When times are tight and business is bad, people have to get creative just to get by. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, people developed ways to repair, reuse, and stretch what they had to avoid buying new things that they couldn't afford. This affected businesses, which had to look in new directions to stay afloat. Have you ever wondered how cars started offering radios as a standard feature? It wasn't because the public asked for them; it was because people stopped buying radios for their homes. Paul and Joseph Galvin had a radio parts business that suffered from the economic downturn, so Paul decided to concentrate on putting radios in cars. That meant they had to design a radio small and lightweight enough to install in a motor vehicle. A promotional tour was so successful they renamed their business after the car radio, becoming Motorola.
Read that story and those of four other inventions that were born of the deprivations of the Great Depression at History Facts.
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shoutout to the car cd player, i know new vehicles dont have them but it was so awesome in the 90s and 2000s, just bring a cd binder around with you with 200 cds and youre all set for a great night with your friends
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