[Boatanchors] Hickok KS-15750-L1 tube tester schematic needed

[manualman at juno.com]

Most likely, the tag, "KS" or "KS spec" came from an Engineer (maybe his
first or last initial) at the AT&T location at 463 West Street, NYC back
in the early 1900's. At West Street, besides a lot of other activities,
they also did dimensional drawings for piece-parts, wrote specifications,
developed quality standards. 

In an Western Electric News article dated November 1920, which was
distributed to Western Electric Employees, there was a tongue and cheek
article called, "Humanizing the Engineer, a Study of Outside Limit
Material". In the second paragraph of the news article, it stated "KS:
specifications for apparatus purchased from outside firms - KS meaning
'Kan't Squirm', because they pin the manufacturer down so tight that he
can't wiggle out of any of the requirements."
The construction of the Kearny plant didn't begin until 1923 so the
reality that "KS" had something to do with the Kearny plant or a "Kearny
Spec" really isn't true. After Bell Laboratories came into existence in
1928, most the draft specification requirements were done by Bell Labs
engineers and then sent to the AT&T Quality and Standards Organization to
shape it into a "KS" document.

Pete, wa2cwa
www.manualman.com


On Tue, 1 Jul 2014 11:18:56 -0500 "David Harmon" <k6xyz at sbcglobal.net>
writes:
> The Bell System has/had a method of having tools and equipment mfgd 
> by
> non-Bell sources.
> This apparatus was mfgd to a Bell spec called 'KS'.
> Generally....this stands for 'Kearny Specification'.
> There is some speculation that the KS spec system goes back to 
> before 1920
> and was called 'Kellogg System' at the time.
> Later...much of the small tools and equipment was mfgd at the Kearny 
> plant
> and the 'KS' meaning morphed into 'Kearny System'.
> So..........every relay burnisher, relay adjusting tool, test
> sets....everything used by a Bell System employee had a KS number 
> stamped
> into it.