Category: Magazines

On the Cover The 6324 commutator tube. See page 3. In this issue

The rare and prestigious Western Electric/Signal Corps VT-3. Photo by Bill Condo The rare and prestigious Western Electric/Signal Corps VT-3. Photo by Bill Condon In this issue

On the Cover An RCA Labs Doojigger, or maybe a yhingamabob. See article on p.2. In this issue

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