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American Ingenuity:

One hundred years before the digital age, electrification was the revolution. Then, America was a mythic Industrial Powerhouse churning out invention and transforming the day-to-day with the outrageous, astounding electrical devices that would make us modern.

The stores of the 1930s were filled with the products of General Electric, Zenith, Hallicrafter,

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