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| Martello tower (1805) home of Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Howth Martello tower was terminus to first undersea cable to Ireland (1852) & demonstrations in radio transmission by Lee de Forest (1903) & Guglielmo Marconi (1905). Howth, Ireland. | Pat Herbert, founder & collector at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Sample of submarine communication cables with layers to protect wiring from teredo worms at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. |
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| Spark gap (Marconi) transmitter for sending Morse code via radio by F.E. Becker & Co. of London at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Vintage BBC cats whisker crystal radio set with headphones by Brownie Wireless Co. at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Morse Code Wheatstone Automatic Telegraph Receiver (early 1900s) at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company stock certificates (c1920) at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. |
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| Jameson Irish Whiskey special edition bottle marking centenary of Guglielmo Marconi who was great-grandson of founder John Jameson at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Fifty Years of Irish Radio stamps (1976) at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | His Masters Voice plaque at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Round Ekco Radio receiver of short through long waves at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. |
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| Steeletone combo clock radio & lamp at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Art Andia china radio loudspeaker in form of parrot (1927) at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Gram table radio with tree screen at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Floor radios with wood slab holing speaker & tuner on top at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. |
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| American radios with flag atop one with rising sun, ordered off market during WWII at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Disguised Paris Aerial radio behind glamour picture in frame designed for occupied France in hopes that German troops would be distracted by pinup & not look too closely at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Rear of disguised Paris Aerial radio used by French underground in WWII & made in Dublin at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Collection of antique radios at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. |
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| Collection of antique radios at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Collection of antique radios at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Collection of antique radios at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Collection of antique radios at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. |
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| Collection of antique radios at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Art Deco cut glass & chrome round Bluebird Radio (1934) by Walter Dorwin Teague atop rectangular model at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Century Transistor Vista World/Globe AM Radio (1960s) made in Japan at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Radio shaped like rocket blasting off (1960s) at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. |
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| Lamp shaped like rocket at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Talking Lips FM Radio at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Wallace & Gromit table radio at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Homemade radio from Africa using scrap parts at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. |
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| Decca portable windup trench gramophone (1920s) with speaker in lid at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | His Master's Voice gramophones (early 1900s) at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Collection of boxes in which gramophone needles were sold at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Early radios & TV at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. |
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| Pye television (1948) at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Early TVs at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Collection of early radios & TVs at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Collection of early TVs & radios at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. |
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| Jukebox Saturday Night clock on neon sign at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Poster for Pilot Radio features Audrey Hepburn at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Movie poster (1952) for The Quiet Man with John Wayne & Maureen O'Hara at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. | Commemorative plate of General Michael Collins (1922) at Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio. Howth, Ireland. |
