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Rail passengers listening to the radio through personal headphones, 1930 (lemmy.world)
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[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Those look like unpowered crystal radios on the top of the seats.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio

[–] Bondrewd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Holy fucking shit. Wirelessly powered stuff you actually use was a thing over a 100 years ago?

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

In the back the waiter is going around offering people phone books for some reason.

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

"Geeet your free phone books here! Keep those numbers ready for later! Geeet your free phone books here!"

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Sears catalogues or something like it.

[–] reflex@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

The future!