December 1931 QST
 Table
of Contents
Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics. See articles
from
QST, published December 1915 - present (visit ARRL
for info). All copyrights hereby acknowledged.
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Leeds, which dubbed itself "The Home of Radio,"
has been in New York since at least 1923. This advertisement appeared in the
December 1931 edition of QST magazine. Leeds is still in operation today
in Brooklyn under the name of Leeds Radio. They were one of the original "Radio
Row" companies. Looking at the ad is a step back ninety years into the past,
but the nostalgic waxing does not have to end there. If you want a trip back to
the beginning days of the World Wide Web, go to the current
Leeds Radio website. It's format-less
text presentation with basic hyperlinks is circa 1992 when bulletin boards ruled
the day and the Mosaic browser was just giving web surfers their first taste of
a GUI. The only images I found on the Leeds website were a few scans of
old advertisements similar
to the one shown below.
A Leeds Radio employee contacted me and provided a web page with links to some
of their vintage ads
in QST. The pages below are not in that list, so you are still getting a little
new material here as well. Leeds Radio also has a page with a couple
technical papers.
While their original website is now just a handful of text-based pages,
Leeds Radio does
have an Etsy site. The tag line is "Radio Row Is Alive."
Leeds Advertisement
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Leeds Advertisement
December 1931
QST Magazine (page
1)
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Leeds Advertisement
December 1931
QST Magazine (page
2)
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Posted June 9, 2023
(updated from original post
on 10/26/2012)
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