collection including one he
was told could have come
directly from Jack Benny's
studio. Although there is no
way to prove its origin, Mr.
Dorfman does not seem to
mind.
- According to Mr. Dorfman,
',, _a lot of people collect radios,
but his collection is unusual
because he is one of only a
handful of collectors nation-
wide who specialize in early
television.
In fact, Mr. Dorfman has
more vintage televisions
than the Henry Ford Muse-
um in Dearborn.
The Henry Ford Museum's
display consists of about 50
sets, none of which is in
working condition.
Mr. Dorfman estimates his
condo is overflowing with 70
television sets and 30-40
radios.
Some of Mr. Dorfman's
televisions include many of
c, the first models made by
major companies like RCA,
General Electric and Du-
mont. His oldest TV dates to
1946 and was produced by
RCA for only 45 days. He
also has one of the first sets
to be mass produced after
World War II, the 1947 RCA
10-inch table top, which was
for years the standard of the
,--- television industry and sold
for $395.
Some of his others include
a . 1949 set with a three-inch
picture, which he described
as the first television to sell
for less than $100. He also
has the first transistorized
television made in 1959. The
portable originally sold for
$250.
Mr. Dorfman still owns the
first TV set his father
brought home, and he viv-
idly remembers growing up
with television.
"Being a kid of 12 or 13, I
became fascinated by early
TV and it has held my inter-
est ever since then," Mr.
Dorfman said.
Although Mr. Dorfman's
radio collection is not as
large, he does have a signifi-
cant number of vintage
radios.
His oldest is a crystal set
which dates back to 1910.
According to Mr. Dorfman,
crystal radios had to be used
with earphones, so only one
person could listen at a time.
Radio did not become a
mass media until the inven-
tion of the loudspeaker,
which was used in its early
days with an early radio
called the Breadboard. This
allowed more than one per-
son to listen and helped
transform radio into a form
of family entertainment.
Mr. Dorfman's father built
the family's first crystal
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