[Hallicrafters] Echophone Hogarth Ads

[Glen Zook]

RCA was formed by General Electric, Westinghouse, and Western Electric (AT&T) to purchase the American Marconi Company in November of 1919.  Western Electric, with only about 5-percent of the stock, soon sold out to the other founding companies.  During the 1920s, most of the receivers sold as Radiola (RCA) were actually manufactured by either Westinghouse or General Electric.

The primary reason that RCA was formed was because the United States Navy did not want wireless communications controlled by a foreign interest (American Marconi Company was owned by the Marconi Company, a British company) and persuaded Congress to pass laws which forced American Marconi to sell out to U.S. interests.

I will have to dig into my files to find the references to the feud between David Sarnoff and William Halligan.
 
Glen, K9STH


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On Monday, April 7, 2014 8:00 PM, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glen Zook" <gzook at yahoo.com>
To: "Richard Knoppow" <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>; "rbethman" 
<rbethman at comcast.net>; <hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2014 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: [Hallicrafters] Echophone Hogarth Ads


David Sarnoff, of RCA, basically hated Bill Halligan, of 
Hallicrafters, and refused to grant Hallicrafters a license 
to use the Hazeltine patents. To get a license, Halligan 
purchased Echophone and Sarnoff could not do anything to 
prevent the license transfer from taking place.

Glen, K9STH

     Well, RCA did this to a lot of smaller companies so I 
wonder if it was based on any sort of personal dislike. When 
RCA was founded by General Electric they bought out the 
American Marconi company and most of the executive staff of 
the new company were just moved over from Marconi. Marconi 
was very strongly oriented toward being an international 
monopoly; the executives from Marconi wanted to make RCA a 
monopoly and did their best to accomplish it. If you have 
any citations about Sarnoff and Halligan I would be glad to 
have them, RCA history is one of my special interests.


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

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