Tube-and-bulb collector Floyd Lyons pays a visit to John Stokes, his New Zeland counterpart, in 1967. Lyons is admiring a Sperical Audio, while Stokes is holding a Loewe OB333 home receiver with its triple-triode tube. Photo: Auckland Start In this issue
On the Cover An early, labeled version of the Westinghouse WD-11. See Bill Condon’s article on p.2. In this issue
Illustration from an RCA dealer-promotio brochure of ca. 1926, “rolling out” a new symbol for RCA tubes, the “Radioman.” He was expected to join the, er, pantheon of logotypes for U.S. consumer goods: the “ArgoStarch” Indian-maiden figure, the “Dutch Boy Paints” youth, the “Gold Dust Twins”, the “Cambell,s Soup: cook, etc. The goofy Radiotron Man...
On the Cover The beginning of a product line: William Housekeeper of the Western Electric Co. enginneering staff holding a 100-kW developmental tube made with the knife-edge copper-to-glass seal that he had patanted in 1919. In this issue
The RCA “Selling Fool” doll, a retailer display aid designed ca. 1926 by the major cover/commercial artist Maxfield Parrish. The “Fool” replaced the “Radiotron Man” figure as seen on the Feb. cover, although Web postings about the doll often use the “Radiotron” name. RCA’s $5 price for a quqetet of dolls is ironic – this...
On the Cover The RCA VHF receiving tetrode of 1935. See editorial page for details. Photo: Boyer Estate, courtesy of Robert Lozier. Drawing: RCA Standardizing Notice 3-1-839, in Dowd-RCA Archive, a holding of the AWA Museum.
Some thermionic jollity for the season, courtesy of Bengt Svensson In this issue
On the Cover The Eimac X-1, a developmental triode from May, 1942, using the bulb and base of a 250T, with new anode and heavier filament taking 25 anps instead of 10.5. In this issue
Hisashi Ohtsuka (right), enjoying his 2009 Schrader Award plaque with Dr Yukawa, museum director of the University of Electro_Communicationon Tokyo. Photos: Hisashi Ohtsuka In this issue
On the Cover Eduard Willi, Swiss tube-history author (see p. 2, depicted with a Signum G 2 H 34 rectifier. In this issue