Lewis E. Cearly Jr. of Fort Worth died in October. What he leaves behind is a catalog of amazing old-school gadgetry that'll keep his eBay store in fine trade. Forever.
Graduating from Tech High School in 1942 and serving in the South
Pacific during World War II, Lewis was famous for wiring an entire house at 14 and for Nortex Electronics, a local electronics mainstay since 1976. It's clear from the gallery that there was little Cearly didn't like when it came to machines that beep, ping or blink. There are radios, valves, oscillators, endless trays of transistors and plugs, reel-to-reel tapes and writhing nests of cable. Linear and logarithmic potentiometers, living together — mass hysteria.
It's sad to think it will be sold at all, when this rambling museum of old technology looks like a delight for anyone who's ever loved that which is plugged in.
Nortex Electronics Is Being Reconstituted. Please Stand By. [Bunker of Doom via Boing Boing]
