They say necessity is the mother of invention. Nothing proves this more than the story of how the iconic Zenith Trans-Oceanic portable radio receiver came into existence. Commander Eugene McDonald ...

The Zenith Z-1000 Stratosphere was Zeniths top of the line and marketed as a rich man’s radio. It sold for $750, which was higher than the average price of a new car in the mid 1930s. The Stratosphere ...

The meaning of the word portable has changed a bit over the years. These days something has to be pretty tiny to be considered truly portable, but in the 1940s, anything with a handle on it that you ...

Ask any Mount Prospect long-timer and one of the most universal local memories they have is of the pair of Zenith radio towers that once stood at the corner of Central and Rand roads. Constructed in ...