of a nicely restored specimen can be found at the Radio Attic Archives.  More pictures and a schematic can be found at RadioMuseum.org.

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