Moving the Mail

A WPA mural by Harry Sternberg

1937

via x-ray delta one @ Flickr

Phone on the Wall

General purpose device

Fabrica Apparecchiature per Communicazioni
Italy, 1930s

Source: Telmuseum

Speak Louder!

Berlin Radio Exhibition, 1929

Bundesarchiv

It's Faster by Air

By DecoEchoes @ DeviantArt

O What a Valve!

Communications Exhibition

Berlin 1930

Source: Bundesarchiv

No Logo

A very striking advert for Philips of Eindhoven, issued for the Swiss market in the 1930s. Unusually neither the sets nor the advert use the famous Philips 'wavy line' logo. The design, using photo montage elements, is very of its period.

Image and text: mikeyashworth @ Flickr

Anti-War Stamps

Two stamps of the "Anti-War Series" issued in January 1935 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of WWI.

Designer: I. Ganf

Steam vs. Electricity

A stamp commemorating the Italian Railways Centennial

1939

The electric train is ETR 200. Read about it on Dieselpunks.org

Contact With the World

Public Relations Department poster

Artist: E. MacKnight Kauffer

1934

Source: British Postal Museum & Archive @ Flickr

Deco Stamps

Soviet 'World Spartakiade' series, 1935

Artist: VV Zavyalov

The World Spartakiade games, intended to be a 'proletarian' answer to the 'bourgeois' Olympics, were canceled.

St(r)eamline Stamp

Read about the one and only SNCF Royal Pacific on Dieselpunks.org

Alaska Mail Truck

1936

Super-Groom

Radialva Super-Groom radio

ca. 1939

• super heterodyne receiver (IF = 472 kHz)
• tube line-up: 6E8G, 6K7, 6Q7, 25L6 and 25Z6
• 3 wavebands: LW (800-2000 m), MW (185-590 m) and SW (15-52 m)
• power: DC/AC
• dimensions: 27.3 x 18.0 x 17.0 cm

Info: Oldradios

Image: Planet Antique Radio

Telefunken Radio

1935

Pulse Dialer

The Amtsanschließer 33 was used to connect an army field telephone to the 'conventional' network.

It could also serve as an independent telephone set.

 And it can be still used today, with the networks where Pulse Dialing is enabled.

Source: LA6NCA German WW2 Radio Collection

Mirror TV

Telefunken FE-VI

1938

Bakelite Streamliner

Radio Phonola Modello 547 

Designers: Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Livio e Pier Giacomo Castiglioni

1940

De Agostini Picture Library

via sapere.it

Radio Age

British field wireless station, WWI

See "Before It All Began" (NEW!) @ Dieselpunk Encyclopedia

Black, White, Black

Ericsson telephone model DBH 1001, 1932

This bakelite telephone was designed by Jean Heiberg between 1930 and 1932 for Ericsson in Sweden. It was redesigned later to smoother lines, as can be seen below.

Ericsson telephone model DBH15, 1947

Designed in Sweden in 1947, attributed to Gerard Kiljan. These specimens were made in Brazil in the 1960s. The cream one is made of Plaskon (Urea Formaldehyde) and the black is Bakelite (Phenol Formaldehyde), two of the noblest plastics.

Photos by by galessa's plastics @ Flickr

Radio, Sweet Radio

This streamline/deco radio set was manufactured by Telefunken Radiotécnica Ibérica, Spain, since 1954. Its name was Cariño U1465. In Spanish, cariño means "sweety".

Specs @ Radiomuseum

Photo by GonchoA @ Flickr