[R-390] Need Resistor info

[Robert Nickels]

Bill Hawkins wrote:

> 
> Vishay? Wasn't their specialty high resistance precision resistors?
>
Wirewound, metal film, trimpots - resistors and components of all kinds, 
actually.  My first job was working for a fellow named George Risk who 
was a contemporary of Art Collins growing up in Cedar Rapids Iowa who 
founded Dale Electronics in 1950, naming it after his son Dale.   He 
merged with the Lionel Train company during the merger-mania of the late 
50s, got fired, and went on to start other companies.

He told the story many times of how he got in the precision resistor 
business.  He had an investor who was willing to put up $10,000 to start 
a company after WWII.  George really wanted to make carbon comp 
resistors because the demand was so great, but AT&T wanted $50,000 for a 
manufacturing license.  However a license to make precision wirewound 
resistors with their proprietary viteous enamel coating was only $1,000 
so Dale Electronics was born.  He wound the first 25 resistors by hand 
on a lathe in a rented room above the dimestore in Columbus, Nebraska 
and took the train to Chicago to show them to Galvin (Motorola).  He 
came home with an order for 50,000 pieces.  Dale invented the heat-sink 
mounted power resistor, and many associate the name with those gold 
anodized packages.

Dr. Felix Zandman, Chairman of the Board and founder of Vishay was also 
a pioneering resistor manufacturer in Israel, and acquired Dale as a 
cornerstone of his passive component empire in the early 80's.

73, Bob W9RAN