[Scan-DC] Car/police radios, etc.

[Jeff Krauss]

The original story seems to be missing.

At 10:39 PM 4/6/2014, michael rumberg wrote:
>Hi All,
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>This was a really fascinating story; I forwarded it to my step-Dad, 
>George Tressel, who is originally from Chicago and involved in lots 
>of early television developments.  He passed it to a friend of his - 
>I think you will find his friend's point very interesting.
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>-------- Original message --------
>From: George Tressel
>Date:04/03/2014  2:17 PM  (GMT-05:00)
>To: Michael Rumberg
>Subject: Fwd: Re: Car/police radios, etc.
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>     Interesting follow-up from my old friend in Chicago.  Mitch was the
>     recording chief for the Chicago Symphony and Chief (I think)
>     Engineer for WFMT in Chicago.
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>             Re: Car/police radios, etc.
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>             Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:04:20 -0500
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>             M Heller/Green
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>       yes and NO...  Bill Lear  was an amazing character. I didnt know
>       him but my close friend and older mentor Loren Toogood ( who was
>       indeed an inventor with many patents, , among other things) did
>       know Lear rather well. Lear did manage to his name on  patents for
>       an amazing number of important things, but what is even more
>       amazing is that he really wasnt as much the  inventor as he was a
>       genius entrepeneur. Lear had the uncanny ability  to judge the  "
>       saleability " of stuff. He could sort out a market even if it was
>       at times a niche market , and then assemble a group of  experts
>       and engineers and technicians to come up with the actual details
>       of the devices he  wanted to sell. And patent! For example the
>       famous LEARJET started life as a small  jet trainer for  the Swiss
>       Air Force. Lear saw the potential for that little plane as a
>       private executive and corporate plane and got the rights to have
>       it modified and sold for that application... Certainly Lear DIDNT
>       invent the LEARJET.. what he did was MARKET the LEARJET. Likewise
>       with the 8 track audio cartridge... In that arena my friend
>       Toogood was actually one of  the   pioneers and experts  in the
>       development of  early magnetic tape technology.. you might recall
>       the MAGNECORDER.. well Toogood had a major role in the development
>       and design of that machine.. that is, in the actual mechanical
>       aspects, not  so much the electronics. Toogood was the chief
>        design  engineer for Hallicrafters in the 1930s and was
>       responsible  for the production  of many famous receivers and from
>       that era.. ... So Toogood knew the industry and the people who
>       were coming up with concepts and refinements of the so called
>       endless loop tape drives.. Lear saw what they were doing and also
>       saw the market potential for the application of endless loop
>       cartridges in cars..One of the actual inventors was a guy named
>       Ralph Couzens, but his name vanished once Lear got on the case!
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>        What Lear did was exploit the market.. he was a superb super
>         salesman and for  that he deserves a lot of credit.. but one of
>         the biggest items he managed to sell over the years was Bill
>         Lear himself!.. I believe Galvin was the genius behind forming
>         Motorola etc but Lear certainly was a driving force in marketing
>         the stuff... Another Lear device was  indeed the ADF for
>         airplanes,., automatic  radio direction finding.. he didnt
>         invent it but saw the raw early designs , realized the
>         importance and the applications,  got it into production and
>         then had it made and marketed. The autopilot was not invented by
>         LEAR... it was invented by SPERRY of gyroscope fame.. ( and some
>         others)  but Lear got the rights to the early models and got his
>         staff to market it..  What was uncanny was his knack for being
>         at the right place at the right time and latching on to
>         technology he could develop. And SELL! And attach his name to!
>          Lear was probably the all time genius of technology marketing!
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>               On Apr 3, 2014, at 9:53 AM, George Tressel wrote:
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>                  From my son in
>                   law -- is it accurate?
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>                           Subject:
>                           Car/police radios, etc.
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>                           Date:
>                           Wed, 02 Apr 2014 22:26:43 -0500 (CDT)
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>                           From:
>                           Michael Rumberg <michael.rumberg at verizon.net>
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>                           To:
>                           michael.rumberg at verizon.net
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>                     I havent checked this story out
>                       but believe its correct.  Some of you getting this
>                       email will certainly remember parts of it!
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