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Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007

Here is an Romanian battery powered tubed radio from the '50's: http://www.proradioantic.ro/index.php?x=item&id_p=506
An here is something intresting: a thermogerator for tube radios: 1,4 V for the filament and 90 V for the plate.
I don't think that in Romania where ever manufactured portable tube radios. But the Soviets made. On the links are 2 radios that can be battery operated and also A.C. operated:
http://www.proradioantic.ro/index.php?x=item&id_p=6234
http://www.proradioantic.ro/index.php?x=item&id_p=6611
http://www.proradioantic.ro/index.php?x=item&id_p=5923
B.t.w., I thought that by 1940 all areas in the U.S.A. where electrified!

Nice links, very interesting. Regarding your last comments, a number
of areas in North America are electrified in principle, but the cost
for adding the few missing kilometers of power line may be too high
for some home owners to afford. So I guess several thousand people
are living in modern houses, but have to make their electricity
themselves. Regards.