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Radio-Electronics, June 1949, Volume 20, Number 9

Gernsback Publications, Inc. Publisher: Hugo Gernsback, Editor-in-Chief: Hugo Gernsback,

Cover: The Radio Hat, posed by Hope Lange, From Ektachrome original by Avery Slack

The two tube radio receiver cost $7.95 and was manufactured by the American Merri-Lei Corporation of Brooklyn, N.Y. It came in 8 colors; Lipstick Red, Tangerine, Flamingo, Canary Yellow, Chartreuse, Blush Pink, Rose Pink, and Tan. (Think 1949 iPod.) The radio was powered by an external battery pack.

Hugo Gernsback started Radio Craft in 1929. The magazine became Radio-Electronics in 1948 and then Electronics Now in 1992. It was published until December 1999 when it merged with Popular Electronics to become Poptronics.

This 8.75 by 11.25 inch (22 by 29 cm) magazine has 98 pages. The monthly paid circulation was about 177,000

Source: This cover was scanned by User:Swtpc6800 on an Epson Perfection 1240U at 300 ppi with half-tone de-screening enabled and stored as TIFF. The image was touched up in Adobe Photo Elements 3.0 and this copy saved as a 60 pdpi JPEG at Maximum Quality.

Purpose: Use for Radio-Electronics

• This cover shows the title transition from Radio Craft to Radio-Electronics.
• Hugo Gernsback often put photos attractive women on the cover. (The readership was almost all men.)
• The Radio Hat was a popular fad in 1949 and appeared in several other magazines. (Time, March 21, 1949. Popular Science, June 1949. The German journal Funkschau, July 1949.)
• The resolution is minimum necessary to read the significant text on the cover.

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This 1949 issue of Radio Electronics would have to be renewed in 1976. Online page scans of the Catalog of Copyright Entries, published by the US Copyright Office can be found here. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/

The search of the Renewals for Periodicals for 1975, 1976 and 1977 show no renewal entries for Radio Electronics. Gernsback Publications owned Radio Electronics in 1949 and in 1976.

The copyrights for Radio Electronics are held by Poptronix Inc. The copyright holder indicated that Gernsback Publications did not renew the copyrights of pre 1964 issues. A search of the copyright records confirms this.

The copyright on the magazine was not renewed and it is in the public domain.

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