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Title
Clock radio invention
Alternative Title
Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
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Description
A Clok-Trola, an early form of clock radio. The radio was set with switches around the dial, each of which turned on the radio for 20 minutes. In this view the setting is a chicken coop. Apparently the radio was set to go on at feeding time.
Type
Image
Format
2 photographs :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00047404
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Technology-Inventions.; N-003-154 4x5
CARL0000051279
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/102676
Subject
Inventions--California--Los Angeles
Clock radios--California--Los Angeles
Radio--Receivers and reception
Electric apparatus and appliances--California--Los Angeles
Chickens--Housing--California--Los Angeles
Poultry--California--Los Angeles

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