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 is pretty much a $1000 part today.
In this issue
- Review: Making Silicon Valley
- Obscure Tube Companies – ICE
- The Thermionic Age in Brazil – 1920-70
- A “Watts Per Dollar” Survey
- An Incomplete Look at Russia/Soviet Tube History
- Russian Subminiature Tubes
- Weird Tube(s) of the Month: Two High-Voltage Regulators
- Boonton: “Selection-Crazy”
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