DESIGNER ELECTRONICS
Until the first small, transistorized, portable radio came out of Japan in the 1950s, electronics in America were considered as functional devices by their manufacturers and their users. American post-war mass production aimed at supplying everyone who could afford it with a TV set,
DESIGNER ELECTRONICS
REWIRE YOURSELF
by Richard Robinson
Until the first small, transistorized, portable radio came out of Japan in the 1950s, electronics in America were considered as functional devices by their manufacturers and their users. American post-war mass production aimed at supplying everyone who could afford it with a TV set, a radio, an automatic washing machine, and other miracles of modern convenience. This mass production for mass-consumption equation pretty much ignored the aesthetics involved in the devices being produced. A TV set was a TV set, the screen size, color not black and white picture were the considerations, until, as I said, the Japanese came along.