Goblin ‘Time-Spot’ Receiver

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Goblin Time-Spot receiver

Manufacturer	Goblin
Production years	1947
Production location	(unknown)

Goblin Time-Spot receiver, 1947

Claimed to be the first available commercial radio alarm clock, from the makers of the Goblin Teasmade.

1 How it works
2 Memories
3 In the Science Museum
4 Images

[edit] How it works

The clock has a third hand, which is set for the time you want the radio to come on. When the clock reaches the preset time it connects the radio to electricity and the radio comes on, waking up the sleeping owner.

[edit] Memories

Do you remember this alarm clock radio? Add your memories.

I remember this radio with great affection. It was our family radio when I was a boy and through the mid 1950s to the 60s provided access to the wonderful world of the imagination that was radio. Of course we had this radio before Television. On Saturday mornings my brother and I used to sit in our dressing gowns, quite cold because a fire hadn't been lit at that time of the day, listening to Uncle Mac's Children's Favourites. My dad was a great lover of sports who had stopped playing and the Goblin used pull in the sound of sports commentaries through long grey autumn and winter afternoons. Sometimes Dad would stay up late to listen to a fading commentary of a boxing match taking place in the USA. Rocky Marciano? Sunday lunchtimes, while dinner was being finalised, the atmosphere was completed by a radio comedy show. Radio was magic as we grew up in those days.

— Geoff Clarke

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