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Atwater Kent Model 82, 1931. 7 tubes, super-heterodyne.  

Atwater Kent initially started manufacturing combustible engine ignition systems and parlayed that economic success into radio manufacturing.  Kent built his first radio devices in 1921.  Through the 1920's Atwater Kent brought us the breadboards and the wooden and metal box sets.  Before the Ford Motor Company used the slogan decades later, "Quality  is Job 1," Atwater Kent practiced this belief with every radio that he made.  Kent was so discouraged with the trend in the mid 1930's to reduce the price of radio sets by reducing quality, he would rather close his factory than produce an inferior product not up to Atwater Kent standards.  He shut the doors of the Philadelphia factory in 1936!