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Biggest Family Album

Themes

Technology and invention

Entertainment

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Entertainment

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What do you notice about the gramophone and record player in these photographs?

Discuss how they are being used and the reactions of the people listening?

What inventions have replaced these to of listen to music?

Does the new technology change the way we listen to music?

 

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These photographs show types of early radios.

How are these radios different to radios that are made today?

What has replaced the radio as a centre of home entertainment?

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FURTHER INFORMATION: Radio stations were set up in the 1920's and soon became a popular form of home entertainment. Radios were often built to look like pieces of furniture and families gathered around them like families of today gather to watch television. Television did not come to Australia until 1956.

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