Radio News Magazine Dec. 1925

This humorous holiday cover features a construction project by the publisher, Hugo Gernsback, dubbed The Loud-Speaking Christmas Tree. Not surprisingly, the loud-speaking tree consists of a remote speaker in a wooden box. Pretty tame stuff by today's standards, but if you consider how novel radio itself was in those days, this setup might have created quite a sensation at a holiday gathering.

This issue includes the following articles:

• Edison and Radio, by Hugo Gernsback
• New Television Apparatus
• Electrifying Your Phonograph
• The Loud-Speaking Christmas Tree (construction)
• Advancement in Radio, Illustrated
• The Place of Radio in Home Decoration
• Speaking Over the Radio
• Radio For All Ages (pictorial)
• A Christmas Gift of Happiness; Radio Will Make Life Brighter for the Sick and Infirm
• A 14-Tube Receiver (technical)
• Loud-Speakers and Their Characteristics
• The Neutrodyne and its Position in Radio
• Constructing the Shielded Hammarlund-Roberts Receiver (construction)
• How to Build the "Pianorad" (construction)
• An Infradyne Combination Set (construction)
• An Improved "Bass Note" Circuit (construction)
• Magnetic Fields in Vacuum Tubes
• Short-Wave-Receiver Adjustment and Operation

In addition to these feature articles, the magazine included regular columns with titles such as What's New in Radio, Radio Wrinkles, and I Want To Know, later versions of which supplied some of the graphics for this website.