Public radio was still relatively new when this Crosley Model 4B came out in 1924 and the company itself had only been making radios for few years.
In the early 1920s, when radio stations were just beginning to spring up around the world, a radio set was an expensive and uncommon item. Something that automotive accessories manufacturer Powel Crosley soon discovered when he went to buy his son a set at the local department story. Appalled by the cost, Crosley instead brought a book on the "ABC of Radio" in the hopes that he and his son could build their own instead. Shortly afterwards Crosley's company, with the help of two University of Cincinnati co-op students, began manufacturing radios.
This particular model, the 4B was released in 1924, four years after Crosley's original Crystal set the "Harko". By the time of the model 4B, Crosley Radio Corporation was the largest radio manufacturer in the world, known to many as the "Henry Ford of Radios"
Specifications
| Type | Radio | |
| Model | 4B | |
| Manufacturer | The Crosley Radio Corporation | |
| Country Manufactured | Cincinnati, United States | |
| Date | 1924 |
