[Boatanchors] Parts

[Richard Knoppow]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce" <bsugarberg at core.com>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Parts


> Hello,
>
> Clarance Tuska was a cofounder of the American Radio Relay 
> League.
> The CD Tuska Company built a number of radio receivers, 
> and Tuska has
> quite a few patents.
>
> From a 1923 advertisement: "Tuska sets are built under the 
> personal
> direction of C. D. Tuska, a nationally known radio pioneer 
> and builder
> of fine apparatus. For a dozen years Mr. Tuska has been 
> keenly critical
> of all radio parts and sets bearing his name. As a result, 
> the Tuska
> seal is recognized as a guarantee of the most thorough New 
> England
> craftsmanship - and there is no better." (Popular Science 
> Monthly Sept.
> 1923 pp 99).
>
> Here is a 1923 Tuska Superdyne Type 228 receiver:
>
> <http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-1923-tuska-superdyne-type-228-tube-radio>
>
> Here is a Formo-Densor Type J:
>
> <http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FORMO-DENSOR-TYPE-J-/170598884714>
>
> 73, Bruce WA8TNC
>
    Extremely interesting stuff. My mind played a trick, 
I've seen ads for Tuska stuff in very old QST's but the 
penny didn't drop until you posted this. For some reason I 
had not connected Clarence Tuska of ARRL fame to Tuska the 
manufacturer although it should have been obvious. 
Definitely red-face department.
    A search at Google Patents turned up 18 patents between 
1919 and 1971 issued to Clarence D. Tuska, presumably all 
the same person. The latter ones were assigned to RCA. The 
earlier ones have him living in Hartford CT, the later ones 
at Philadelphia but there are some assigned to RCA while he 
was in Hartford so I think all were the same fellow.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles
WB6KBL
dickburk at ix.netcom.com