Great brands
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In Eindhoven (Nederland), Gerard Philips opens his company in 1891, to produce charcoal filaments to bulb lamps. In 1918 Philips starts the tube production, Miniwatt.
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Philco, Philadelphia Storage Battery Company, was founded in 1892, as Spencer Company, also a carbon filament producer to Edison bulb lamps. In the 1930s, Philco produced radios in a cathedral shape and the phonograph, the Victrolas, in a partnership with RCA Victor.
Telefunken was created in Berlim (1903) from the association of two big companies, Siemens and AEG, to produce wireless telephones, appellation still given to radio phenomena.
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Zenith Radio Company started in Chicago in the year of 1918. In 1920, it commercialized “Z-Nith” radios, name which origin was the amateur radio station 9ZN. The company produced the first “portable” radio and created the remote control. From 1990, the company started to sell its property to LG Electronics.
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In 1919, Marconi sold his North American company to General Electric. The American Marconi started to be known as RCA - Radio Corporation of America, becoming a big monopoly.
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David Sarnoff, NBC - National Broadcasting Company founder, starts to run RCA, intensifying receiver production and selling. In the year of 1929, RCA bought Victor Talking Machine Company, important gramophone producer, constituting RCA Victor. The “Nipper” dog listening to his owner’s voice logotype becomes eternal, his master’s voice. In 1986, General Electric bought back RCA. |
In Europe, started BBC-British Broadcasting Corporation (1922) and RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana in 1924, under the name URI. BBC became a state company in 1927, same year when CBS - Columbia Broadcasting System, started its transmissions, still under the name Columbia Phonographic.
The radio Golden Age has started, it was the 1930s. If this date is considered the Golden Age beginning, the end of the 1940s witnessed when semiconductor appeared. At Bell laboratories the transistor was created (1947). In the end of the 1950s, Akio Morita and his Japanese company Sony, produced and popularized the portable transistorized radio.
The Tube Age ended and the Age of the Solid State began.
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